Class Of '95

Have you ever wished you could turn back time and go back to the good old schooling days? Has anyone of you ever walked the memory lane of all the good old times you spent with your schooling mates just before you sleep? Have you ever burst out laughing alone or smiling to yourself when recollecting the memories of yesteryears?

Well this is rather childish, but I always hope we could turn back time and go back to our secondary days in St Francis Institution Melaka. Simply because those bunch of guys gave ourselves a heck of good memories, we still treasure till today. Last night I had a terrible time trying to sleep. And instead of counting sheeps, I thought of my old buddies! Smiling, giggling and laughing to myself, finally i fell asleep. Don't get me wrong, those memories aren't sleeping pills to me, they are something I cherished, and I always will.

Back then, we had lots of activities, too many to mention here. But I will just blog about a few good ones here. There was this time, a bunch of us cycled from Melaka to Sagil Waterfall in Johor. Sagil Waterfall, a place we always went, but for this time we decided to try something different. Adventurous as we always were, we started drafting our masterplan. I remember we had a meeting in a basketball court, all in our cycling gears, and some even quarelled discussing about the destination. Some of us even had to lie to our parents that we were going somewhere near for camping. And that 'some of us' included myself!!! All of us stayed at my place the night before. And early in the next morning at about 5am, we started cycling. Lots of incidents during the journey. We were chased by dogs and we cycled for our lives! John grew a 'bisul' at his backside and you could imagine how difficult it was for him to continue cycling. He suggested to go back. But what the heck, we were already half way there. He threatened to call his father to pick him up. Lots of drama, but at last Kay Han exchanged bicycles with him because his bike had better cushion!! We reached Asahan Waterfall at noon time. After taking a bath and lunch, we continued cycling, heading towards our destination. Finally we reached at about 7pm. All of us jumped into the pool of water upon reaching, burnt out and tired. The next day, after lunch we cycled back home. We had to be called back by the PLUS officers because we tried to use the highway, which is a shorter route to get home. Goodness me, lots of incidents, but that only added to the beauty of our whole trip.

Back in '94 and '95, I never liked to miss class. I attended class even when I was sick for I didn't want to miss the fun during class. Laughters filled our classroom every single schooling day. Of course there were some jokers in our class but guess what, the teachers had no choice but to love and hate us. We were the top class, but we always created problems at the same time. There was this incident where few lads tango-ed in the class during Accounts. Of coz those involved were punished but what amused us was those laughing out loud at the incident, were punished as well!!!

Liquid papers were famous during school time. You could see liquid papers flying in the classroom all the time. There was once this guy wanted to borrow liquid paper from another friend, and so it went flying, but was caught by the teacher. As a result, those 2 guys had to continue throwing liquid paper for the remaining period of the class, one standing at one corner and the other at another corner of the class. Whoever dropped the liquid paper will be punished!!

Mrs Tan Yee Heng was our Additional Maths teacher in F4. She's a funny but really good teacher. We always teased her and she could take it. One day, just before her class, all were busy doing homework. Me and Mick plotted a plan. We were supposed to greet her 'Terima kasih Cikgu' instead of the usual "Selamat Pagi Cikgu'. That was the plan. And when she came in, surprisingly the whole class blindly followed us, and we were all greeting her 'Terima Kasih Cikgu'. We burst out laughing, but the teacher cried. She dashed out of the classroom, and minutes later we were summoned by the Guru Penolong Kanan and had to stand under the hot sun. Feeling guilty, me and my friend Mick apologised to Mrs Tan and all of us were made to 'sumpah' we won't be that mischievious again. LOL...

And then there was this Rumah Hantu incident. You could read from Myke's blog. I could go on and on, but I guess this blog will be too long!!! Appreciate if you guys could join me and contribute to the stories. What say you? But before that I would like to mention a few of those jokers of '95. We still keep in touch, very close indeed, and we are still as mischievious as ever.

Michael Song Kok Wee a.k.a Mick...he was the chief joker in our class. When he's not around, the class was rather quiet and boring. He's now attached with LG and is doing fine. Single and available. Recently appeared on Astro AEC's Go Go Trendy program, talking about the latest LG Prada phone.

Jacky Cham Sin Yan. Me and him are very close indeed. Were bus-mates since kindergarten. There was once me and another cousin were bullied by a botak fella in the bus, our fathers mistakenly scolded Jacky, as he was also botak at that time. LOL. Getting married end of this year. Into Civil Engineering. Cheers bro.

James Luke Ng Kay Han. Famous for his 2 goals scored, against our OWN TEAM during the final of our F5 inter-class footie tournament. He's my cousin and we were in the same class since Std 1 till F6. Got the same course in UPM but diff majoring. But in the end, we got the SAME cgpa even until the 3rd decimal point!!! Hell of a nice guy. Still single and available.

Zachary Augustino De Souza...fuhhh what a name. He's a Eurasian guy. Good looking eh...but he's not available anymore ler...hehehe...another joker...always do the unexpected...my strike partner in footie....me, him and fabian were the 'toilet bros' during school..why?? we always went toilet together!!! He's working in Perak now and I seldom get to see him nowadays...

Damian Tan Yu Wei...he's attached with Sg Airlines now...has a low tone that when he speaks, sometimes you can hardly hear what he mumbles...another crazy and adventurous guy...slimmed down a lot since he went to NUS....apparently during NUS' ragging, they were made to swallow a collection of saliva spitted by the fellow new students there...he mentioned there was this guy from China, his saliva was attached with a thick greenish phlegm...yucksss!! maybe that's his secret to slimming down...hey when coming back ha?

Michael Lim Chin Nam...he's a nice guy...loves to study...continued his studies in the UK and right now working there as well...very successfull in his studies there....seldom see him too...he's the goalkeeper of our football team...cheers chin nam...

Wee Kia Hau...ok he's like the police and we were the thieves...hahaha...he's our monitor for goodness sake...the guy who always wrote our names on the blackboard...hahahhhaha...anyway, out of classroom, he's a nice friend...but not in the classroom...*just kidding*...it was his responsibilities to keep the classroom quiet.

Michael Ang Choon Yi...the groom in the pic...a computer maniac...he claimed he was exposed to computers since very young...now in a German IT company in Sg...very successful both in his career and marriage...

Fabian Choong Tien Fook aka Doctor...the guy with specs at the right most of the pic...we dun call him doctor for no purpose...he's really a doctor...blardy joker...will always kacau us and liked to be kacau-ed in class...but back at home, he study like mad...5A's in his STPM...dun pray pray...

Jason Kua Wei Chuang aka Rolando...third specky, seated guy from right...my cousin as well...classmates since Std 1 till F5..after that he pursued his studies in UK...now working in Shah Alam...lots of funny stuffs i did with him...joker...

John Chang Lian Hsien...standing behind with blue shirt in the pic...he's always the middle man...if u are trying to look for someone but dun have their number, you can count on john...working in Melaka now...will always call him out each time we go back Melaka...he was the guy with the bisul...hehhehehe...

Yau Chau Fong...seated next to the groom in white shirt...he's a bookworm...but good thing is he's a Red Devil....hehhehehe...cheers Devils...

Ankle Surgery

I sprained my right ankle last year, during futsal with my friends. What seemed like a normal sprain has unbelievably turned out to be a torn ligament, much to my horror. I was given 2 choices, to either go on with life, doing nothing to it, sacrifice my active sporting lifestyle and risking athritis in my later life. Or, going under the knife to reconstruct the torn ligament, but there's no 100% guarantee that it will return to function normally after that. I took the latter option.

I went for the surgery at Pantai Cheras Medical Centre last Wednesday, under the surgeon Dr Ang Leong Chai. My gf drove me there early in the morning. I kept telling her I was not scared at all. We checked in and I was given a 4-person room instead of the 2-person room as they were all fully occupied. Surgery was supposed to begin at 1pm and so we waited. I had to fast since midnight and thus my gf went for lunch alone at the canteen. We were told surgery was delayed as there were lots of emergency operations that day. I was still telling my gf I'm feeling perfectly cool at that time, no fear at all. I put on the surgery coat and waited for the surgery. It was quite embarassing as we're not supposed to wear anything else beneath and we can easily 'cao kong'. LOL...

At about 2 something, the nurses came and I was pushed into the Operation Theatre. Still feeling rather ok all the way. Gf waited outside the Operation Theatre. My feelings suddenly changed, a sudden rush of adrenalin got me rather worried. The lights turned on, so brightly above. Doctors and nurses were talking. I remember one nurse asking the Doc, "What do you need for this surgery?" And the Doc replied "I need to drill the bone......" !!!!!! And the rest was history. I nearly fainted upon hearing those words. Then came the anaesthetic doctor. I had to sit up and bend my back like a prawn. He mentioned I will be given the spinal anaestasia. The jab was really painful down the spine I almost teared. After few minutes, my lower body was all numbed. I can't feel my legs!! Can't move, can't lift them. That was when the Doc asked whether I wanna sleep or not. A big yes!!

I remember I was in a state between sleeping and awaking. I remember I heard the drilling, but thank God I felt nothing at all! There was once I asked the Doc whether I could see what was going on, but he said no. Then I dozed off. After sometime, I woke up again asking the nurse beside me whether it's done or not? And finally after a few more waking ups and dozing offs, the nurse told me it's done, my right leg was plastered and everything has been completed. Phewwww...

I hope my days on crutches will end soon and I will be able to walk again. Pray for me ya folks.

Man Utd's Latest Home Kit

Every season from now on, Manchester United and Nike intend to release a brand new kit. The results?? --> definitely a poorer me!!!

Anyway, this new home kit was supposed to be available to the public in UK on the 1st August 2007, and I was told it will only be made available in Malaysia on the 2nd August 2007. Anyway, I went to town to try my luck and the store keeper told me exactly the same thing. But I said it doesn't make any difference and that he'll be selling one jersey less if he decided against selling one to me, right away. In the end, he gave up and I had it my way. :D He agreed, and I guess I was one of the few 'firsts' proud owners in Malaysia. Finally I have added this new kit to my collection of Man Utd's merchandises, the first jersey with AIG as the main sponsor though. UNITED WE STAND.

"Manchester United and Nike have produced a basic red home shirt. There's been little imagination used when designing this one. It's plain red, very little white and the badge looks like it has been stitched on at the very end and is also a similar size to the Nike logo. The AIG sponsorship logo dominates the top. At the bottom side of the shirt, there's another sew on patch which reads, 'The Red Devils'. On the back of the shirt is a white line at the top and at the bottom. It's a shirt you'll probably love or hate. It is available in all sizes and in long sleeve. Nike has also released a woman's top in a similar design."