My Naam Kheong Primary School Standard 3 (1964) Classmates

This is truly nostalgic and amazing and must be posted for the record.

I went to primary school at SJK(C) Naam Kheong (南强小学) Jalan Cheras, K.L. from 1962 (Standard 1) till 1964 (Standard 3).  I left Naam Kheong to be transferred to SJK(C) Tsun Jin (循人小学) Kampong Pandan, K.L. from 1965 (Standard 4) till 1967 (Standard 6).

I have kept with me all this while one and only one Standard 3 group photo of the Class of 1964 at Naam Kheong as the sole memory of my first 3 years of primary school life.  I have forgotten all the names and faces of those classmates except two of them, i.e. Lee Tuck Hoong (李德雄) and Teh Kim Hock (郑金囯) who resumed to be my senior middle (高一至高三) classmates at Tsun Jin High School (循人中学) from 1970 till 1973.

On December 12, 2015 (Saturday), I was invited by Lee Tuck Hoong to attend his youngest daughter’s wedding lunch at Hee Lai Ton Restaurant, Shaw Parade, Pudu, K.L.  There were 2 tables of Lee’s primary school classmates and spouses.  Although I really didn’t recognize any of them, I managed to dig out the Class Photo via my cell-phone and showed it to a few of them.  It was indeed a very pleasant reunion after half a century or 51 years of absence!

It is remarkable to note that on the same night of Saturday after I forwarded via WhatsApp the Class Photo to Lee Tuck Hoong, he responded by identifying the names of 25 classmates out of total 36 in the photo.

On Sunday (December 13, 2015), a former classmate Richard Lim posted an updated list in the WhatsApp group providing the names of 33 classmates in the photo.  And today Monday (December 14, 2015), yet another classmate Loo Yoke Ying (卢玉英) furnished the complete list as shown below the photo.

My my, I can only conclude by paying my utmost salutation to this group of my former primary school classmates for their friendship and passion!  Hope to meet them all in a proper reunion gathering one of these days in the future for old time’s sake!

SJK(C) Naam Kheong's Standard 3A Class of 1964

后排左起(12人): 级任刘庆霖老师， 彭天送，徐秀英,  孙梅妹，陈玉英, 张金娣, 朱玖妹, 枼翠桃，林昌信，萧友莲，林昌巧，林建业, 欧海山。

中排左起(12人)：郑金囯，黄隆州，杜永富, 張秀芬，黄秀英, 刘可玉, 叶玉梅，曹风婵，余水文，邓雪梅，刘志明，李德雄。

前排左起(14人)：李秀梅，郑金英，云若芳，陳彩玉，胡金娣，梁群玉，陳玉风，杨玉珍，曾亜英，张桂英,  卢玉英，李运群，刘泰安 (the blogger),  张元发。

Dr. JB Lim Quips at “Organic Foods”

Note:  The blogger’s most-learned e-buddy Dr. JB Lim took “health freaks”  to task for spreading misinformation about ”organic foods”  as follows:

Date: Sunday, 6 December, 2015, 3:10 AM

Thanks Sifu flyer,

This stuff called "organic foods" - all these modern pseudo-half-cooked, half-past-six  health freaks, food-health and nutrition extremists and health radicals are all shouting and swearing about, wasting their money, and other people’s money and time too buying and eating all these “organic stuff”.

  

Do you think you can arrange for me to give a 2-3 day seminar-lecture about this stuff using my resources from properly trained and professionally-qualified knowledge on chemistry, physiology, biochemistry, food science, food toxicology, food quality control, analytical food chemistry, microbiology, nutrition, medicine and nutrition research to put to rest all these ‘health-food infidels’ or rather their freak beliefs?  All these people are health extremists and health radicals roaming in our society and deceiving others too to waste their money.

I would be wasting my 15 years of university training across 5 universities, plus 25 years of medical research if I don’t intervene to educate these health and "organic food" freaks.

The only organic substances I know are all the organic compounds made from carbon I studied in organic chemistry - and that includes all foods which are already organic by nature. You cannot make them more "organic" than what God has already endowed for all of us living in the world. These freaks should not make themselves smarter than an Almighty God. Epidemiological studies have shown over and over again of communities who all managed to live healthily well past 100 years without eating a single grain of so-called man-made "organic foods". They all ate ONLY the existing organic foods arising from Good Mother Earth God gave them naturally mixed up with other "organic" and “inorganic stuff" others put inside the soil.

 

Anyone wants to challenge me?

Tell me when do you want it, and give me about 5 days to prepare the slides and to include tens of hundreds of published papers and the references on this subject to prove my point to bomb all these food extremists.

Thanks for all the rubbish circulating around.

Jb lim

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Mark Twain was many things: A great American novelist, a lecturer, a philosopher.  He was fascinated with technology and science, and loved talking about philosophy and the world around us. But above all he was a man of words and wit. He is definitely one of the people we most like to read quotes from, sometimes just for the fun of his rapier wit.