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。