Hail Hail Alma Mater Hail!!!

No, it's not any castle like you see in any movies like Harry Porter or Count Dracula nor it's any cathedral from European countries. It's my beloved alma mater!!! I think it's one of the most beautiful historical building in Malaysia.

The Impressive building of

~St Michael's Institution~

I've spent a quarter of my life in this school. Well, i started off with my kindergarten at St Michael's (now no more), then to primary and finally up to secondary. That was a good 13years!! 13 years of being a Michaelian!! Ok, not many can hold that record considering not many of my kindergarten buddies stayed up till Form6. To name a few, Wai Hin & Yook Yarth. They're all i could remember now.. Lol

For those who has no idea about its background, it's one of the many La Sallian schools in Malaysia or perhaps worldwide, a brotherhood established by St John Baptist De La Salle.

founded by Reverend Father J.B.Coppin, Parish Priest of the Church of St. Michael, Ipoh in 1912.

St John Baptist De La Salle

One of the many things im proud of it is its beautiful architecture.

Its architecture and facade are reminiscence of a true Christian masterpiece. A very carefully decorated gables and the lovely wide arched verandahs that run the entire length of the school is impressing.

The insights of this magnificient historical building

One of the many statuettes in the school

I decided to dedicate an entry for my beloved school is because im missing it so much. My school life has gone and will never come back again. It's just remained as history of mine. Though, life of course has to move on and things will keep changing.

Missing all the fun we had during school time, like joining the choir team (got 1st & 2nd place in Kinta district ^^), prefect-ing (so fun, getting all the privilege like goin into classes late, wandering around the shool compound without fear of being caught, bringing prohibited items without fear of being confisicated, lol, what?! that's what i've been doin ok, no one suspected me with my ever innocent face ;P), skipping classes in the name of goin for march pass practices till a teacher found out our intention, etc.

Well, St Michael's is famous for its annual drama/school play. Shows that had been put up by the Michaelians before this were like West Side Story, Oliver, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Wizard of OZ, The King & I, etc. I believe there's no other schools out there can beat this record for being able to carry out this tradition for half a century.

During my time in 2006, we did the production of Hunchback of the Norte Dame.

It was so much fun throughout the working period for the school play lasting for a few months. The staying back for practices after school, ticket selling time where we get to skip school the whole day to sell tickets in the town & that's when we eventually had our our own sweet time hanging around in shopping malls and went for yum cha during school hours. Haha.

Oh, forget to mention, i was not the main actor nor any acting role. I was the vocalist.. Lol

Singing at the side of the stage throughout the show. It was fun as i got to do all kind of voices and backup voice for a drunkard too!!

As i know we were supposed to do Beauty & the Beast instead but Hunchback is still as fun.^^

Miss them lotz...

The $$ we got from the play was partially chanelled into the roof replacement of this grand old building.

The new roof - a legacy left by us

QUIS UT DEUS - WHO IS GREATER THAN GOD
Signum Fidei - Sign Of Faith

~Cherish~

Yesterday (1st Dec) me and my sister went out for a drink with our former music teacher, Ms Wong (yes, ours, we were under the same teacher last time). I started my piano lesson under her wings since i was 4 years old... and then up to Grade 6 i stopped and went learning under another teacher...


So basically, she has seen me growing up from a little cute boy to the current grown-up-yet-still-cute young chap...ceh wah...lol ( sorry, i do self praising at times)


So we had so much things to chat since the last time i met her it was 3 years ago. As we go along our conversation hits on our current activities, what we've been up to lately and of course the past fun memories we had when we were learning music under her...


She recalled i was so notorious when i was a little boy... Like any other child, i hated attend music lessons, er, quite sometimes... because i never enjoy playing for exams!!! Hated it a lot!! (In the end i could bare it till i reached Grade 7 & stopped it totally since 3 years ago). Ok, come back to my naughty scene... There was one point i got scolded from Ms Wong a lot, almost every week... because i hardly practice those pieces for exams... i wasnt prepared for the scales everyweek...gosh...told u i dont like playing exams.. Hence one day i sketched a picture of her (Ms Wong) scolding at me in a piece of paper. Her face was depicted like when she yelled at me in real.. with mouth open wide slaming her pointing finger on the piano keys!! LOL


&then that very paper was slotted in between my music book pages... One fine day...God damn it!!! the paper dropped out of the book in front of her.. Sei lor...i was like..uh-oh... She picked it up, and laughed and laughed and laughed looking at my masterpiece..LOL... until today she's sill keeping it very well at her home. Yeah, it was one of many fond memories during my music lessons.. hehe..Cherish them... After all, she's actually a very outgoing cheerful person despite the scolding part occcasiaonally..for sure get scolded la, for a lazy boy like me then. She's still look as youthful as before anyways... ^^


Too many funny incidents to mention here but all are well kept in my heart and will remain forever...Cherish