I enrolled in Sacred Heart in 1985. I was from Tung Hua, and in late 1984 me and my mother moved to Oya Road, Mile 6 1/2, due to a family dispute.
My mother did not want me to go to Rosli Dhoby, as it was notorious with disciplinary problems, and not many came out of Rosli Dhoby successfully. After seeing the director at the Education Department (at that time in front of the current JKR office), I got a place at SHS. It was not difficult since I was joining Form 2, and Brother Albinus was famous for transferring *bad* students out of SHS and because of that places in higher forms are always available every year.
I was placed in 2A3. The names I still remember was Lim Ming Lay, Joseph Lau (where is he now?), Sia Wu, among a few. Sia Wu has an older brother, Sia Deng. I remember these names because it is uncommon to see Chinese to have only two parts in their Chinese names (right?).
LML, JL and I sat next to each across the room I think from Form 2 till Form 5 and I used to copy LML's Additional Maths homework, AFTER I saw JL did the same thing. It was a Japanese Learning Process, first you emulate, then you do it yourself. LML was the silent one, never fidgets, always in attention, when in class. I was surprised when he ended up as a civil engineer, I thought he would have made a great medical doctor. JL was the one with 8-inch thick glasses (his index was 600+), and when his glasses drop to the floor, the floor cracked.
I now remember the senior I had a crush on. I think she was in U6 and I was in F5 when I had that crush, because I remember getting and sending her a huge errrmmm well-wish card, and for the life of me, signing it off ONLY as "Your secret admirer". Yes, my courting skills then, (perhaps even now), leaves much to be desired.
As with Ivy, I also have difficulty in just saying "John". I would always call him "jonfam". I doubt it if John Fam actually remembers me, but the above picture was taken when we were sending Brother John Albinus off at Sibu Old Airport, ending his tenure at Sacred Heart. The faces I remember in that picture is Ignatius Yong (correction by Ivy), our then Scoutmaster who also happened to be a Taekwondo Instructor (I think at that time, 1987, he already has 2nd or 3rd Dan). Kong Soon Shu, my classmate in 2A3 and 3A4, Thadeus, Francis Tiong, our junior in SHS who is now a successful Shell engineer. I believe that was Jimmy Ting King Kong at the back of the Penolong Kanan with his face barely seen.