ARTICLE WRITTEN IN 1958 - STARRY NIGHT

I remember when I was a student in St Andrew Secondary School Muar in the mid 50s, I frequently contributed articles to the "Malayan Schools Magazine". Though I kept copies of the published articles in my brother's house in Muar, I was unable to retrieve any of them after the demise of my brother in May 2004.

But in the early 90s, an old classmate kindly sent me a copy of the article "Starry Night" published in our school magazine in 1958 when I was in Form V.

Reading this article now (nearly half a century after I wrote it) I can still vividly recollect the peace, simplicity and naivety of my happy boyhood days in a rural area! read more

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MY EARLY LIFE This is the story of my life when I was young and lived in a village near Muar, Johor. It depicts my humble beginning as a “bongsu” of a   migrant family from China and the vicissitudes of my childhood. The most dramatic period of my school-days was when I went through two mission schools from1953 to 1958. I was sacked from one and was badly treated in another by its principal who was an educated and religious brute. Nevertheless, it is still an eventful and memorable span of my early life, including a couple of turning points which I still cherish to this day..... read more