Calling for photographs contributors

Hi GES fellow schoolmates,
I believe some of us took photos during the recent GES Labuan Get-Together Dinner and would like to share them with GES Labuan visitors of this site.
I would be happy to upload the photos and credited them under your contributions like this http://picasaweb.google.com/tankongchuan
Please send the photos to tankongchuan@gmail.com or rltliau@gmail.com
Don't forget to send us your personal photo so that we can acknowledge your contributions.
You can also send in photos of yesteryears.
Thank you & cheers
Kong Chuan

Just A Few Lines from Sirazul

Hi Everyone,
Just a few lines to say it's been a fantastic reunion night and it was such a great joy to have met so many of you after such a long, long time. More than 35 years! Can't imagine.
Though, I may not know all of you, and not all of you may know me, nevertheless, I felt like being in GES(SIK) again, seeing the same faces of yesteryear. Of course, most of us don't look recognizable anymore, but some of us looked very much unchanged.
My sincere thanks to the Organizing Committee for an amazing job well done. It must have been a daunting task. And to all the ex-teachers, my utmost appreciation and thanks for coming all the distance to be with us in Labuan.
As I said, it's just a few lines (already exceeded). So, before I end here, I would like to wish all those who observe it a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year...Gong Xi Fa Cai.
Do keep in touch from time to time. Should anyone of you come to KL, please look me up.
Best regards,
Sirazul (Nam Sang)

466 Photos for you to view

Hi Everybody
I have just fully uploaded a total of 466 photos taken during our 11 Jan 2009 Get-Together Dinner.
For ease of uploading and viewing online, the photos are of low resolution. Higher resolution photos will be supplied in CDs upon requests. Each CD will contain a total of 466 photos for just a nominal price.
Text me at 019-8220779 for more information or mail me at tankongchuan@gmail.com
HAPPY VIEWING
Cheers
Kong Chuan

Thanks for a wonderful evening

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Lee Torvi wrote:
Hello Kong Chuan,
After we get back to Canada I will take more time to write a longer message. (Just now, Mr. Torvi and I are in an internet cafe in Tenom,continuing our tour of Sabah). I usually check email much more often than Gerry does, so if you add my email address to your address book, you will reach us faster. However, I can't wait any longer to say that the evening was a wonderful experience for us. As teachers, we feel so proud of our students and are very lucky to have been able to talk to so many of you. I am looking forward to visiting Mary Corkery and telling her all about it and also giving her the CD that you made. I think that an evening like that one is very unusual. I've never heard of such a grand reunion before. I hope that you and your classmates will keep in touch with each other. We feel quite honoured by our students. Please forward this message to the other students. I want to thank you all.
With many thanks,
Lee and Gerry Torvi

INVITATION TO COMMENTS

Hi Everbody,
I would like to invite comments about the just concluded GES LABUAN TEACHERS-STUDENTS GET-TOGETHER DINNER held yesterday 11 Jan 2009. Please leave your comments here. We would like to hear from you how you feel about this reunion.
As regards the photos, the photographer Wei Hao is editing them one by one. He plans to finish the editing work by next week before end of January 2009.
Cheers
Kong Chuan

THE RESPONSE WAS OVERWHELMING !!!!!!

Hi Everybody
That was a memorable night and I hope everybody enjoyed and had a wonderful night yesterday. The organising committee is happy with its conclusion. We really could not control the crowd and that head boy TBO Robert Lee could not control the crowd hahahahaha TBO=Too Bloody Old. .... Robert, the crowd was taking revenge on you.
Of course lots of you had requested for the photos taken during the night. Please be patient.
There are more than 600 photos taken and I will have to screen and edit them before releasing them in the website.
I will do that batch by batch and upload them into this website for your downloading. I need to find time for this as I am not retired yet ... still working.
You will notice I have changed the name of this blog to GES LABUAN 5th FORMERS OF 1970's to acommodate all.

Cheers

Kong Chuan

5 Sci Class'72 - Impromptu gathering for a Drink @ 8.00pm on Saturday Night 10th January 2009

Hi everyone, (5 Sci Class of '72!),
A very Happy New Year 2009 to all of you !
To all our classmates who are in Labuan or will be arriving Labuan on Saturday (10th January 2009).
Please kindly be informed that we have decided to plan for an "Impromptu" Gathering for our class on saturday evening. (10th Jan'09).
(Let's come together for a "Teh Tarik" !).
The time & venue are as follows :-
Time : 8.00pm onwards
Date : 10th January 2009
Day : Saturday
Venue : Malindo Restaurant, Labuan. (next to Sarah Hotel, behind Hotel Labuan).
Hope to see all of you there.
Please give us a tinkle in case you are not sure of the above venue location
Cheers & Regards,
richard

Han Yong Eng's message

Hello Kong Chuan!
Thanks for your e-mail. It's always great to hear from any one of you who are thousands of miles away.
Time really flies, it has been 27 years since I left Labuan to Los Angeles, California. Since then, I managed to make a few trips back to Malaysia. My last trip to Labuan was in April 2008. I was in the Island for about two half months (April to mid June, 2008). I met Sim How and Chin Kian. I had a good time with my brother, Koon-Fong, enjoyed meeting with all my friends, relatives, and my former colleagues. Most of all, I had tasted the original tastes and favors of the local food and fruits I had missed in the United States. Fortunately, I met Sim How and Chin Kian before I came back to L.A. It brought back all those good and everlasting memories. Though, I am not sure when will be my next trip, I am hoping that I will have the opportunity to meet with most of you if I have a chance in future.

My brother Lock is heading to Labuan for the REUNION tonight. Unfortunately, I won't be able to join you guys this year but I will try my best to make it should you guys have one in future. Please say "Hi" and convey my best wishes to all my former students and to all your ex-teachers (my former colleagues in GES) attending the Reunion. It would be much appreciated if you give them my contact info in the U.S..
WISHING ALL A HEALTHY, HAPPY, PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR OF 2009!
HAPPY REUNION!

Cheers,
Yong-Eng Han
pyehan@yahoo.com

Wed, Jan 7, 2009

Ian , Joy, Gerald & Lee are now in KK

Hi
The latest update is that Ian & Jo Griffiths and Gerald & Lee Torvi are now in Kota Kinabalu meeting up with Koh Choon Kong and students.



Cheers
Kong Chuan