Category: School

• Calling BBGS-ians

  07.19.09 |School| Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you are an ex-BBGS, there is a big event on 4th August. It will be a MEGA reunion. Sob sob, I would be around to attend it. If you know anyone from BBGS, please tell them! Let the BBGS spirit leaves on. Oh, for those who donno, my ex school has transformed into a prestige shopping mall called The Pavilion. It is really quite sad.

  
  Venue: Bintang Circle (Concourse Area), The Pavilion Kuala Lumpur
  Date: 4th of August 2009
  HOTLINE: +6017-871-9357
  11 AM
  Launch of THE ELENA COOKE EDUCATION FUND with Miss Cooke
  Lunch with old friends
  Throughout the day
  Sale of souvenirs – to help raise funds
  6.30 PM
  BACK2BBGS Gala! – The Mega Mother of all Reunions!!
  Welcome Ms Yeap Gaik Khoon and all the former Teachers
  Choral Speaking, The BBGS Alumni Choir, and others
  

• Felt The Pinch

  08.06.08 |Economy, Myself, School| Permalink | Comments Off on Felt The Pinch

  When petrol price went up, I didn’t feel anything. When food price went up, I didn’t feel anything. When café food went up, I didn’t feel anything.

  Today, I felt the pinch. This morning I didn’t have time to go for morning breakfast at my local kopitiam. I decided that I will go to office and get something to eat. First I went to the vending machine to get my usual cup of milo. I put in 60 sen and a cuppa of hot water came out. Darn vending machine was out of order. Never mind, I scroll down to my office convenient store to buy a small pack of 3-in-1 milo powder. It cost RM1.00 (40% marked up). I also went to the café to get a piece of marble cake, it costs another RM1.00. Total spend: Rm2.60 and my tummy still growling.

  I should have gone for the local mamak store, eat 1 piece of roti canai and a glass of teh tarik ice. Total cost: RM1.80 with a happy tummy. Sigh!

  People are suffering and what does our gomen doing? They are more concern with the darn politics and internal affairs. No one taking care of the haze (people’s health), no one taking care of the poor people, no one taking care of upgrading kebangsaan schools and the children education system. I feel more than a pinch!

• Bravo Shirtliff

  07.21.08 |School| Permalink | 1 Comment

  Shirtliff cheerleaders from SMK Seri Bintang Utara, you make us proud!! Team Shirtliff came up first in the 2008 Malaysia interschool cheerleading competition. During my school time, the only thing I like on sports day is watching the cheerleaders perform. Team Shirtliff which is Red house always give the best performance. This is not a bias opinion because I am in Green house.

  Why use the name Shirtliff? It is named after a missionary teacher Miss B. Shirtliff. We had names like Prouse for purple, Maclay for blue, Green for green and Cooke for yellow.

  I was stunned by the school standard of cheerleading in this generation. It is amazing how the girls can do triple flip, front and back somersault. Where do they learn in from? Of coz in our days, the cheerleaders can only do dance movement and probably a human pyramid. The timing and movement was superb. By the way, Shirtliff had won 5 times in cheerleading competition. Team Shirtliff, you make the BBGS spirit lives on.

  Now watch team Shirtliff do their amazing performance here:

  
  
  

• School Days

  07.09.08 |School| Permalink | 3 Comments

  BBGS which used to be a great school and now the land was taken to turn into a shopping mall. We fought hard to keep the school. It was more than 15 years of battle. However when the government decided to relocate the school, our hopes scattered. Worst is they changed the name.

  
  Before                                          After
  
  

  Yeah it was on a piece of expensive land because that area was a golden shopping triangle. Thanks to Sungai Wang which started it all.

  I did a lot of crazy things when I was in school. BBGS is a very strict school with a book of rules. Every day is a “fine” day if you do not follow the rules. Prefects are keeping watch on us. By the way, I am not so good in keeping the rules but I know the boundaries.

  One rule said that we are not allowed to be seen in the nearby shopping malls wearing school uniform. I used to travel to school by school bus and hid a bag of clothes in the school bus. I will wait for the school bus to come and take my clothes, put my school bag on the school bus and hop off. My school has two sessions, morning and afternoon. The school bus will come back in the evening to fetch the afternoon students back.

  A group of us will get change in a nearby hotel toilet and we will go shopping until evening. Sometimes we even go for a movie. Most of the time we are very good, stay in school and study. Those were the days when crime rate were not so great and safer. Now I don’t think it is a good idea to do that.

  Anyway if you are from BBGS and in the year of 1987 there is a reunion on 25th July 2008 at Concorde Hotel. More stories later.