mhs66

Past Events

10/30/2005

Wedding Dinner Hosted by Ng Joo Jin

Wedding Dinner to celebrate the marriage of James & Bowen (daughter of Mr & Mrs Ng JooJin)

All members of MHS66 invited

Date :- 30th Oct 2005Venue :- KL Hilton, KL Sentral

View photos and VCD of the night at The Hilton. It tells a better story

3/13/2005

Hiking

Hiking in Bk Timah 8am.

Final report :- Mission accomplished. Thanks to the mosquitoes who took the morning off to mate.

8/30/2005

Birthdays

LAM/THH Meet @ Sri Melor 6.30am for roti telor

Met at 8am at at SS14 for a hearty b'fast.

10/30/2005

Reunion

Grand reunion of all old boys of Bandar Hilir English School and Malacca High School Year 1956 to 1966/68.

Venue :- KL Hilton, KL Sentral

Time : - 7pm

Date : - 30th Oct 2005

And what a great evening it turned out to be. 32 members came, Together with spouses, our numbers swelled to 56. One flew in from Down Under. Another crossed the Malacca Straits. Five came across the Causeway. One from Johore and three from our Old Malacca, to join to rest of us KL/Sel guys. What a bunch

3/31/2005

LUNCH

Venue: Istana Negara (behind) 11.30am. All can come. Bayar sendiri

Started lunch at 12.30 pm cos' JooJin had to pick up KK Tang from the airport. Finished at 1.30pm as JJ and KK had to attend an AGM. AnnMean, CheeWeng and I went to Subang Jaya to continue our chitchats.

thh

9/1/2005

Cultural Study Tour to Thailand

Tour to Thailand for members. Tour leader TZS

Dates to be confirm

POSTPONE - INDEFINITE

8/30/2005

Merdeka Eve Makan

Get together in Malacca

Ikan Bakar dinner in Umbai.

Sik Ping and wife Judy

Peter Chan and Diana

Chua Eng Him, Yeoh CheeWeng, Ng JooJin, SeetKimSeng, TanHaiHeng, Choong Choe Hin and William Koh

9/18/2005

Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Festival

KL members met for an afternoon of mooncakes and chinese tea and other delicacies. CheeWeng, Hamzah, HaiHeng, ChengSuan and wives got together with AnnMean and Aziz in USJ. Good food, wonderful companies and hot tea.

thh

11/5/2005

Jam session at PapaJoe

Sat. 10pm Portuguese Settlement

Frankie on guitar, Peter lead singer, Seet KimSeng backup vocal PapaJoe, group manager.

By standers: THH, wife & son and Joyce (Mrs Seet)

11/18/2005

Raya Rumah Terbuka

Hamzah Raya open house.

From our group who came: Aziz & wife, JooJin and family, Frankie, AnnMean,THH, Abu Osman. To Frankie who got lost hunting for this place...... sorry.

thh

12/31/2005

Year-End Gathering

This year New Year Eve Pot-Luck will be held at Yeoh Chee Weng's House. All members are most welcome. Bring a dish of your favourite makan.

We are most grateful to Yeoh CheeWeng and his wife, Lai Ping, for hosting 2005 year end dinner at their home. What a wonderful evening to end the year by renewing our friendships for the years ahead.

Chan HoodPoh & Wife

Tham ChengKiat & Wife

Leo AnnMean & Wife

Ng JooJin & Wife

Tan HaiHeng & Wife

and Ow CheeSheng

4/30/2006

Wedding-kenduri

Invitation to attend a wedding kenduri at the residence of Hamzah & Sharifah on Sunday 30th April 2006 Gombak KL

All members andwives are most welcome.

And what a welcome we received.

From Singapore came QueeLeong, Siew Ik & YingLock. Australia sole representative, ZingSan, never fail to turn up when following the durian trail. Malacca sent Mr & Mrs PeterChan, Mr & Mrs Seet KimSeng and a very rare welcome sight, Phillip Low Kong Wah. The local KL bunch who came were; Mr & Mrs Soh SinBoon, Mr & Mrs Lee WeeYong & family, Mr & Mrs Divakaran Nair, Mr & Mrs Tham Cheng Kiat, Mr & Mrs Ng JooJin, Aziz Jaafar & Isteri, Mr & Mrs Tan HaiHeng. Panjalingam, Leo AnnMean, Rajagopalan, Chong YoonKong & Frankie Neo complete our entourage representing MHS66.

We presented a huge cake to Hamzah for his 57th Birthday which also falls on this day.

DEAR ALL,
SHARIFFAH AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU AND YOUR DEAR SPOUSES WHO WERE ABLE TO ATTEND OUR DAUGHTER'S WEDDING LAST 30 APRIL. TO THOSE WHO WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND AND HAVE SENT THEIR WELL WISHES AND REGRETS VIA SMS, CALLS AND E-MAILS, I REALLY APPRECIATE AND THANK YOU FOR IT. JUST FOR THE RECORDS I AM PROUD TO TELL MY OTHER GUESTS WHEN THEY ENQUIRED ABOUT THE GROUP THAT NEVER MOVED FROM THE TABLE THAT ALL OF YOU ARE MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS AND SCHOOL MATES FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL. THEY WERE AMAZED AT THE CLOSENESS AND SPECIAL BONDING THAT WE SHARE. THANK YOU MY DEAR BROTHERS AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Hamzah

Hi Hamzah, you and your family are most welcome. I am of the opinion we should support each other. I am sure the rest of the guys feel the same way too.

KimSeng.

12/30/2006

Wedding of Choe Hin's son

Mr & Mrs Choong Choe Hin gratefully thank all for making the evening a resounding success.
I wish to wholeheartedly thank you all for attending my son's wedding dinner
recently. Though I missed the warm companies of you all, I am equally happy
to note that from Hai Heng's photo gallery I could see you all enjoyed the
night. My other friends told me our "class of '66" were the most noisy and
happy groups. So I guess I may not be wrong to say that you all enjoyed, and
had a good gathering. Once again thank you all for gracing the occassion. I
only wish I could have more time with you all, if only my other duties had
permitted. Anyway, my apology if there was any shortcoming. Lastly, allow me
to single out Peter and Hai Heng for rendering help in getting fellow
classmates to attend the dinner, particularly to Hai Heng for the nice photo
shots you posted in the website; so a big thank you. And a very happy new
year to all of you.
Choe Hin.

We, members are also thankful for their invitaion and giving us a night of bonding.

2/24/2006

HSOBA Night in PJ

Ten of us plus 2 attended an informal gathering of Malacca High School Old Boys of Selangor and KL at the Shah Village Motelin PJ. Mostly comprising pupils from the early 60's and a few younger set of guys.

Malacca High is 180 years young this year

5/12/2006

Wesak Day

Happy Wesak to all Buddhist Members. May All be Well and Happy always. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

6/17/2006

Malacca Dinner for Siew Chow Fatt

MHS66 REUNION In Melaka.

Dinner

Date : 17th June 06 Time : 7.30 pm

Venue : Dragon Deluxe Restn.

Batu Berendam, Melaka

The gang members who came: Lim AnnKok, Palachandran, Frankie Neoh, Ho PengHee, Chong YoonKong, Chua JinTong, Hamzah Bachek, Seek QueeLeong, Yang HowTeck, Seek KimSeng, Chen Siew Ik, Rajagopalan Pillay, Peter Chan Leong Onn, Tan HaiHeng, Repin Ibrahim, Ng JooJin, Choong Choe Hin, Ho ChoyHing, Siew ChowFatt, Aziz Jaafar, Low KongWah, Ong ChengKiat, Tay ChinWatt & Chua EngHim.

Chan Hiong Yien and Kalia Perumal came for breakfast.

9/9/2006

TayChinWatt' son wedding dinner

WEDDING
Date       : 9 Sept 2006 Saturday
Venue     : Hotel Equatorial Melaka
Time       :  7:30 pm

Mr & Mrs Rennie Tay Chin Watt cordially invite all MHS schoolmates (including spouse) to the wedding of their 2nd son Dr Terence Tay to Dr Elizabeth Lim.

11/5/2006

First Sunday Lunch Meet

November first Sunday lunch was at the Selangor Club, KL. Five members, Pola, CheeSheng, AnnMean, JooJin & HaiHeng, enjoyed a sumptou schinese lunch with a former teacher of High School Mr Michael Chin.

December First Sunday lunch was at Kanna Curry House, Sect.17, PJ. CheeWeng turn up to join Leo, JJ and HH for a finger licking banana leaf Indian meal.

2007 January First Sunday Lunch did not take place

11/25/2006

Wedding Kenduri- Aziz

Wedding of Aziz Jaafar's 2nd son.

25th Nov. 2006 Ulu langat

The guys who came: Peter & Kong Wah from Malacca. NJJ, Diva, Frankie, Repin, Tham. Hamzah

2/20/2007

potluckjam party@NJJ

Our potluck jamming party dinner strum up the fire in everyone inspite of the wet rainy Sat. night, inspite of Chelsea losing 2-0 to Liverpool. Our hostess, Yap Ling, added food she prepared to pile up to the varieties of home cooking, tapao from restaurents, cakes and cookies and tidbits, aussie wine, danish beer, local coffee...... Inspite of the the good food and drinks we still could hardly sing in harmony or keep in tune. That could be atributed to the choice of songs. Rowdy and suggestive lyrics was the order of the night. And who do we have to thank for this change of wind direction but the ever youthful 60 years young Kalimuthu. He showed us what fun is all about. "The man with no Balls" and "If I were a Bachelor" made even the red faced beer drinkers blushed.

2/19/2007

CNY'07 2nd Day at Lock Mansion

At Ying Lock's Tiara - Monday 19 Feb 2007

The open house dinner get together at Ying Lock's holiday Tiara residence was a great success, at least in terms of the number of hours spent in one seating. Those who went to dinner at 7.30pm Monday 19 February 2007 and carried on till breakfast at 9.30am Tuesday 20 February 2007 the next day spent a record 14 hours together!

We got to Ying Lock's house at about 11.15pm. When we got there, we were met by Rajagopalan's wife and daughter sitting away from the others in the sitting room. Chua Chye Lim had already left. The others (for those who can't decipher Ann Mean's abbreviations) at the dinner area were: Rajagopalan, Peter and Diana Chan, Choong Choe Hin, Ronnie Koh (all the way from Paris), Chua Eng Him, Tan Tong Chiew, Leo Ann Mean, Yeoh Chee Weng and the host himself, Chan Ying Lock.

Choe Hin was in his element with all sorts of stories. Tong Chiew often starts his tales with nameless characters but by the end of his slow ranting, the individuals would be named although I don't think most of us (except for Choe Hin) had a clue who those characters were. As usual, our school experiences were relived, the tales in "Reflections" contained in mhs66 web pages were repeated, Joo Jin's 23 September invitations was being reminded, Chee Weng's Vietnam adventure, .........

Ying Lock had to keep busy playing host to his lesser domesticated and spoilt ex school mates, making coffee and tea, cutting up cakes, washing endless crockeries. With this behaviour, there won't be any more open house at Ying Lock's. Fortunately Diana helped.

By 7am, we were ready to leave and the discussion shifted to the all important topic of where we should be going for breakfast. We shifted slowly from the dining area to the porch. It was bright then and we could survey the surrounding better. Ying Lock has got himself a very enviable get away home. His house is nicely and simply built, very cosy. His house surrounding is so quiet and peaceful. He will now be receiving endless requests from outstation friends for accomodation in Malacca. (Ying Lock, you can channel all enquiries to me. I will charge them a fee that will frighten them all away.)

We finally ended up at the food court, next to the old Kammah Cinema, Bukit Bahru for tim sum breakfast. Ying Lock did not join us. I suspect he has some disinfection to do after we leave. Chye Lim initially did not want to join us but agreed to after Hiong Yien spoke to him.

Not having slept on Monday, the rest of my Tuesday was a wash out.......................................QL

Resident host: CYL (a big thank you)
Guests: PCLO, Mrs CLO, RG, Mrs RG, Ms RG, CCH, RK, CHY, TTC, CCL, CEH, YCW, SQL, LAM
The Pot: satay, curry chicken, mutton, squid, salami, brandy, wine, beer, coffee, tea, etc.
Duration: Except for the RG family, all the rest took advantage of YL's hospitality and stayed till 7.30A.M. Yes, till breakfast time. Speaks volumes. ............................ AM

It was a nice gathering at a bachelor's hideout. Only thing , the washing and cleaning was in house and the niceties of just relaxing and letting the ladies do the serving and ensuring everything was OK was missing. Anyway we had a "glorified waiter" in the form of Ronnie Koh direct from Air France and the host as usual busy with the fine dining and wineing. Anyway the gang disbursed at 7.30 a.m., I was told and I may not be able to report anything beyond 12.30 a.m. since I left with my wife and kid! .........................RG

2/27/2007

Tuesday with Ronnie Koh in PJ

We met up with Ron for a great dinner at the Pantai Rest. in Damamsara. The place was jam-packed. Dinner came late but we didnt mind or notice. Didn't leave until all the doors and shutters closed shut. A wonderful evening of good food, good wine and good chats. Thanks Ronnie. So good to hug after 41 years.

The guys : CheeSheng, ChengSuan, Divakaran, Ron Koh, AnnMean, Haiheng

3/25/2007

Gasing Hill Climb

7.30am Sunday March 25, 2007

Gasing Hill. Petaling Jaya

Team Members : AnnMean, JooJin, ChengSuan, Rajagopalan, HaiHeng, CheeWeng, Divakaran, WeeYong and special guest Mrs.WeeYong (Joyce)

Sunday Gasing climb was great fun. For four of the eight men team, it was their first experience. JooJin now wants to come back every week. Cheng Suan suggests we now try Taman Negara. Raja is thinking of toughening his futsol team by training on these hills. As for WeeYong, the good old days of Mt Ophir are here again. The hills are truly alive......

ChengSuan and WeeYong has a lot of catching up to do, The last they saw one another was in High School.

Sunday 7.40am, March 25th 2007
Entrance to Gasing Hill Forest Reserve.
Weather: couldn't be better
Seven 59 something buddies prepared to set out to follow old trails on the Selangor side of Gasing Hill. Trail leader CheeWeng gave a last minute prep talk. I could sensed a little apprehension on a couple of faces. JooJin, Raja and ChengSuan were first timer. No one wants to chicken out now.
CheeWeng reset his GPS monitor and we moved out single file.
Walking along beside the stream was child play and it must have relaxed all of us. Hardly 5 mins of easy strolling and we faced the first steep muddy incline. One by one we placed one foot up step #1. And then #2 and the third. Two mins on and no one was counting anymore.
"How many steps have we climbed?"
"8 I think".
"Who cares! Just let me out of here."
10 mins of puffing and huffing all made it to the watch tower. AM, CS and JJ found some energy and took the steep stair to the top of the tower for a quick view of PJ and KL.
Whenever we stop for a breather the mosquitoes zoomed in on our exposed legs and arms.

...to be continue

Tanhh

11/11/2007

Singapore

Singapore MacRitchie Trek

The event was successfully completed and we were very lucky with the kind weather. The participants were:

Quek Kong

Yoke Meng

Siew Ik and Siew Har

Keng Joon and Peng

and myself.

Quek Kong came, stylo-mylo, with new trekking shoes and walking pole, which he gallantly lend to Siew Har throughout the whole trek.

Siew Har's shoe sole gave way just 15 minutes into our start. It just shows how often she uses her trek shoes. And Peng came to the rescue - she actually carries a spare pair of shoes in her haversack! And what luck, they were of the correct size too! Could she be a magician able to pull out anything from her magic haversack?

Still ever the scout, be-prepared Yoke Meng, carries a haversack with water, slippers and ...... many more items he did not show us.

Keng Joon didn't fail to remind us that he is the youngest and fittest by running some parts of the way.

We spent much fellowship time at our two breaks that our second scheduled break (the ice kachang break) became our lunch time. We also had to cancel our visit to the tree-top bridge and by the time we got back to the finish point, it must be about 2.30pm.

Next event: Yoke Meng will be organising a swimming session at the Bedok Jetty. Warning - remember to keep you mouth shut, plenty of anglers there.

2/8/2008

Ying Lock Hideout

Friday 8th Feb.2008 - CNY 2nd Day

Yes, I must also add my thank you for our very own "Peter Pan" for opening up his week end hidout to all of us to have a wonderful time. There was more food than people as usual. Just like last year, Chye Lim avoided us, leaving just before Hiong Yien and I arrived. .

Those at Ying Lock's Tiara Golf and Country Club Home

Chan Ying Lock, Chua Chye Lim, Choong Choe Hin, Chan Hiong Yien, Chen Siew Ik, Tan Tong Chiew, Leo Ann Mean, Peter Chan Leong Ong, Ho Choy Hing, Tan Hai Heng, Chua Eng Him, Yeo Chee Weng, SQL.

The following morning some of us met up at Yak Young's coffee shop for breakfast/lunch.

Those at Koh Yak Young's Coffee Shop

Chan Hood Poh, Yeo Chee Weng, Tan Tong Chiew, Peter Chan Leong Ong, Lim Kok Keng, Chua Eng Him, Tan Hai Heng, SQL and Koh Yak Young (doing his very popular duck mee).

On both occassions, we have to thank Hai Heng for being the resident photographer, as usual.

Regards and HAPPY NEW YEAR,

New Year Eve Makan Party@NJJ

31st Dec. 2008 was a nice cool evening. Although only 7 boys came together, it was good enough to warm up the night to welcome 2009. The food was plentiful and buffet spread was indecently. Each of us had more than a fairly large share. Our wives and other family members and friends were also adventurous in tucking in. How many kilos added to our body weight the next day is one thing for sure, no one will want to admit..........thh