Chance Meeting with Cikgu Bujang - Part 2

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After all that football talk with Cikgu Bujang, Edmund went ahead to search for photos of the football heroes from that 1973 Inter-School Champion team.. He wrote in his email ...

"Saw this photo in one of the blogs and thought it would be most appropriate to put a face to the names of 4 of our football heroes who brought glory to our Alma Mater .... but don't know why Bro Columba was more concerned with brushing his hair than looking at the camera !

Joseph Jinggut (Captain of the victorious team & brother of Datuk Justin Jinggut )

Dennis Liew or "Gordon Banks" as he was nick-named ..... only let in 2 goals throughout the entire tournament (according to Cikgu Bujang) - lost contact with him since then.

Abdillah Adam - (Pengarah, Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia Kampus Batu Lintang)

Abdul Rahim Colex - ( ED/CEO of CMS Cement S/B, brother of Sazali Abdul Rani, Class of 75 )

Hope some of our Seniors will read this and assist to fill in the remaining names and hopefully provide us with the photographs to complete the story ...

Cikgu mentioned that everyone was so excited about the victory that they forgot to take photographs. All he had were memories in his head. But I would rather think that cameras were a luxury in those days and not easily available. Now...we have camera phones...affordable cameras...how blessed are we ! 

I was also told that one of our seniors - Chang Kuo Cheh - had scanned the old copies of the Ad Astra and posted them on his webpage. But I was unable to find it.....can anyone help on this ? - he's the elder brother of Robert Chang (Class of 76)

Hope more news/photos will come our way as we try to re-connect Josephians from around the globe.

Over to you, WSJ and thanks for another great effort."

Most welcome, Edmund. Thank YOU for the info and photo.

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Chance Meeting with Cikgu Bujang

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I received a note and some photos from Edmund Lee (Form 5, 1975) earlier today. Here's an excerpt ...

"Chance meeting with Cikgu Bujang....of all places....at a Chinese coffeeshop at Green Road... He was passing by to meet a friend when we noticed him...and invited him to join us for a cup of coffee....

As usual, Cikgu was his jovial and casual self......until we mentioned about football......and he went to great lengths to introduce our school's "who's who" in the famous Teams of 1973 & 1974........

Names and events flowed easily from his lips as he could vividly recall every detail....from Team strategies / preparation to opponents and players. He could name each and every of the Team players with ease....not bad for a 65 year old man. (he retired in 1999).

By the way, Cikgu's favourite EPL Team is Liverpool. Mine's Arsenal.

There were some things that were not known to us....for example....our players even trained on Sundays !...yes Sundays....doing weights and rigourous endurance work-outs.

For the infor of those who are less sports-inclined, St Joseph's were champions in football in 1973 & 1974.......beating our arch-rivals St. Thomas' 2-0 (first match ended 1-1) in 1973 and Dragon School 1-0 ( in 1974 ) I was there for all three matches which were played at the Jubilee Ground. I'll try to get more photos on these two matches.

Cheers and happy holidays "

Photo 1 (20 Nov 2010, morning)

Photo 2 (20 Nov 2010, morning)

From left to right: Chi Ted Fah (Form 5, 1978), Cikgu Bujang, Edmund Lee (Form 5, 1975), Nicholas Ong (Form 5, 1975) and Nicholas Chin (Form 5, 1977)

Thanks very much for the update, Edmund. Look forward to more photographs, if you find them.

And that applies to ALL of you ... if you find old photographs that depict the good old days when we were at St Joe, do scan them, send them to me (jslyong@hotmail.com) and I'll share them with all our friends on the blog.
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