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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