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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Some photos of Adelaide, South Australia
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Dear Stewart and friends
Dear Stewart,
Thank you for the email photos of John, Kok Poh & Paul. I will catch up with
Paul later on. This Sat I have been rostered on from 0900 - 1300 hrs and I
normally play 9 holes of golf when I worked. However,I did not play this
afternoon as I have to do some packing and off on Tues 08/06/10 to Hong
Kong, Macau,Zhuhai, Shengzhen,Guangzhou, Ipoh on 16/06/10 to celebrate my
wife's b'day. Alice's brother has already booked the restaurant in Ipoh. We
will be back in Adelaide on Sun 20/06/10. Alice has been cooking for the
past week as we are having 32 friends for her pre b'day party. She loves to
cook and entertain. When our three children had their 21 b'day celebration
she could cook for 40 over guests. We will also have a Karaoke night. I have
a plasma screen with the surround sound and thousands of karaoke DVDs and
also a Karaoke microphone from S. Korea. I wish all of you are here. I still
love the down memory lane like -" Rose, Rose, I love you " I use to organize
the singing on the bus with the medical group when we travel overseas.
Incidentally, I sang at my daughter's wedding ( " Take good care of my baby
" & "The wonder of you" and also at my 2nd sons'wedding ( " The Wedding song
- Ave Maria" and also played the Hohner's Chromatic Harmonica.Hardly anyone
play the harmonica these days.I will be singing " Around the World in search
for you", tomorrow night for Alice and my niece from Ipoh who is doing her
first yr. Pharmacy will accompany me on the piano.We will have a late night
with lots of red & white wine.
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DSCN3038 - my medical staff
DSCN3055 - with my wife's new BMW 320i with the GPS
DSCN3106 - our home on the hill of " Fox Field" overlooking the Spencer
Gulf. I bought the block of land in 1977 & had our architect friend, Peter
Koh to design it. The house is getting too big now as the children are at
Toorak Gdns, St Georges & Rosslyn Park. They live near by. We have 5 bed
rooms , a big family room & a large dining hall.
DSCN2915 - At Arkaba Medical Centre with Kylie & Hugh , our receptionist.
The surgery has 15 computers running. All our progress notes, X Rays, ECG,
Spirometry , specialists' letters, Blood Tests etc are downloaded into the
computers.No more bad hand doctor's hand writing We have 12 part time
receptionists & 3 part time R/Ns who do all the immunizations & dressings,
Gribbles' Pathology on site. It is a very busy practice.
DSCN2960 - Alice & I . Getting older & hopefully wiser!
DSCN2983 - Front of the home. My Mercedes Benz 200C Kompressor Elegance with
lowered sports suspension, broader low profile tyres & a supercharged engine
( faster than the BMW)
More when I get back
Regards to All of you.
Ronnie Koh
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Football - the round type
This is one story you will find hard to believe: that in Australia, the land down under, the people play football _the round type, sounds almost unbelievable. This is because the Aussies have always been playing football for younks but the shape of the balls has always been that of an olive (kana in chinese, zaitun in Malay) (oval, eggshaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, elliptical, whichever word you want to choose)
You and I in Kulim and elsewhere in Malaysia, indeed the old world over have been kicking the round ball on the padang or any open spaces adjacent to the schools or our homes since we could run. All we needed was some shoes or school bags, or poles to mark the goal posts and we would run chasing the ball all over the space until someone intercepts it. This goes on all the time, morning, noon or evening like crazy.
The confusion is that the games they play in Down Under have always been called football whether it be rugger, rugby league or Aussie rules. Incidentally, Aussie rules, as far as I and many new comers are concerned, is stupid because it is rough and does not appear to have any rules. My friends will dispute that but to say the least the game looks chaotic.
So, to avoid confusion, the Aussies insist on calling the new game that they have adopted as soccer , or football - the round type. Hence the derivative socceroos.
The game, football of the round type will dominate the scene in the near future indeed it already has a very large following .
The Aussies are madly in love with sports, indeed sports of any type except badminton because they are not good at it. Their body mass prevents them from being agile.
The Aussies are sport mad
You and I in Kulim and elsewhere in Malaysia, indeed the old world over have been kicking the round ball on the padang or any open spaces adjacent to the schools or our homes since we could run. All we needed was some shoes or school bags, or poles to mark the goal posts and we would run chasing the ball all over the space until someone intercepts it. This goes on all the time, morning, noon or evening like crazy.
The confusion is that the games they play in Down Under have always been called football whether it be rugger, rugby league or Aussie rules. Incidentally, Aussie rules, as far as I and many new comers are concerned, is stupid because it is rough and does not appear to have any rules. My friends will dispute that but to say the least the game looks chaotic.
So, to avoid confusion, the Aussies insist on calling the new game that they have adopted as soccer , or football - the round type. Hence the derivative socceroos.
The game, football of the round type will dominate the scene in the near future indeed it already has a very large following .
The Aussies are madly in love with sports, indeed sports of any type except badminton because they are not good at it. Their body mass prevents them from being agile.
The Aussies are sport mad
From Ronnie Koh, in South Australia
Dear Dave ,
I am glad that I have now made a new friend, a younger member of the old boys of our Alma Mater, St. Patrick’s School. Thank you for the perusal of the “ A letter from Dave to the teens of Kulim ( “ beloved Kulim” ) 1957 – 1965.” I commend you for initiating “Thetree RU Project” . Keep up the great work and the Tree will flourish. Unfortunately, the old boys of Bukit Mertajam High School have completely lost touch with one another – what a shame!
Dear Bill,
I giggle at your “ Friday Funny “ email & I showed it to my wife, Alice & she blushed & burst out laughing. I have a lot of geriatrics in my Practice & in a subtle way I relate to them the email. I reiterated that as the women get older the breasts hit the South Pole and hence the picture in the email! Incidentally, Adelaide has a nudist beach at Moana. Most of us are low on serum level of Vit D as we are have Sun Block 30 + and covered up from the UV radiation.I play three days of 18 holes of golf weekly, I drink my milk and I still have to take 1000 iu of Ostelin Vit D ! How about the nudist beach at Batu Ferringhi ? ! No takers.
(Comment by Bill- Ronnie, U R joking. Ronnie was a bit tired when he wrote about "Funny Friday " I don't know where he got that from.
Dear Stewart,
Many thanks for your very exhaustive email . You have an amazing recollection of the names. I am sorry that we lost Dr Choong Tet Min who also did his internship in Penang. He was to take over my Medical Post with the 3rd Royal Malay Regiment when I returned to be the Medical Officer I/C of Batu Gajah Dist. Hosp. I hardly return to Kulim these days due to some misunderstanding with some relatives in Kulim. .
I caught up with Kok Poh, Ng Chew Wah, H.M & SI Malakar in Kulim on our way to South America x 3 weeks a couple of years ago. Haven’t seen them for years.
We have more face to wash & less hair to comb these days.
I had a big b’day party on 14th March. The Surgery gave me a surprise and my children invited my contemporaries to Imperial Peking Resturant.
As Australia is short of GPs I keep on working. I still enjoy my work. I am a member of Grange Golf Club which boasts of 18 holes West Course – lots of deep bunkers and 18 holes East Course – narrow & lots of water & wet land. I have my Thursdays off and 0900 – 1300hrs on alt. Sat. as the younger GPs will not work.
We migrated here in 1977 and I bought over my building at St Morris & practiced there for 28 yrs & when I turned 65 in 2005 I decided to join a big Practice so that I could slow down, play golf and lots of Overseas’ travelling. I practiced in Menglembu, Perak from 1967 – 1976 as my wife was from Ipoh. I met her when she did her Nursing in Penang. We have 8 grandchildren – 2 sets of twins!. Mu daughter, Cheryl is the youngest, She is a Dentist. She has twin boys – 3 yrs old.
My second son, Jarrod is a Consultant Accident/Emergency Specialist at Royal Adelaide Hospital & now at a Private Hosp – Wakefield Hosp. His wife Browyn Gordon (Aussie) is in Psychiatrist training . They have a twin – boy & a girl and also a daughter , Maddie – 4 yrs old and a latest son – 7 months old. My eldest son, Steve is in a big Primary Care Medical Practice and his wife, Anita (ABC – Australian born Chinese ) – a boy, Elliot – 6yrs & Phoebe – 3 yrs old and Anita is a Ph D Consultant Rheumatologist at Royal Adelaide Hosp & Private Practice at Wakefield Hosp. The grandchildren keep the grandma busy.
More next time, as I have to work tomorrow.
Regards & Best Wishes to All of You. Some photos next time
Ronnie
(Comment: Ronnie, keep writing . U R fantastic. U write very well)
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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