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Picture taken from my slide: The buildiing is truly St Pat.

This photo was copied from a slide taken in the early 60s of the last centuary. Some of you might be able to identify the individuals. I leave it to you to work it out.

The new species of Humans.

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Something to think about

Never waste time regretting or expecting too much in life.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is

a gift - and that is why it is called the PRESENT

MOre Photos taken at RU 2010

Francis and Ron at the reunion
Francis and Ron ( on the right) with two other Guests
Francis

Guess who

THE EVERGREENS OF 1958 ( YESTERDAY AND TODAY)

INTRODUCTION

*Narrator*

In 1958, when these ‘evergreens’ sat under the tree, they talked about football, girls, girls, badminton, motor bikes, and girls....

Today in 2010, these same ‘evergreens’ under that very same tree, talk about insulin, Glucophage, Lipetor and the Viagra....

Having said all this, ladies and gentlemen please put your hands together for these young evergreens with their presentation called ‘You don’t stop till you get enough’

Music Starts (softly)

(Narrator speaking over music playing softly in the background)

*Narrator*

You and I must make a pact. We must try and bring salvation back.

For ............. where there is Love, there is Peace.

But the Power of Love is the WOW factor – that, that makes it all happen and the World go around.

Love asks no questions. They get closer and don’t stop till they get enough.

1st DANCE (DON’T STOP)-Song 2

(Dancers must be ready before music starts)

*Narrator*

I know when I go home, there is going to be a fight. My parents don’t understand me. Perhaps, they don’t love me anymore.

It’s always the same questions: “Why are you late coming home? Where have you been? etc. etc”.

I don’t care for them anymore or anyone else for that matter’

I’d rather just Beat It.

2nd DANCE (BEAT IT)-Song 3

*Narrator*

Well I did. Who needs them anyway?

Then, I met her. She was like a beauty queen, but dangerous.

It was supposed to be a one-night affair, A one-night affair. Man proposes and God disposes. My world came tumbling down when Billie Jean said she was having my baby.

3rd DANCE (BILLIE JEAN) – Song 4

*Narrator*

Well, she had him anyway – swearing that the kid is mine. But I am not sure.

He grew up to be just like me – no goals, no dreams. Nothing to look forward to!

Living a dangerous life - women, sex, drugs, being the order of the day. And constantly looking back over his shoulder.

You better watch it boy!

4th DANCE (SMOOTH CRIMINAL) - Song 5

*Narrator*

You know what! I swear that kid is mine now.

Look at him. Trapped like a caged animal; and nowhere to go. Wandering and wondering what and where it went wrong.

Love and compassion certainly has no meaning for him. You now pay the price for your previous deeds.

Will death be the final calling and salvation????

5th DANCE (THRILLER) – song 6

*Narrator*

Stop! I still have hope for me, for him and for all of you out there. Yes, we can still Save Our Souls. How???

Just look at the man in the mirror and make the change!

6th DANCE (MAN IN THE MIRROR) – song 7

*Narrator*

What is it within us that causes pain in the world?

The source of all joy and peace actually lies within us.

Let us find the key within ourselves and unleash the ocean of DIVINE BLISS in our lives.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.

So come one, come all. Let us hold hands and make that connection to start healing ourselves.

MUSIC SONG (WE ARE THE THE WORLD)

CONCLUSION

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Another round of applause for the ‘evergreens’.

These marvellous people have put all they have got for their dance because they don’t stop till they get enough!

Thunderous applause!!

Excellent,, more, good on you.

Good show

Standard bearers of the REUNION

Teddy and Dave

Some of the activities at the reunion

W E L C O M E

Early morning walk along the famous drive

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Ronnie Koh - from Down Under

Dear Teddy & David,

Thanks for your email with regard to the Registration Form and the 50% scanned/emailed Attendees Info Form. I have also sent in by Air Mail the two hand written forms to you and Dave Li. Teddy , I am happy with the T shirt in “S” size / blue.

Dear Bill & Peggy, try and make it to this THE treeRU Reunion as we have not seen you for years. Would one of you be kind enough to get V.S. Paul from Kota Kinnabalu to join us & may I have his email address?

Could Cheah Kok Poh get in touch with S.I. Malakar Mob: 016 409 6545; H.M Malakar M 04-4901532 and Ng Chew Wah to join us at the Reunion. I met them in Kulim a few years ago for my 7^th Uncle’s 90^th B’day and we were on our way to Egypt & Turkey.

It was 8C this morning when I went for my golf. I have my Thursday off. After Penang I will drop in at Kulim to pay homage to my 12^th Uncle and also visit my sister in Sungei Patani, then down to Ipoh on 6^th Oct for my nephew’s wedding.

More next time.

Regards.

Ronnie Koh

P/S: I can only do simple straight forward email. No Face Book, Picasa etc., YET !!

As I decide to send, my email will not accept w.mokhtar’lee@daveli !!

Ronnie and Alice

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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

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

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 3^rd 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 14^th 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)

Penang Ferries over the years

The present
the midseventies
The early fifties

Bill and Peggy