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2011 PHOTOS
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Poi Lam High School, Teachers’ Training Course, 24 March 2012
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Saturday, 26 May 2012
Poi Lam in 2012 has more students than at any year in the past 10 years.
Students during the just concluded mid-year exam fill up the Main Hall. These are Junior students and some Senior classes. The rest of the Senior classes had to take their exam in other rooms in the school.
The car park is also full.
This is the last official parking lot. There are 10 other lots with no number.
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IT’S POI LAM’S TURN TO TAKE PART IN STAR WALK 2012
Star
- 25 May 2012
- Metro Perak
- By EDMUND NGO edmundngo@thestar.com.my Photos by LEW YONG KAN
Time to gather and chat
Students find Starwalk perfect place to catch up with old friends
It is like a ‘mini-gathering’ for us.
—ONG SZE WEI
THE enormous crowd that Ipoh Starwalk attracts annually has made it a gathering place for students to catch up with each other, especially friends separated after primary school.
SM Poi Lam student Ong Sze Wei, 15, said she looked forward to the walk each year, to meet up with her former classmates now studying in other schools.
“We often don’t have much time to meet up with each other due to our studies but the Ipoh Starwalk is a great place to catch up and even exercise together.
“It is like a ‘mini-gathering’ for us,” she said.
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Principal Leong Ping Chow said the walk was a healthy, community-based event, suitable for grooming students.
“It is part of the school’s effort to encourage students to interact with various members of society, from the young to the old, and even students from other schools.
“The students should seize this opportunity and cherish fun times during the walk,” he said after receiving participation forms from The Star’s V. Sreedaran Nair.
Familiar faces
Ipoh Starwalk attracts students who say it’s a perfect place to catch up with old friends from primary school.
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BACK TO 1986.
S1ASp2 MOONCAKE FESTIVAL PARTY AND FAREWELL PARTY.
The photos from two different class parties are mixed together. You can tell which ones are from which party by looking at the clothes worn by me. Try to distinguish them anyway. Have fun!
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POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION DAY 2011
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POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL, IPOH
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POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL 1986
Poi Lam High School in Pengkalen, Ipoh was not the first school I taught at. My first school was way back in 1975, the Methodist High School.
Poi Lam was the first of the 3 Chinese Independent Schools in Ipoh that I have taught at. Since last year, I have been there, a part-timer.
In 1986, the country faced recession that owed a great deal to the collapse of the tin industry in Perak.
The following Post will explain why it happened, and some of the consequences:
The Collapse of the ITC: Why 10,000 Ipohites had to “jump aeroplane” (work illegally) in America
It was a difficult time for everyone, and I considered myself extremely blessed to get a teacher’s post in Poi Lam High School as soon as I stepped into the office of the Principal, Mdm Tan Yit Fei.
The fact that my first degree was from the University of Singapore swung things in my favour.
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SENIOR 2 SCIENCE (S2S)
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SENIOR 2 ARTS (S2A)
(I hope I got the class name right! Someone correct me if I’m wrong: was it S2A3?)
I was not the form teacher but this was the class closest to my heart because they were serious about their studies and they loved fun!
I took them on a Sunday trip to a friend’s sheep farm and rubber estate at Slim River, and then we had a swim at the waterfalls somewhere. Tapah? Kampar? My memory fails me…
This is the only photo I have of that trip. The background looks like the entrance to Kellie’s Castle in Batu Gajah. I might be wrong…
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A GOOD TIME ROLLER SKATING AT TAMAN D.R. SEENIVASAGAM
The class organized this outing.
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SENIOR 1 ARTS SPECIAL 2 (S1ASp2)
I was made the form teacher of Senior One Arts Special 2 (S1ASp2). It was a wonderful class.
One of the enjoyable events of that year was taking them to the Cameron Highlands for a week-end. Four other teachers accompanied us: Ms Lai, Ms Lai, Mr Foong and Mr Mok.
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S1ASp2 with teachers at the Cameron Highlands, 1986
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The Old Smoke House is still there just before Tanah Rata fri=om Brinchiang
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Mr Mok, Mr Foong and Blogger
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A visit to the Horse Spelling Farm
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At the waterfall on the way up by the old road
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weehingthong 
So memorible for the cameron highland trip. That year i was junior 2.;-)
If you were in Junior 2 then, you must have come with Ching Ching’s younger sister.
Drar SIR
Really appricite your teaching.Very good and sweet memory like Penang Maraton Run,farm visiting …
Once again,thank you very much…
ALL THE BEST
Regard kok wah
Yea, you were amazing at the Penang Bridge Run! Top 100 easily!!!
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