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POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL, IPOH Part 2

POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL, IPOH Part 1

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Fire drill at Poi Lam High School (3) 17 March 2014

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Fire drill at Poi Lam High School (2) 17 March 2014

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Fire drill at Poi Lam High School (1) 17 March 2014

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POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL IN 2014

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POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL LIONS

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THE SPIRIT OF SCORPION by Dancers of Poi Lam High School 1 Oct 2013

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Dancers: Lee Suet Yee, Mandy Tung Gee Ying, Crystal Mok, Chew Kar Yee, Chew Ming Jiun, Lim Ean Ean, Chew Kar Yan, Liew Pui Yee, Neo Shu Xuan, Lau Kai Xin and Choong Cai Yi.

Performed at the basket ball court, 1st recess, 1 Oct 2013.

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The Chinese Orchestra put on a concert on 6 July 2013

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TEACHERS’ DAY 2013
POI LAM HIGH SCHOOL

Saturday 6 July 2013

The Dancers of Poi Lam High School (Teachers’ Day 2013)

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The theme was “Teachers as Ironman”…

Here is a student dressed up as Ironman..

Scouts ready for duty, like scouts in every school….

She’s waiting to be called for the next task…

Directors are waiting to cut the cake..

Two sweet girls brought gifts…

Mr Chew…

Ms Chai and Mdm Lee..

Blogger with Mdm Lee..

Blogger with Ms Chai..

A talented musician…

Another talented musician…

Members of the Brass Band..

Two Senior 2 girls..

Teachers and staff..

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POI LAM TEACHERS’ DAY DINNER 21 June 2013
4 SCHOOLS TOGETHER (Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary and Private)

My table was 65..

The first Principal, Mdm Tan,  and 3rd Principal, Mdm Cheung.

Mdm Tan amd Mdm Cheung with Malay teachers..

The current Principal, Mr Leong.

Many teachers have retired or left. Mr Lam remains.

New teachers, Mr and Mrs Heong.

New staff and teachers…

They are still around…

These teachers were given awards for long service.

Malay teachers…

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Poi Lam students win prizes!

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THE DUMPLING FESTIVAL

Every year, Poi Lam celebrates the Duanwu Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival. The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calender. This year, 2013, it falls on Wednesday, 12 June.

It is a school holiday for Poi Lam High School.

This year, the school celebrated with a brief ceremony in the Hall.

Here are the students waiting for the ceremony to begin.

There were enough dumplings for everyone: students were given one each, and teachers and staff were given two each.

Then came the dumpling (chang) wrapping ceremony.

These were the three experts who performed the ceremony.

This man, a director of the school, has wrapped dumplings for so long that he can’t remember. When you watch the video of him wrapping dumplings, you’ll realize how quick he is!

This lady, a teacher at the school, is an expert in making and wrapping dumpling. Whenever I’m around at the dumpling festival, I ask for a dumpling that she herself made, and inevitably, get one. It’s always most delicious!

Sorry, I have no photo of the one she gave me yesterday. My wife ate all of it before I could take a photo!

The ceremony is over, and a group photo is taken.

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Wrapping dumplings

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From Wikipedia

The Duanwu Festival is believed to have originated in ancient China. A number of theories exist about its origins as a number of folk traditions and explanatory myths are connected to its observance. Today the best known of these relates to the suicide in 278 BCE of Qu Yuan, poet and statesman of the Chu kingdom during the Warring States period.

The best-known traditional story holds that the festival commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BCE) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty. A descendant of the Chu royal house, Qu served in high offices. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance; he was accused of treason. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry, for which he is now remembered. Twenty-eight years later, Qin captured Ying, the capital of Chu. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

It is said that the local people, who admired him, dropped sticky hi triangles wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river to feed the fish. The rice was wrapped so that fish would not eat Qu Yuan’s body and eat the rice instead. This is said to be the origin of zongzi.  The local people were also said to have paddled out on boats, either to scare the fish away or to retrieve his body. This is said to be the origin of dragon boat racing.

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