Happy 2010

All the best to you!

Happy New Year to ALL

New Dawn for ALL!

Happy New Year 2010!

Season Greetings

Golf Event

Old boy golf event on 8th November, Tasik Puteri Golf Club in Rawang at Rm180 per pax.

Call Boon Teck 012 2890032 to sign up. TQ!

Kim Sing

15 Oct 09, 11:58

30th Anniversary Reunion

What a sweet memory with this autograph book....!!!

Good Food at Bukit Tinggi (near Genting Highland McDonald's)

Many of us have probably heard from our friends talking about this seafood restaurant located at Bukit Tinggi near McDonald's at Gentling Highland foothill.

Their specialties include steamed fresh seafood in double decker pot with lower pot containing soup to be used for boiling with "Yin Choy" vegetables, and chili-cutlets fried with green chillies especially good strangely (yes, chillies with chillies - tastes good)!

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They also serve excellent tau-fu fried-eggs, roasted Kampong-chicken, grilled mackerel, and lamb-chops to name a few.

Great foods but they are getting a bit pricey. One pot of the steamed seafood ranges from Rm90.00 to Rm120.00 for a serving, and another addditonal charge of Rm12.00 for the vegetables for the soup (August, 2009 pricing)

Their shop is quite hidden from the main road at Kampong Bukit Tinggi but easily located as they are directly behind the BHP Petrol Station which is visible from the main road. If you are coming from Kuantan, it is on the left about 500 meters before McDonald's at Genting Highland foothill.

JC's Rating : ★★★★☆ (Food) and ★★★☆☆ (Pricing)

Powerful Voice

Enjoy the following MTV from Whitney.... Great voice!

(Please pause the music player of this blog before viewing!)

Fishballs

There is a famous fish-ball noodles stall Restaurant Khuang Li located at Taman Connaught, Cheras. They sell great fish-balls and fantastic quality yong-tau-fu. It opens daily and great for breakfast and lunch for family at slightly higher prices.

14 Jalan Waras 1, Taman Connaught, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur

Rating : JC's ★★★★☆

Good FOOD

Will start a chain on good food articles to keep this blog going. Please share with us if you have come across any shops selling good food in Malaysia. Please provide a brief write up include address, photos, rating if possible.

Here is the very first one. Most of us should know about this "Lam Mee" shop at Pudu Wet Market. This one is along Jalan Low Yew underneath Jalan Tun Razak flyover next to the wet market within the vicinity of Wenworth Hotel. It has been there for many years.

Kedai Makanan Mayking

No. 38, Jalan Yew, Off Jalan Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 55100 03-9222-3740 Phone: +603-9222-3740

Their specialities are Lam Mee (yellow noodles in thick sauce), pork meat balls and Foo-chuk rolls.

Reasonable prices with quality food. The only reservation is car parking (what's new in KL?) but as the saying goes, if there is a will, there is a way. Enjoy.

Rating : JC's ★★★★☆

Useful Tips on Prevention of Hypertension (or High Blood Pressure)

This is an extract from Wikipedia on Hypertension which you might find it useful
(Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertension).

Prevention

The degree to which hypertension can be prevented depends on a number of features including: current blood pressure level, changes in end/target organs (retina, kidney, heart - among others), risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and the age at presentation. Unless the presenting patient has very severe hypertension, there should be a relatively prolonged assessment period within which should be repeated measurements of blood pressure. Following this, lifestyle advice and non-pharmacological options should be offered to the patient, before any initiation of drug therapy.
The process of managing hypertension according the guidelines of the British Hypertension Society suggest that non-pharmacological options should be explored in all patients who are hypertensive or pre-hypertensive. These measures include;

• Weight reduction and regular aerobic exercise (e.g., walking) are recommended as the first steps in treating mild to moderate hypertension. Regular exercise improves blood flow and helps to reduce resting heart rate and blood pressure. Several studies indicate that low intensity exercise may be more effective in lowering blood pressure than higher intensity exercise. These steps are highly effective in reducing blood pressure, although drug therapy is still necessary for many patients with moderate or severe hypertension to bring their blood pressure down to a safe level.
• Reducing dietary sugar intake.
• Reducing sodium (salt) in the diet may be effective: It decreases blood pressure in about 33% of people (see above). Many people use a salt substitute to reduce their salt intake.
• Additional dietary changes beneficial to reducing blood pressure includes the DASH dietdietary approaches to stop hypertension), which is rich in fruits and vegetables and low-fat or fat-free dairy foods. This diet has been shown to be effective based on research sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In addition, an increase in daily calcium intake has the benefit of increasing dietary potassium, which theoretically can offset the effect of sodium and act on the kidney to decrease blood pressure. This has also been shown to be highly effective in reducing blood pressure. (
• Discontinuing tobacco use and alcohol consumption has been shown to lower blood pressure. The exact mechanisms are not fully understood, but blood pressure (especially systolic) always transiently increases following alcohol or nicotine consumption. Besides, abstention from cigarette smoking is important for people with hypertension because it reduces the risk of many dangerous outcomes of hypertension, such as stroke and heart attack. Note that coffee drinking (caffeine ingestion) also increases blood pressure transiently but does not produce chronic hypertension.
• Reducing stress, for example with relaxation therapy, such as meditation and other mindbody relaxation techniques, by reducing environmental stress such as high sound levels and over-illumination can be an additional method of ameliorating hypertension. Jacobson's Progressive Muscle Relaxation and biofeedback are also used, particularly, device-guided paced breathing,^] although meta-analysis suggests it is not effective unless combined with other relaxation techniques.

Posting of Messages to This Blog

Dear All,

You are welcomed to share your recent news on somebody's birthday, university graduation/awards of your children, weddings, any public invitation of your family, your opinion/articles/write up, old & new photos to this Blog by sending them to me at jcjames@streamyx.com for posting. It would not cost you a penny to post this. Just send the news to me to the email address above.

This blog is exclusively dedicated to the Class of 1978!

尊孔国中校友联谊会 星期天 6月28日 10.00时

Thanks to all who attended the event on Sunday June 28, 2009. Cheers

尊孔国中校友联谊会 星期天 6月28日 10.00时

This is it, the BIG Day!!!

I have reserved 1 table or 10 seats for those who have confirmed.

It starts at 10:00am on Sunday and please pay to Mr. Chua Boon Teck directly.

For those who can not make it, please send your cheque (Payee: "Lembaga Pengelola SMJK Confucian") to me.

Thank you!

Life Cycles

The article below was written by Patrick Teoh in his blog "Niamah!!".

To All those Born in the 50's, 60's & early '70s ...

First, we survived with mothers who had no maids. They cooked /cleaned while taking care of us at the same time.

They took aspirin, candies floss,fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrups and diabetes were rare. Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.

As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/ motorcycles for 2 or 3. Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.

We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle.

We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seem to affect us.

We go to jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.

With mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game. With a ball (tennis ball best) we boys would ran like crazy for hours.

We catch guppy in drains / canals and when it rain we swim there.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually worry about being unhygenic.

We ate salty, very sweet & oily food, candies,bread and real butter and drank very sweet soft drinks, sweet coffee/ tea, ice kacang, but we weren't overweight because..... .
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. AND WE DON'T HAVE HAND PHONES TO BUG US. And we were O.K. AND WE ARE SAFE.

We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .

We did no t have Playstations, X-boxes, Nintendo's, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.
We never had birthdays parties till we are 21

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

PS: -The very big font is because Long-sightedness or hyperopia at your age

[written by Patrick Teoh]

The Date Was 1988 August .....

WOW, I've stumbled across these invaluable photos, these are the analogue photos of yesteryear of 5Sc2's 1oth Reunion, I believe.....











If you have any photos of yesteryear which you want to share here, please send them to me. Thanks

尊孔国中校友联谊会 - Last Call

"Back to School" 星期天 6月28日 10.00时

Three more weeks to go for the big day on the "Back to School" day.

Hurry up to lend a BIG helping hand to buy some more tickets (RM50 each) for the said event scheduled on June 28 starting at 10am.

Please contact us if you need further clarification. Many thanks!

Return to School 28/6/09 at 10am

尊孔国中校友联谊会 .* 星期天 6月28日 10.00时 *



Latest update, our School Class-78 Interact Club members have contributed 5 tickets thru his leader, Hor Boon Ching.

Thank you very much!

p/s: You still can contribute to our beloved school by buying ticket(s) even if you are not free to attend the function.

尊孔国中校友联谊会

* 星期天 6月28日 10.00时 *

The response from us is a bit slow... the organizing committee is expecting Class-'78 to contribute at least 30 tickets of RM50.00 each for the said event which is quite easy really.

I only help to coordinate for the School to reserve tickets, and the cash is paid direct to the School Organizing Committee.

Please help out. Thanks much!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day
to all the mothers
of Class '78!

尊孔国中校友联谊会 星期天 6月28日 10.00时

Dear All,

"Class of 1978" (yes, us) has been duly called upon to help out to contribute at least 30 tickets of RM50 each for this special occasion on Sunday June 28, 2009 starting at 10:00 am. You may still help out even if you are not available on that day by buying at least ONE ticket (RM50 only) to show our loves to the School and we do care.

I am very pleased to say that we have immediate confirmation from Mr. Lew Keng Sang, Mr. Wong Tian Sang, Mr. Tan Kim Sing, and Mr. Alvin Ng Chun Kooi joining myself for the said commitment.

Please respond to this call immediate by contacting either myself (jcjames@streamyx.com), Keng Sang or Tian Sang before May 31, 2009 for us to notify the organizing committee.

Your contribution to our school regardless of how small the amount, is much appreciated. Many thanks!

rgds/James

Call 蔡文德 012-2890032 or use the link below to access confucianalumni.com for more information:

http://confucianalumni.com/

p/s: Need to clarify that I am neither a member of the school board nor a member of the organizing committees of the school as I am only trying to help out on the communication thru this blog.

Back to School and Reunion Lunch / [情牵尊孔 心系吾校] 校友回校日

Dear All,

I have been informed by one of the Organizing Committee Members that there will be a "Back to School and Reunion Lunch / [情牵尊孔 心系吾校] 校友回校日" to be held on June 28, 2009. Ticket for the lunch is available at Rm50.00 each. In addition, free tickets will be given to those who sponsor the Event (征求‘校友回校日’赞助者 - more details is to be provided upon request).

Let's show our full support by helping the Organizing Committee to make the Event a big success and also a memorable one.

Please feel free to contact the following committee members if you wish to know more, to purchase tickets, or to sponsor the Event in the form of donation:.

餐劵认购处：

下述各筹委:
1.学校董事会秘书处 012-2825078 （劳老师）
2.学校办公室 03-20783364
3.本校卢月香校长 019-6100600
4.尊孔小学李宗伦校长 016-9020606， 03-79835890

筹委：
1.关锦胜 012-6517749
2.蔡文德 012-2890032
3.许镜浩 012-3828667
4.张国辉012-2156699
5.林云月 012-3758388
6.刘炳星 012-2363012
7.罗敏莱 012-2212025
8.郑斯炜012-6654567
9.梁绍雄 012-2077612
10.杨国华 018-3002227
11.赵令雄 012-6892674

Please let me know if there is any further clarification required.

rgds/James

Share your feeling!!

We are grateful to the committee members who have successfully organized this wonderful event for us. On behalf of Class-1978, thanks much for their time, effort and patience. Kudos to you all!

If you'd like to add a short note, poet or even better an article (in either English, Bahasa or Mandarin) to share your feeling about the the 30th Reunion, please send it to me by email thru jcjames@streamyx.com for me to post it for you!

Hey, why don't we start with Kim Sing, Yee Lan, Ko Wai Ming, Tian Sang, Boong Ching, Keng Sang, Micheal Hah, and Yee Woon - Would you guys like to take the lead on this?

Cheers & rgds

30th Reunion Dinner Photo - Final Set

Dear All,

Here is the final installment of the Class of '78 30th Reunion photo video. Cheers

(Private Video) - Please mute the music player before starting this video clip



Note: We assume all of us are happy to be part of this photo video.
In the event that you prefer your INDIVIDUAL photo not to be part of this, please do notify me thru email.

3rd Set of Photos "Evergreen Scene 3"

Dear All,

This is the 3rd installment of the Reunion photos possibly the second last of the series. Cheers

(Private Video) - Please mute the music player before starting this video clip



Note: We assume all of us are happy to be part of this photo video.
In the event that you prefer your INDIVIDUAL photo not to be part of this, please do notify me thru email.

2nd Set of Photos - "Evergreen Scene 2"

Dear All,

Here is the 2nd set of photos for you.
3rd set coming soon...
Stay tuned! rgds

(Private Video) - Please mute the music player before starting this video clip



Note: We assume all of us are happy to be part of this photo video.
In the event that you prefer your INDIVIDUAL photo not to be part of this, please do notify me thru email.

Golden Years II - "Singing Sensation"

Boon Ching and SPICE GIRLS

Fantastic Pop Group
Photos sourced from Hor Boon Ching

Golden Years - "Jungle People"

These are some priceless classic photos.......

Photos sourced from Hor Boon Ching