tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post6837276580993330003..comments2024-03-28T15:13:45.925+08:00Comments on Good Morning Yesterday: My Recollections of Braddell Rise School by Kim Aii ChanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-20342941199783153822017-02-19T21:27:00.377+08:002017-02-19T21:27:00.377+08:00I wonder how my teachers from BRS are and whether ...I wonder how my teachers from BRS are and whether some are still around. Mr Lee Joon Koh, Mr Poh, Miss Nancy Goh, Mrs Seet, Mr Koh, Mr Quek, Mrs Woon and Miss Ong. The last 2 were my Chinese teachers. Time flies LeeSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08437452836731344567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-35513198113927989862017-02-19T21:22:46.355+08:002017-02-19T21:22:46.355+08:00So sad to read about Mr Phoon's demise. He was...So sad to read about Mr Phoon's demise. He was a fantastic teacher n all these years, he remained in my memory as one of the most passionate and best teachers anyone could ask for. RIP Mr Phoon.LeeSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08437452836731344567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-22209065842851245472017-01-08T01:28:40.714+08:002017-01-08T01:28:40.714+08:00IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROGER C.M. PHOON 10/26/1930 - ...<br />IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROGER C.M. PHOON 10/26/1930 - 6/15/2015<br /><br />http://www.never-gone.com/memorials/mediaitem.aspx?m=mkv/g1XvlQFAgw4lfps5ng%3D%3D&i=27530HG LEEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04240491938989570093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-33536531994595886912017-01-06T21:04:11.106+08:002017-01-06T21:04:11.106+08:00Is Mr Phoon still around? Mr Lee Joon Koh was my F...Is Mr Phoon still around? Mr Lee Joon Koh was my FT in 1973 n 74. He was a very gd teacher.LeeSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08437452836731344567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-26093034082454594422016-06-17T23:37:47.926+08:002016-06-17T23:37:47.926+08:00It is nice to read our Primary School. I had stud...It is nice to read our Primary School. I had studied at Braddell Rise School from 1960 to 1965.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-9696854475980703912014-05-18T22:36:43.122+08:002014-05-18T22:36:43.122+08:00So nice to read all of this of our school. Please ...So nice to read all of this of our school. Please post more OK? <br /><br />I remember that we kept asking our form teacher where is our school song from and she didn't know. Then one day Principal Mr Phoon told us during assembly (way way back in the early 80's) that our school song is a United States Navy (Miliatry) song. It's called "Anchors Aweigh". <br /><br />You all can listen to the song on YouTube:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3D3Vuo98o4<br /><br />This school song really bring back memories. I think it was rather funny that we are brought up in Singapore (British style) system and that the school song is an American song! Wah lau!<br /><br />Lee Wee KiatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-90453353609383047402013-09-07T23:35:08.645+08:002013-09-07T23:35:08.645+08:00Hello ex-BRS Anonymous, It is surprising that BRS ...Hello ex-BRS Anonymous, It is surprising that BRS is still active in Chun See's blog for so long! Actually the song that I remembered was not the BRS song but one we were taught in school following the merger of Singapore to Malaysia. We were not taught the BRS SONG during our school years but I had heard this BRS song from my elder sister's year and the words were quite similar to what you wrote. I think the tune is from some military music - I heard this occasionally on TV.Kimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-64279753558914624532013-08-31T22:34:27.861+08:002013-08-31T22:34:27.861+08:00I graduated in year 1973, can't recall any tea...I graduated in year 1973, can't recall any teachers, but can still remember our school song....<br />its quite different from yours though...<br /><br />Our mater dou a mine<br />Dear old Braddell Rise<br />In the island of the sea<br />In the lovely eastern sky<br />Our mater dou a mine<br />Dear old Braddell Rise<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-3440217379444939672010-02-27T23:11:58.722+08:002010-02-27T23:11:58.722+08:00my uncle told me there were usually nuns from the ...my uncle told me there were usually nuns from the hospital giving out tracts near the school area. : )gaganoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-71165858004145022682009-06-29T01:44:13.936+08:002009-06-29T01:44:13.936+08:00Hello Roger,
I have read your recollections of ...Hello Roger, <br /><br />I have read your recollections of your Alexandra Grammar School - very interesting indeed! Quite a change from the local schools. <br /><br />You do have a long backward memory too, especially with all those details... wow, that's great !Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376531944211727540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-29696123663247952442009-06-28T07:16:10.244+08:002009-06-28T07:16:10.244+08:00I was interested to read your blog about old schoo...I was interested to read your blog about old school days. I had a different sort of old school days in Singapore when my father worked for the British Army. If you are interested you can find my account of those days on The [British] Army Children’s Archive web site at:<br /><br />http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/schooling.html<br /><br />The article’s about half-way down a long page and is called “Personal story: my time at Alexandra Grammar School, Singapore, 1959–62”. It includes a couple of old photos. I hope you enjoy it.Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-72337178490309215552009-03-20T03:21:00.000+08:002009-03-20T03:21:00.000+08:00Hello Victor, Tks for compliment about memory. So...Hello Victor, Tks for compliment about memory. Sori, quality of voice of today cannot match up to that of sweet yesteryears.<BR/><BR/>Chun See, in fact I connected Red Sails in the Sunset with BRS. Just that I could not recall it was Mr Chew who taught us.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376531944211727540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-9035709302212845402009-03-19T20:59:00.000+08:002009-03-19T20:59:00.000+08:00Friends have often complimented me on my good memo...Friends have often complimented me on my good memory when they read my stories in this blog. But having read Aii Chan's recollections from more than 40 years ago, don't you she is trully amazing. She was able to remember so many names that I had forgotten.<BR/><BR/>And I don't even remember that Malaysia song, let alone the lyrics. But still she missed out one song that Mr Chew taught us; <I> Red Sails in the Sunset</I> :)Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-90958991797815197682009-03-19T00:35:00.000+08:002009-03-19T00:35:00.000+08:00Aii Chan has an amazing memory. I mean who else co...Aii Chan has an amazing memory. I mean who else could remember the lyrics to a 1963 song? I bet she knows the tune too. Make her sing the song as a podcast leh.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10339178864363140977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-24802463844781996152009-03-18T08:02:00.000+08:002009-03-18T08:02:00.000+08:00I recall Seto Mun Chap as the Form Teacher for Sec...I recall Seto Mun Chap as the Form Teacher for Sec 1F at RI in 1970. I was Sec 1B. Mr. Seto Mun Chap did teach us science.<BR/>I believe that when the MOE decided that only teachers with at least a bachelors degree could teach secondary school students, there were several good experienced teachers from RI, who were assigned other positions outside of RI. [nicknamed "Colonel"]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-56688676933317855672009-03-16T11:32:00.000+08:002009-03-16T11:32:00.000+08:00Great school, in fact I can recollect happenings i...Great school, in fact I can recollect happenings in this school better than those at my secondary school, especially the the strict principal F Choo (an ex British army officer). Why was this headmaster so feared by all?<BR/><BR/>He used school assembly time more often as a caning session to discipline all and sundry, using military tactic (Japanese style) caning the ring leaders to warn the rest of the community.<BR/><BR/>In early BRS years there were many gangster-influenced students and Choo would get hold of a few notorious ones and told them he would meet their 'big brothers' alone at Kg San Teng at the time and place of their choice - to settle once and for all 'outstanding issues'.<BR/><BR/>I once witnessed Mr F Choo lining up a few ring leaders - overaged male students and snatched the prefect badge out of the chief culprit's chest and had him sacked on the spot from school. The dismissed student subsequently enrolled into Christ Church School.<BR/><BR/>There are simply too many colourful episodes to cover in this unique kampong school called BRS which I never regret studying in it.Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07489706873295639555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-19194166830315920742009-03-15T16:20:00.000+08:002009-03-15T16:20:00.000+08:00seto mun chap taught science in ri until the 70s a...seto mun chap taught science in ri until the 70s and after that he was seconded to moe hq. don't know if he was posted back to school.yghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054865524193859788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-36736890828907074952009-03-14T21:17:00.000+08:002009-03-14T21:17:00.000+08:00I think the same Seto was one of my teachers in RI...I think the same Seto was one of my teachers in RI in the late 1970s. I remembered him as extremely stern and strict. Wow, since Peter was enlisted in the early 1970s, Seto must have been a RI teacher for a long time.Life is Shorthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11583078034143374988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-61838464450434242442009-03-14T14:42:00.000+08:002009-03-14T14:42:00.000+08:00Seto (Szeto) Mun chap your primary 1 teacher sound...Seto (Szeto) Mun chap your primary 1 teacher sounds familiar to me. Was he not the one who went to RI to teach? If we are referring to the same person, he became our PE Teacher and also my Sec 1 Form teacher. He wear spectacles and quite fair for a guy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-47903906242854436932009-03-14T14:41:00.000+08:002009-03-14T14:41:00.000+08:00Reading Aii Chan's memories brought back some for ...Reading Aii Chan's memories brought back some for me. <BR/><BR/>My brothers and I liked to play table tennis at the table outside the girls toilet. Sometimes the ping pong ball went into the toilet and nobody dared to go in to retrieve it.<BR/><BR/>I have been trying to recollect the name of my Primary 5 teacher. I only remember she was an Eurasian who taught us history in a very interesting manner. She once narrated the story of how Alexander the Great. I remember feeling rather smug because I could guess the correct answer of how Alexander solved the problem of the Gordian Knot, although I cannot remember if I raised my hand. Thanks to Aii Chan, I now recall she was Miss Gomez.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.com