St Mary's

An email by SK has me going back down memory lane...at Jalan Tengah, KL to be precise, down St Mary's corridors. Of the great times we spent there, and the fantastic friendships made, nurtured and maintained to this day.

SK and a few others are the St Marians I still see today. Imagine, how many people can boast that we were friends since Std 1 and still keeping in touch regularly now. To give an inkling of how long it has been, well, we left St Mary's after Form 5 in 1978, so go figure!!! And we still keep in touch with some teachers. Hi Mrs Sheo, Mrs Monteiro!!

Our kids grew up knowing each other, and LK aka the Alien ( cos she is too good to be of this world)'s kids are in the same school as mine, both Secondary and Primary.

St Mary's really has given us a lot of memories, the one that stands out most is when we locked Mr. Lee ( Add Maths and Physics) teacher out of the class, demanding for a free period. Of course, we opened the doors immediately upon his threat to tell the HM !! Spoilt sport. I bumped into him when I first started working and I don't think he was too pleased to see me. Nightmare revisited!!! :) The other one was of LK who passed the 1st Add Maths test in Form 4 when the whole Form failed. ( That's the reason why she is not of this world , and therefore an alien) To add salt to the wound, she had an A and was pestering Mr. Lee to give her another half mark cos she claimed he has mis-marked her paper. To this day, we still talk about it and I guess she will never be allowed to forget it.

If only the school walls can talk, I guess there would be plenty of stories to tell.....both the human and non human kind!! Yeah, the toilets had ghosts...what self respecting old building didn't have a resident ghost? Especially one that was used by the Japs during the WWII. Although this fact was never proven, we always scared ourselves silly whenever we stayed overnight in school.

Any St Marian reading this, do drop a comment and say Hi. Share your stories. Keep in touch and re connect :p
PS. I 'borrowed ' the photos from the St Mary's Facebook owner, so must given credit to her ok?