The Naughty Boys

Cheong Moon Foo was our class monitor of Sec 3B Science. He was slightly older than most of us and had an elder brother disposition to the extent that he was elected monitor of his classes from Sec 1-3. Unfortunately, Sec 3B was so incorrigible and up to so much mischiefs that it got the better of him. By Sec 4 and beyond Moon Foo refused to be class monitor anymore. Poor Moon Foo, he was hauled up by teachers and principal umpteen times to answer for the class’ misbehaviors. Most times, he was told to take control of the class but secretly, he was enjoying our pranks. The worst was when the class was detained and not allowed to attend the RI-Saints Rugby Match. During that detention the class made such a ruckus including offending Asst Principal George Sobreilo for doing a slow match towards the flag lowering ceremony that Moon Foo gave up entirely. Chen Wen recalled a secret that Moon Foo pledged him to keep and now exposed for the first time in 54 years. It belied the ki...

When we were promoted to Secondary 3, we were streamed into the Science or Arts Classes. We had no choice, it was decided for us by an aggregate of three subjects, Mathematics, Science and English from the results of the final examination of Secondary 2. Some were unhappy because based on the total final examination results some would have been in the A class instead of B or C class. Their positions in standard at he final examinations merited them to be placed in the better classes. For those of us who were disappointed to be assigned to Sec 3B Science, we soon realized that we were placed into a fun class, the most memorable class in all our many years of education. Serendipitously, the cheeky boys congregated into that one class, now infamous for the havoc created in the classroom.   Sec 3B  was strongly and diversely represented by Sec 2A and Sec 2C.   Mathematically, the a verage of A+C = B. Physics was a new subject for us. Many of the boys liked it and...