The Naughty Boys

The Rafflesian Rugby Team in their Green, White and Black Jerseys Raffles Institution excelled in Rugby, the whole School was crazy over it. We were frequent champions of the Inter-School Rugby Tournament sharing the spotlight with St Andrew's School. The rivalry was so intense that there is a special tournament between the two schools call the Kiwi Cup to this day.  Rugby was so popular that we had inter-class tournaments for every standard. In 1966, Sec 3BSc won the Inter-Class Secondary 3 rugby tournament. We won every single game in that tournament. We had a formidable team which included school players like, Chey Chor Wai, Quek Seng Yeow, Lee Cheong Kuan, Hia Hui Kim and others just as fierce such as Chong Huai Seng, Foo Moo Pao (hooker during scrums), Chen Wen, Leong Teep Khee, Rajan and Lim Kin Chew The class Rugby team trounced our football nemesis Sec 3A Science 20-0 in the very first game of the competition. Outstanding in that game was Teep Khee. He scor...

The Singapore Flag The National Pledge of Singapore, an oath of allegiance, was first introduced in August 1966. It was an initiative by the Ministry of Education and approved by government. So when it was first introduced, the schoolchildren will recite the pledge at the start of the school day. This routine has stood the test of time. More than 50 years later, students are still reciting the pledge today. At the beginning of nationhood, the pledge became a rallying cry for the country and has engendered a sense of pride. commitment and faithfulness for many succeeding generations of school children.  It all started with us in Sec 3B Science, we were the first batch of Singapore schoolchildren who recited this pledge. At that time there were two sessions in school, the morning and afternoon sessions. Secondary 1 to 3 classes were in the afternoon session and Sec 4 to Pre-university 2, the morning session. It was like a rite of passage when we moved from the afternoon to t...