The Naughty Boys

About 300 boys of ages 14-15 years must surely and evidently manifest strong testosterone urges resulting in growth spurts, muscular development and attraction to the girls. Alas, we are but an all -boys school and there was little opportunity for the meeting of the sexes. We can only look forlornly across North Bridge Road towards the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, an all-girls school. Being a convent, there were very high walls surrounding that school thus shielding the girls from view. Nevertheless this did not stop us from  the sharing of  juicy girlfriends stories, fantasies and 'naughty' pictures. Raffles Institution is a great school which prided itself not only for its extraordinary academic results but also a superb all round education with much emphasis in sports, the arts and extra curricular activities. An intensive school programme and activities occupied the attention of the boys. It must have been so designed to divert attention from the testosterone ...

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...

Mr Sundram was our literature teacher for a short period of time. He was a big-sized man and had an ungainly gait, he walked like an ape. We nicknamed him Gorilla. Lim Poh Seng remembered that Mr Gorilla was fond on quotes and made us contribute some quotes. We were even sent to the National Library which was within walking distance of the School, to research and provide him with quotations. We promptly compiled a Sundrampedia. Chen Wen and Poh Seng can remember some of them. 1. ‘He who asked a question is a fool for 5 minutes. He who doesn’t ask is a fool for the rest of his life’ attributed to Lim Poh Seng. He said it is a Chinese proverb that he found in the reference section of the National Library on one of these assignments with Logendran 2. ‘The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up’ attributed to Tan Meng Seng. Meng Seng was a prolific writer then and he used to contribute his compositions   to the magazine ‘The Students World’. He won many prize...