Penang Free School Bicentenary Dinner 2016

Penang Free School was founded on 21st October 1816. Yes, 200 years ago. It was the oldest English school in Southeast Asia.

Today marks the 200th celebration of The Grand Old Lady. Our Alma Mater.

The bicentenary dinner was held on the PFS field with 500 tables and 5,000 Old Frees attendance.

It was great to be able to reunite with all Old Frees from my batch, my juniors and the seniors who came back from all over the globe just to be back with their Band of Brothers. Among them was my best friend, Mahadev "Dave" Singh and his Scottish wife. They had flown all the way from Glasgow, Scotland just to be here.

I won't write much as the joy I had during the event was quite hard to express in writing. Just enjoy the photos below.

FORTIS ATQUE FIDELIS

I bought this badge from the current School Captain as a souvenir.

Dawn, Dave and I

My uncle from batch '79.

Hui Cheng and I. Perfect mate ...oops! Prefects mate. LOL

Yes, I was a prefect back then.

Iskandarrul Fithry, an airline chief crew.

In the Prefects' Room

The school hall.

Seelan & Bobo. Kids, do not try this at school. LOL

With His Royal Highness The Raja of Perlis.

His Royal Highness The Raja of Perlis

Mr Loo our ex-Penolong Kanan

Farouk Canteen, Me, Pegawai Waran 1 Salimuhar, Dave Singh & Kamaruzzaman

Those queuing to hug Mr Loo are the ones who got caned by Mr Loo last time.

We might be naughty during schooldays but we valued our teachers. 

Dr Geoffrey Harvey & Rajidin Sabar came all the way from Sabah. 

SIA Captain Andrew Lim (centre) flown back from Singapore.

Anas Zubedy (centre), author, blogger & consultant.

Heykal Hanifa (2nd from right), director & producer. On the right
is Nazri a.k.a. Bahagia, orang kuat TM.

With Adrian Ming.

Hamdan, Azly Ali, Murali and I. Hamdan and Murali are the key
persons in ThinkCity Penang, a subsidiary of Khazanah
Nasional Bhd.

After the dinner, we continued our 1990 batch gathering at KFC Jalan Masjid Negeri until 3am.

Bobo is giving his speech.