<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Reunion dinner with SM Goh at RI a wonderful occasion
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's report, 'RI old boys catch up after 50 years'.
I attended the reunion dinner which was kindly hosted by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and ComfortDelGro chairman Lim Jit Poh.
It was more than a happy and wonderful dinner when SM Goh delivered his keynote speech. Many of my class and schoolmates and I followed this with joyful recollections of friendship and happy times.
I vividly remember SM Goh in my class (Form 3) in one of those years. He sat right at the back as the tallest of all. He was never talkative and never gave trouble to teachers. He was ever helpful to his classmates.
Singapore has attained First World status and is well-respected worldwide. This is in no small measure due to his friendly and open style of government when he was prime minister from November 1990 to August 2004.
This is the man, apart from our first-generation founding fathers, to whom Singaporeans owe much. This is also a man who is a friend for all seasons - not only to his class and schoolmates but to all Singaporeans.
During the dinner, he disclosed that one of our schoolmates who had some gift of fortune-telling had predicted he would live up to the age of 84. I believe all Singaporeans would like to see him for many good and healthy years to come.
For sure there will be more reunion dinners. Raymond Lo
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's report, 'RI old boys catch up after 50 years'.
I attended the reunion dinner which was kindly hosted by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and ComfortDelGro chairman Lim Jit Poh.
It was more than a happy and wonderful dinner when SM Goh delivered his keynote speech. Many of my class and schoolmates and I followed this with joyful recollections of friendship and happy times.
I vividly remember SM Goh in my class (Form 3) in one of those years. He sat right at the back as the tallest of all. He was never talkative and never gave trouble to teachers. He was ever helpful to his classmates.
Singapore has attained First World status and is well-respected worldwide. This is in no small measure due to his friendly and open style of government when he was prime minister from November 1990 to August 2004.
This is the man, apart from our first-generation founding fathers, to whom Singaporeans owe much. This is also a man who is a friend for all seasons - not only to his class and schoolmates but to all Singaporeans.
During the dinner, he disclosed that one of our schoolmates who had some gift of fortune-telling had predicted he would live up to the age of 84. I believe all Singaporeans would like to see him for many good and healthy years to come.
For sure there will be more reunion dinners. Raymond Lo
