jim kee's daughter's wedding dinner

attended kelly chan's wedding dinner at furama city centre last night. like my daughter ivy, kelly did a stint of relief teaching at admiralty primary school. ivy knows her because they were both from rjc. kelly is two years her senior. incidentally lee fong seng - former principal of rjc - was at the dinner. so was kelly's former gp teacher.

kelly received a bank scholarship to study at berkeley university in california. that was where she met her husband patrick considines.

i have known her dad jim kee since the time i was taking charge of track and field in balestier hill secondary. we used to organise friendly competitions for our athletes. we also served together at school camps held at pulau tekong. we shared ideas and information freely, and so when he organised an 11-day overland tour of java and bali for his thomson secondary school's students , i followed suit with one for my own students the following year.

when he joined ccab (ecac, in those days) and became the track and field adviser, he enlisted my help to do the job of scoring and recording. later, i roped in my good friend kok weng to write a computer program to speed up the process.

i benefited from his advice when he took over as adviser for outdoor education. with his help, i managed to get student leaders from victoria school and cedar girls' secondary to help run my school camps.

yesterday night seated at the same table were victor, kay heng, seng long, thurai and their spouses. harry tan of nie, who was supposed to be at table 29, did not show up. nicholas tang and major lee were from other tables.