“Stars-in-Concert, Our Secondary School Days” 2013

All of us have dreams.  Our lives are full of happenings, from the moment we were born, to going to schools, starting a career, and finally to getting where we are today.  But, there are so many tasks we have yet to complete.  Yes, we should be contented where we are, and perhaps look back at our younger days.

Our last "Stars-in-Concert" was held in 2009; and the theme years then were the 60s and 70s.

As with all Club activities, the objective of our events is to bring SilverHairsClub members together, meet new friends, and getting to know one another better.  A theme helps all of us focus on creating an event which all of us can link ourselves to.  Next year 2013, we shall have another "Stars-in-Concert", and this time, the theme shall be "Our Secondary School Days". 

We will have a concert.  There will be a stage, and there will be an audience.  As of now, the stage is empty, and the audience has no seats.  Tickets have not been printed, and all we have is an idea, to create "Stars-in-Concert, Our Secondary School Days".

So nice, if we can see each other in school uniforms, girls with "deep blue" skirts and white blouse and the boys in dark blue long pants, white shirts.  All of us have a school batch, while others come with a school tie.

What shall we have on stage?  Think about your school concert.  What was it like?

And, we are likely to have our Awards night during our Stars-in-Concert too. 

If you like to be part of the organising team, do let me know.  Let’s get our schoolmates together; and if they are not members, maybe this is a good time to bring them in.

I look forward to your wildest dreams and thoughts, our Secondary School Days.

EO Terence Seah

Secondary students’ school list:

  1. Terence Seah – EO and St John Ambulance officer, Montfort Boys School
  2. Lawrence Lee – Montfort Secondary School
  3. James Koh – Montfort Secondary School
  4. Rosaline Lee – Singapore Chinese Girls School
  5. Lee Ah Nee – School girl, NPCC cadet, blue skirts, white blouse, Chai Chee Secondary.
  6. Freda Lim – St Teresa Convent Girls School
  7. Lydia Chin – Tanjong Katong Girls School
  8. Nina Choo – Chai Chee Secondary School
  9. Douglas Chan – Swiss Cottage Secondary School
  10. Jacqueline Han – Methodist Girls Secondary Girls School
  11. Joe Choo – Naval Dockyard Technica College
  12. Janet Chan – Outram Secondary School
  13. Norlinda – Dunearn Secondary Technical School
  14. Dan Huang – Dunearn Secondary Technical School
  15. Yew Kwong – Queensway Secondary School
  16. Edwin Ong – St Joseph School
  17. Eileen Thean – Katong Convent school
  18. Annie Tang _ Katong Convent school
  19. Sariah Zahriah – Whitley Secondary School, patrol leader in the 22-Com Girl Guide
  20. Hamidah Ishak – Crescent Girls school, fierce teacher
  22. Participate and let us know which secondary school you came from.  You may find your long lost friend.

The following persons have offered to help in "Stars-in-Concert – Our Secondary School Days"

 

  1. Terence Seah – EO
  2. Awards night comperes
  3. Boon Liang – role not assigned
  4. Janet Chan – role not assigned
  5. Stage Manager not assigned
  6. Decor manager – not assigned
  7. School Treasurer – not assigned
  8. Seats manager – selling of seats in the auditorium
  9. Lights manager
  10. Gates close officer
  11. School prefects – we need a team
  12. Band leader – assigned


  15. If you like to dream yourself back years to your secondary school days, consider participating in the committee.
Attire:
So, let’s all wear our Secondary School uniform, white shirts, white blouse (buttoned up), long pants, dark blue skirts above knee, ponied tail hair, all hair to be dyed black, No make up, but can make yourself look 17, white shoes, white socks, tie and school batch.

 

Author: Terence Seah

Founder

29 thoughts on ““Stars-in-Concert, Our Secondary School Days” 2013”

  2. Hi Terence!

    Your suggestion of us turning up in our old school uniforms had me in stitches! Hahahaha… When we were in Sec school, we were YOUNG teenagers…now we’re all over the hill and donning school uniforms will make us look like relics from the past. Hahaha…Sorry if I offend anyone with this visualization.

    Nonetheless, your idea’s FUN and FUNNY and at the end of the day, why shouldn’t we inject more humour into our lives right?

    I recall a time when ‘Prom Night’ was proposed and that theme also required a dress code of ‘uniforms’. Hmmm…

    Way to go, Terence! May I turn up as a Teacher? :p

    Cheers
    Ros

  3. Hi Terence,

    The participants are going to sing and dance in school uniform? There’s this CD call “High School Musical” which my niece has…perhaps we can get some ideas from there.

    I was with the NPCC then. In those days, I don’t understand why the cadet officer make us polish the boots like “seow”, till very “shining” and then walk with a piece of metal nailed to the boots to give the “click click” sound effect, the louder the better…hahaha… LOL!

    My most enjoyable time is during the school holiday NPCC camping at the Tanah Merah Beach, Camp Fire and Treasure Hunt! Wow…so FUN, I almost wanted to join the Police force…hahaha.

    Btw, where to get the NPCC uniform now? So Terence, I will be wearing “deep blue” skirts and white blouse, as a Chai Chee Secondary School student. :)

    Cheers! Ah Nee

  4. Calling Chai Chee Secondary School girls, Montfort School boys, come join your schoolmates. Rosalind, what secondary school are you from? Other schools?

    Terence Seah

  5. Hi Ah Mee at message #3,

    In the army we have to polish our boots every night for at least an hour during BMT to make sure you can see your face on it or else you have to do extra duty. We also have to iron our uniform to make it stand. This was to instill discipline and make sure we follow orders even it did not make sense or ‘seow’ if you would like to call it. :)

    You were lucky to be issued with the ‘click click’ boot also known as parade boots. During our time only ‘special’ units were issued with such a boot. I got one because our unit was the first unit to blemish the record of the commando unit. We beat them to become the best combat unit during my stint there.

    In fact having a parade boot was a liability. Every time we march there must only be one sharp click or else someone in the formation were marching incorrectly and will be punish with extra drill.

  6. Hi Steven #5, Ah Nee #3,
    It’s nice to hear you share your experiences with shining boots and uniformed groups. Many of us are associated with uniformed groups during our secondary school days, as these associations also help mould our future into adult life. It would be nice to remember them in our programs.

    Hi everybody,
    Our next “Stars-in-Concert” should be bigger and the audience can extend its reach to the public. If you are a dreamer, crazy, wild and hot, and have a desire to make our “2013 “Stars-in-concert” one and only, feel free to write to me. Let’s continue to bring back memories of our Secondary School Days, leading to our O levels, whether one or five passes. Your ideas and thoughts will be your best contribution to SilverHairsClub.

    Terence Seah

  7. Steven Ng, you also “kenah” polishing boots huh. I don’t think the new generation kid will do what we have done, the maid will carry their backpack and polish shoes for them….hahaha

    Yes, now I recalled, we girls are the 1st batch of NPCC and our platoon was call to be the Guard of Honour for our school Speech Day. That explained the sound effect of the boots we are wearing.

    Calling Nina Choo, she is a retire teacher from Chai Chee Secondary School too. She joins CCSS after I left that school in 1973. What a wonderful world, she could have been my teacher if she joins a few years earlier. :)

    Ah Nee

  9. Hi Ah Nee/Terence,

    Maybe you are all mistaken. I am not referring to my uniform groups in school but my NS days in SAF.

    Anyway I did not have an interesting or exciting experiences during my secondary school. I was transferred to an almost all-girls class (5 boys out of 43 students) from a all-boy class of a technical school as they determined through aptitude test I was not suitable for a technical education.

    It’s almost intimidating to sit around with the girls and learning shorthand and typewriting – I was in the commercial stream. Initially I thought it will be a wonderful experiences but unfortunately it did not turn out that way. They were as noisy and quarrelsome as the boys – not angelic as I expect them to be.

    I have to rush back after school to help fed a thousand pigs and almost 10k chickens plus a few hundred of ducks/geese/crocodiles etc. My father was then faced with a life-threatening disease during the period and passed away subsequently after my ‘O’ Level examination.

    It was a very challenging period of my life and so did not have the luxury to have ECA etc. like you all have.

  10. Hi Terence

    “see each other in school uniforms” interesting concept – let see if I can get the right size of the IJ uniforms to fit us in. Calling all the IJ girls, IJ Toa Payoh, St Nicholas, St Theresa’s etc to make up a table…………

  11. Hi Freda #10, and everybody,

    For Stars-in-Concert “Our Secondary School days”, we can have our school uniform as our dress code. Can also add the scout uniform, Red Cross or ST John Ambulance. Ok, we note this dressing.

    For Stars-in-Concert, I think it would be fun to have song and dance on stage, something which we had sung and performed during our Secondary School days. Can be English or Chinese, or any language during our school days, Teochew is ok.

    Freda, share with us a song you remembered during your Levels.

    And, for now, how about Bee Gees – Massachusetts on Youtube. http://youtu.be/4XWYefe9EzI

    Terence Seah

  12. I attended Tg Katong Girls School. Anybody else from TKGS? I remembered I used to take part in school concerts, doing dance items, one particularly fun item was dancing to “Chitty chitty bang bang”. It would be nice if I can still find the team, and we can do it all over again..!

    Yes, pls count me in, for the fun event.

    LydiaChin.

  13. Hi Lydia #12,

    I was wondering what to do at T2, at this early hour of the morning. Then, I saw this idea from you to gather the TKGS girls together.

    It strikes me that it would be great memories, if stage items are represented by our secondary schools, especially during our Secondary 4. Good luck and I wish you the best gathering the TKGS girls.

    Terence Seah

  14. Hi Terence

    My first favorite was Gerry and The Pacemakers – ‘Ferry Cross The Mersey’. The movie was shown in St Theresa’s Convent for the Pri 6 girls. After that year, some of our smarter classmates left for IJ Toa Payoh for their secondary education, till this date we are still in touch n meet at least once a year – not bad as far as friendship is concern……….

    I remember those days in class, our English teacher called us “stupid idiots of d 1st order” and made some classmates stand up on chairs – I thought it’s was humuliating than but now it’s funny.

    Anyone doing a comedy talk show? anything for a laugh is good!!

    cheers

  15. Hi Terence & All
    I didn’t attend sec. school in spore but was actively involved in my daughter’s sec. school for 4 yrs as parent volunteer participating in their many activities.

    so am rather familiar with the sec sch life here and would like to be either:
    a. a student (the best one) or
    b. a PE teacher or
    c. awards presenter/announcer (SHC Sec school can give out many awards e.g. best/outstanding student, best speaker, best writer, best badminton player, best singer/dancer, best debate team, most creative mind, best in math, most active walker/cyclist,etc)

  16. Hi eveerybody,

    We have identified some students from different secondary schools. See if you know anyone.

    And, if you like to join the committee, let me know and I shall assign out the roles at a later date.

    One more add-on: The SHC Awards night shall be held on this night, in conjunction with “Stars-in-Concert 2013′.

    Terence Seah

  17. Terence,

    I am coming, am from Dunearn Secondary Technical School. May be a problem to look for my school uniform, I may look for a Venture Scout uniform and be on standby.

    Dan

  19. Next year, we have a plan to organise “Stars-in-Concert 2013”. The theme is Our Secondary School Days. We are looking for an auditorium and need your help to look out for one, if you have the contacts.

    Here are some details:
    * Located at a venue which caters for food and drinks.
    * Can be in a school, hotel, country club or company. Preferable convenient to public transport.
    * The stage and auditorium seating should be fixed. Meaning no need to set them up.
    * Seating: 200 pax
    * Ideally, there should be a holding area between 5.30pm and 7pm, so that we have time for registration and time for mingling. Concert proper can be 7pm to 9.30pm.
    * This event may also be held from 2pm to 5pm (afternoon), if there is no evening availability.
    * Cost: we will pay for it, include food.
    * Date: we have not decided, but we will confirm it once venue and availability decided.
    Preferable during Feb to Apr 2012.
    * All concert performances and committee by SilverHairsClub members. However, family members, business colleagues and the public can be invited as audience. Tickets will be planned at a later date.

    Terence Seah

  21. #3 Lee Ah Nee,

    Pieces of metal nailed to the bottoms of leather shoes or boots to emit impressively clicking sounds are shoe tacks. But, wearers of leather shoes with shoe tacks have to be very careful when walking or running because such tacked up footwears are prone to slips and falls which the elderly can ill-afford.

    In bygone Singapore mores, shoe tacks were fashionable with local yankees who sported Elvis Presley hairstyles, wearing ultra-tight outfits with other must-have accessories to draw attention to themselves. Some tights did reveal the buttock line at the back, nothing to be ashamed of as it was the prevailing mores at the time. Mores means social expectations and behavioural patterns of each society at any given location or period.

    I came from a reputable school, and so did my working son from the same school as mine. We did discard our school uniforms as soon as we left school. After some years, the school badges were also thrown away. Seen in this light, I am unable to attend the upcoming SHC “school uniform social function.”

    May I take this opportunity to wish every SHC attendee a very pleasant, memorable evening reliving the good old schooldays at the social event. The school uniforms worn by every guest, looking young again, a rejuvenation of sorts, should be an interesting, never ending talking point
    amongst yourselves.

    Thank you,

    Blessings

  22. Dear SHCian Ronald Lam,

    Will you turn up at the event venue wearing a threateningly stern look, dressing up as a no-nonsense school displinary master and swinging a long, fat cane pretending – pretence only, not actually striking – to strike at anybody whom you imagine to be misbehaving.

    Your timely presence there as a school disciplinary master should complete the picture of a real functioning school environment.

    Blessings,

  23. Good day Terence,

    Appreciate if I can participate. I was from Whitley Sec School. A patrol-leader in the 22-Com. Girl-Guide. Participate the 74/75 National Day Parade at Padang. Swiss Cottage was our neighbour, sharing the same sports field.

    Will see if I can source the Brown Skirt & White Blouse to use. Bye.

  24. We are currently looking at some auditorium locations, recommended by members.

    Meantime, we can broadly have our program as follows:

    * 1 hour – Registration and gathering at foyer.
    * 45 minutes of “Stars-in-Concert” Part 1
    * 20 minutes of SHC Awards night.
    * 15 minutes break
    * 30 minutes of “Stars-in-Concert” Part 2
    * End

    Here’s the video clip of High School musical – The Concert
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8ce3DDi-0.

    Thank you to members who have contributed their ideas to this stage. Feel free to write to me or share your ideas on this Post.

    Terence Seah

  26. Hi Terence

    If I can make it to this concert, can I attend as a Teacher so that I don’t have to dye my hair black hee..

    I’m from Crescent Girls School. I wanted to join uniform group but my father don’t allow. I represented the school in hockey, school choir & was also in the combined school choir & I remembered during National Day we had to march in front of City Hall step & sing at the same time. We had to queue at Bras Basah Road near St Joseph school waiting to start the march unlike now so good life the choir grp just stand at the designated area to sing. Since Sec 2 whenever there’s school concert I sure kena pin point to perform dancing representing my class & I had to chereographed my own Malay dance. While in Sec 4 I remembered the Red Cross Chairman approached me requesting me to perform for their Enrolment ceremony which I glady accepted.

    Well those were the days. Time really flies, we are now senior citizens haha

    Cheers

  27. Last year my company’s D&D Theme was “Back to school” it was fun,lots of laughter especially the Ang Mohs they were very sporting all out to dress like school boys & girls.

    ET

  28. Stars-on-Concert 2013 has been stalled due to venue selection. So, only one member has come up with possible venue, but due his busy schedule, no further progress has been made. without a venue, we cannot decide on date and time and convenience.

    Let’s give ourselves until end Nov to see if we can get members’ help on possible auditorium venues, costs and dates.

    Terence Seah

  29. Hi Terrence

    Good idea this will give us more time to get in touch with our school mates. A classmate of mine has offered to get 10 used IJ uniforms for me, sure hope we can fit in afer alterations……..

    cheers

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