My Story Part 2

I was headmaster of SM Kemayan for 4 years. When I first arrived at the school, I was greeted by the senior assistant Encik Saman. He was surprised to see me. As the two previous appointees had rejected the offer. I also met a fellow Lipisian at the school, Chong Yoke Fah, who was formerly teaching in SM Mahmud Raub. I put up a night in his rented house. The next day I stayed at the teacher's quarters with Mr. Neoh Dian Bin ,a younger teacher from Penang who was also the school's scout master and prefect master and Mr. Tee, a science teacher from Mentakab. There's a spare room in the quarters but no bed. I had to make do sleeping on desks. Three of us used to have lunch and dinner together at restaurants in Kemayan town. The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the school was (and still is) Mr. Teoh Tiow Tee, 66 who organised a dinner with some parents to welcome me as the new HM. He often visited the school
and talked to me on school matters. He would cycle to the school from his house. He would go round collecting donations for the annual school sports and other school projects. He would also bring along a part time reporter to school functions. The next day, Chinese newspapers would publish reports on school functions and most of the time with photos of him. That man likes publicity to this day. I can still occassionally see his pictures appeared in Chinese papers on the East Coast page. He came from China at an early age and taught himself BM. He could even gave speeches in BM. Now he's about 92 years of age. He was also the former MCA Chairman of Kemayan.
Kemayan is a border village with N.Sembilan. There are about 20 over shops there. The people there are mostly rubber smallholders. Triang town is about 20 km away. I used to drive down to Triang to bank in school money. The 3 young Chinese female and 2 male teachers and I used to go down to Triang for dinner. Later the female teachers volunteered to cook for all of us - dinner only and we shared the cost. We also played basketball together in the evenings and also gin rummy once a while.