Re: [ACSians] Mr Earnest Lau

 

And I loved his reddish brown big glasses for his big face....

Notice he preferred beige and khaki to black , white, dark blue etc... Light colours blended so well with his reddish brown glasses and salt-pepper hair!

He spoke during school addresses with such authority ( as always) and so much passion about being disciplined (strict, in his terminology) to one's self as a responsibility to God. Loved this! Made/makes so much sense.

Ernie... You are SO one of a kind... A very special kind. God bless you. You came right and you went right. Rest in peace.

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[ACSians] Mr Earnest Lau

From Siri Chutikul

Earnest Lau was a teacher extraordinaire -  the best History teacher I ever had. His passion and wit instilled a love of learning in his students - the most precious gift a teacher can give a student. Many years later when I walked the tombs of Egypt, it was Mr. Lau that I was thinking of. Ancient History came alive in his classroom. He introduced us to hieroglyphics, the Philistines, the Greeks and their mythology, and more. Who could forget his discourse on Aristotle and Sophocles, Agamemnon and the Trojan War, the Iliad and the Odyssey? Or Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa? The Reischauer-Fairbank book that he assigned is still my bible on China.  It was a privilege to be in his class.  We scaled Olympian heights with him, and now we bid him peace on his last journey.

Sirilaksana (Chutikul) Khoman

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[ACSians] RIP Mr Earnest Lau - posted by Irene

 

Death of an ACS legend

Mr Lau died this evening (Saturday). He was 84. He'd had a pacemaker implanted on Tuesday. Several of his former students had visited him recently. One of them who telephoned him on Friday to find out how he was after the operation said he told her that he felt "very tired".

When I unearthed a stack of The Listener years after moving out of my family home, I couldn't help but think of Mr Lau. I had hung on to those magazines figuring that one day I'd get to finish reading them. I can't blame Mr Lau for my packrat habits but he is solely and absolutely responsible for my enduring addiction to the BBC. Forty-plus years down the road and I'm still hooked.

Thank you, Mr Lau. I'm going to miss you.

The wake will be held in the Regency Room at the Singapore Casket Company. Services on Sunday (Rev Dr Norman Wong) & Monday (Rev Gabriel Liew). The funeral will take place on Tuesday 8 Mar afternoon at Mandai (time and hall to be announced).

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From the album of Chin Heng...

From the album of Chin Heng...

[ACSians] Class of '68 Picture Puzzle - from Febo

• when was the 'magic reunion' picture taken?
• name all the reunion-eers

Type your answer RIGHT below, in the Comment Box below, AND add a fitting caption / comment / yukky sound, after (please) typing your name so we know whose iz who's - some ideas to kickstart your creative impulses have already been collected. If you don't put in your name, credit for the contribution will be given to the prolific author "Anonymous" 


Thanks from the Seven Wise Monkeys

CAPTIONS SO FAR

Bob's selection 
Did someone say 60
I like ours, hope you like yours

Rex's selection (ok lah!!  KING copi writer)
Underclass of '67
Even Mark Kan would approve(fingers crossed.)
Youth springs eternal in a young person's breath ( for the politically correct.)
Aren't we glad we never got rid of our old uniforms.( AS IF....))
In days of yore...can't remember what that means.
Yahoo's not the only way to come together.
It was only 20,30, 40 years today ( cancel 20 and 30)( Paul M'Cartney eat your heart out.)
Now we dare you to show us yours.
Don't laugh.At least we dared.
Laugh all you want. We had an even bigger one.
Wish you were here.
Before we forget. ...
We always knew... the best was yet to be
" Send me a postcard,drop me a line...before I'm 64."
Blame the photographer.
A chip off the old ACSian blog.
BOLLOX TO BOTOX.
Emblems of grand endeavour
The budding sixties
While we can still remember.
Before we forget what comes after after.
A few more lines for your forum.
Class of '67 going on 70.
ACS past vs present. The battle rages on.
ACS past vs present. No contest.
Adding a few more lines to an ageing forum.
Growing old gracefully is for Rafflesians.
Others grow old. ACSians have still to grow up.
ACS past 7 present 0
Good boys meet bad girls

Bill's selection -
Another uniform fetish party?
School uniforms work better than Botox
A smile a day keeps the wrinkles at bay
Vintage Loh Siew Tian jokes still work well here
After school revision time

Lynne's selection -
Arts B + one
44 years on
Good girls meet bad boys