Typical of an ACS reunion, there were loads of fun and laughter when more than 160 of us from the Class of 68/70 gathered at The Pines on 27 February 2005 for a grand reunion dinner. The joyous mood for the evening was aptly set by our MC Alex Chan when he had the audience roaring with laughter with his opening line: " Hi, I’m Alex Chan and in case you don’t know, I hid in the swimming pool most of the time"!

We were privileged to have as our guests, 21 retired teachers and principals, some of whom we had not seen in 35 years, but still looked pretty much unchanged by the years. They must have enjoyed themselves as much as we did as they all stayed on until the very end of the programme!

Our dear retired principal, Mr. Lee Hah Ing, stole the show that evening with jokes that were too risky to be told in 1968 when he was in office. We are not sure if we were the privileged few who got to hear them, but we are sure glad he shared them with us.

We were fortunate to have the creative talent of Alan Toh who crafted a slide show that brought back many memories, and the professional musical talent of Philip Ding, supported by Dennis Ang, his lovely wife Su-Lin on bass guitar and Robin Thevathasan. After the singing got started there was no shortage of volunteers including Mr Wee Teow Kee, Ronald Au and the F4’s, and the HSC gals of 70’.

There were several informal get-togethers in 2004 leading up to this first ever-grand Reunion, which turned out to be a resounding success – thanks to the time and untiring efforts put in by the organizing committee, which comprised Derek Seah, Dennis Ang, Alex Chan, William Tay, Andrew Quek, Mimi Somjee, Bernard Lim, Mark Sng, Tan Li Tong, Ronald Au and Wilson Tan!

When we finally stood up to sing the ACS Anthem, it seemed that time had slipped away too quickly. But, a ray of hope…. our next big gathering will be in 2008, marking our 40th Year. We’d better start planning!!