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Situated on top of a hill in Miri, near the beach, Tanjong has been our home during our formative years. The boarders especially have become life long friends. We separated to pursue our careers and future, meeting again 40 years later on the internet on a Google group forum. We "talk" about old times, our life experiences, achievements, grand children and even politics and religion.
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3714. Tanjong Lobang School: Teaching Among the Giants
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3714 Tanjong Lobang School. Situated on top of a hill in Miri, near the beach, Tanjong has been our home during our formative years. The boarders especially have become life long friends. We separated to pursue our careers and future, meeting again 40 years later on the internet on a Google group forum. We "talk" about old times, our life experiences, achievements, grand children and even politics and religion. Tuesday, June 28, 2005. Teaching Among the Giants. By Bob Lynn,. A Peace Corps teacher. I thin...
3714. Tanjong Lobang School: A well rounded education
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3714 Tanjong Lobang School. Situated on top of a hill in Miri, near the beach, Tanjong has been our home during our formative years. The boarders especially have become life long friends. We separated to pursue our careers and future, meeting again 40 years later on the internet on a Google group forum. We "talk" about old times, our life experiences, achievements, grand children and even politics and religion. Wednesday, December 28, 2005. A well rounded education. At Tanjong, we were exposed to many th...
3714. Tanjong Lobang School: About Me
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3714 Tanjong Lobang School. Situated on top of a hill in Miri, near the beach, Tanjong has been our home during our formative years. The boarders especially have become life long friends. We separated to pursue our careers and future, meeting again 40 years later on the internet on a Google group forum. We "talk" about old times, our life experiences, achievements, grand children and even politics and religion. 5 hrs every morning on Mon, Tue, Wed). During this initial retirement period, I also playe...
3714. Tanjong Lobang School: Rural poverty
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3714 Tanjong Lobang School. Situated on top of a hill in Miri, near the beach, Tanjong has been our home during our formative years. The boarders especially have become life long friends. We separated to pursue our careers and future, meeting again 40 years later on the internet on a Google group forum. We "talk" about old times, our life experiences, achievements, grand children and even politics and religion. Friday, October 28, 2005. So, I had better be tough! I don’t know everything, after all! Thank...
3714. Tanjong Lobang School: Dormitory
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3714 Tanjong Lobang School. Situated on top of a hill in Miri, near the beach, Tanjong has been our home during our formative years. The boarders especially have become life long friends. We separated to pursue our careers and future, meeting again 40 years later on the internet on a Google group forum. We "talk" about old times, our life experiences, achievements, grand children and even politics and religion. Monday, November 28, 2005. Contributed by Sam Teo. Kiwi hostel, my home 1963/64. However, duri...
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24. Black & white Kodak photos: Tanjong 1963
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24 Black and white Kodak photos. One cold foggy winter in Hamilton New Zealand, I spent a week scanning all my Kodak photos and saving them in my computer. Here are some of these old photos. Thursday, August 04, 2005. Ex Tanjong Lobang School students' web site. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to my blog. Please feel free to browse and leave a comment. Thank you for visiting. View my complete profile. Picture Window theme. Powered by Blogger.
37. my eBooks: Book 1 contents
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I have finished writing 2 books and I am now working on book 3. I have post only a few chapters from each book depending on readers' interests. Some more chapters will be published on Blogger after further editing to remove sensitive information or comments. Please watch this space. Tuesday, July 12, 2005. Chapter 2 The Chows in Brunei. Chapter 3 The Thiens. Chapter 4 Tanjong Lobang School. Chapter 5 My Australian Sojourn. Chapter 6 Sarawak Shell Berhad. Chapter 7 Trainee Drillers. Welcome to my blog.
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361. Shanghai trip 2010
361 Shanghai trip 2010. Christine and I made our second visit to China in April 2010. This time to find her roots in Jejiang, Shanghai. Sunday, April 11, 2010. Electric scooters for going to work. I saw very few private cars during our 4-hr bus ride from the airport to Wuxi. The main roads outside the city limits were not congested at all; mostly trucks, lorries and buses. I remember seeing a 3-storey bus full of beds! Friday, April 9, 2010. 36 km long Hangzhou Bay Bridge, 杭州灣大橋. This bridge, 杭州灣大橋.
37. my eBooks
I have finished writing 2 books and I am now working on book 3. I have post only a few chapters from each book depending on readers' interests. Some more chapters will be published on Blogger after further editing to remove sensitive information or comments. Please watch this space. Wednesday, July 13, 2005. Chapter 1 Malaysians in NZ. Chapter 2 My friend Simon. Chapter 3 Compulsive gambling. Chapter 4 The Sellimans. Chapter 5 Why NZ? Chapter 6 A letter to the Waikato Times. Chapter 7 The Huangs. Please ...
371. Oil wells and rigs
371 Oil wells and rigs. Oil platforms are piled and anchored permanently to the seabed. They are not movable objects. Rigs are completely self contained and mobile units. A drill ship even has its own motor and propeller; whereas jack-ups and semi-subs need to be towed to location (fixed by GPS) by powerful tugs (Smit Lloyd). In Nigeria swamp barges and land rigs are more common. Saturday, July 23, 2005. Wednesday, July 20, 2005. Monday, July 18, 2005. Saturday, July 16, 2005. The Jumbo is a barge or ten...
3711. Memoir
A short description of my early childhood in Borneo, my roots, life experiences, political views, the happy times and some disappointments. Tuesday, April 11, 2006. In 1905 my grandfather, Chin Yu, left Kwangtung province in South China because he wanted to make his fortunes in South East Asia. He heard from his Hakka friends in British North Borneo (now Sabah) that all the new immigrants from China, on arrival in Kudat, were given 25 acres of free land by the colonial government. Saturday, March 11, 2006.
3713. Students registerTanjong Lobang School
Tanjong Lobang School' itemprop='name'/. By kind courtesy of Christopher Sawan copied from his blog at http:/ noblesavage.blogspot.com/. Saturday, October 23, 2010. Students register 1957 to 1960. 1957 to 1960 students list. Abdul Wahab bin Moktar. Labels: 1957 to 1960 students list. Friday, October 22, 2010. 1961 to 1966 students list. Labels: 1961 students list. Thursday, October 21, 2010. 1967 name list part 1 of 5. Albert Chai Sin Fatt. Labels: 1967 students list. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. 5 Mr G&...
3714. Tanjong Lobang School
3714 Tanjong Lobang School. Situated on top of a hill in Miri, near the beach, Tanjong has been our home during our formative years. The boarders especially have become life long friends. We separated to pursue our careers and future, meeting again 40 years later on the internet on a Google group forum. We "talk" about old times, our life experiences, achievements, grand children and even politics and religion. Tuesday, March 28, 2006. 8220;What about your brother and sister? Tuesday, February 28, 2006.
3715. My Australian sojourn
3715 My Australian sojourn. I spent more than six years studying for a diploma at Swinburne Technical College in Melbourne. Saturday, April 08, 2006. 10 young men from Sarawak, flew to Singapore in early February 1966, stayed a night at the Raffles hotel and caught a Qantas Boeing 707 flight for Sydney the next day. My sister, Rose was right. I did need a suit! Posted by David Chin. Labels: colombo plan scholarship. Thursday, April 06, 2006. Raffles hotel, Singapore. There, was Bondi Beach just a few yar...
3718. How to drill an oil well
3718 How to drill an oil well. I have worked on off shore oil rigs for more than 12 years as roughneck,. Derrick man, crew chief and assistant driller. Thursday, July 14, 2005. Chapter 8. Drilling an oil well. The conductor is cut to a convenient height above the grating on the cellar deck or at the moon pool. Perforations allow the oil and gas to enter the 9 5/8” production casing and flow up each tubing. This is the end of the drilling phase. If this were an exploration well on the open sea, a well tes...
3735. Why New Zealand?
3735 Why New Zealand? I brought my family to New Zealand because of the cheap university education for permanent residents. Basically I exchanged one Harvard lawyer and 2 bus drivers, for 3 NZ trained engineers. Wednesday, July 13, 2005. Chapter 5. Why NZ? I knew that it was unfair to Pearl and Eugene; but there seemed to be no other way out at the time. We needed to have another 400K! I thought that he was an idiot! How could I possibly become rich by resigning from Shell? I was making very good money t...
3736. First landing in New Zealand, 1995
3736 First landing in New Zealand, 1995. After approval of our applications for Permanent Residents in 1994, it was a NZ. Immigration requirement to land in the country within a year. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Kevin with mum at Garden Place. Sunday, July 26, 2009. Kevin, Eugene and mum at Rotorua. Friday, July 24, 2009. Christine, Eugene and I landed at Christchurch in the evening. By the time we checked into a hotel it was getting dark. It was still a little too cold for the new arrivals from the ...From ...
377. Trainee Drillers
Wednesday, July 13, 2005. Joseph Ngieng, Eric Wong, Awang Junaidi, Adenan Ali, David Chin,. Michael Ting,Gandu Giiang, Macmilan Bau,. Rasnan Arbi, Jeff Holbrook. Lean Tai Lee and James Nguren). After working 5 years as a wireline operator with production department, I had enough and I applied for a transfer to drilling department to become a trainee driller. In 1978, eight trainee drillers were recruited from outside Shell:. 8220;David, why do you want to work as a driller? Michael Ting has to pay back S...
