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by ianthomas
Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:36 am
Forum: Old Blues businesses
Topic: CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS BUSINESS IN SINGAPORE/MALAYSIA
Replies: 0
Views: 4207

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS BUSINESS IN SINGAPORE/MALAYSIA

I have been partner in a business based in Singapore & Malaysia since 1991. The construction industry in SE Asia has been in a poor state since the Thai collapse of 1997 and unfortunately we have suffered accordingly. However, export business for us is booming, particularly in Vietnam, and this ...
by ianthomas
Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:36 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Lucky??
Replies: 6
Views: 3300

Kinky?

Strangely or not as the case may be, I was an avid "watcher" of birds of both types in those days. Nothing too kinky about that?? However, nowadays I only have interest in the non-feathered variety and unfortunately have to usually make-do with whatever turns up!! (On a very good run at th...
by ianthomas
Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:02 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Lucky??
Replies: 6
Views: 3300

Lucky??

Guess I must be one of the lucky ones, because I can look back at my time at CH in general, as being a good part of my life, and even more so now as I look at the school children here in Singapore, and the only-children of China, where peer pressures on them to produce outstanding educational result...
by ianthomas
Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:39 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Corporal Punishment......
Replies: 213
Views: 104624

Corporal Punishment

Do you guys still sleep on horse-hair mattresses on beds with loose wooden boards and horse-hair pillows like rocks? At night naughty boys had to run the gauntlet from one end of the dormitory to the other with all the other boys standing at the end of their beds with one bed-board in hand to attemp...