You-Want's Life

Upon hearing the grievous news that Miss Shyamala would be leaving English College after an 18-year-long period of teaching, Editor Euan Thum led the BOD members of LDDS 2014 to pen a heart-felt appreaciation letter for the teacher: You turned your head and drove off in a scarlet Cerato, miles and miles away from us, never looked back as you stepped into a new chapter of your life……   18 years have gone by and it was a period when EC was blessed by your bubbly disposition and pearls of wisdom. Now that we have just lost another rose, a ravishingly blossomed one this time. Many couldn’t accept this fact, this nightmare to be real. The tears that dropped, the silence that prevailed in classes and halls, had deeply affected everyone.   It is definitely true to say that you are not just a teacher, but a sage, a parent and the law. You are like a lighthouse that shines through the darkness and guides us to the right path in life. We know handling the boys was not an e...

Time ticked lightning-fast as you know it seemed like everything just paid a sudden encounter in the brisk blink of an eye. The moment we came in as little tedious boys, we were still slow on the path to hold the grand 100 th year celebration.   But now, after a normal flip of our eyelids, our sights were enriched by the puzzles of emerald green and bright yellow of the morning sunshine – numerous flags printed with the 100 th year celebration logo were hung aloft around the school compound, and that was when we had the idea of making our theme ‘EC 100 Years’.   An act to captivate you, our long complicated 100-year history had been nicely simplified and led to an enthralling timeline puzzle of pictures and tales. Have you ever wondered how EC was back in the old days? Well, we wouldn’t know too. So that’s why we searched for quite a number of articles written decades ago to show the standard of English years ago and hoping some of the authors of the articles who wer...