Good Times at SEMESTI

After spending 5 formative years of my life in a great residential school in Ipoh i.e. Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman (STAR), I was fortunate enough to be given a Public Services Department (JPA) scholarship to the UK for an Aerospace Engineering course. However, contrary to the previous practice, instead of doing the UK universities entry requirements i.e. the A-Level examination in the UK, the Government decided to conduct the A-Level courses locally.

Hence, my peers and I were placed in few premises and centres for the A-Levels depending on the courses (engineering, social sciences, law etc.) such as MCKK, SDAR, SEMESTI etc. About 100 of us were sent to SEMESTI (Sekolah Menengah Sains Teluk Intan) for 2 years since September 1985 in order to prepare for the A-Level exam in summer of 1987.

Actually, there's a lot of things going on while in SEMESTI. I really enjoyed my time there. 

Anyway, last weekend I was playing in ASTI (Alumni SEMESTI) cricket team for the MCOBA Royals 100 Championship held at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. I played 3 matches, and became the opening bowler for team ASTI. I managed to get one wicket for each of the match i.e. Ungku (MCOBA), Salman (SERATAS) and Comat (SESDU), all considered good opening batsman.

In addition to that, the sixth edition ASSAK Cricket Challenge ACC 2018, instead of the usual STAROBA Tigers, I'll be playing for ASTI Beetles (there're some inaccuracies in the video below, I did my A-Level in 1987, and was never a captain in SEMESTI).

Here goes some of the good times photo stories of recent and the yesteryears of SEMESTI:

I even bowled a maiden over at STC Oval
in the ASTI Beetle vs SMACK game during the
ASSAK Cricket Championship (ACC) 2018

Playing for SEMESTI (Alumni Team)
in the MCOBA Royals 100 Championship

My colleagues and I were the pioneers of SEMESTI Cricket,
way back in 1986. We even won many matches
against other residential schools like RMC, KIK, SMAWIP, SMS etc.

Not sure why I posed like that at the front ...
but the adidas sneakers looked cool enough.
I remembered two RMC batsmen injured due to my bowling.
one with 5 stitches (his fault for wearing lopek batting gloves),
the other with a broken glasses (no helmet).
those were the days my friends ....

I was the Headboy, with lots and lots of cute girls adik angkat.

The longest time ever being the Headboy.

Believe it or not, I was also the Tokoh Pelajar.
Received the Trophy and Cash Award.

How I'd looked in those sweet days at SEMESTI.

Some of my good friends and how do we look
after 30 years, still looking good right?