很搞笑!

Back in 1978, my own parents were also frantic about getting me into a good primary school. We were a Catholic family, so they would have preferred a Christian school.

But they had left it all too late in terms of applications and I ended up getting posted - along with my cousin of the same age - to a little-known neighbourhood school called Henry Park Primary.

Somehow, my parents pulled a rabbit out of the hat. Through some contacts in church, they squeezed me at the very last minute into St Michael's School in the Moulmein area, which has been renamed St Joseph's Institution (SJI) Junior.

Now, a generation later, any parent reading this will feel the irony of that move.

Today, Henry Park Primary is one of the most sought-after primary schools in the nation and SJI Junior, though good, is much less popular.




Recently, at a class reunion, one classmate who is now a high-powered lawyer revealed that she went to another supposedly lowly neighbourhood primary school called Rosyth School. How happy she is today that she did so!