http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ Saint Michaels Institution: Forum: Site Annoucement - Recent Posts en Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:06:38 +0000 http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/where-are-you#post-119 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:54:52 +0000 Robert de Silva 119@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Ken, I am in Virginia. work in Washington DC.</p> <p>welcome aboard! </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/where-are-you#post-118 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:58:27 +0000 toongken 118@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Hi Robert,<br /> Where are you living in the States?<br /> I am in Calgary and travel to the States every month. I was Year 1965 Master Kee Fah was my teacher.</p> <p>Ken Toong </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/2008-oma-reunion-in-ipoh-september-27-2008#post-114 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:16:12 +0000 Robert de Silva 114@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008aa.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008a.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008d.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008e.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008f.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008g.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008h.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008i.jpg" /><br /> <img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/OMAreunion2008j.jpg" /> </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/february-10-2008-announcement#post-100 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:08:47 +0000 Robert de Silva 100@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>I am trying to use this Forum to locate Malaysians living overseas , specially those residing in the US.</p> <p>Please contact us , you do not have to be a Michaelian.<br /> Contact me at silver_bert(at) yahoo.com.<br /> I have met so many Malaysians here in Washington DC and many were wondering how many more of us are here. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/february-10-2008-announcement#post-91 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:57:16 +0000 Robert de Silva 91@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>February 10, 2008</p> <p>We have found another old Buddy of ours<br /> he is one of the icons of Form 3 A3 1965, Form 4 A3 1966 and Form 5 A3 1967.<br /> He is ...............Andrew Sammy. He is a singer , a band boy ...NO he is not Sammy Davis Junior's brother but Eric Sammy's brother.<br /> For his contact , please write us.<br /> Andrew Sammy WELCOME Aboard and welcome "HOME" </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/february-10-2008-announcement#post-90 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:12:05 +0000 Robert de Silva 90@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Thomas Amir is planning to organise a Dinner Gathering for all the guys in the mailing list. anyone interested please contact Thomas at his email address and you may send your messages tru here.<br /> This gathering is to celebrate Life, Friendship and The Chinese New Year.</p> <p>Sarath Jayatilaka's Mum, who is also my late Dad's eldest sister had passed on in early February 2008. Teddy,Thomas, Anthony Kim and Philip Low were there to represent us at the funeral.</p> <p>All those of us who know or even dont know this family ,please remember her in your prayers. She is Florence Adeline Jayatilaka nee de Silva.</p> <p>Thank you God Bless you guys.<br /> Remember we all here for each other. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/links-to-st-michaels-institution-ipoh-perak#post-83 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:12:51 +0000 Robert de Silva 83@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Dec. 07,2007</p> <p>My friend , Michael Foo Chee Wei from Form 5S4 Class of 1986, would like to contact as many of his old school mates as possible.<br /> He mentioned<br /> Foo Say Jin and Foo Say Han who were in his class. Anyone with any information please do contact us here at the web site.<br /> Michael Foo is currently in Washington DC and is working as the Chef in an American Restaurant.</p> <p>He is very keen to meet up with and stay in contact with any Michaelians who know him.</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p>Picture of Form 5S4 1985 /86?. Courtesy of Mr. Peter Khiew</p> <p><img src="http://smi.robertdesilva.com/images/MichaelFooClass2.jpg" /> </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/links-to-st-michaels-institution-ipoh-perak#post-80 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:20:17 +0000 Andrew de Silva 80@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Thanks !. It's always nice to be appreciated. Many thanks to the others that also thanked by sending emails. I'm sorry that I've not responded to some as I've just recently accepted another new website project and it's taking up most of my time. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/links-to-st-michaels-institution-ipoh-perak#post-79 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:59:58 +0000 kwanfonglee 79@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Hi Bob &#38; Andrew,<br /> How r things? I must thk u for a job well done. School days r the best memories of</p> <p>our lives &#38; I really appreciate your effort.</p> <p>Keep in touch.</p> <p>kwanfong</p> <p>Nov. 28 , 2007 </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/links-to-st-michaels-institution-ipoh-perak#post-76 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:39:08 +0000 Robert de Silva 76@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>To contact me , this is my personal email address.<br /> silver_bert (the symbol at ) yahoo.com</p> <p>*edited by Andrew de Silva<br /> It's better to post email address slightly broken ie removing the @ symbol and replace it words such as 'the at symbol' as this will prevent spam-bots from picking up the email address </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/links-to-st-michaels-institution-ipoh-perak#post-71 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:57:56 +0000 Robert de Silva 71@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p><strong> here are some links to our Alma Mater, St. Michael's Institution, Ipoh </strong><strong></p> <p>peterkhiew.blogspot.com</strong><strong></strong> </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/online-survey#post-70 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:55:53 +0000 Andrew de Silva 70@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Please note that the forum has an auto feature built into it in order to protect the forum from being abused. If one should post any links to spam ( the forum has a list of keywords that it will pick up from the links) will cause the forum to ban the user from the site. I've removed the link from the post and I'll close this post.</p> <p>The purpose of this function is to protect the forum from spam bots.</p> <blockquote><p> Spambots are automated programs designed to register on forums, disseminate spam, and leave. They usually supply a fake name, freebase email address, and sometimes mask their true IP address. Spammers can set the message that the spambot will post. Most spambots target one specific forum software or hosting company. Spambots are easy to identify by the nature of the message they leave, or the links in the signature. A typical post contains no topical content, but is accompanied by either spam links in the post itself, or in the user's signature. Some spambots will never post, and rely on the links in their signature to increase their search engine visibility. Looking up the spambot's user name with a search engine will often reveal thousands of registrations in unrelated forums. </p> <p>Spam prevention and deletions measurably increase the workload of forum administrators and moderators. The amount of time and resources spent keeping a forum spam free contributes significantly to labour cost, and the skill required in the running of a public forum. Marginally profitable or smaller forums may be permanently closed by administrators. Forums that do not require registration are becoming rare.</p> </blockquote> <p>Please do not post links that are irreverent to the website .</p> <p>Andrew </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/online-survey#post-69 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:46:04 +0000 Robert de Silva 69@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Opinions, Comments shared in this web site do not mean it has the support of the Webmaster and owner or the other users.<br /> Registered users are allowed to post their comments and opinions on this web site.<br /> Preferably pertaining to our friendship. however I also believe that you may post something which one feels may benefit others.<br /> AND I reserve the right to take off any postings which I may feel is irrevelant. Offensive etc.<br /> You as a visitor, user is also encouraged to report any thing you feel is not right for this site.<br /> Thank you,<br /> regards,<br /> Robert</p> <p>contact me at<br /> <a href="mailto:silver_bert@yahoo.com">silver_bert@yahoo.com</a> </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/online-survey#post-68 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:33:30 +0000 Michael Ong 68@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>I have come across this banner ad that offer money for doing simple work<br /> like answering questions. They called it Online Survey.</p> <p>Do you believe them when they say, they pay you $150.00 per hour for taking<br /> simple online surveys. $5 - $75 for each online survey, up to $120 for phone<br /> surverys, and $4 - $25 per hour to review movies.</p> <p>There is no harm in checking this banner, if it is true you benefit, if it is not<br /> true, you only wasted 20 minutes of your time. </p> <p> EDITED : REMOVED LINK ( REASON : SPAM )</p> <p>OK, if you don't need this money for answering questions, perhaps, your friends<br /> need extra money to settle some of their debts, or pay up their car or housing loans,<br /> or they need a holiday. They do not mind answering questions to earn money.</p> <p>Please forward this link to all your friends who need money, or a second job<br /> working at home that pay more than his/her day job.</p> <p>EDITED BY : ANTI-SPAM-BOT </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/how-we-started#post-66 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:04:43 +0000 Robert de Silva 66@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>I wish to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have registered here. Today there is 11 of us, hope by end of November 2007 we have doubled.</p> <p>To all of you who are just visiting, please drop us a note and tell us how we are faring, how we can improve etc. </p> <p>Anyone who is a Michaelian can join us , even the Girls from the Convent. So many of us had and may have sisters who were/are convent students and thus we know each other .</p> <p>If you happen to "stumble" into this site ,please tell your fellow Michaelians about us.<br /> Please do.<br /> We have rounded up over 20 of us from 5A3 1967. and many more who , once upon a time studied with us in the same class in Primary or Secondary.</p> <p>If you have any class pictures ,or any school activity pictures you like us to post on the site please send them to us.</p> <p>Thank you again. Please come back and visit us as often as possible.<br /> Remember this is for all of us.</p> <p>God Bless you.<br /> Robert<br /> November 05,2007 </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/memorial#post-64 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:01:22 +0000 Anthony Kim 64@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Our deceased fellow Michaelians will be remembered in our prayers especially today as it is All Souls Day........R.I.P</p> <p>2nd November, 2007 </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/memorial#post-63 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:24:41 +0000 Anthony Kim 63@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of all the above brother Michaelians and souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace...................Amen. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/comments-disabled-on-main-page#post-49 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:33:51 +0000 Andrew de Silva 49@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>This should be fixed. It looks like it's a bug that was introduced to the forum when I've tried to allow youtube on the forum. It looks like I have to disable youtube posting until I can figure out what is the problem that is causing it. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/comments-disabled-on-main-page#post-45 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:16:55 +0000 Michael Ong 45@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>I am afraid I did not learn the pHp and CSS, perhaps you can teach me. I am using Namo Web Editor 5 program to produce my websites. It is very much easier than all the others I tried, like dreamweaver, etc. </p> <p>Unless, you allow me to park my pages to your site and you put the link within our site, then it will be possible for me to help out from here. </p> <p>One more thing, you have taken out "edit" to our posting, this will disable us from editing our posting when we want to change or correct the post, could you enable this function again, I think it is very good for us to check our post after posting, if there is any mistake we made, we can reedit them.</p> <p>Keep up the good work, Andrew. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/memorial#post-42 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:05:09 +0000 Robert de Silva 42@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>I would like to take this opportunity to post the names of those Brothers of ours who had passed on to be with with our Lord.<br /> Lest we forget.<br /> The names are not appearing in the order of the day they had passed on. If anyone has any dates of names of someone we had left out please do contact me.</p> <p>1) Ronald Colin Jackson ( passed on somehwere in the 1980s?)<br /> <em> Jackson as we lovingly addressed him was married to Sarath Jayatilaka's sister,<br /> which made him my cousin brother in law.</em></p> <p>2) Khoo Chin Seong ( somewhere in the1990s)<br /> <em>He was in 5A1, a school prefect in 1966 and 1967.</em></p> <p>3)Foo Khoon Tzoon ( somewhere in the 1990s)<br /> <em> I believe his Christian name is Richard. </em></p> <p>4. Chan Choe Keong ( somewhere in 2000s?)<br /> <em> Choe Keong was a King Scout while in school. </em></p> <p>5)Hew Thiam Shin (date unknown)<br /> <em> he was lovingly known as Bull Dog </em></p> <p>6) Gabriel Ponniah (date unkown)</p> <p>7 )Joachim Manikam ( somewhere in the 1990s)<br /> <em> I believe he was a school athlete .</em></p> <p>8) Wijesinghe Oswald Francis ( in 2007 ,in the USA)<br /> <em>We lovingly address him as Oswald .</em></p> <p>9) Yeoh Lam Cheng</p> <p>May the Good Lord bless their souls.<br /> and may we always remember them as the good friends we had.<br /> Remember them in our prayers. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/comments-disabled-on-main-page#post-27 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:21:47 +0000 Andrew de Silva 27@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>If you have knowledge on pHp and CSS then definately. The site uses PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor for the scripts .The layout is mostly Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS ) and html , the blog part and forums is pretty much perfect.<br /> I just want to do a little 'hacking' to allow posting for videos from youtube and also image posting.</p> <p>The only thing that is left is the layouts and themes for the site. It's taking me awhile to fix the minor display problem, as most of the time when I 'fix' something it tends to break somewhere else. It wouldn't a problem but sometimes things break and I have no idea where till I see it.</p> <p>Andrew </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/comments-disabled-on-main-page#post-26 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:12:13 +0000 Michael Ong 26@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Andrew, I may not have the knowledge of HTML and programing, I have self taught on how to build websites, I know how much work involve, thus I am available to help you out on our website, if you are not free. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/comments-disabled-on-main-page#post-25 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:50:27 +0000 Andrew de Silva 25@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Folks,</p> <p>I have disabled the comment features on the blog. It's much more easier for me to just maintain the forums instead of maintaining both. I want to ultimately have everything running smoothly enough that I can just relieve myself of any maintenance work on this site. </p> <p>I'm also the webmaster for 3 other sites .I'm starting on another website by the end of the year. I don't really think I'll be able to find much time to juggle between all the site I maintain and work. I work as programmer for Penn Schoen and Berland and web development is my part time gig. </p> <p>If there's anything I can help feel free to post on the forums and I'll try to write a tutorial on how to do it so everyone can benefit from it.</p> <p>Thanks ,</p> <p>Andrew </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/database-crash#post-24 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:37:02 +0000 Andrew de Silva 24@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Thanks. There some minor glitches on the forum part as I have to still work out on the display. This website consist of a blog and forum and they are two separate things that I'm trying to combine. Everything works pretty well except the layouts are sometimes a little off. If anyone do notice anything that doesn't look right do post on the forums so I can look into it and fix it. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/database-crash#post-19 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:46:22 +0000 Anthony Kim 19@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>No problem Andrew I just re-registered myself and managed to enter the site without any hitches.</p> <p>Thank you for your marvellous contributions. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/up-and-running#post-16 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:24:56 +0000 Anthony Kim 16@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Thank you very much Andrew for a very good job done. We are very proud of you and envy your father for having such a wonderful son.</p> <p>Yes this website brings back that family feelings again just like what your daddy did when he organised the first Reunion Dinner for all of us in KL.</p> <p>God bless you, your daddy, your mummy and your sis and may He protect you all and bless you all with good health in the many years to come. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/how-we-started#post-8 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:11:25 +0000 Michael Ong 8@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>You have done a great job to gather all of us in your free time, please do not stop now, there are still plenty of them still out there somewhere in this planet need to be rounded up. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/how-we-started#post-7 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:17:32 +0000 Robert de Silva 7@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>We met up for dinner in PJ somewhere in the late 1990s. There were about 6 of us and then 3 months later we had another and the group grew bigger. We had not seen each other like for more than 30 years. we met quite regularly after that .<br /> It was Thomas, Anthony,Francis, Justin, Gilbert, Michael Lee and Rohini at our first meet. I may have forgotten someone.<br /> Then, Philip, Teoh , John Raj who came back from UK, Michael Ong was with us.<br /> I had to leave for the US to company my son and daughter who were coming to school here.</p> <p>Today ,thanks to the good work of Anthony , Thomas and Justin we grew.<br /> Andrew Taveira was also busy in Australia, locating the contact numbers of those in Aussie Land.<br /> Take care and be Good. </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/up-and-running#post-4 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:51:31 +0000 Andrew de Silva 4@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Finally, I've got the site back up and running. Noticed that some of you have registered. Got the website design all in and now for some cosmetic work and everything will be good to go....</p> <p>Keep your fingers cross.</p> <p>Andrew de Silva </p> http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/topic/database-crash#post-2 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:00:34 +0000 Andrew de Silva 2@http://smi.robertdesilva.com/forum/ <p>Many of you would be surprised when you log into the site and forum today and realize the huge change in the main site and also the forum. Sadly while trying to fix a bug on the forum , I’ve crashed the database for the forum. I was unable to retrieve the database and I’ve to re-write most of the things on the site from scratch. For those of you that I’ve registered for the forums, I’m afraid that you have to re-register and also repost everything from scratch. I’ll make more updates over the week but everything will be backed up before any major changes. The new forum is much more friendlier and less complicated than the one we previously used.</p> <p>It’s 4am now and I think I’m going to hit the sack and make more changes at some point tommorrow</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Andrew de Silva</p> <p>Webmaster </p>