The alumni members had initially planned to reconnect with each other in 2020 – exactly 50 years after they began their Year One schooling in their alma mater.
“Although some of us are in Melaka, we had not contacted each other – perhaps too busy with work and other issues,” he said. Retired teacher Mani Sockalingam looked back on the gathering held at a hotel in Melaka as a congregation of like-minded friends who are “seniors but young at heart”. “It’s a blessing to have come this far in my life and to have shared with everyone part of my life’s journey,” the entrepreneur-turned-pastor said.
“Though we had not met for decades, it never felt like we were apart. I could be myself – no masks, no pretences,” he shared.