My first alma mater, the La Salle School at Ayer Itam is no longer there. In fact, I never had the opportunity to study there but was educated in borrowed premises at the SRK Batu Lanchang and SM Georgetown. Nevertheless the invisible threads that interconnect the innate spirits within the old boys infused in me a sense of belonging.
It is human nature to want to belong but this unique association was neither of our own doing nor desire. The education system and the benevolence of the De La Salle Christian Brothers thrust it upon us. This I will be forever grateful for I was blessed with the steadfast friendship of my schoolmates. To you guys, I say, “Thank you for three decades of helping me grow.”
Thirty years of fellowship cultivated from that first day in an unfamiliar classroom is definitely worth something; something valuable that can never be acquired through any other means. Most of all thank you Christian Brothers, for having educated and refined me, and millions of other youths, into useful productive self-thinking individuals. We shall always go out and Seek The Truth.
