This is your song…

I’ve never been a fan of Ronan Keating though I do not really mind a few songs of his but from his latest album, “Songs for my mother”, there is this song that, in my opinion, is not really that great but I love the very beautiful and meaningful wordings that go like this:

Live your life to the full
With a lifetime of smiles
Made us know right from wrong
Always knowing a lie
You made us be tough
But never too rough
Rise above what you said
Never easily led.

And one day we’ll all sing along
‘Cause this is your song
We wrote it for you
It won’t take all day
Just a minute or two

You were a friend
Walk with you till the end
And one day we’ll all sing along
‘Cause this is your song

So I’ll try and go on
Loving all that we know
Through the hardest of times
You put on a show

You made us stand tall
When all around us would fall
Even when you were alone
You believed you could fly

And one day we’ll all sing along
‘Cause this is your song
We wrote it for you
It won’t take all day
Just a minute or two

You were a friend
Walk with you to the end
And one day we’ll all sing along
‘Cause this is your song

And one day we’ll all sing along
‘Cause this is your song
We wrote it for you
It’ll take all our lives
Just to help us get through
You were our friend
Walk with you to the end
And one day we’ll all sing along
‘Cause this is your song

I can imagine how touching it would be if students were to sing that to their teacher, and talking about students, a few of my former ones asked me out for dinner the other day. There was Xavier (right) and he brought Nicholas (left) from Kuching along. We met Nicholas in 2006 at the state-level Inter-school Parliamentary-style English Language Debate Competition in Limbang…

Incidentally, Nicholas won an award and RM1,000 from Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia for his excellent results in the STPM Examination and will be going to Cambridge on a scholarship to do medicine while Xavier had secured a scholarship for excellent SPM students.

Also joining us at the dinner that night were Teck Ang (left) and Lawrence (right). They were in my debating team during those days prior to my retirement…

…together with Bernard who scored straights A1s in the SPM Examination last year and is now studying in the states and Gabriel who was unable to join us that night. Gab is presently in Form 4 and was a straight-A scorer as well in the PMR Examination last year.

I brought along the fish that Kpenyu gave me and had it steamed, Teochew-style…

Gosh! It was really very very nice and could rival any of the freshwater fish, including the expensive ones from Kapit. Another plus point in its favour was there were none of those tiny bones that were typical of the river fishes. Everyone enjoyed that and thanks, boys, for the delightful dinner. I certainly look forward to doing that again sometime, someday…