La Salle Boys Club (Class of '76): April 2005

Illusion!

Are your eyes playing tricks?

Update on A Traffic Love Affair (Click here for original posting)

Check out previous posting on Saturday, February 19, 2005.

Color Vision Test

What's your score?

Thought Of The Day!

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Thought Of The Day!

At 40+?

$ THE MISSING DOLLAR RIDDLE $

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

Riddle cracked. Click comments for answer.

Can You See This?

Another challenge!

Congratulations! It's A Girl!

Cute little Baby Nicole.
tpillai@aol.com wrote:
Hey Harjit,
Thanks for the e-mail, and yes I am a new dad. Baby was born on Mar. 31st 4:42 PM local time. Her name is Nicole Olivia. Mum and baby are doing fine. I also got a new job so my best way to communicate is at this e-mail address.
How are things with you? Saw your photo with Archibald and Mano on the LSB site. Having fun I see. Looking forward to your reply.
Bala

3 Comments:
At 11:32 PM, MC said...
Congratulations Bala on your latest arrival. Happy to hear the good news. A photo to share with the boys?
At 8:15 AM, Tony said...
Hello there Guys! Everyone here is doing fine and hope all of you are well.I am enclosing a couple of photos of Nicole. Hope you see U all next year.
RegardsBala
At 2:00 PM, Basil said...
Hi Bala,Congratulation.i am sure that you will make a great daddy.
Best wishes from Kate and Basil

First Official Futsal Practice (Click here for more photos)

Official Photo 1.

Group photo. Lying down - Basil and Ragu. Back row standing (rom left to right) - Russlan, Harjit, Mano, Edmund, Archibald, Joseph Martin and Meng Chai.

Official Photo 2.

Group photo. Squating (from left to right) - Ragu, Basil, Russlan and Kathir. Back row (rom left to right) - Harjit, Mano, Edmund, Archibald and Joseph Martin

Well, well, well. We've finally done it. Despite the confusions over the venue, time and mixed messages, the boys had finally come together for the first outdoor activity (since school days). Although the crowd was smaller than expected, given a time slot of only an hour, it was more than enough for the least fittest in the crowd - ME! Originally, a spectator/cheerleader but ended up in the game as a last minute substitute. The joke on the pitch was "There are 2 teams playing against each other - MIC Team A and MIC Team B. Which one do I belong?" In case you guys didn't notice, I was the only fair-skin bloke on the pitch!

My apologies to those who had made serious attempts to turn up but did not make it for the following reasons:

Kong Hin - Spent more than an hour and half caught in after-office and rain-soaked traffic jam. He eventually joined for us for drinks. Great team spirit!
Dr. Siva - Did not receive change in schedule and was on the way to venue after the game was over. My biggest apology to him. Also joined us for drinks. We couldn't have asked for a better team mate! Way to go!
Canaga - Poor soul! Wanted to join the game but eventually only left office at around 11:00pm. Did not even manage to meet up for drinks because the boys were already tired after the game and needed to retire early. Thanks for trying! Would certainly look forward to seeing you in our next session.
Ban Keat - Another poor soul. Held back at "gun point" by his boss till 8:30pm (well after the game). What can I say? In any case, he brought his boss along for the after-game drinks. Should have got his boss to buy a round, right George?

All in all, it was great fun. Sole of my new shoe almost came loose (wrong type - meant for badminton). Had to hold it together with cello-tape for the evening! Will keep you folks informed of the next one!

Quite of few new faces turned up for the evening (as seen in the picture below). A pleasant surprise was Russlan. Obviously collected his mug shot together with those of Joseph Martin and Clarence Fernandez. Check them out at Members' Profiles section.

Our Main Sponsors

The boys would like to record their sincere appreciation to the following parties who had contributed to the success of the first futsal practice session.

B.S.C. (a company owned by Edmund that acts as agent for all the foreign soccer players playing in Malaysia) sponsored 2 futsal balls costing RM150.
Mano (a regular futsal player) paid for the court fee of RM80.

D-DAY For Futsal Practice (Click here for more photos)

Today is the DAY! The first time the boys are having a major OUTDOOR activity after almost 30 years! Even though this may just be a practice session, let's see how much juice the boys still have after all these years! In the hey days, some of you were kings of the fields and courts. Just wondering who still has it. Remember this is NOT A COMPETITION. So, let's just have FUN!

Finally the boys are coming together for some real fun! Eric, you've got your wish. Please clear your calendars for the forthcoming event below. The boys agreeing to participate (either as players or spectators) in our first futsal session are indeed encouraging. Keep 'em coming! Please note change of time and venue.

Date: 20 April 2005
Day: Wednesday
Time: 7:00 pm sharp. The game is for an hour only.

Venue: Sports Barn, (Kelana Lumayan Sdn Bhd), Address Lot No. 5, Lorong 19/1A,Section 19, 42100 Petaling Jaya,Selangor, Malaysia. Tel: (603) 7956-6869

Additional Information: Costs of field rental and purchase of soccer balls to be shared. Bring your own food and drinks.

Final Confirmed Participants:

Ragu (reconfirmed)
Basil (reconfirmed)
Tan Ban Keat (reconfirmed)
Canaga (reconfirmed)
Edmund (reconfirmed)
Kathir (reconfirmed)
Archibald (reconfirmed)
Norman Gerard (reconfirmed)
Mano (reconfirmed)
Chandra (reconfirmed)
Chow Kong Hin (reconfirmed)
Clarence (confirmed)

Cheerleaders:

Tan Meng Chai (reconfirmed)
Harjit (reconfirmed)
Eric Neoh (confirmed)
Russlan (confirmed)

This is the first of a series of practice matches to be organised for the more active boys in the group. Since all of us are getting on with age, the matches are designed with more breaks and shorter playtime. Edmund will be leading the organizing of the games (since his company has a tagline that says "Football Is Our Business"). As incentive to the players, free jerseys will be provided (courtesy of Edmund's company).

We are looking for at least 15 participants (for 3 teams with 5-a-side). Any additional players can stand in as reserves. Please indicate your interest (either as participant or cheerleader) for the occasion. As a suggestion, the 3 teams should ONLY name themselves after these:

GASTON
RAPHAEL
CASHMERE
ANTHONY
LA SALLE

The doctors among the boys are requested to be present as standby medical assistants (should the boys get carried away by their "pasang kaki" tricks!). Calling Dr. Paul Dasen, Dr. Francis Anthony and Dr. Ganesan for standby duty please. For the rest, sign in please.