Lim Shyong Piau (left), one of the founding members of the Oldies But Goodies group. With him is Colin Lee.
Name: Lim Shyong Piau
Age: 41
Schools represented: Anglo-Chinese Secondary School, Temasek Junior College
Best memory of swimming for school: 1985 — I represented AC for the first time, winning a bronze in the 50m freestyle as an unseeded swimmer that year, with barely six months of formal training.
Pet event: 50m Freestyle — 26.0s (personal best), 28.1s (current best)
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Name: Irving Ng Meng Hon
Age: 40
Schools represented: St Andrew’s Secondary School, Temasek Junior College
Best memory of swimming for school: Swimming against ACS and beating them in School Nationals in the relay events.
Pet Event: 50m Backstroke — 28.03 (PB); 32.6 (current best).
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Ng Yue Meng (right) swam for Singapore in the 1988 Seoul Olympics where he set a national record in the 100m breaststroke. With Yue Meng in the pool is Terence Wee (left).
Name: Ng Yue Meng
Age: 42+
Schools represented: St Andrew’s Secondary School, Brigham Young University
Best memory of swimming for school: Winning Sportsboy of the year in ’86, ’87 for St Andrew’s and I’m not from ACS!!!
Pet event: Sleep!!! And more sleep!! 😛 50m Breaststroke and 25m Breaststroke in HK Masters, baby!!!
Name: Terence Wee
Age: 38
Schools represented: Dunman Secondary School, Temasek Junior College
Best memory of swimming for school: School Nationals each year and the dinner party that follows.
Pet event: 100m Freestyle: 55.9s (PB), 1:01.61 (current best)
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Kelvin Yew (centre) with Christina Tham (right) and Amos Mok (left).
Name: Kelvin Yew Sing Ming
Age: 41
Schools represented: Anglo-Chinese Secondary School, Anglo-Chinese Junior College, University of Southern California
Best memory swimming for school: Travelling for swim meets and lifelong friends.
Pet event: 50m Breaststroke — 29.80 (PB), 33.6 (current best)
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Jeffrey Chiang (right) shares a joke with Christina Tham after the Masters races. Christina won two silvers for Singapore in the 1981 and 1983 SEA Games.
Name: Jeffrey Chiang
Age: 43
Schools represented: Anglo-Chinese Junior School (1978-1981), Anglo-Chinese Secondary School (1982-1984)
Best memory swimming for school: Swim trainings under Mr Kee starting at 5.30am, ACJS-ACPS rivalry at primary school swimming nationals and being titans of the pool with ACSS where we ruled the pools. 1984 inter-house medley relay, we were Oldham house with Amos Mok on backstroke, Patrick Tan on breaststroke, Wong Soon Tong on butterfly and I was on the freestyle leg.
Pet event: 50m Freestyle: 28s (PB, 1984) 35s (current best); 50m Breaststroke — 36s (PB); 44s (current best)
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Celebrating their relay medal. From left to right: Colin Lee, Lam Shiao Ning, Freda Yeo, Lim Shyong Piau. (Photo 7 courtesy of Joanne Lee)
Name: Freda Yeo
Age: 38
School represented: St Nicholas Girls’ School
Best memory swimming for school: The crazy things we do on board a flight to our overseas destinations for competitions
Pet event: 100m Butterfly — 1min 13s (PB). Now …. hmm, cannot yet. 50m Butterfly — 31s (PB), 37s (current best)
Name: Colin Lee
Age: Almost 41
Schools represented: Anglo-Chinese Junior School, Anglo-Chinese Secondary School, Victoria Junior College, Nanyang Technological University
Best memory of swimming for school: ACS swim camp, overseas trip with People’s Association Youth Swimming Club (PAYSC), 5.30am training and seeing my own shadow at the bottom of pool when lighting flashed but could not stop training
Pet event: 50m Butterfly — 27s (PB). Now, fly kite.
Name: Lam Shiao Ning
Age: 39
Schools represented: CHIJ (Toa Payoh) and Temasek Junior College
Best memory swimming for school: Thrashed ACJC and RJC in 1989 for Girls A Division (if memory serves me right)
Pet event: 50m Freestyle — 30ish (PB), 33.88s (current best)
Name: Lim Chee Kiong
Age: 43
Schools represented: Commonwealth Secondary School, Singapore Polytechnic
Best memory swimming for school: PAYSC (1976-1981). Yes, swimming under Mr Kee when the whole world is sleeping. Best memory is the SP team winning the IVP (Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic) Championships in 1987 and beating the NUS team in the freestyle relay. Also nice memories of participating in the Sanya Samaki Cups in the late 70s
Pet event: 50m Backstroke — 31s (PB, 1987), 34s (current best)
(Photo 8 © Les Tan/Red Sports)
Chong Kah Meng (extreme right) and Kevin Teo are all smiles after their race.
Name: Chong Kah Meng
Age: 38
Schools represented: Victoria School, Anderson Junior College, Nanyang Technological University
Best memory swimming for school: NTU won IVP in 1994, beating NUS
Pet event: 50m Breaststroke — 34s (PB, 1998), 37s (current best)
(Photo 9 © Les Tan/Red Sports)
All dressed up. From left to right: Joanne Lee, Ng Yue Meng, Kenny Nai, Lam Shiao Ning. (Photo 10 courtesy of Joanne Lee)
Name: Kenny Nai
Age: 37
Schools represented: ACS(I) 88-91, Langside College (Glasgow)
Best memory swimming for school: Beating the St Andrew’s Secondary team in the 1990 National Schools’ B Division 4x50m freestyle relay, and winning the gold in one of my pet events, the 1500m freestyle in 1991.
Pet events: 50m Butterfly — 27s (PB, 1990), 33s (current best). 1500m Freestyle — Sub 17mins. Now, hard to say.
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