Appreciation to an old teacher

My teacher in Secondary 1B - Mr. Lim Guan Kin

This is Mr. Lim Guan Kin. He was my form master in Secondary 1B at Raffles Institution in 1962. I met him again after 50 years on the 50th anniversary re-union of the cohort in my school.

Mr. Lim taught English to the class. When he marked the composition of my classmates, he quite frequently use the word "Verbose". I have not seen this word used by another other person. I will always remember him by this word.

"Verbose" means "having too many unnecessary words. I learn from Mr. Lim to write clearly, without being verbose, and that is the hallmark of my writing for the next 50 years.

My appreciation to Mr. Lim Guan Kin.