Serious Elite teacher hates teaching in neighbourhood school

johnny333 said:

Poor photo. Can only recognise a few faces by their facial major characteristic because the photo was taken too far away.

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There is nothing wrong with the photo you twit. It was taken during the era where photos were printed out and hung on the walls.

This photo was printed close to A3 dimensions and was tack sharp.

To transfer old photos to digital format they need to be scanned and resized. Resolution is lost with each step of the process.

Leongsam said:

There is nothing wrong with the photo you twit. It was taken during the era where photos were printed out and hung on the walls.

This photo was printed close to A3 dimensions and was tack sharp.

To transfer old photos to digital format they need to be scanned and resized. Resolution is lost with each step of the process.

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It would cost quite a sum back then to print a black & white photograph in A3 size & sharp as a tack. First, the photographer skills must be very good, or else the picture when blow up to that size, will be very grainy. There was a name for these people who does these prints, was it a lithographer? or something like that. I had the chance to test a high resolution A3 size scanner about 20 years ago & connected to a litho printer ( hope I got it right) in B/W or colour or to sheesh! had been a long time, forgotten the names for all these things...you print to something that you bring to the commercial printers to do layout... had done some darkroom printing myself with my friend for fun, when young... so I kind of know what you are talking about..

halsey02 said:

It would cost quite a sum back then to print a black & white photograph in A3 size & sharp as a tack. First, the photographer skills must be very good, or else the picture when blow up to that size, will be very grainy. There was a name for these people who does these prints, was it a lithographer? or something like that. I had the chance to test a high resolution A3 size scanner about 20 years ago & connected to a litho printer ( hope I got it right) in B/W or colour or to sheesh! had been a long time, forgotten the names for all these things...you print to something that you bring to the commercial printers to do layout... had done some darkroom printing myself with my friend for fun, when young... so I kind of know what you are talking about..

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I printed the image myself in the school dark room. The grain is visible in the print but I used Ilford 100 ASA so it was minimal.

The image was sharp because :

1. It was a bright day so I could use a smaller aperture and a higher shutter speed.

2. I put the camera on a tripod.

3. I used a cable shutter release.

trump said:

the guy on the extreme left standing on the chair got excellent balancing

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They were standing on a bench.

johnny333 said:

Poor photo. Can only recognise a few faces by their facial major characteristic because the photo was taken too far away.

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4th Row (left to right): Tan Hock Chye, Musa bin Omar, Ng Wee Yong, Tjia Wei Hing, Lim Teck Hua, Freddy Tan, Hwang Hai Seng, Choe Park Seng, Lim Si Soong, Lenn Wei Ling, Chia Choon Khai, Lim Teow Lin, Lim Peng Ann, Low Siew Thian, Edward Choo, R. Sachidanandan, Ong Aik Teik, Mohd. Na'aim, Ying Yoke Kong.

3rd Row : Mrs. Lee Tzu Hong, Ms. Sim Lye Choo, Mdm. Maureen Lim, Ms. Chia Hee Lee, Mrs. Anna Lim, Mrs. Shirley Song.

2nd Row: Ng Teng Kok, Bau Sek Hoe, Rahim Lok, Ms. Lily Yu, Mrs. Tan Siew Beng, Ms. Khoo Heng Keow, Mrs. Toh Siew Tee, Ms. Yap Sow Tick, Mrs. Margaret Ng, Mrs. Iris Wong, Mrs. L.J. Rasanayagam, Mrs. Chew Ai Leng, Mrs. Evelyn Wee, Mdm. Caroline Lin, Mrs. Pauline Chiang, Ms. Iva Govindan, Mrs. Augusta Chew, Mrs. Soh Poh Eng, Mrs. Kee Nai Chip, Ms. Yap Sim Hee, Mrs. Lee Gek Kim, Mrs. Dorothy Ng, Ms. Lee Jee Pin, Mrs. Florence Ho.

1st Row: Wee Moh Nam, V.R. Navaratnam, Wee Teow Kee, Ms. Yeo Chee Kai, Mrs. Tham Yeng Fai, Mdm. Ong Yong Hwa, Earnest Lau, Lim Choon Mong, Chee Keng Lim, Ong Kang Hai, Ong Kim Kiat, Toh Ching Chong, Wan Fook Weng, Peter Joe Chia, Ang Cheng Kim, Wee Kim Cheng.

Leongsam said:

I printed the image myself in the school dark room. The grain is visible in the print but I used Ilford 100 ASA so it was minimal.

The image was sharp because :

1. It was a bright day so I could use a smaller aperture and a higher shutter speed.

2. I put the camera on a tripod.

3. I used a cable shutter release.

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Don't think any of these smartphone camera experts these day, would understand a teeny, weeny of what you are saying..ha ha ha "Ilford 100 ASA"
http://www.ilfordphoto.com/home.asp

I have seen films of these at some specialty camera shops I habitually wander in....cable shutter release...do they still use this today??....can't see much of the grain, unless I can examine the picture itself..scanning the photo in, can't see much..

unfortunately, we have come to know today the British governor of Singapore drug mainly 300,00 Chinese population for drug money and many children come from poor family father were opium drug addicts.

How can the Chinese children do well in an nation environment where the governor was a drug traffickers. All these beatings and scolding of Chinese children in British schools system are only created to bring the next generation of children to become drug addicts for British drug money.

All in the name of drug money Chinese children were despised of and were canned for the wrong reason.


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As China tightened her borders, Britain pinned her hopes on her other Asian colonies. Opium production in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Labuan) rose from 353,938 pounds in 1916 to 370,688 pounds in 1920, in spite of Britain’s promise at the Hague Convention to limit opium sales. In 1918, 60% of Britain’s Asian income was derived from opium sales. In 1925, opium accounted for 48% of Singapore’s revenue, and 100% of North Borneo’s. At the 1923 Opium Conference, Mr. Campbell admitted that the British Indian government was determined to maintain high levels of both internal consumption and export, and that they,

“controlled the production, distribution, sale, possession – every possible practical question which could arise in connection with opium—in the strictest possible manner—They had built up a complicated and highly efficient administrative system which started from the time the poppy seed was put into the ground, and did not relinquish control of the drug until it was in the hands of the consumers, or till it was actually exported.”

Some wits noted wryly that the Crown did all but light the addicts’ pipes.

When Indians begged Britain to abandon the opium policy, Britain responded that her opium monopoly was a humanitarian service to India (as it had been to China), and that to end the trade would be “a mockery; to many millions it would be sheer inhumanity.”

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban, Israeli politician


http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm

trump said:

the guy on the extreme left standing on the chair got excellent balancing

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Only true blues will know how was that done, where it was taken, and where that piece of furniture came from.

On another note, it is my firm belief that Earnest Lau was a strong and principled person who, with his Lee connections, ensured that he could support his teachers to be strict with the students regardless of class or family connections. That in a way created the legend behind the many teachers in that photo, and even the scions of politicians and businessmen would not be spared whupass if called for.

And the source of this authority? I perhaps think it was from the example of old gecko presenting a cane to the teacher on her son's first day in a girls school.

It was a nepotistic benevolent autocracy, with its best intentions carried out well.Not that I have a problem with that, in fact I respect quite a few legends in that photo, just maybe peering behind the scenes after peeling off a layer of those rose tinted lenses.

OUR ACS FOREVER!!!

Leongsam said:

I printed the image myself in the school dark room. The grain is visible in the print but I used Ilford 100 ASA so it was minimal.

The image was sharp because :

1. It was a bright day so I could use a smaller aperture and a higher shutter speed.

2. I put the camera on a tripod.

3. I used a cable shutter release.

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wait...you were the school official pornographer?..i mean photographer?

MadrigalWheel said:

Only true blues will know how was that done, where it was taken, and where that piece of furniture came from.

On another note, it is my firm belief that Earnest Lau was a strong and principled person who, with his Lee connections, ensured that he could support his teachers to be strict with the students regardless of class or family connections. That in a way created the legend behind the many teachers in that photo, and even the scions of politicians and businessmen would not be spared whupass if called for.

And the source of this authority? I perhaps think it was from the example of old gecko presenting a cane to the teacher on her son's first day in a girls school.

It was a nepotistic benevolent autocracy, with its best intentions carried out well.Not that I have a problem with that, in fact I respect quite a few legends in that photo, just maybe peering behind the scenes after peeling off a layer of those rose tinted lenses.

OUR ACS FOREVER!!!

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that guy is not human, he is floating

trump said:

wait...you were the school official pornographer?..i mean photographer?

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I was both.

halsey02 said:

Don't think any of these smartphone camera experts these day, would understand a teeny, weeny of what you are saying..ha ha ha "Ilford 100 ASA"
http://www.ilfordphoto.com/home.asp

I have seen films of these at some specialty camera shops I habitually wander in....cable shutter release...do they still use this today??....can't see much of the grain, unless I can examine the picture itself..scanning the photo in, can't see much..

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The fact that I mentioned ASA and not ISO proves that I am the real deal.

Nobody uses cable releases anymore because cameras are now paired to a phone app and triggered from a smart phone.

trump said:

that guy is not human, he is floating

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You must have been a dismal failure since primary school science.