My teacher
I was surprised to meet my Advanced Programming teacher, Jason Lim (picture) at last Sunday’s PERCAWI Open. He taught me back when I was doing my advanced diploma in computer studies. It was the most memorable class for me because there were some programming whiz kids in class and they always challenged (and tortured) Mr Jason. He was a competent teacher but was always a good sport and accepted the “correction” by those gifted students whenever he inadvertently made some mistakes. It was his class that made me interested in programming and later make it my profession. It was also the only class where I actually took effort in reading up library books, magazines and any literature I can get on about programming.
Back to chess. Apparently he has a son taking part in the Under 15 section. He is a “brand new” chess parent as this is his first experience seeing a chess competition taking place. He had the wrong impression that the U15 was going to be a knock out tourney and it would all be finished before lunch time. He was surprised to find out that it would stretch till 5 or 6pm. Anyway, he stayed around the tournament hall the whole day watching many of the games being played out.
Probably a sign that chess is really catching on when I get to meet my teacher of 15 years ago in a chess tournament!
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Comments
Yeah that he is!
There was a time when a friend and I were hanging around the cinema looking at the next cool show that was going to show. Jason turned up and asked us to join him to watch a show. Obviously being students we were broke but he said “no problem” as it was his treat.
Later I got my first job in KL thru him.
Yeah thanks to Colin + Jimmy for the report.
Jason’s a really nice guy. He bought the organising committee a delicious Swiss Roll. And I heard from his son that Jason enjoys playing Chess too. So maybe one day, he’ll be playing in one of our local tournaments as well!