Today is Mr Quah's funeral.

Taken from Streats on 6th August'o4.

PE teacher believed in tough love

-+-+ Mr Quah siew kow's students remember him as a teacher who meted out tough punishments like ordering them to do 40 push-ups or raising his voice at them.
But the St. Anthony's Canossian Secondary School students also said he was a man with a heart of gold.
Many of them who said they had learnt alot from Mr Quah have been streaming into the Singapore Casket parlour since Tuesday to pay their repects at his funeral wake.
Mr Quah who was diagnosed with stomach cancer four months ago & lost his battle on Aug 2. He was 52 years old.
Said Madam Susan Fong,49 Mr Quah's widow:" On Tuesday, the room was so packed that visitors had to queue up." Even thoughhe was an advocate of tough coaching, Mr Quah, a physical education teacher and trainer of the national tennis team in the 1980s, had touched his student deeper than he knew.
Those who turned up at his wake included students from the 1970s. Madam Fong said one if the visitors was a student her late husband coached in tennis more than 20 years ago. Madam Fong met her husband when they were both relief teachers in a school in Jalan Kechil. She describe her husband of 24 years as a kind man who made sure he spent quality of time with her.
" We were only a year away from our silver wedding anniversary," she said. After he diagnosed with cancer, Mr Quah said he would win the battle and take his wife on a year-end holiday.
Said Sister Angela Ng, supervisor of the canossian school:" His last words were:' Pray for courage. Pray i wont go into despair." -+-+

From the last words, i knew he is staying strong. Fighting bravely against those cancerous cells.
He told Madam Kee that he regretted scolding his student, regretted being harsh on them. Why didnt he say this earlier? But it doesnt matter because all salute him till his last breath & even till now though he is gone. *For those who still hate him, if he ever reprimanded u. Please reflect upon yourself on how silly have you been. He will always lived deep down my heart. Without him, i wont have what i have today. Motivation to fight in my life, determination to strive on.
He will bless people around him in the name of christ, Amen.