Showing posts with label ex-Francis Light School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ex-Francis Light School. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Allahyarham Tan Sri Dr. P.Ramlee - bekas pelajar Francis Light School

Satu catatan Sejarah...Seniman Agong Allahyarham Tan Sri Dr.P.Ramlee

Tan Sri Dr. P. Ramlee atau nama sebenarnya Teuku Zakaria Teuku Nyak Puteh merupakan seorang pelakon, penyanyi, pengarah, pemain muzik dan penulis lagu terkenal di Malaysia dan Singapura.

Beliau telah dilahirkan di Pulau Pinang pada 22 Mac 1929 di pagi Aidil Fitri. Bapanya yang berasal dari Lhokseumawe, Aceh, telah mendirikan rumahtangga dengan Che Mah Hussein pada tahun 1925 di Kubang Buaya, Butterworth.

Beliau menerima pendidikan awal di Sekolah Melayu Kampung Jawa dan kemudian ke Sekolah Francis Light . Seterusnya beliau menyambung pelajaran di Penang Free School sehingga meletusnya Perang Dunia Kedua.

Bermula dengan bermain ukele, P. Ramlee beralih kepada gitar dan biola di bawah bimbingan Encik Kamaruddin (pemimpin brass band di Penang Free School). Beliau menyertai Orkes Teruna Sekampung dan kemudian Sinaran Bintang Sore. Beliau pernah menjadi juara nyanyian anjuran Radio Pulau Pinang pada tahun 1947 dan terpilih sebagai Bintang Penyanyi Utama Malaya. Dalam pertandingan itu, beliau menggunakan huruf "P" (bagi Puteh) di awal namanya dan kekallah nama P. Ramlee itu hingga ke akhir hayatnya.

Pameran Foto di Galeri SKFL...

  Potrait P.Ramlee
Pencil and Charcoal on Paper, Year 2010  by Che'Ross


lain-lain foto


Tuesday, 21 February 2012

The Quiet Patriot: Tan Sri Azizan Zainul Abidin (1935-2004)- ex- student Francis Light School

We shoul proud with him....




The Quiet Patriot: Tan Sri Azizan Zainul Abidin (1935-2004)

http://www.just-international.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=919&catid=47:archived-articles-2004&Itemid=150

Tan Sri Azizan was very much a professional career bureaucrat of the old school: Educated at the Francis Light School and Penang Free School in Penang, he internalised the values of these conservative institutions and was quiet, patient, steadfast and diligent in his manners and personality. His was the first generation of Malaysian pioneers who charted the nation's trajectory during the troubling decades that followed the retreat of Western colonialism and imperial rule, and his rise to power and prominence came at a time when the fledgling post-colonial state of Malaysia was on the look-out for young men of promise who could serve their country, yet do so with tact, honesty and humility. .....

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