Kota Kinabalu: In an extraordinary effort to adhere to an age old Chinese Lunar New Year custom, all 560 Sacred Heart Primary School pupils received a hongpao (Mandarin) each in a new year ‘do’ at the school Tuesday, packed with acrobatic lion shows, drum-manship, fire crackers and kungfu demos.
Lined up on stage to give out the bright red package hongpao were Head Mistress Ms Wong Ling Ching, Chairman of Board of Governors, Daniel Tan Swee Peng, Secretary Robert Chiang, President of the Ex-Students Association of La Salle and Sacred Heart, Datuk Ram Singh, Datin Lo Mui Lan, alumni exco members Rashid Awang Damit, Ariffin Mohd Khan, Dr Andrew Sim of Onaki Sdn Bhd and Sacred Heart PTA President.
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In America where it started in the Summer of 1965 by a man called Joel Pritchard and two friends (Bill Bell, Barney McCallum), there is already a pickleball craze embraced by millions.
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