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Small talk: The writer breaks the ice and engages with a student, an approach used by his former teachers, during an English lesson at the SMK Seri Desa, Selangor.

THE year was 1968. I had just enrolled into Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman (STAR), an all-boys boarding school in Ipoh, Perak.

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