Tan battled valiantly with cancer for two years. Last year at the inauguration ceremony of the Kulai branch school, he conducted a 100-strong orchestra and choir. And when visitors came to see him on his sickbed, he jokingly compared his tumor-swollen belly to a bass drum. Now the great man is no longer with us.
陳老師罹癌兩年來力抗病魔，去年曾在寬柔中學古來分校落成典禮上指揮百人樂團與大合唱，也曾在病榻上，對著來訪友人，笑將自己癌腫的肚皮比喻成大鼓。