Yong remembers how, when he couldn't find a job after his graduation in 1990, Tan insisted on ceding Foon Yew High School's only music teaching position to Yong, leaving the school he had devoted his heart and soul to for 18 years.
楊文煌追憶說，1990 年他剛學成歸來，找不到工作，陳老師毅然地將寬中唯一的音樂教席相讓，離開了自己執教 18 年、用心用情甚深的寬柔中學。