Dear classmates, comrades, relatives and friends,
I thank all of you who have come from far and wide to do me honour on the occasion of my 75th birthday.
My classmate Michael Ong emailed from Canberra his apologies for not being able to be with us.
He said: “The spirit is willing but the body is weak. With increasing painful left knee joint and painful feet, not to mention forgetful ‘Seniors moments’ I am not confident in my ability to travel alone. Judith too is getting frail.”
A timely reminder in particular to all my classmates of the frailty and brevity of life.
Michael continued:
”Anyway woke up early and composed the following acrostic for the occasion. If I may say so, it seems to me that your political struggle is like a love affair with the country and reminds me of a love poem learnt during schooldays – “Life In a Love” by Robert Browning.”
This is the acrostic – i.e. a series of lines or verses in which the first letters when taken in order spell out a word – “LKS Duty Before Self” which Michael penned: Continue reading “On my 75th birthday, my only wish is to see a realignment of progressive political forces to save Malaysia and to keep faith with the Malaysian Dream of an united, inclusive, moderate, democratic and prosperous Malaysia.”