I haven't met Anthony for more than three decades, but as we had exchanged emails recently and he had been featured in my previous "Then & Now" posting, I felt like we'd already met. Also his "now" photo was obviously a pretty recent one. Our friend is in good shape, and at 50 still retains his boyish looks (sans the curly hair), with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
We chatted over a light breakfast of roti canai & kopi. We learnt a little about Anthony's experiences as CEO of NSTP, a role he took on only in November last year. As with everywhere else he's been, he seems to be making positive ripples here too.
After makan, Anthony brought us around the floor he was on. Along the cooridors and in meeting rooms, there were many interesting artworks - pictures and sculptures - notably some by the well-known Malaysian artist, the late Ibrahim Hussein.
PC holds a sculptured piece by the late artist
Ibrahim Hussein
Anthony then started up his Notebook PC and showed us his new "Out of Borneo" blog. He has put together some great recollections of his childhood days, written in a light and amusing style. For those who haven't yet found it, I've included it under "Interesting Links".
Later, Anthony brought us to NSTP's Archive Department, which holds a very impressive collection of photos and information covering a broad spectrum of companies and personailities. Also there are years and years of old NST papers kept in bounded volumes or on micofilm. Anthony asked for the newspaper from October 1976 to be brought out, and it was from this volume that I took and featured a few page shots of the 1st Oct 1976 issue in my posting a couple of days ago.
Our very best wishes to you, Anthony, and thanks for the good ol' Sarawakian hospitality .
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looking good, Dato' Anthony! you too WJ and Philip!
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ReplyDeleteWhat the fish!!!! Who's this joker trying to peddle his stuff on our site???? Delete him WJ !!!
ReplyDeleteAiya, maybe they can do free jerseys for St Joe Form 5 boys . Hehehe .
ReplyDeleteWJ should punish that joker. Mr Cisco Director, can you program a pc to send 10 million emails to that joker's website to tell him off? Flood his stupid site. Sheesh ... the cheek of that guy!
ReplyDeletePlease, don't anyone click on any of his links.
A small group of us met and had a delightful breakfast at Choon Hui Cafe this morning. Datuk JJ belanja us [early birthday party - his big day is on 10/10].
Present were:
Datuk Justin Jinggut, Bob Chew, Ben Wong, Robert Chin, Norbert Liew, Lee Ah See, Ronnie [year 1975] and his missus, George Lo and wife Gina. Boy! We filled the whole coffee shop with our laughter and loud chatter. RC took a couple of photos and he will send to WJ shortly.
Guys, gotta make this more regular ... I read somewhere that laughter is good for lowering the BP.
Ah See has volunteered to do a Jay Leno at the big reunion. That guy sure has a lot of jokes which he can tell with a very straight face.
WJ, good to see public service ads on the site. There are some charitable sites which donate to charity based on number of clicks on their sites. Why not add their links here?
ReplyDeleteSend me the links, Georgie boy
ReplyDeletewho cares about NFL ????
ReplyDeleteGreat idea George, we should do that. There are many destitute kids and old folks out there. Maybe it is high time the gang of 76 should also think of hvg a retirement 'club house' so people like ELAS can continue entertaining us. hehehe
ReplyDeleteTalking about jerseys...it must be shameful to don the Sarawak football jerseys now. Yesterday again kena hantam 7-0. The Sarawak FA is putting all Sarawakians to shame la.
And to think that Sarawak is supposed to be one of the richest states in Malaysia. Why can't the State sponsor the team? Bring back Alan Vest!
ReplyDeleteAlamaK..good idea Georgie boy if we can't have Mr Alan Vest, we'll go for Alan Jersey.
ReplyDeletehey Dato' Anthony, we had talked about buying over the run-down Cathay cinema building to convert into our Clubhouse, but someone beat us to it ... hahaha!
ReplyDeleteDid you get the link I sent you for the Hunger Site, WJ?
ReplyDeleteYup I did. Will look at it tomorrow.
ReplyDeletedato AM, can we access archives of NST online?
ReplyDeleteTuan Website Jaga,
ReplyDeleteWho hit the 60,000 mark? Any price ?
Thanks
I think it's our sahabat dari Siem Reap.
ReplyDeletePrize? Didn't I see someone offer a free COLONOSCOPY for whoever brought us over 60k? Ha ha ha.
Dato AM, mengapa your blog ta boleh comment?
ReplyDeleteSebab saya mau cerita saja ...hehehe...can send comments to my email macphersonanthoy@yahoo.com and sambung cerita.
ReplyDeleteA token of appreciation to Datuk "Ganteng" ( Datuk AM )for giving the opportunity to my friend
ReplyDeleteSiew Ching to meet up with him next week.
Terima kasih, Pak.
There was this Kuching kid who wanted to divorce his parents, so he takes them to court.
ReplyDeleteThe judge says, "do you want to live with your dad?" the kid says "no! he beats me up badly!".
The judge says,"you want to live with your mom?" "no! she beats me too!".
So the judge says, "who do you want to live with then?"
The kid says,"The Sarawak Football Team"
Why ? asked the Judge
The boy replied...Because they just can't beat anyone!"