THE FACTS AND IMPRESSIONS CONTAINED HEREIN ARE: DRAWN FROM

VARIOUS SOURCES, AVD IN THE

EVEKT THbT THEY DO NOT

REFLECT THE EXACT HAPPENINGS, THE RESPONSIBILITY L I E S

SOLELY WITH TNF WRITER.

THIS I S SIMPLY A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE GREAT SONS OF THE

MALAYSIAN SOIL.

HIS CONTRIBUTIOXS TO THE NATIOY IS A

SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR XA.NY YEARS

JOHARI HPISSAV
1st. December 1983
Shah Alan-

TO

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D I R I MU

DAF?I T

M LUWUR DESA

MENGHARUNGI EELOMBANG DAN LAUTAN

WTUK SWTU K E J A Y W

MENDAKT BUKTT BERDURI

MENUR W I LEMBAH

ALAH BTSA
E G A L BIASA

HASRAT MU

LWUR, SUCI DAN MULIA

MENEGAKKAN BPNGSA MU Y W G TERTINGGAL

D A M PERLUMBAAN
JEJAK YANG KAU BERIKAN
MENJADI SUATU ASA

UNJUK M I BERDTRI
CHORUS :
SUW-SUARA SERAK MU

MEMBANGKITW BUMIPLSSERA
DARI

TZDUR LENA

BUTIR-BUTIR S E W G A T
PENJADI POHON

TEMPAT

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BUKAN E M S

SEBAGAI PERBAND I NGANNYA

MEWDWGKAN

BUDTMU

YANG BEGTTU TTNGGI

DAN MULIA
H W Y A TUHAN YPSJG DAPAT

MEMBAMS S E G A W Y A
DAN

MEMBERKATIkYA.

CHORUS

:
ARSHAD,

SUARA SERAK MU

MEMBANGK I TKW

BUM1 PUTERA

DARJ T I DUR LENA

BUT I R-'BUT I R S E N G A T
MENJADI POHON

TEMPAT KW I BERTEDUH .

MU5 I C

BY : NORbZLAN

LYRICS BY : N O R A Z W
YOU WERE BOR? ON THE FIFTEEYTH DAY OF NOVENBER 1928.

YOU SHA-RE

THE S A ! ZODIAC S I G Y AS CEEARLES DE GAULLE, W T I N LUTHER KING,

PABLO PTCASSO, GRACE KELLY ,4ND ROBERT KEhTEDY.
NOTIONS OF GREATXESS, OF ACHIEVEMENTS
SHIP,

TKE

THESE NAMES ECHO

IN GOVERTIJMENT, S T A T E S W -

ARTS AVD MORE IMPORTANTLY OF ACHIETEMEBTS I N BRINGING

HOPE TO THE

OF TRANSFORMING DREAMS I N T O REALITY

AND OF C m V G I N G THE VERY F A B R I C OF SOCIETY INTO ONE: THAT IS

SENSITIVE, RESPONSIVE AYD SUCCESS ORIENTED.

THE ELDEST IN A FAMILY OF THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER YOI'
WERE BOW AT A TINE W E N THE WORLD WAS SUFFERING FROM THEEFFECTS
OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ,

I N THAT LITTLE VILLAGE OF PARIT KEROMA

IN THE DISTRICT OF MUAR IN TKE STATE OF JOHORE YOU FOUND YOURSELF BORN INTO A POOR,
IMPOVERISHED FAYILY.

TFE FEW DOLLARS

YOUR FATHER COULD MAKE OUT OF TAPPING RUBBER WERE BARELY ENOUGH
TO SUPPORT TTE FAMILY.

THE POLTTNG RAIN.

YOU HIS BICYCLE.

YEARS OLD.

YOU WALKED TO SCHOOL I N T E

OCCASIOKALLY A TEACJER FROY THE SCHOOL LEET

YOUR FATHER PASSED AWAY W E N YOU I\.'ERE ELEVEN

YOUR LIFE TOOK A DRAMATIC TURV.

YOU HAD TO A S S M

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF YOUR FATHER, AT A TEBDER AGE.

AED HARDSHIP WERE STARING RIGHT IPU'TO YOUR EYES

HOWEVER BEING THE POSITIVE? PERSON

A CHALLENGE.
HOT SUN AID

POVERTY

...............

THAT YOU ARE, YOU TOOK I T AS

YOU SET YOURSELF TO EARX A FEW DOLLARS BY PULLING

A TRISHdW AhTD BY SELLING COCONUTS I M THE NEARBY KAPLPOKGS.

ALSO E L F E D YOUR MOTEER A GREAT DEAL IN HOUSEHOLD WORK.

CHOPPED FIREWOOD, YOU WASHED CLOTHERS.

YOU
YOU

THERE WAS ONE DAY 12THEhT

I N YOUR HURRY TO CARRY SOME FIREWOOD, Uh'KNOTdINGLY YOU PICKED A

FEW WHICH WERE I N PACT BURNLYG AXD YOU BURhTED YOUR ARYS THE

MARKS OF WHICH ARE STILL THEm 07 YOUR RIGHT (OR IS I T LEFT)

ARM,

AS A

SMALL BOY mD IVOW, YOU IEFX KNOWN TO ENJOY FOOD A!!

mEIJ THE NOURIStIMENT IT CAN BRING.

WASN'T TO BE FOUND.

A FRIEND'S HOUSE

BUT AT HOME GOOD FOOD

OYCE I N A WHILE AFTER SCHOOL YOU WEKT TO

THEICE, YOU WEN? ABLE TO EAT SOME GOOD LUhTCH

AFTER SCHOOL.

AS A STUDENT ONE OF YOUR FAVOUElITE SUBJECTS WAS M A T H m T I C S .

YOU WERE ATTENTIVE I N MATHS CLASSES AND YOU BELIEVED THAT OKE

WAY TO DO WELL I N MATKEMATICS ITAS TO P R A C T I S E SOLVING SUMS O?l

YOUR OWN.
A LOT.

. . JOSEPH

YOUR MATHS TEACHERS ESPECIALL X?. P C

HELPED

WITH US TONIGHT TO SHARE THIS GLORIOUS MOMEgT IS ONE OF

YOUR MATHS TEACHERS.

BE IS ENCIK GUmM SINGH WHO WAS A RELIEF

TEACHER WHEN YOU WERE PFtEPARING FOR YOUR CAMBRIDGE EXAMIYATIONS.

ENCIK GURBAX S I I G H I S STILL TEACHIEG I N BATU PAHAT.

ONE OF YOUR CLOSEST FRIEYDS IN SCHOOL I S ALSO HERE In SPIRIT

TO SHARE THIS EVERING kTTH YOU THrCOUGH A MESSAGE HE RECORDED

BEFORE HE LEFT FOR LONDON,
J U S T BEFORE THE CAYBRIDGE EXAMINATIONS YOU FELL ILL WITH X I L A R I A

AND TYPHOID.
HOSPITAL.

YOU DID ?;TOT GO TO SCHOOL, NOR D I D YOU GO TO THE

YOU STAYED AT H O E .

ONE OF YOUR TEACHERS, MR. G0PJ)ON

WARD, WENT TO YOUR HOUSE AND LITERALLY CARRIED YOU TO THE

HOSPITAL.

N E S S WAS

MR. WARD, AU AUSTRALIAV, KPSEW HOW SERIOUS POUR ILLH I S QUICK ACTTOE SAVED YOUR L
I F E .

YOU DID \ELL ENOUGH I N THE CAMBRIDGE EXAMIYATIONS.

YOU OBTAINED

A SECOND GRADE AND STILL NOT KNOWING \.THAT YOU WMTTED TO DO I N

LIFE, YOU TOOK UP A J O B AS A T E M P O M Y TEACHER I R A SCHOOL IN

JOHORE BHARU. AROUND THIS TIME TOO YOUR MOTHER FELL I L L . YOUR
MOTHER WAS LOOKED AFTER BY A W R S E IfHO LATER YARRIED ONE OF

YOUR GOOD FRIENDS.

TONIGHT.

BOTH HUSBAVD AVD WIFE WAVTED TO BE HERE

DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTAXCES HE COULD ONLY RECORD

A YESSAGE FOR YOU.

ANYWAY AS A TEP.TPORARY TEACHER YOU WERE BEGINNING TO EAm

SALARY.

YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD A GREAT DEAL TO GTLE YOUR

MOTHER YOUR FIRST SALARY PACKET.

BUT AS ALLAH MOULD K411E IT,

SHE PASSED AWAY JUST BEFORE YOU COULD DO THAT.

THTS IS ONE

EVENT IT YOUR L I F E W I C H YOU WILL NEVER FORGET.

AS T H I S CENTURY TURNED IWTO ITS SECOND HALF YOU [ E R E BEGIh7TPJG

TO GET EKTO POST SENIOR CAYBRIDGE EDUCATION.

BETWEEN 1951-1954
YOU WERE: I N T W AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE I N SERDANG.
YOU A PERSPECTIVE.

SERDiGVG GAVE

YOG BEGAIT TO LEARN THE IMPORTAKCE OF A

SYSTEMATIC AGRICULTURAL POLICY FOR A COLTTRY.

SERDANG TOO

INSTIGATED YOU TO REACH FOR HIGHER HORIZONS I N EDUCATION.

YOUR

REAL TNTENTIONS HOWEVER, WAS TO GAIK A UYIVERSITY EDUCATION I N

ECONOMICS.

YOU IERE AWARDED THE: COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND

WELFARE SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES

AT ABETCYSTWYTH.

I N WALES YOUR TALENTS AS A YOUNG

CONSCIENTIOUS UNIVERSITY STUDENT BEGm TO BLOSSOY.

AND A

YOU MIXED

AROUND SOCIALLY, YOU DEVELOPED SOYE VERY STRONG FRIENDSHIPS.

OKE OF YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS WHILE I N ABERYSTIJYTH I S MR. ARTHUR

RAITT hTHO NOW LIVES I N KIITGZYN, ENGLAND.

OF HEALTH THESE DAYS.
UNTIL TODAY.

YOU APX I N

HE I S NOT IN THE BEST

YOU AND YR, RAITT ARE SUCH CLOSE FRIXRD?

YOU ALlJAYS MAKE I T A POINT TO V I S I T HIM WHEEEITR

THE LCqITED

KINGDOM.

Ihr ABERYSTWYTH TOO, ASIDE FROY

LEAmIYG KQXbYLCS YOU ACQULFSD THE SKILLS OF kV EAGER YOC'NG

MAN OUT TO L T F E S S LADIES.

YOU HAD MAEY GIRLFRIENDS.

STTLL REMEMBER THELMA, MIMI, LARRY AVD ROSEMARY?

DO YOU

I E SUPPOSE

YOU DO hW WITH A SENSE OF NOSTALGIA TOO.

YOU CAME BACK TO MALAYA JUST AFTER INDEPENDENCE m 1959. YOUR

FIRST JOB AFTER UNIVERSITY LTAS AS AN ASSISTANT RURAL DEVELOPMENT
OFFICER IN RIDA.

YOUR SOJOURh' IN RIDA ALBEIT SHORT BECANE THE

BEGINNIXGS OF YOUR PERSONAL MISSTOY AND COMMITTMEYT TO MALAY

DEVELOPYXNT ESPECIALLY THROUGH T R A I N I N G

AXD E D U C A T I O N .

FROM RIDA YOU W E E T M S F E R E D TO PENAVG AS E C O h m I C S O F F I C E R .

I N PENATG YOU FIRST STAYED WITH A MARRIED COUPLE, THE HUSBAhTDS'

N A P E BEING KAM.

LATER YOU MOVED TO NO. 19, ROSE AVENUES WHICH

I S ABOUT TWO MILES FROM THE HOUSE OF A GIRL WHO WAS LATER TO BE

YOUR LIFE PARTNER.

IT PEXANG TOO YOU BEGAN TO APPLY THE SOCIAL

TRADES YOU HAVE LEARNED I N WALES.

THE SOCIAL SKILLS ESPECIALLY

WITH LADLES YOU P I C K E D UP OVERSEAS COME TO GOOD USE.

WITH THE

HELP OF YOUR S H I N I N G CREAM BORGWArCD C A R REGISTRATIOE KO.

BC 3400 YOU D-TED GIRLS

ON BOTH WEEKENDS AVD WEEKDAYS.

YOC

LIKED THE GIRLS, THE GIRLS L I E D YOU BUT NOTHING MEKT BEYOND

PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS.
ONE DAY AT THE END OF TME YEAR 1959 YOU TENT TO THE HOUSE OF
IWY'S

GIRL.

PARENTS-IN-LAW.

TKERE I3 THE HOUSE YOU SAW A SHY YOUKG

YOU WERE AIESTRUCK BY HER SIMPLICITY RYD NATURAL BEAUTY,

THERELTON YOU BEGAN TO MAKE ENQUIRIES ABOUT HER.

YOU ARRKUGED

FOR THIS GIRL, HER NAME BY T H E WAY I S ZALEHA BT ARSHAD, TO

ATTEND A HOUSEWARMING PARTY.

AT THE PARTY YOU GRABBED THE

FIRST CHAVCE YOU GOT TO DAVCE

WITH ZALEHA.
THE FIRST IJORDS

YOU SAID TO KER CRmT0T BE RECOLLECTED BUT YOU WERE HARDLY

CONVINCED

THAT YOU HAVE PIANAGED TO WOO

HER.
OVER IN SERVICE ROAD, ZALEHA WASN'T TOO OVERTJEELKED.

SHE KNEW

YOU WERE DATING GIRLS, MAhT GIRLS, AND THIS SHE DID EOT F I N D
ENCOURAGING.

HER FRIENDS HOWEVER WERE QUITE POS ITIIT

AND DASHING A R S W D MUST BE A GOOD

YAN, A

YOLTNG

GENTLEPkY.

MEhTtTHILE ZALEHA WORKED AT THE POST OFFICE AND YOU USED TO GO

TO THE POST OFFICE EVEN I F YOU D I D NOT PU'EED Ah" OF ITS SERVICES.
ZALEHA WAS HOLDING HER O W AND VERY WELL TOO.

BECRXE M O E AGGRESSIVE.

YOU HOWEVER

YOU TOOK PART IN RAE10 PLAYS JUST TO

BE WITH ZALEHA IJHO WAS HERSELF A PART TIME BROADCASTER.

VERY FIRST OUTING WITH HER WAS AT A CO-OP DmCE

YOUR

IN JUKE 1960.

YOU HAD A BET WITH A FRIEYD (DATO' JEGATHESAN) THAT YOU

INDEED TAKE ZALEHA TO THE DANCE.

COULD

TO W I N THE BET YOU LITERALLY

BEGGED ZALEHA TO GO TO THE THE DANCE.

FROM THEN ON CUPID BEGAN TO CLOSE Ih". PARTICULARLY WITH THE

HELP OF A MUTUAL FRIEED .OD KER FATHER, ZALE'FI.4 BEGm

TO LOOSEN

HER DEFENCES,

ZALEllA MAS CONVINCED WEEN HER FRIENDS ' FATHER

YR. PO~'UDURAT

TOLD HER THIS : ' ZALEHA, ARSBAD IS A GOOD MAN

AhTD I

I(TU'OW

A GOOD W WHEN I MEET ONE!'

THE FRIEPU'D

LOT TO PLAY IY BRINGING YOU AND ZALEHA TOGETHER IN

DAYS IS WITH US TONIGHT.

TJHO HAD A

THOSE HAZY

SHE IS PUm PANSY RATHICHANDRAN.

YOU ?;IEVER DID PROPOSE TO ZALEHA IN A FORMAL \JAY.

PERHAPS
TYPICAL OF YOU, YOU POPPED UP ONE DAY

ASKED HER TO GO TO

THE JEWTLLERS, DE SILVA IN BISHOP STREET, IT ORDER TO BLY A

WEDDING RING.

GOT MARRIED

on

T H I S WAS JUST ONE WEEK BEFORE THE WEDDING.

2 9 DECEMBER 1960

m~ YOUR

YOU

BEST^^ WAS RAJA ALIAS

IJHO IS NOW THE: DIRECTOR GENEFLU OF FELDA.

POUR CAREER I N PEXmG

TO K.L.

WAS A SUCCESSFUL ONE.

YOU LTRE Tl7AKSFEFED

I N JULY 1961 AFD POSTED TO THE NINISTRY

OF CO?IMERCE AS

A DEPUTY CONTROLLER I N THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPFEET DIVISION.

AT

THE MINISTRY PARTICLLARLY AYONG THE TYPISTS, CLERKS &1TD STENOS

YOU WERE BETTER KNOWN AS THE

'R

A I ~ R ' TBIS IS BECAUSE OF

THE VERY SPECIAL SKILLS YOU K4VE Ih' R E P R I M D I N G TYPISTS APV'D

STENOS FOR THEIR LESS THAN PERFECT WORK.

YOUR E P R I M b N D WOULD

ALMOST ALWAYS RESULT IN THE TYPISTS AND STENOS CRYTNG.

BOSS I N THE YINISTRY WAS E Y C I K J U N I D W T Y .

YOUR
ONE OF YOUR

FAVQURITE OFFICE BOYS AT THE MIXISTRY WAS MR. SUPPIAH WHO IS

NOW WORKING AT PREYIER M I L K .

THE YEAR 1963-64, SAW YOU AED YOUR FAMILY IT LAUSAWE, SIdITZERLAND.

YOUR DESIW FOR MORE EXPOSURE, MORE EDUCATION TOOK YOU

TO IMEDE.

AT IMEDE YOU FTRE EXPOSED TO BUSINESS EDUCATION

AND T W I K I N G U S I N G THE HAVARD CASE METHOD.

TOO YOU GOT AZLAN.

IY SWITZERLAND

WHEK AZLAN WAS Born YOU WERE RIGHT THERE:

IY THE DELIVERY ROOM, AN OBLIGATION WHICH D I D NOT PLEASE YOU

VERY XJCH.
KOFJGGERES EKOXOMI BUMIPUTETA YAKG P E R T A U WAS HELD IN 1965.

ONE OF THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE KONGGERS WAS TO REORGANIZE RLDA AVD EXPAND I
T S T R A I N I N G FLTCTIOYS TKROUGH THE
F L E D G L I N G MAKTAB RIDA.

E N C I K MLYSOR OTHMAN, AE EXECUTIVE I N

SHELL COMPLVY, WAS APPOINTED THE DIRECTOR OF TRAINING I N THE

NEWLY ORGANIZED MARA TRAINIKG DIVISION. YOU KNEW ENCIK M U S O B
BACK IN PENANG DAYS.

11THEN' HE ASKED YOU TO BE THE PRINCIPAL

OF YAKTAB RIDA, YOU GLADLY ACCEPTED.

A??D SO EXACTLY EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY YOU DROVE INTO THE

SMALL BUT, I 3 THOSE DAYS, TOWERING BUILDING AT JALm O V P W U

PETALING JAYA.

T H I S DAY EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO WAS TO BE THE YOST

IMPORTANT DAY I N YOUR L I F E AID I N THE LIVES OF HUNDREDS OF

OF THOUSANDS OF BUYZPUTERAS ALL OVER

THE GOUhrTRY.

AT MAKTAB K4R4 ONE OF THE FIRST PERSONS YOU MET WAS A DRIL'ER.
KE TURNED OUT TO BE A MOST LOYAL EMPLOYEE.

T H E E WAS ONE DAY

WHEK HE MADE A BLUNDER I N STARTING YOUR CAR, THAT FAMOUS

HERCEDES EM 2222.

YOU DID NOT FAIL TO USE ALL THE SUPERLATIVES

ON HIM, HE WAS SWEATING 1% H I S PAKTS.

NEVER PICKED AS YOUR DRIVER,
HE: IS KNOWN

HE WISHED THAT

JEWAS

THAT DRIVER I S WITH US TOYIGHT,

TO YOU AND TO THOUSANDS OF ITY STUDEKTS AS PAK M U .

ZATLONAL CHANGES.

THERE: WASN'T HOWEVER ?CJCH CKLYGE I N YOUR

CAPACITY TO ADMINISTER THE EOW FAYOUS FA SHAD TREATPEFIT ON STAFF.

POUR SECRETARIES KNEW THIS TOO WELL.

JALAY OTFDUK AFTER VISITING SHAH ALLY.

DhT DAY YOU CAME BACK TO

AT THE E R T W C E TO YOUR

OFFICE YOU TOLD YOUR SECRETARY THUS : 'NEXT TTME IHEN PEOPLE
ASJED YOU WHAT YOOD I AM I N , ALWAYS TELL TREM I A l l I N A BAD,

BAD YOOD. '

YOUR SECRETARY WAS SO STmhrED

Ilh'D DID NOT KNOlrF \\%AT TO DO.

FLASHES OF TKE: AhTTGRY M S H D PASSED THROUGH HER EYES AKD ALL SKE
COULD DO THEN WAS TO CRY.

JUST THEN RASHIDAH PAKEH Ah1Ih' WALKED

I N T O YOUR SECRETARY'S OFFICE mD

'WHAT MOOD IS ARSHAD I X ? '

NOT ANSWER.

ASKED THE IKEVITABLE QUESTION :

YOUR SECRETARY, STILL CRYING, COULD

S J E SIMPLY LOOKED UP AND

RASHIDAH KNOWING THE

TIGHT S I T U A T I O E , LEFT WITHDLT GETTING Ah' ANSIJER.

SOOE AFTER,

YOU BUZZED YOUR SECRETARY I N A?JD UPON SEEING SHE WAS IN TEARS
AED SNIFFING YOU ASKED : I Z U R I ,

DO YOU HAVE A C O L D T ~ YES, THAT

FAITHFUL SECRETARY OF YOURS I S ZURIDA U H A R WHO I S HERE WITH US

TONIGHT.

YOUR PREDICTABLE REACTION I*THEN WORK WASN 'T GOOD ENOUGH OR WAS
NOT DOPUT BY YOUR STAFF, LED STAFF TO INNOVATE COWTER ACTIONS

OR OTHERWISE TAKE PI4!EDIATE

REMEDIAL MEASURES SO AS TO LESSEN

THE VEICBAGE THAT WILL ALMOST ALWAYS 9E POVRED ON THEM.

ONE
EXAMPLE WAS W!AEN

ONE OF THE STAFF WAS ASKED TO P I C K YOUR K A D I N G

GLASSES FROM THE KOK KEE S i i K OPTICIAN I N P.J.

BE PICKED THE

GLASSES ALRIGHT AXD WAS PLANNING TO GIVE TBEX TO YOU TKE NEXT
LTFORTLXATELY HOWEVER ON H I S WAY HOME HE DROPPED THE

DAY.

HE

PURE PANIC RAN THROUGH HIS VEINS.

GLASSES AND THEY BROKE.

COULD ALREADY SEE THE TIGER DESCENDLYG TO REPAIR THE GLASSES

TO SAVE H I M FROM THE WRATH OF AT L4EGRY DIRECTOR.

FORTUNATELY

FOR A I l l THE REPAIR J O B WAS DONE IN GOOD TIME (HE P A I D FOR IT OF

COURSE).

THE NEXT DAY HE: GAVE IT TO YOU WITHOUT TELLING YOU

H I S LITTLE SUFFERING,

TO ANYBODY

AND THIS STORY I S NOT

UNTIL TONIGHT AND THE STAFF INVOLVED IS E N C I K Mm

MZALI

ONE OF THE STRONGEST POINTS IN YOUR ADMINISTRATION IS THE TEAM

SPIRIT WHICH YOU DEVELOPED AYONG STAFF.
ESSEPU'TIALLY AS A LEADER OF THE TEAM,

YOU REGARD YOCRSELP

A LEADER AMONG A

GROUP

OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE ALL COMMITTED TO ACHIEVE: A SET OF

PREDETEFPIIYED OBJECTIVES.
YOU

THE TEAY YOU BUILT IF ITM PROVIDED

WITH TtlE; TOOLS TO ?IAKE ALL THE KECESSARY DECISIOKS AND

YOUR FAMOUS DICTLY I 3 DECISION MAKING WAS 'FOR GOOD O R FOR

WORSE

HAVE MADE
-

A DECISION!'

WORKING TJITH THE TEAM YOU WERE ABLE TO DRAW UPON, Ah'D UTILISE
ALL THE POTEKTIALS OF EACH MENBER (OF THE TEAM)

DURING

DAYS IJHEY YOU ILaD TO PRESENT SO NANY NEW IDEAS YOU WERE

THE
REQUIRED TO PRODUCE PAPERS,

IT WAS IK THTS RESPECT THAT TEA'RJORF:

WAS OF PL9R,r\?!OUST IXFORTANCE ,

YOUR TEAM HAD BOTH SWEET

AOIElrER,

IYDT O I D L A L ?EMBERS OF

BTTTER EXPERIEYCES.

WITH US TnNIGHT

TO E L A T E HIS Olh' ESFERTEYCE IS EYCIK N , RATHICH.kyDRVI.

PERSORALLY YOU

TOO HAD SIEET AND BITTER EXPERIENCES 3K TTN,

THE SIEET Om C A l l E AFTER EACH OF YOUR TDEXS, YOUR PLASS iLUD

YOUR YlSSTON BECAME
RESLZT OF YOUR 01'

A REALITY.

THE BITTER OXES IERF REALLY THE

DOING, OVERSTRETCHING YOITRSELF, VORKING

THROCGH THE SIGHT ASD WEKETDS ; NOT ALLOIJTNG YOURSE1.F A DELEKT

HOLIDAY.

YOUR HEALTH SUFFERED, YOUR FhYILY FORGOTTEN.

ONE D:IP

YOU BECAME SERTOUSLY I L L ANP TPON AD?IISSIQN INTO ASSlKTA IJOSPT-

TAL YOU IERE PUT LTDER THE OhYGEX TEST,

YOC COULD YOT SPEAK RUT

YOU MANAGED TO SIGNAL TO YOUR WIFE TO SuI.F1OY ALL THE CHLLDREY

TO THE HOSPITAL. PUAK SRI ZALEHA BROUGHT THE CHILDREK OVER AKD
ITHAT YOU DID THEN rtz\s YOST TOCPCHTTG X D HEART RESDERZXG. YO[:

HELD ALL YOUR CHILDREN BY THEIR HEADS mD THES YOV CREED.

PUAK

S R I ZALEHA AKD M A W OF YOUR FRIEJDS Ih' In1 PRAYED THR0UGHOI:T

T H I S O!UIEAI..

AGAIK, YOUR CAPACITY TO FIGHT PULLFD YOU THROUGH

AND I\% WERE EVER SO THMKFUL TO ALLAH SUBHANAJlUUATA ALA FOR H I S

xRm

ON US.

HEALTHY OR NOT, S I C K OR OTHER'IJISE YOUR THOUGHTS [ERE ALWAYS ON

THE ITFI, TTS STUDESTS AND STAFF,

OK ONE OCCASION ITHEN YOU

WERE TAKEK I L L , YOU STILL FOUKD T I Y E

WHO WAS THEN OVERSEAS I N HAWAII.

TO WRITE TO A STAFF MEMBER

YOUR IROTE :

'..,............

I HOPE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO COMPLETE YOUR COURSE EARLY SO THAT

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HEAD THE SCHOOL ,.....................q,.,~'
YOUR POOR HEALTH NOTlJITHSTANDING YOU I N YOUR OWN ITORDS
'FTANUFACTURED'

TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE INSTITLTE.

IS THE RECIPIENT OF THAT LETTER.

FACT, AS YOU PLAETED, BE C M E
S CLEYCE S

HERE TOrJIGHT

HE IS DR. LEE FAH ONN !THO I N

THE FIRST HEAD OF SCHOOL OF APPLIED

AS FOR THE STUDEXT ' S EXPERIENCES WITH YOU, IJE: REQUIRE ONE WHOLE
SESSIOK SUCH AS THIS ONE.

THEY WERE JUST TOO >WAY.

THERE

ARE ABOUT 700 IN THIS HALL TONIGHT AYD EACH COULD RELATE THEIR
OIJN LITTLE EXPERIENCES.

IJHER YOU [%'ERE AT YOUR PEAK IN ITM

THE STUDENTS COULD BE I N ONE OF TWO POSITIONS WITH REGAS9 TO

YOU.

OEE WAS : THEY LOVE TO HATE YOU AND THEY COULD EOT AND

THE OTHER ITPIS : THEY HATE TO LOVE YOU AKD THEY COULD NOT EITHER

PUT SIMPLY TIBY JUST LOVED YOU.

EVENTS LIKE POUR C L I M B I N G THE

JALAN OTJ2MN GATE IY THE EARLY ITOURS OF THE MORNING TO CHECK

ON TKE STUDENT I n R E BALAXCED BY EVENTS LIKE YOU LENDING POUR

C A R AT13 DRIVER AND G I V I N G A $501- ROTE TO A DISTRESSED STLQENT

WHO HAD TO GO HOKE TO TERENGGAYU TO BE AT
D Y I Y G MOTHER.

THE SIDE OF H I S
TONIGHT, EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER YOU WALKED INTO JALhh' OTHMAh" AND

EIGHT YEARS AFTER YOU LEFT ITM, MARKS A NEW CHAPTER 15 THE
ARSKAD

ITM EPISODE.

THE 20,000 OR SO ITM AL;tT.ZNI WILL BE THE

WIN ACTORS I N THE EPISODE FROM NO# ON.

L'iD SO TmN

IZJ 1975 YOU FINALLY LEFT ITM FOR BANK KEGAM I T WAS

W I T H A DEEP SENSE OF

LOSS AED DISBELIEF THAT THE: STUDEKTS L I D

STAFF SENT YOU OFF.

THE 5,000 OR SO STUDEXTS 1WD STAFF ITHO

ASSEMBLED TO LISTEN TO YOUR FAREWELL SPEECH WERE DEEPLY TOUCHED.

THEY DIDN 'T WANT YOU TO GO.

HOIEVER, L I F E

HAD

TO GO ON.

I N BAh'K NEGARA YOU ITERE INITIALLY

CONCERNED WPTH THE H I G H C E I L I N G I N YOUR ROOM.

BEST TO F I T INTO THE CULTURE.

YOU TRIED POUR

NOT USED TO S I T T I K G AT THE

BACK SEAT OF YOUR CAR, YOU ICERE ADVISED BY A CLOSE FRIEND

DR. K . S , NIJEtAR TO DO JUST THAT WHILE YOU ARE I N BLW NEGARA

OR ELSE

. . .. , . .

FROM BAPU'K Y E G A M YOU hTERE TRAhTSFEKED TO

DIRECTOR GENERAL.

THE EPU AS DEPUTY

I N EPU YOU FOUND A N I C E F I T WITH YOUR

P R E V I O U S EXPERIENCES.
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KNOWLEDGE HObEVER CONTINUED.

DURING YOUR OVERSEAS TRAVELS.

ML'CH OF THESE MERE G A I h T D

LIKE W E N YOU WEF3 I N IF7 AXD

BANK NEGARA, OVERSEAS TRAVELS WERE NOT A BORE TO YOU BUT

RATHER A! OPPORTUPU'ITY TO LEAKY NEW THIYGS AND TO PROJECT THE
I N S T I T U T I O N AND THE COUNTRY.

I N 1977 YOU V I S I T E D SOME ITM STAFF WHO

YOUR OVERSEAS TRIPS.

W E E I N BELGIUM.

YOU \ERE: ACTUALLY ON YOUR WAY HOW2 AXD WAS

TAKING A SHORT HOLIDAY.

In BEGIN
BACK.

H E E IS AN EPISODE DURING ONE OF

L I K E ?lAKY OF US I H O TRAVEL OVERSEAS

TO THIXK OF OUR POOR WIVES WAITING AT HOME ON OUR WAY

SOME OF US EVEN BOUGHT WHATEVER WAS AVAILABLE Ih'

TEE

INFLIGBT SOUVENIR SHOP AND LATER ON TELL OUR WIVES THAT WE

BO'JGHT I T I N DOINTOIN NEW Y O M OR OXFORD ST. LONDON.

AWLJAY

YOU I J E E KEEN TO BW SOYE BELGIlP1 LACE AUD TAPESTRY IJHILE I N

BRUSSELLS.

YOU ARE NOT ONE ACCUSTOMED TO B L T I N G

THE STUFF

FROM CLASSY DEPARTMENTAL STORES AND SO YOU ASKED TO BE TAKEN

TO A SUHDAY MOmIEG
OF BRUSSELLS.

OPEN PIARKET ON THE

NOT SO PLEASANT SIDE

WHEN YOU FINALLY P W E YOUR CHOICE OF LACES AND

TAPESTRY, YOU DECIDED TO ENTER I X T O A BARGAIKING S I T U A T I O N

WITH THE DEALER.

THE DEALER HOWEVER WAS A FRENCH SPEAKING

MOROCCAV AT13 HOW WERE YOU TO BARGAIN IJHElJ YOU COULD NOT
CONVERSE I N THE LAVGUAGE?

THE WIFE OF A2 I T Y STAFF WAS

FORTUCU'ATELY THERE TO HELP YOU

k31EN THE IWOLE EXERCISE WAS

OVER THE MOROCCAN SHOPKEEPER WISHED TO GOD THAT HE W NEVER

HAD YOU AND YOUR IPU'TERPRETER FOR A CUSTOMER,
THE: LADY TJHO HELPED YOU BARGAIN

SHE I S ZUBATDAH ALSREE

THE WIFE

HERE TONIGHT I S

IE BRUSSELLS mD SUCCEEDED.

OF

DR. ABDCZ RAZAK ABDVL.

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KEES YIXD ON

ECONOMICS HELPED YOU A LOT I N EPE A,?TTHE O T E R ?TINISTRIES

WHICH YOU TATER SERVED.

EVERY SO OFT=

NEGOTIATE A G R E E ~ N T Sm~ TREATIES

BEHALF OF

TJX G O V E X D E N T ,

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S O U T E E CALLED TO
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COUNTRIES ON

AKD SO ITRES YOC FINALLY LEFT THE

C I V I L SERVICE ON 15TH. NOVEMBER, 1983, YOU HAVE NEGOTIATED FOR

A?AD ON BEHALF OF NOT ONLY T E BlPLFLTER4S BUT

WHOLE.

YOU RAVE NEGOTIATED

THE NATION AS

B M G I I L T D FOR A COXPR3HENSIVE

PROGRkWE OF UPLIFTTENT THROUGH EDCCATZOY FOR THE BUMLPLTERkS.

YOU HAVE NEGOTIATED A?VD BARGAIhTD FOR A

BUMLPUTERAS.
THE FRUITS

BETTER FUTURF EOR ElE

KUFDREDS OF THOUSAtTDS OF TIEM ARE NOW EhTJOYTSG

OF YOUR SUCCESSFUL NEGOTL4TIONS.

TBOUSAXDS MORE WILL ENJOY

IT LATER.

HUNDKEDS OF

YOUR LIFE I N THE SERVICE

OF THE BWMIPUTERAS, I N THE SERVICE OF TRE NATION HAS BEEN k
SERIES OF NEGOTZATIOXS

AND HARD BARGAn'lNG mD IN ALL OF THP7

YOU HAVE ACHIEVED YORE THAN ANY W N .

TAT S R I ARSRAD AYOB T H I S I S YOUR LIFE.