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  • Malaysian Red Cross memories – 1969

    When the May Thirteenth 1969 incident broke out a state of emergency was declared. I called Datuk (now Tun) Arshad Ayub then Director of MARA Institute of Technology to report I was okay and that I woud like to serve in the Red Cross, and he gave permission. So I spent one month mostly at…

  • Gunung Tahan Adventures

    Found this news clipping about leading a group of students in 1969 to scale Gunung Tahan, Paninsular Malaysia’s highest mountain, first from ITM.

  • Tapioca Thosai (Dosa) and Wartime stories

    The tapioca dish I had with lunch today (home-grown tapioca supplied by a neighbour and cooked by Suguna, my wife) reminded me that it was the staple diet for many of us during World War Two. When the war came to the Malay Peninsula I was just one year old but my mother had told…