Kash’s World

When I was about to enter Form 4, my father was transferred from Pahang to Melaka. That landed me in Malacca High School where I ended up as a member of the kumpulan jahat. Of course in those days (the seventies) what we did as budak jahat would probably still enable us to become prefects in schools today but I am digressing. This post is not about the state of discipline among students in Malaysian schools these days.

This is about one man who was my form mate in Malacca until Form 5. We hardly knew each other then and I am sure he won’t even remember me. But it has been my personal pleasure to see this man take his place in the national scene.

Despite what the media used to write about him back in the days when the DAP were portrayed as being closet communists, I had no doubt by then that he wasn’t a budak jahat.

I felt proud when he stood up for a 15 year old Malay girl and I cheered when he became the Chief Minister of Penang. Lim Guan Eng has gone on to become a people’s hero and yesterday, at Kelana Jaya Stadium, I finally heard him speak in public.

All the other speakers before Anwar spoke very well but Lim Guan Eng managed to outshine them all. He even held hisnown against Anwar. He has the style of the father but with the added command of Bahasa Malaysia. It’s an almost unbeatable combination and I am certain that he will conquer even greater heights in days to come.

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