prestroke- my working life

working for leo in the aspatra group was certainly intoxicating, the man himself has some strange quirks eg :-
1. he had around 4 to 5 secretaries in his outer office and rumours abound that each had been his mistress at one time or another or still is. the favourites seem to be audrey and daisy.
2. the man is a prodigious note-taker, everytime you have a meeting with him, he will take notes on this yellow A-4 paper pad which have a carbon copy and one of the secretaries would proceed to file it diligently at the end of each meeting.
3. he arrives and leaves with bodyguards of indian descent, most of the times in his red mercedes and in one of his other numerous vehicles.
4. he has several condos in wisma stephens and a bungalow in jalan pinang for his private trysts and secret meetings. we , of course, had access to themw henever they are free and of course i had my fair share of rendezvous in them.my favourite being the bungalow in jalan pinang.

5. he has his open house on new year day and not any one of the religious festival days.
6. there were many other instances and i will record them later whenever memory serves me.
6. the most memorable moment in working for him was when we were once in singapore's orchard road and passed a building and he nonchalantly said to me that he is going to buy that building, sure enough, next i heard , he had already bought it.

i reported to an ancient british relic who tries very hard to pass-off as a gentleman, don mclellan. he was a nice man although outdated, had a young chinese wife and whose ex-wife was maria musa's best friend, tun musa hitam ex-wife

fatefully, he was the one who introduced me to the lake club,scene of my destruction over a period of more than 20 years.