Monday, April 13, 2009

pre-stroke- my working life(6), the defining episode

leo, lorraine esme osman, was my first brush with the rich and famous. he gave me my first big break, ie. a comfortable position and most importantly, the attendant status symbol that follows a position of high status, a luxury company car, expense account and social club membership( the raintree club in kl). upon reflection now, almost 3o years later, i believe i have a right to curse this man. what he did was used me as a pawn in his game of bleeding the NEP to his advantage. this was what the NEP bred and where it went wrong, a bunch of malays in privileged positions who bled the country dried for their personal wealth, instead of creating economic activity for the malays. a sad tragedy later repeated by halim saad and now by numerous others among the so-called captains of industry. i can only see it clearly now on hindsight, at that particular moment, the luxury saab turbo that he conferred , blinded me from all thoughts of caution, my thoughts were, hey here is the new kid on the block, watch out world.alas, i can now pinpoint this episode as one that defines my adult life thereafter, a life of the eternal pursuit of money ,debauchery akin to one led by the roman caesars as brilliantly elucidated by gibbons in THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.how i wish i had read this momentous historical anthology early on .just as churchill did at HARROW.my outlook of life would have certainly been different. come to think of it, i would like my legacy to my children be the imprimatur that, READ AS MUCH HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGIES AS YOU CAN LAY YOUR HANDS ON, INCLUDING THE ETERNAL KORAN, THESE ARE EXPERIENCES AND AFTERTHOUGHTS OF PEOPLE AND THE ALMIGHTY WHO HAS not only set the principles of living but has blazed through it ever since man was created.it's like procedures and specifications in the engineering world. they are guides in the art of living!!!!!!

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