Old Times.
Originally Posted by
TKK
Dave, happy to re-ignite memories for you. If you need to, we could take it outside the forum.
High Kee,
I'll start of this 'discussion' on this thread but I suspect the Admin team will 'invite' me to move it somewhere else (that is to say they'll move it for me 
)
First thing to say is that it comes natural to me to address you as "T......" but I don't know what the rest of it is. Have you adopted an Anglo' first name as was the 'norm' for most Singaporeans of Chinese ethnicity when I was there? - please tell me "No". My recollection is that your friends and aquaintances called you by your family name, T...... , and only your family used your first 'given' name - is this still the case?
I got quite close to a couple of local Chinese Singaporeans when I was over there - they were around 15 years younger than me (I would guess), which would make them around 55 years old now. Their names were 'Philip' Tay Yong Liang and 'Benson' Tan Meng H..... ?(can't remember his second given name but it began with 'H' I think - there can't be many Bensons around, surely 
). There was another guy called Lee Eng Hock who joined our company later than the other two so I never got to know him so well but we got on well at the time. I believe Benson was single the last time I saw him (but not sure) and I believe Lee was married (but again not sure). Philip was certainly married, his wife's name was Joyce (again I can't remember her Chinese names), and they had a son, named Darren, born in June (ish) '93. Philip and family were devout Christians but Benson and Lee followed their traditional beliefs.
I got on particularly well with Philip and Joyce and visited their home several times when we returned to Singapore twice for holidays in the early/mid '90s.
We exchanged letters infrequently for a few years afterwards but Philip was a workaholic and spent hours and hours at work to pursue his career and eventually the letters stopped. I know he changed jobs 2 or 3 times in he 90s and I seem to remember that it was one of he few periods when Singapore wasn't booming.
Whilst I was over there working I visited Mersing and Tioman regularly, stopping off at Kota Tingi Falls ocassionally en-route. I also spent a lovely weekend on Rawa - the accommodation was a bit basic but it was a great weekend. I spent most Saturdays water skiing off 'Coney Island' right under the approach to Payar Lebar airport and also up the Kim Kim river (technically illegal immigrants ). We usually finished up at Pongol Point with Chilli Crab and lots of chilled Tiger Beer - oh, those were the days !!
Anyway, this has gone on long enough - the Admin team will invite me to go elsewhere ( 
) if I continue so I'll leave it there for the time being. Hope I've not bored you with this bit of history.
Cheers (and keep drinking the Tiger Beer !!).
DaveK.
My System:
Power: Belkin PF40, Custom.hifi.cables Hydra and DC PSUs.
Sources: Self built HTPC with Xonar ST sound card, NAD T585 multi disc player, Sony BDP-S350, Squeezebox Touch, Techncs SL1210 (mod'd) + Nagaoka MP30, Thomson Sky HD box.
Amps etc.: 2 x Mini-T amps, MF-X10D Valve buffer clone, StanDAC 7520/Caiman (mod'd).
Speakers: Mission 774s with added super tweeters
Cables: best I can afford and likely to change except Homar's RF attenuated co-ax's and Mark Grant USB and HDMI cables. I also like silver i/cs and speaker cable.
Reply With Quote
. Glad you don't live up to your username or I might be feeling very sore at the moment 
