Contemporary VIPs

Some of the famous people in Malaysia that we crossed path with, during certain part of our lives worth mentioning here just for the record.

During university days, I met briefly with some of these very ordinary guys but today they are the very successful people in the country:

Datuk Ong Tee Keat, President MCA and Transport minister - UM Engineering faculty

Datuk Mohamed Zaini Amran, Founder and CEO of BumiHiway - UM Engineering faculty. He was the senior doing the orientation in the 2nd college

Tan Sri Dr. Lim Wee Chai, Founder and CEO of Top Gloves - UM Science faculty and he told me about his MBA program in the US long long time ago

Mr. Voon Seng Chuan, CEO of IBM - UM Science faculty and we have common friends

At one time in 2nd college of University Malaya, I happened to get acquaintance with a Sains Asasi student, perhaps he was my room mate just for a couple of days during the orientatio week that I could not remember him so well. It was after many years while I tried to apply for a permit to run a small factory in a shop-lot that I bumped into him again. It is not easy to get the approval for even a few months as it was near to the residential area. He is a medical doctor and is also the Director of the environmental department of Majlis Perbandaran(City Council). I went to his office and he recognized me right away and gave me the approval for 2 years. From this we learned a good lesson that we have to be friendly to everyone and we would not know how in future certain people somehow does us a favor with just a stroke of his pen.