tribute

the 1st time i saw my GM was when i report to work the 2nd day (18th feb) after our induction..

he smiled and greet us all.. and say that we could go back home rest and we shall meet up in our new office the next day.

the next day was friday and we met up in the new unfinish renovated office.. there were like 20 till 30ish of us there.. and we were introduce to few department bosses who were there with him already (working with him since last sept/oct 2009)..

and then we were taken to tour the news room, the studio, the empty control room and tat was our day... by noon we could go back home already...

the next few week, we spent our time in office helping out to get stuff ready before we went on air on march 26th.

whenever he saw us, he smiled at us without fail. i remember once when i got early to office on saturday morning and no one was at the office yet and he wanted to print out some documents.. he sought my help to print out by sending the email to me and asked me to print it out..

he thanked me for the help and gently reminded me to delete off the email as it was P&C, i noddded, he smile back and he knew that i understood what he meant.

or some other occasion where my colleagues and i will just laugh out loud talking to each other at our desk and when he past by us at the back, he will just playful said, we should slow our voice down and then we giggled back to which he would turn and smile back..

owh.. and even when 1st few weeks when we went on AIR.. we were running up and down the office to get things ready, he was paving the way for us to walk/run 1st because he knew how hard we were working to get things done...

he never allowed us to call him boss and those calling him boss will be fined RM5 to which the money will be used to buy food to share with everyone.

the last time we had the celebration was when he sent out an email to everyone to celebrate september birthday boys and girls...

7 month plus, of knowing this great man, bad news came in on 27th september, 2.30pm..

we will definitely miss him so much for he was ARENA pillar strength and everyone could just go to him for advise..

seeing his body at the wake today was just unbelieveable, it was as if he was just sleeping and we could just wake him up. i did not shed a tear when i pay the last respect but after that i just broke down into tears..

(his wife is one really tough women, she was trying to stay postive all the while and mentioned to me that, there is just so much positvism that he has instill in everyone of us, i would have to agree)

the office secretary cum manager was the one most affected for she worked together with him all the time.. and she described him as the BEST BOSS SHE EVER HAD...

his presence in each of every ARENians is greatly felt and i do not EVER think anyone could just fit into his place and deliver what he wanted to do for malaysian sports.

i just wish that we could have more time together and guide us to greater heights, but god loves him more but i know we will utilise what you guide us to and aim for further success..

he will be missed by all of us, and i will do my utmost best for the channel.

May he give us the strength and guide us to more success in the future.

Last but not least, may you rest in peace.