Just before his 90th Birthday, I’d met up with Tun at the appointed time. My purpose was to write his biography.
Our 4-hour conversation was kept behind closed doors and at his request, no records were to be made.
I asked two insight questions: How was the critical thinking done that leads to the fateful decisions made after 1969? Would Penang be as dynamic as Singapore or Hong Kong?
He took time to answer one of the questions. Unfortunately like the other two would-be personal biographers before me, he had chosen not to reveal his life-story. I miss this Old Free dearly who rightly deserved to be our King’s Scholar – Erasmus Koay
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