Please pass this email to the International President Fabrício Oliveira.
Dear President Oliveira,
This morning, a Facebook friend, Dwayne Min Johnson, taught me a new Chinese phrase "长江后浪推前浪" (cháng jiāng hòu làng tuī qián làng), which translates to "the waves behind drive the waves in front" in English. This idiom carries a rich metaphorical meaning.
This is apt for our discussion on Lions Clubs International sticking with a decades-old system of saying that only members can complain about Lions Clubs flagrantly breaking rules and regulations set up by LCI. This sounds like the club telling LCI, ‘catch me if you can’, knowing that no member will complain to LCI.
On 28.9.23 I attended the funeral of Datuk Gopalan Murugasu who was the man who placed me in my first job as accountant of Gaya Timber Group of Companies. When I first met him in his office, he told me that the Indians in Sabah are respected by the locals and that I should help maintain that status.
On 30.9.2023 I attended the grand dinner function on the occasion of the marriage of Datuk Kadir’s son.
On both occasions, I realised that many Indians that I know shunned me.
At the dinner, I met one of my childhood friends who told me that he was pleasantly surprised when he read some comments on a Sabah Indian chat group about my name being known internationally. (See note below.)
