Down the drain...to others' pedestal!

1976 PFS Form 1A class photograph

The talk about stopping the leak from brain drain is all hogwash. Nobody (the powers that be) is serious about this, as we slide further and further as a nation with intellectuals just to be replaced with flight-by-night entrepreneurs and their immigrant workers to do their dirty job as the entrepreneurs laugh all the way to the bank! And intelligent people have kept on moving since the 70s in droves.
With the widespread use of internet social networks like Facebook and Google, we are now able to trace some of these long lost people. In my my case, I managed to track down some of these child prodigies that Malaysia lost to the rest of the world, predominantly Singapore.

• Ho King Hee was an all rounder in PFS. Besides being first in the whole form, he was a school prefect, played tennis and chess for the school, sang in the school choir and obtained A in Art and the Science subjects. Thanks to the ASEAN scholarship, he got into National University in Singapore and is now a well renowned neurologist in Singapore. I managed to surf his medical acheivements...http://www.emedihub.com/profile.php?pid=213

Doctor's Details
Name	Dr Ho King Hee
MCR No.	04793G
Qualifications	MBBS (Singapore) 1988   MRCP (Int Med) (UK) 1992   FAMS (Neurology) 1998
Registered on	03/05/1989
Registration Type	Full Registration
Registered Specialty	Neurology
PC Start Date and End Date	01/01/2010   -  31/12/2011
Primary Practice Place	K H Ho Neurology & Medical Clinic
Practice Address	Blk/House 6 Napier Rd   #05-17 Gleneagles Medical Centre   Singapore 258499
Tel	64799993

• Khor Chong Chneah was my comrade in Red Crescent Society in PFS. After school, via ASEAN scholarship, he started studies in Singapore and he is now a resident doctor in Gleneagle hospital in Singapore.

Doctor's Details
Name	Dr Khor Chong Chneah
MCR No.	05367H
Qualifications	MBBS (Singapore) 1989
Registered on	01/11/1990
Registration Type	Full Registration
PC Start Date and End Date	01/01/2010   -  31/12/2011
Primary Practice Place	Gleneagles Hospital
Practice Address	Blk/House 6A Napier Rd   Singapore 258500
Tel	64705845

• Danny Toh Boon Tuan was my class monitor in Form 1 and Form 2. He was in school magazine editorial board, an avid shutterbug, wandering around the school compound and field clicking the afternoon away. He also designed most school emblems and society T-shirts. He is quite passionate about his pictures. Like the above, Danny is also residing in the City Island. Some of the  samples of his photographs.

• Suresh Tharmaratnam was another classmate in Form 1A. His father was one of the first UK trained O&G in the country. Suresh was sent to UK when he was 15. He is now a Consultant O&G in Ireland.

Dr Suresh Tharma Royal Jubilee Maternity & Belfast City Hospitals Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Belfast City Hospital (Gynaecology) & Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital (Obstetrics).His special interests includes High risk Obstetrics and Minimal Access Surgery and Prolapse Surgery in Gynaecology.He offers privately:- Antenatal Care, Prenatal Screening & Diagnosis, Fetal Anomaly Scanning, Minimal Access Surgery for Pelvic Pain, Endometriosis & Benign Gynaecology, Specialist management of Prolapse & Incontinence, General Gynaecology & Pelvic Screening.

• Dev Kumar, from PFS, is now stationed in Singapore and attached to GE Healthcare. He studied actuary studies. http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/dev-kumar-s-o-santhiran/9/48/8a3

• Jagjit Singh - a fellow RRF-ite and USM mate is now living in Santa Clara, CA.

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  Another friend whom I managed to track down is Aqbal Singh Sambhi. He left PFS in the upper secondary class. He is a lawyer in Singapore after obtaining his law degree from NUS. 

  
  

Name	Law Practice	Admission No	Tel No	Fax No
Aqbal Singh s/o Kuldip Singh	Pinnacle Law LLC 9B Circular Road Singapore 049365	8/1988	62360100	65572515

Thomas Aqbal (2nd from left) at a seminar.

• Ooi Onn Tat is an old Free who manifested on Facebook is a lawyer in Singapore.

Ooi Oon Tat

Wong Alliance LLP 24 Raffles Place #20-05 Clifford Centre Singapore 048621

12/1989

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I suppose this is not an exhaustive dissection of how Malaysian intellectuals decide to emigrate to greener pastures to leave our country in a vegetative state. I just illustrated of a few examples that are close to my heart.