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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, ...