The
above image shows two dancers of the KBN [Kompleks Budaya Negara] from the then
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Malaysia performing a traditional dance
after the completion of a training session of new dancers. They were the
instructors at the one-week course on Traditional Dance. It was held in the
early eighties at the Youth Complex in Kuala Lumpur. I was then the Director of
Development and Promotion of Culture at the Ministry and this is one of the
extension project that was carried out to develop new talents in traditional
dances. These two dancers and instructors are talented and could perform many
traditional dances, some of which they choreograph themselves. Both the dancers in this images at
that time; Sally Yap and Sonny was in their early twenties. They with the
others in the group of KBN dancers have performance at many special functions
both in the country and overseas. I know both very well. I believe both of them
are now in their late fifties or early sixties and enjoying a family life of
their own. Since I retired in 1990 I believe I only met them once only.
Sally Yap by chance I met once in a glimpse with her two young kids at the
Ampang Park Shopping complex in the mid-eighties. I was then working in Sarawak
and came back for works and did some shopping there. I like what I saw and in
my heart hopes the best for her. Where she and the family reside now I just do
not know. I believe her two daughters are now in their early thirties and
working in their profession somewhere. While Sonny I met at KLCC a few years
ago. He told me both his daughters are medical doctors now and working in and
around Kuala Lumpur. How I wished I could meet both of them again. I am now 78
plus and enjoying life in the golden years. At this age memories keep flooding
back and someone say when one think of someone that someone is thinking of you
too. I do hope it is so. We cannot plan our destiny but along the way we met
and to me that moment in time was special; I do cherish every moment of that
time given to us to enjoy life as it should be. We are human, and things
happens for a reason or was it just synchronicity but that is the way it was.
Along the way we learn and become wiser. Life is beautiful so let move on our journey of life toward our destiny; who knows whom we would meet along the path on our way there. That folks is life.
Have a nice day.
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