Born Dominic Voon Shew

INDESCRIBABLE and unforgettable — that’s who Ada Elizabeth was. I was married to Ada in 1971 and we were blessed with two boys, David and Andrew. There are lots of things to share about her but most notable

He rose well before dawn, collected newspapers from distributors and rode through the streets delivering them to subscribers, covering 18 to 20 kilometres every morning come rain or shine.

Bringing the day's breaking news to breakfast tables was his main humanitarian effort.

HE was born Tara Singh, but to the Chinese Press, where he served as sales, marketing and advertising executive, he was popularly known as Tan Ah Seng.

Whether Tara Singh or Tan Ah Seng, he was the man in white, dressed immaculately from his white leather shoes to the neatly arranged white turban.

EDUCATION was something S. Chelliah was passionate about.

He excelled as a teacher and moved on to be a State organiser of Tamil schools and finally, organiser of National-type Tamil Primary Schools in Malaysia until his retirement.

Even in his retirement years, he continued doing what he liked best teaching. But that was not his first job.

MEMORIES of nurses in their Nightingale caps may belong to another age, but the career of Vivien Lau

FOR MOST people, a watch is a possession they would not readily give away — more so if it was to someone they had just met.

But for Inderjit Singh Jassal, giving his watch to newly-found friend Argus Saturnino of Brazil was not a difficult thing.

J. AMALADOSS was one of the pioneers of the Gaya Teachers' Training College for secondary school teachers in Sabah, then known as British North Borneo before joining Malaysia in 1963.

Then teaching mathematics at St John's Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Amaladoss was invited to be on the team to establish the Gaya Teachers' Training College in Kota Kinabalu.

ONE of Malaysia's finest classical violinists, Yogeswary Nagalingam, who died in Chennai, India, on Aug 24 at the age of 84, was a musician who aroused extreme reactions among her fans.

But none could deny her personal virtuosity, the mercurial speed and power of her play and, in her prime, her accuracy and masterly touch of the violin.

THE story goes that S. Jacob turned back, year after year, the many gift hampers that came to his door during festive seasons.

He wasn’t comfortable with these “goodwill” gestures that came gift-wrapped to his humble quarters as a matter of principle.

GENERATIONS gone by had a sense of what travelling by railways was like when steam was king.

Here the duties of a fireman on a steam locomotive was supreme. One such proud fireman was Cyril Lourdes. He kept the fires fed with fresh coal and amber red hot and the steam engines running before retiring from service at 55 in 1983.

SHE was the strongest thread that  kept the family together. She was also "mother" to her siblings, children, nephews, nieces and her grandchildren.

Patrick, a former working mate of Karthekayan at the Immigration Office and a dear friend to him, was sobbing on the phone and kept repeating he could not believe the news.

IN a teaching career spanning 33 years, Wong Pit Tai had a profound influence on women’s teaching. For most of that time she taught English and Geography with energy and dedication, fostering discussions and tolerance among her students.

Much of his early interest in hospital work was awakened by his Sri-Lankan-born father Chelliah Elagupillai, a popular dispenser who ran a long-time clinic in Klang.