Life goes on...

Contributed by Rtr Sooling

A little boy was born in 1963, lived in a small town called Kapar. His mother passed away because of lung cancer when his was 18 years old. At that point of time, he thought that without his mother his life would stop, everything would go wrong. But the next day he realized that the sun still shines, the world still runs, with or without his beloved mother.

He realized the world still goes on even though something bad happened to his family. Then this young man started his working life as an office boy in the legal firm. That time his job was just buying coffee for his boss, doing typist job, and sending letters to clients, he never thought of a very bright future, cars, money, own career… (but one thing good about him is he likes to ask for extra work, normally he will disturb those clerical staff when he finished his job because he wanted to learn new things other than his job scope).

For your information, for professionals, even after you have graduated, you still have to work in a related field to train yourself and put your theory into a practice. Since the young man worked in a legal firm, he had a lot of opportunity to meet those junior lawyers. This young man taught those young lawyers all the basic office paper works.

Then one day, suddenly one lawyer asked him: “why don’t you study law and in future you can become a lawyer just like us?” when the lawyer asked this question, this man already worked in the firm for more than ten years. Just imagine, a person worked for ten years since after his high school, then suddenly asked him to study again.

But he took the challenge, and he went to study. He worked full time and study as a part time student. In between, this man has met a beautiful lady and he got married. This man married when he was around 28. Finally, this man came to his final paper and he needed to complete his course by going to United Kingdom. The problem came: the man have financial problem. He planned to sell whatever property they have just to make sure he and his wife have enough money for them stay in United Kingdom so that the man can concentrate in his study. Unfortunately, even though this young couple successfully entered United Kingdom, his wife has to work.

After two years, this man graduated. They came back to their own country. Now, this man has his own career, his own law office, three children and he lives happily with his family. This man motto is whatever things happen around you, life still goes on.

This man is none other than our PP Eric Yap from Rotary Club of Port Klang, the boss of our president.