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Dear Friends and Alumni of Nantah, Ladies and Gentlemen This web site represents an independent voice. I answer to no pressure
group but to my conscience as an alumnus of Nantah. As long as this web
site maintains its editorial independence, it will have a future.
Thank you for your hard work for producing another Nantah website. This is the second new website which came out in less than a month, a Toronto website was built at http://toronto.nantah.org two weeks ago. I am glad to see more Nantah websites as I embrace Mao ZeDong's famous slogan "Bai3 Hau1 Qi2 Fang4, bai3 Jia1 Zheng1 Ming2". The more websites there are, the more we can generate the interests about Nantah's history. My only concern is your .com domain name which could be mistaken as
commercial entity (com means either commercial or company) with money
making motives. Editor: This web site is now accessible using http://friends.nantah.org
and I shall discontinue to promote it as http://www.nantahfriends.com. I
did not know nantah.org is able to do web forwarding and could have save
US$50 registration fee if I knew earlier. Therefore, No "yum cha"
for this friend when we meet. QED. ----------------- What is the Chinese name of your site? Where is the city your site
builder reside? What area/location your site intends to cover? Your web site was very nicely created. It is indeed a good idea. It
gives us an additional channel for communication among alumni and friends
of Nantah. ----------------- As Nantah.com has been designated as the Global Nantah Web Site, you
may want to link to it. ----------------- I like the quotation chosen: "Better to light a candle than curse
the darkness" Editor: Nantah web site? yes, yes, yes! To hang goat's head and sell
dog's meat is illegal in Australia where I live; a small fine applies.
The website that you have created would be very useful to all our
fellow Nantah graduates. It would be good if it is linked to other Nantah
websites.
We in Melbourne are thinking of having our own website. It would be
good if your website can incorporate Nantah graduate currently residing
in Australia. Then we don't have to design our own webpages. I have a
list of addresses of most of the Nantah graduates in Melbourne that you
can put on your website.
Judging from the title of your site, I thought you mean all friends
who want to befriend with our alumni. After reading your "WEB SITE DEDICATED
TO FRIENDS TOO" and some other pages, I realize that your "friends" is
NTU only. Why not include Ngee Ann and Singapore U. Further more, what
about the three colleges in Malaysia which use Chinese? Editor: This is a valid point. Friends should include graduates and non-graduates,
people of all cultural backgrounds and all nationalities. I do not agree that there is no enemies of Nantah. Otherwise Nantah
would not be closed twenty years ago. Editor: Christ Jesus said: "If some one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." Let us forgive. We shall overcome. -------------------- There were many more people supporting Nantah than those against Nantah. Perhaps it is time we should say thanks to these people who have helped Nantah than repeating the attack to those who were against Nantah. I hope we can do something more positive to enhance the image of Nantah and the image of Nantah graduates. Editor: ZaoBao, the Chinese newspaper reported on 31 July 2000 that the structure at the entrance to the old Nantah now has the Chinese script of Nanyang University reinstated. The structure was not removed earlier because the Housing Board received no responses to its tender. I believe in this interpretation which my friend told me several years ago: "The contractors were not interested. It is not because they were afraid of the Curse of Tutankhamen. It is because in their hearts, they love Nantah no less than anyone else." Without the help of people in the Parliament and Mr Yeo in particular, I do not think we would have the structure ("Pei Lao") restored to its former glory. All friends of Nantah, inside and outside the Parliament, you truly deserve a great thank from all alumni of Nantah! ---------------------
"To me, Nantah was a historical tragedy. I always think that
we stick together because we had toiled together, suffered together (Gong4
huan4 nan4) not beacause of other b.s.".
I am indeed pleased to read your Nantah website forwarded to me by a friend few days ago. I am pleased both because I remember you very well and I like your positive point of view about NTU. Editor: I do not mind to have a half brother likes NTU, something I can be proud of. --------------------- I do not agree with your idea of establishing a Nantah College in
Kuala Lumpur. ---------------------
You should distribute your website into the island South of Causeway
to benefit the alumni there. They are starved of news about Nantah because
it remains a very sensitive issue there. --------------------- So far the Nantah associations are controlled by few people who like
the media attention and like to make decision for the rest of us. The
beauty of Internet is the power to democratize everything.
For a Nantah student, it is better to forget about Dr. Lin. I have
an interesting story to tell you when we meet someday. Editor: Hope that we meet next year in US. ---------------------
I think a Newsletter is a good idea especially for those who have
no web access. The problem is the cost (printing and postage). An electronic
newsletter may be more pratical.
To read Chinese on IE 5: Editor: Thanks for the information. Chinese display now works on my NT 4.0 using IE 5.
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