It is winter in the southern hemisphere, in Australia and in Sydney. The
weather has been relatively cold in the last few days. I watched the
arrival of responses from the cold air like snow flakes. Thank again, all
alumni and friends for sending their responses. Excerpts:
"At last I managed to go into your web-site, I also told ...
how to go in, according to him he read your web-site throughout the night
and having an urge to write some thing on it. You are doing a great job
which every one will support, I believe your contribution will be recorded
in the history."
Editor: am not sure about the last passage but support is always welcome.
.
"I compose a song which might be good to be your web-site background
music. I already used the to run in computer but I am still
looking for a way to convert it into exe. There are two songs including
one from me and one from xxx. The miracle is : music and lyric written
by different persons can merge together and the contents are all related
to Nantah."
Editor: Music! Great! This website supports the vision of Dr Mahathir
on Multi-media Corridor.
"I suggest scanned pictures from Nantah alumni and post it on
the web. I still think this is a good way to store fond memory of Nantah
on the web and to share with all the Nantah alumni."
Editor: Sure will get this done for my class, Physics 1960-1964 soon.
Alumni are welcome to send scanned pictures of their classes with brief
caption for posting.
"Perhaps you may like to contact Dr Phua (email address: [email protected]),
he is developing http://www.networkchinese.com which has information on
Nantah."
Editor: Thank you for your suggestion.
" It is so nice to know that everything is moving in the right
direction under your Editorialship. I like your plan and let it be done
step by step."
Editor: Thank you for the best wishes.
" I note that your website has a good mumber of visitors. You
have done a very good job."
Editor: It is a web site of the alumni and friends, for the alumni and
friends and by the alumni and friends. Not mine though.
"Seeing so much activities going on after your website, aren't
you glad that you are doing good deed ?"
Editor: Am not sure.
"I like your article on the true spirit of Nantah. In my long
association with Nantah, but I never heard any one talking about Nantah
Spirit before. Suddenly, there are so many people trying to explain or
even define what Nantah Spirit is. It has become very artificial and is
over done. Good of you to put a pin on the bubble."
Editor: It is hard to answer this one but good to get on with the
work.
"An 'official' site is just too vulnerable to beauracracy and
commercial intentions which always confuse directions. Besides , it stifles
creativity and the desire to express."
Editor: Agree.
" I read yesterday Yap's article on the Sin Chew Jit Poh a speech.
And now I read your web page article captioned ".... (Editor: intentionally
omitted)". On one hand we entertained .... who cannot even help
to drop the "T" from "NTU" . On other hand we quoted a beloved teacher
( who has since left us and therefore can say nothing more) in an attempt
to soothe the pain of seeing our own alma mater closed for the wrong reasons.
Perhaps the older generations have short memory or magnanimous in their
own way. I for one would design my web pages with caution. While I do
not propagate the untruth, I will also make sure that I do not publish
ambiguous statements, articles that were long buried under heaps of other
articles so much so that we forgot under which circumstances were those
articles written. The whole world is watching our nantah web sites. I
trust you agree we have an obligation to stay responsible."
Editor: Truth or untruth may not be absolute. It depends on the angle
from which you look at it. The articles published in this web site do
not necessarily represent the views of the Editor.
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