"Staring at our future"...

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Bernama General Manager Datuk Yong Soo Heong had an interesting moment when he visited   bed-ridden retired Bernama editor, Ali Mamat at his home in Dungun today.

“He called out my name  and wanted to give me one of his beloved fishing rods!!!!

“How can I take? I guess he remembered me as “the naughty boy from Penang",”  said Datuk Yong, who was accompanied by Editor-in-Chief Datuk Zulkefli Salleh.

Together with Terengganu Bernama bureau chief, Amrizan Madian, they had earlier visited saudara Abdul Rahman Yeop Norodin,  retired executive editor of Bernama General News Service and later  pioneer director of NAM News Network (NNN), also staying in Dungun.

His house is about 10 minutes drive from Ali’s home.

“We are just carrying out our responsibility.

“It’s good to visit our former ‘sifus’,” said Datuk Yong on Bernama Eds WhatsApp.

When someone remarked that it was commendable to do so as our time would also come and hopefully  someone would visit us then,  the general manager said:

“Itulah yg dikatakan oleh Datuk KP, we are staring at our future.”

They were on hand to receive Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek who visited the  63 year-old Ali who is suffering from liver cancer.

Ali is also said to be suffering from  hypertension, diabetes and a minor brain haemorrhage and  frequently sought treatment at the Dungun Hospital and the Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah (HSNZ) in Kuala Terengganu.
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of General News Service Datuk Zakaria Abdul Wahab shared the following photo on Bernama Eds WhatsApp. It must have dated some 30 years back.

A photo from the past. Ali (4th from left) and Rahman (2nd from right)