Born on the 15th May 1940 in Ipoh at 3.00 am to Toh Wun Yan and Lim Choo Pek at Jalan Mansor Ipoh around the Greentown area. Dad was a government servant working as a senior clerk in Telecoms. Mum was a housewife from Penang while dad was from China, the eldest son of a China migrant who like many other overseas Chinese decided to come over to Malaysia to seek their fortune.
I can remember little about my early childhood except that in 1945 came the Japanese occupation. Mum told me that these were difficult times and we were fortunate that dad was able to work and we got our rations for food because of the fact that he was in the government service. Ubi kayu was the readily available food those days and we got our fair share of it. We all survived the occupation and life went on after that when the British returned to the country.
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