One of the Many

Company annual lunch just before Chinese New Year in 2007.
This is one of the photos uploaded in the chat group.

We have lost count of the number of people who joined our company and then left and moved on. Low Wooi Kiang is one of these people. He was with the company for just over a year from mid-June 2006 to mid-July 2007. Originally from Sungai Petani, Kedah, he studied in UMS and upon graduation joined our office as an engineer. 

Understandably, the desire to return to where he come from was just too strong to resist. After spending just over a year with us, he left for Peninsular Malaysia and found a job in Lumut, Perak, a neighbouring state of Kedah. When we were in Lumut in February 2012 (read here), I did look up for him. Unfortunately, We were unable to meet up because he was busy in a pre-scheduled assignment. He is now with a construction company which specializes in off-shore structures for oil and gas industry.

Recently, he set up a chat group to link up with all his ex-colleagues he once worked with in 2006-2007. He uploaded a lot of photos including one selfie he took with me in January 2015 when we bumped into each other in KLIA2 when I was on my way back to KK from KL.

There are  many people we cross path with. Some come and then move on and are never seen or heard again. It has always been my hope that these encounters would be mutually enriching and beneficial and that they would make a difference.

My encounter with this man has given me a sense of satisfaction and achievement.

23 January 2015