A.M.N. Conferred by The Yang Dipertuan Agong (King)

Today, I and 240 others were conferred the honorary titles at the National Palace by the King in conjunction with His Highness Birthday on 3rd Jun 2006. I was given the title "Ahli Mangku Negara" in short A.M.N. (See the medal pinned on top of my left pocket). We were given certificates too. These titles are conferred by the king to those people who have contributed to the country. As for me, this means a medal for man but glory and honour for God Who was with me all these years while I was in the government service in the Meteorological Department of Malaysia. Without God, I would have walked out many times. He was my strength, my ever help, adviser and counselor.

On the right is a picture of the "singgahsana", the throne where the king and queen sit. During the ceremony he will rise and stand in front to give out the medals.

It was a ceremony steeped in culture and customs.

Responses

陈先生:您好!

在中国广州开会刚回来,获悉您光荣退休,不知您下一步如何安排和打算?祝您身体健康!万事如意!

福建 杨林

Dear Bro Jonathan, Jul 14

Your name reminds me of a great brother and a great
friend, despite of danger, still support his friend
and brother..

Thank God for such a great figure like you who have
encouraged so many, inspired and touched the lives of
people around you with the blessings. May the LORD
keep you strong as you continue to minister to HIS
children.

Thank you for your faithfulness and great example you
have shown us.. Indeed you have touched my life
deeply.

I'm encouraged to move on, inspired to persist,
touched to continue to minister .. just because you
have been a living testimony

God bless. Wish you the best in whatever God has
planned for you to do and to be.

Andrew Tan

Dear Jonathan,

Congratulations!

Wishing a happy and wonderful retirement!

With Best Wishes from,

John Mak

Congratulations dear Jonathan and I join you in
thanking the Lord for seeing you through this far, as
he pardons all your mistakes. May He continue to keep
you in His way as you conclude your remaining stay
here so that you can earn His eternal reward, Amen. My
regards to your lovely wife.
Pray for us too to leave successfully and honourably,
Regards

Julie Ukeje

Kb Chan Jul 15

Hi, HAPPY GRACIOUS RETIREMENT. From the service of the world to the
service of God, Welcome Levites of God. Bye, KB.

Jonathan

Congratulations from England. A fantastic achievement. Isn't God Good.

Theres no excuse now to visit us with Mary in the near future.

I too am retiring from the Police service next year, just 10 months to go!!

With love as always

Linda and Steve

呵呵！

祝贺你啊！光荣的退休！

心里是不是有一点点不舍啊？呵呵！很为你高兴。

愿神一直祝福你！

Jiarui han Jul 14

My, my, what a momentous change! It has been wonderful knowing and working with you, Jonathan.
Best wishes for the future.
Tom

Thomas C. Peterson, Ph.D.NOAA's National Climatic Data Center

Hello Mr Tan Lee Seng,                                                                                                    

Thank you for your mail. I am sure you have had a very reach carrier although Mauritius is absent from the list of countries visited.

Allow me, on behalf of my wife Suzanne and in my own name, to wish many more fruitful days and well deserved rest.

Hope we meet again sometime again as we enjoyed meeting you last time in Beijing and KL.

Y Boodhoo.

Finally….

Bula vinaka Mr. Tan,

Oh! I’m sure MMS will definitely miss your valuable services and not only MMS but to us who have met and worked with you…esp. CLICOM/DATA RESCUE team.

I was really fortunate to meet and get to know you more (Melb and twice MMS) and also work with you. You have been of great help to me (personally) and also to FMS. Will really miss your smiling face and jokes and of course your spiritual advices.

Mr. Tan, I wish you all the best and I won’t be surprised if you decide to open a restaurant somewhere in KL or PJ (knowing how much you enjoy cooking) and speciliase in Green Tea with Moon Cake …what say you Rod???

Anyway, I know Rod will be following soon…(no offence meant!!!!!!) but once again, wish you all the best and hope to be in touch with you always…God bless you and your family.

Take care and may god’s blessings with you always.

Rgds.

Vara.

Tuan,

Selamat Bersara dan Selamat Maju Jaya
Bersara dengan MMD masih di takat koma,,,
BerBakti ke akhir hayat itu titik noktah...
Biar apa anda lakukan, semuga sukses selalu Bye....

Best regards, rakan selapangan.

ABDUL RAZAK BIN ABDUL MALEK
PENGARAH,
PEJABAT KAJICUACA KUANTAN,
BATU 9, JALAN GAMBANG,
26070 KUANTAN
PAHANG DARUL MAKMUR

En. Tan Lee Seng,

Semuga kejayaan selalu diperolehi oleh tuan.

Iklas,

Mohd Rosaidi bin Che Abas

Mr. Tan,

Best wishes for a long & happy retirement. Have great fun and happiness now that
you'll have time to do things you want to do.

radzi

Retirement

Friday 14th July 2006 is my last day at work, I wrote the following to my colleagues.

Goodbye Malaysian Meteorological Department,

Twenty years and nine, three moons later;

Not long, not short.

I lived through typhoons and monsoons;

But not hurricanes or seasons;

Not too exciting, neither too dull;

Not always right, but far from wrong;

Life’s like that, later is strong!

No great mark on the national met service;

Not so elsewhere and everywhere:

Myanmar, Philippines, Nepal, PNG, Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji and Australia,

Niue, Maldives, Tonga, Samoa, China, N. Korea and Mongolia;

From the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; even Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam and Laos;

They remember and cherish climate data management on the desktop (CLICOM);

Even climate data rescue they forget not!

To be great, one must go far……..…

For time has come to leave behind;

Sweet memories but not for brag;

Lo, greater waves are coming for I must go. Take care!

Tan Lee Seng

12^th July 2006

Outing with Mary

It must be ages that we had done this, I mean only my wife and I doing something together. I had two vouchers for high tea at the Cititel at Mid-Valley and also two movie vouchers for the GSC. So we decided to go for a movie "Runaway Vacation" on Saturday and then to the high tea at 2 p.m. after.

In the morning we had to go to Joel's college to get his exam result, quite good but with room for improvement. We spent quite a lot of time talking to the lecturers, when we realised, it was 11:45 already and our show was going to start at 12:05 noon. When we arrived at the Cinema in the Megamall, we were fortunate that there were still some tickets left and when we sat down, only trailers were being shown.

The high tea was good but not as high quality and a spread as the Legend. Can't complain 'coz it's free!