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