He is rich according to what he is

Had a pleasant lunch with Teh Kechek. Yes, she has a strange name. Her late mother it seems belongs to the baba- nyonya clan, hence the strange name which sounds half Chinese and half Malay. We had known each other through work since 1992 and had maintained a close friendship, even after my retirement and her's. She still calls me "Boss" even though our relationship had changed. I had requested her many times to stop calling me by that ridiculous name but after all these years she had not succeeded.

After lunch we visited our old friend Robin, the goldsmith, who had been tempering to my friends' and office collegues' fancies since the 1980s. Robin had his shop not far from our office and those of my collegues who fancied all things glittering had been his faithful customers. We discovered he is still on the same street but had changed location to a bigger place.

That's Teh Kechik with Robin and all his glitters!

In the 1990s when I first knew him, he was still young. Now he is 52. He still remembers us! We were told by him that gold then was about RM20 per gram, now it is RM100/RM105 per gram, a more than 5 fold increase! He said,"You should have bought a lot of gold then, now you would be very rich!" Hmmm...how does he know I am not?

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich
- A. P. Gouthey
He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has
- Henry Ward Beecher