"Sometimes when you love someone very much, you have to go through every tear, every heartache and every pain. Because in the end,it’s not how you love but how much you hold on."

Hmm...just had a conversation with Dato' Syed Fakhri Barakbah over the phone. Who is he? At first, I didn't know.

I met him at one food court while I was approaching one person who looks like someone I knew from the past. He, being a jovial person and quite patronizing, invited me to sit down with them and offered to buy me teh tarik. Next thing I know, he wrote his phone number on my namecard and asked me to call him afterwards.

So I called him today. I asked him, when shall I meet him and what is the purpose of the meeting. He said, possibly next Saturday somewhere in KL area. "I want to ask you about your purpose of life. I want to know why are you doing what you are doing with teaching at orphanage house, co-founding an IT company and becoming unit trust agent. Maybe we can get clarify one or two things about few things".

Hmmm...I didn't know he is Dato'. I just call him Uncle when I first met him at food court in Menara IBM (the old one). And now he wants to discuss my purpose of life. Gheeezzzz....

Oh yeah, he promised me to buy a book, Islam and Secularism, for me. Let see if he keeps his word firmly.

Some info about him which I found over the net.

Dato’ Syed Fahkri Barakbah
Dato’ Syed Fahkri Barakbah is the Financial Advisor to the President/Chief Executive Officer of Tenaga Nasional Berhad having previously been Vice President of Finance. His prior appointments include Group Finance Director of Sime Darby Berhad, a regional conglomerate, and Group Finance Director or Golden Hope Plantations Berhad. He qualified with a Bachelor of Economics (Hons.) from the University of Malaya and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales having qualified with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. in London.