26th September 2006, I was diagnosed with nasal pharyngeal cancer. I completed my 2-month long radiotherapy on 29th December. Got my clearance through a CT scan on the last day February 2007.
17th February 2009. Dr Selva of NCICH said to me, “You’re cured”.
Time flies. I remember right after my CT scan results I was back in Bali on 1st March 2007. Friends like Made, Gede, Karl and a host of others lost of words when they saw me. The same Ng Kok Hong minus 13.5 kg, tanned skin, coarse voice and add another 10 years to his age.
After a short break in Bali and a few more months trying to adjust my paper-thin body, I was back presenting my pond concept to the team for St Regis Resort project at Sheraton Laguna, Bali. I don’t think Bill Bensley noticed anything about my newly scrapped image back then. He was very focused on my slide show.
One month after the therapy..& another to go!
With so much to do for both private and business tasks, I have no time to think about cancer. All I know is that cancer gave me a new ground that allows me to look at life positively. It is like re-branding myself. Things with me seems to be better and such never being able to experience in my previous life style. It is like crossing the border into a whole new ground. Something that you’ve been wondering and looking for it but did not have the gut to spill over. Cancer, like accident, pushed me and made me crossed that border. Life is a journey, a long one wheather with or without cancer. I am glad that I am back but on a new track. Thank God.
You're cured. Picture taken by my 3 yr-old son.
Heard that people to lose jobs in Japan like 400000 in numbers, Singapore 300000 and more in Indonesia, Korea, China and Malaysia is not spared either. Is this going to be an economic cancer? Well guys, it is time to crossed the border. Believe me.
“Therefore, I urge all men to be in the front rank of progress and not to stand still, lest they be left behind.”
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