Being in Kota Kinabalu, I was free to visit the estates owned by Sime Darby near Sandakan.
From the window seat of a Fokker Friendship plane, the rocky peaks of Mount Kinabalu would come into view, bathed by the sun. – BERNAMAPICwas a nice life for me in Sabah. But it was not going to last.
I sat up again when the plane flew past Ranau and over the flats of the Labuk River, and as I looked down, I could see where I used to work in Pamol Estate. It was like a map of rivers and oil palm trees, and I could see the bungalow where I used to live. It was the same story at Mengaris Estate, which was next door, and I would spend another two days there with the manager S.K. Tan. The trees did well, with branches covered in flowers, but the borers attacked the pods, resulting in beans that were far below the quality the buyers were looking for.
On Sundays, I would be at the yacht club, where I had a sailing boat, a GP 14, and enjoyed going out sailing to Gaya Island or Mamutik. Sometimes, with the tail-end of a typhoon from It meant that my wife Maznah would arrive from Kuala Lumpur in the last few days to do the packing together with our servant Misah.
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