My name is Dominic Teoh, 5th grandson to the late Yee Yow, the founder of Park May Berhad. In some way, my grandfather contributed greatly to the Malaysia public bus system. Today's famous public bus is know as RapidKL. Which by itself is the merger of 2 of the biggest public bus company in KL, Intrakota and Cityliner. And before Cityliner was sold to the government it was formerly known as Park May Berhad. Yup "the" Park May, the company that my grandfather founded from nothing.
Althought Yee Yow was successful in his business dealing and expanded the business form nothing to IPO on the Main Board of KLSE (currenly known as Bursa Malaysia). A possible wealth accumulation up to a Billion! Unfortunately as a member of the family, I can't really say the same thing about his family. Although there is no internal fighting, you can occasionally sense the resentment/arrogance for each other. These days Hong Kong drama series catching on the dysfunctional rich family bandwagon, first it was the abalone story, revolving around some seafood business. Then it was the mooncake story, revolving around some cake and pastry business. Heck if you ever run out of ideas, I invite you to take a look at my family. This is time you can have your own dysfunctional family revolving around the bus business! MY FAMILY!
In some way due to his treatment, I always felt that I was the blacksheep of the family. That if I wanted to be recognise as part of the family, I needed to prove myself. Over time I thought to myself, what better way to prove to the family than doing some equally successful as my grandfather that is to have my OWN PUBLIC LISTED company.
Flash forward to today. Not only do I feel that I still want to archieve that, I want to prove to him, MY FAMILY and MYSELF that I can do it all without jeopardize my family relationship. On top of that I want to change the world, if possible make it a better place. Once I have achieve that, I pledge to donate most of my wealth and time to charity and activities to improve sociaty!
Hence this is me, this is my dream, my story and this is what I'm going to do no matter how hard the obstacles are!
RIP Gong-Gong (grandfather in cantonese)
Monday, October 19, 2009
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