by Ot Mean Loi » Sun Sep 20, 2020 4:24 am
Horace, your statement..."You claim only a knowledge of the deceased poster through this site but previously you said his wife contacted you to inform of his death!"...is completely wrong on several counts.
I suggest you re-read my original posting.
I've interacted with the late Don on numerous forums over the years and under his very many aliases.
But more to the point and factually correct, I had got to know Don as a person, but never in person, through arranging pro bono cataract surgery for his elderly mother in law and a local school teacher. It was his Khmer wife of longstanding that accompanied her mother for surgery given her considerable loss of bilateral vision due to very dense cataracts.
It was I that phoned the late Don. And it was his Khmer wife that answered the phone and told me of his very recent death.
Please try and get the facts straight before attempting to denigrate me.
And why would you link two very disparate postings? Especially so when one was very much off topic and in no way related to the thread on which you chose to have an ill-worded opening sentence blast at me. My language is both temperate and courteous, as it should be if there are contrarian opinions on matters.
Likewise, I am not anti expats nor this forum. I, too, have been an expat numerous times during my working life. But there are some loose cannons on this and the other forum that both forums would be better off without. A topic currently under active discussion on one of the two forums. And I am active on both forums under the same nom de plume and I posted about Don's death on both forums.
And I certainly had, and still have, no intention of posting ill of the recently departed while his ashes are, figuratively, still cooling.
OML
Horace, your statement..."You claim only a knowledge of the deceased poster through this site but previously you said his wife contacted you to inform of his death!"...is completely wrong on several counts.
I suggest you re-read my original posting.
I've interacted with the late Don on numerous forums over the years and under his very many aliases.
But more to the point and factually correct, I had got to know Don as a person, but never in person, through arranging pro bono cataract surgery for his elderly mother in law and a local school teacher. It was his Khmer wife of longstanding that accompanied her mother for surgery given her considerable loss of bilateral vision due to very dense cataracts.
It was I that phoned the late Don. And it was his Khmer wife that answered the phone and told me of his very recent death.
Please try and get the facts straight before attempting to denigrate me.
And why would you link two very disparate postings? Especially so when one was very much off topic and in no way related to the thread on which you chose to have an ill-worded opening sentence blast at me. My language is both temperate and courteous, as it should be if there are contrarian opinions on matters.
Likewise, I am not anti expats nor this forum. I, too, have been an expat numerous times during my working life. But there are some loose cannons on this and the other forum that both forums would be better off without. A topic currently under active discussion on one of the two forums. And I am active on both forums under the same nom de plume and I posted about Don's death on both forums.
And I certainly had, and still have, no intention of posting ill of the recently departed while his ashes are, figuratively, still cooling.
OML