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I got on a flight from London Stanstead to Kuala Lumpur International Airport recently, on my way to spending time in Sarawak, Malaysia and I came across what was a very interesting article about the first Prime Minister of Malaysia. The article focuses upon “Tunku” as he was titled in Malaysia, and his time spent in Cambridgeshire, England.

The article author – Mansor Puteh did the interview back in’89, just one year before Tunku Abdul Rahman’s death. He remembers that Tunku would recall the period of time he spent at University in England very fondly, and thus he took it upon himself to come over to England to see for himself what it is (was) really like.

This particular article relates the experience of Mansor and his nephew traveling to England to follow in the footsteps of Tunku. They arrived at Stanstead Airport (the same airport I left from) and proceeded to Cambridge to begin the “journey”. Tunku spent his time at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge so Mansor visited one of his lodgings in Grange Road near to the college.

As it turns out Tunku was initially not accepted when he expressed his wish to live on the university campus grounds because he did “not look quite like other students”. In other words, he had darker skin than everyone else at the university.

The university Dean was totally shocked and proclaimed that of course he could live on campus but Tunku himself turned down the opportunity and chose to remain living off campus instead.

Tunku died in’90 at the fine old age of 87. The author of this particular article, Mansor Puteh, is not only well known as a writer but also as a film maker. He is now working on a film titled “Malaysian Snow” which is based upon a group of Malaysian students currently living life and studying in Britain. The full article can be found in the “Travel 3 Sixty” magazine.

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