HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GILBERT SIM! 15.10.2005
Topic: October Birthdays
Today Gilbert Sim Lim Chong celebrates his 51st Birthday. This unassuming gentleman of proud baba heritage was a hotelier turned lawyer cum human relations manager with an electronics manufacturing concern and also an early-learning franchising enterpreuner.
Gilbert is married to Lin, a Hainanese from Port Dickson, and they have a son Aaron (18, A-levels student at TAR College) and Anthea (13, in Form One). Both Aaron and Anthea speak fluent Hainanese having learnt from their grandma. If a survey was made to determine the majority group in the MACSian '71 extended community, this family of four will count as 3 sukinang and 3 peranakan! He spends most of his free time with his family and his SIP Academy business. Friday evenngs are reserved for his badmminton game to keep fit. Pixs left: A collection of old college and early family photographs. Pix below: Aaron, Gilbert, Lin and Anthea at Cerating Beach, Pahang. The men's bloated tummies are due to the strong sea breeae.

























Bio-data at a Glance:
Occupation: Human Resource Manager specialing in Industrial Relations Law at STATS ChipPAC Sdn Bhd
Early career: Joined Federal Beach Hotel (later renamed Ming Court) PD in 1979. Left in late 1982 to join RCA Solid State Sdn Bhd which later became GE, then Harris, Intersil, ChipPAC and now bought over by Singapore Govt and known as STATS ChipPAC Sdn Bhd.
Business: SIP Academy Sdn Bhd
Position: Executive Director
SIP Academy Sdn Bhd provides a proven Abacus, Mental & Arithmetic Program for child-development. This program is licensed out to operators of tuition centres who want to adopt the system. Currently SIP Academy also operates in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, UAE and Oman.

Old pixs from Gilbert(L): Movie Society: Gilbert at right end, standing. (R): Aerial view of ACS in 1968. Click on the pixs to enlarge.


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