Tan Khai Tong

Strange that today I bumped into Dr Tan Khai Tong twice within 15 minutes at Scotts Square. I hardly ever see him. He was buying things at the NTUC in Scotts Square and I had just parked my car there to make a lunch and dinner reservations.

I know Khai Tong from my school days. Although he is 4 years my senior in ACS, we were in the same ACS Military Band. He used to be in the percussion section and I think he was the drum major. He was in the band during the successful years from 1974 to 1976 during the time of the late Mr Lim Peng Ann.

We didn’t have much interaction then as he was very much my senior. But I connected with him in recent years because he is a good friend, colleague and classmate of my doctor and friend Dr Ang Peng Tiam.

On day when my mother was unwell, through Dr Ang’s recommendation, we saw Dr Tan who spent more than an hour with my mother and took very good care of her. As he correctly suspected, it was just gastric and one round of a Guardian purchased antacid did the trick!

So happy to have met him this afternoon.