Meeting Mark Yeo

Whilst I was meeting up with my good friend U Zyn for lunch yesterday at Ah Yat seafood restaurant, to my surprise, I bumped into a friend from a long time back at the next table having lunch with his wife.

I first met Mark Yeo in 1986. It was at the Toa Payoh police station. I was sent there after my studies because I was then a local PSC police scholar. Mark was there because he was an overseas PSC police scholar, and he had just completed his law studies in Oxford.

We bonded, even though I didn’t stay on in the police force. It could be because we were both from ACS, we both had done law or that he continued to have an interest in law and visited the law faculty regularly, where I was then based

We used to meet regularly for lunches in the early days. But after he finished his stint in the police force and went to work in Dubai, we lost touch.

It was very good seeing him again and we have arranged to meet up again soon at the same place.