Vivian bids goodbye to late father’s seat in Parliament
Published on: Saturday, May 25, 2019
By: Bernama
SANDAKAN: Newly-elected Sandakan Member of Parliament (MP) Vivian Wong (pic) was overcome by emotion as she walked towards the bench where her late father Datuk Stephen Wong last sat in Parliament before his untimely death due to a heart attack on March 28.“One of the hardest things I’ve to do today (yesterday) is to bid goodbye to my father’s seat in Parliament,” she wrote in her Facebook post.
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Vivian, 30, thanked Dewan Rakyat Secretary Datuk Roosme Hamzah for initiating a ceremony for the hand-over of her father’s name plaque.
She went on to say how she missed her late father’s voice and the sound of his footsteps as well as the nickname he used to call her by.
“I miss all of you. I miss your words of wisdom, your sense of humour and I miss eating durian with you!
“Not a day goes by when I don’t imagine what life would be like if you were still around. You’ve left people with a lot of good memories of you,” she continued in her post.
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Vivian also mentioned how people remembered her father who was then serving his second term as Sandakan MP, as someone who would always try to help the people, which gave her comfort and the inspiration to be the daughter he had groomed her to be.
During her time in Kuala Lumpur this week, she had her first meeting after the May 11 by-election with Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng to discuss a few critical issues in Sandakan that required urgent attention.
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