4/9 Veteran journalist Abdul Samad Ismail died at the Pantai Medical Centre KL at 5:58pm after suffering from lung cancer/STAR ...I received this sms alert from The Star at 7:02pm today as i was leaving the gym for berbuka...
I was one of the lucky people to have met and interviewed Pak Samad (as he was fondly known) way back in 2004 when i was in Channel 9...it was during the merdeka month of that year and we shot a TV program about him...it was shot at his residence No.2 , Lorong 16/7c, Petaling Jaya...
Pak Samad came across to me as a very jovial 80 years old man then...although he was wheel-chaired bound he was still joking around with us, always with a ciggy in his hand...we even gave him our merchandise t-shirt which he happily put on for the interview...at that age he still value the importance of branding hehehe...
Just got home from the address above to sedekah surah yassin for allahyarham...i wish there are many more Malaysians my age realised what a HUGE lost our country have just suffered...to share with my riders what a great man Pak Samad was...please visit rocky's bru's blog...
Will upload a pic taken with him (during the interview) tomorrow am...ALFATIHAH...