We met chi too in May 2017 when he came to Singapore on a NTU CCA residency. He went everywhere in his sarong, and he called us “Singaporean misfits”! Later that year we visited too soon, the pub he ran with Simon Soon in Zhongshan Building in KL. In 2018, we collaborated on a short residency programme at Zhongshan Building. In 2023, we attended the opening of his exhibition A Sea of Despair and Delight organised by Back Room at GodownKL (who could have turned down “please come join me in a night of debauchery”?) and Favouritism is my Favourite -ism “all my favourite artists lined up in a row” at Back Room. More recently, we met him at Ilham Gallery where he worked. He invited us to visit his new home in Trengganu. We said yes, but it’s not meant to be. Farewell chi too, u were a rare gem!

(Image from The Star and more in this link)