KUALA LUMPUR: While happy that I could be in the same room as the most powerful man in the world, President Barack Obama, never in my wildest imagination did I think that the first thing he would do when he walked in was to smile and wave at me!
I was seated in the front row of Universiti Malaya’s Dewan Tunku Canselor for the Young South-East Asian Leaders Initiative workshop with another 102 participants when Obama strode into the hall from the left entrance, walking past me just a few feet away.
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