When it’s too late to say ‘thank you, teacher’


Forever missed: Hong in a group photo with her class in 2010. Low is standing in the third row on the far right.

PETALING JAYA: A lazy student met a great teacher who changed his life, but Leon Low never got to say thank you.

The 22-year-old Low said it was the hardest moment of his life when he heard that the teacher Hong Mei Jing, 38, had died in the Batang Kali tragedy.

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