tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3798062063931042253.post7794457534033374663..comments2022-03-27T19:30:41.231+08:00Comments on SHELDRAKE: Pay DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3798062063931042253.post-65955292693842126292009-12-16T09:05:25.099+08:002009-12-16T09:05:25.099+08:00Gentlemen,
The first line should read, 'I won...Gentlemen,<br /><br />The first line should read, 'I won't even if it were to happen to me more than once'.<br /><br />The last line should be, 'When I look back at those experiences, it was just like watching a scene from a Hollywood Made-for-TV movie'.<br /><br />Capt. (Rtd.) Hussaini Abdul Karimhak55https://www.blogger.com/profile/04469485077248980573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3798062063931042253.post-80860407727078914832009-12-15T17:25:13.117+08:002009-12-15T17:25:13.117+08:00I won't, even if it happens to me more than on...I won't, even if it happens to me more than once. In 1981, I returned the bank at Damansara Heights, KL branch (the now defunct BBMB) RM200,000.00 because I had RM208,700.00 in my current bank account during the days when card banking was first introduced. That was too big an amount to show in my current account bank balance and upon noticing it, I straightaway alerted the bank. However, there was no thank you at all from them because card banking isn't personal like the 1 - 2 - 1 banking system of the olden days. They did not even send me an acknowledgement letter after that but they did get my bank balance corrected and updated immediately.<br /><br />In the days when I was a 2Lt I was detailed to be the paying officer for 'B' Bty 3 Arty in Taiping several times; we had armed escorts equipped with Sterling sub-machine guns and SLRs and I myself was armed with a fully loaded Browning pistol. When we disembarked at Chartered Bank, Main Road, Taiping, two armed escorts would take up positions outside on each side of the main bank's front door fully alert with prancing eyes, one escort would move inside the bank and one accompanying me from the Land Rover to the bank's counter. The driver would remain in the truck with the ignition still on. At that time, Taiping did not have any traffic lights at all the road junctions and there were very few vehicles on the roads in town, so parking on the side of the road even during office hours did not bother anyone. After counting and collecting the money, normally more than RM300,000.00 each payday, my escort and I would return to the truck followed by the escort who was inside the bank and the the two escorts who waited outside the bank. We then proceeded straight back to camp. We did not have any training or set drill for this but I insisted that all precautions must be taken and what I just described was something that I conjured myself. The whole operations would take, at the most, 20 mins because most of the administrative stuff had been prepared and done a day earlier or at least an hour before we arrived at the bank. Our Payroll Officer, Capt Zainuddin, was that efficient. The rest of the proceedings were very similar to what Col. Allen Lai had related above, but in my case, after paying all the soldiers, the account balanced perfectly every time I carried out my assigments. However, I do not remember ever paying the soldiers' wives.<br /><br />I am not too sure if other officers conducted exactly the same operations as I did but I assume they would have their own versions because we never discussed this with our fellow officers. <br /><br />(With all the precautions taken, I wonder how the late Musty could run away with the payroll?)<br /><br />When I look back at those experiences, it was just like a Hollywood made for TV movie. How sweet!hak55https://www.blogger.com/profile/04469485077248980573noreply@blogger.com