The Beautiful Part of the 'JUKEBOX' Story





Last Friday on the 10th of July, my wife and I attended a wedding dinner at Ipoh. It was the wedding of my wife’s maternal niece, Leow Ai Yuin and Mr. Ng Keem Ming, the eldest son of a veteran lawyer at Ipoh, Mr.Ng Yook Woon.

What really impressed me was the special arrangement made by the bride’s father, Mr. Leow Yong Seang. He took the trouble to hire a bus to ferry all the relatives from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh and to book ten units of apartments in the Tower Regency Hotel at Ipoh to house all of them for a night after the dinner was over.

All those attending the dinner were told to assemble at the hotel lobby at 6.15 pm before proceeding to the Mun Choong Restaurant [中和園民眾酒樓] in a bus so as to minimize the problems of transport and parking, especially for those relatives who came to Ipoh using their own transport.

Besides arranging a seemingly full scale attendance of his relatives to the wedding dinner of his daughter at Ipoh, Mr.Leow took this very opportunity to galvanize the bonding of the extended members of the Leow family through a 'family day’ programme organized on the following day after the dinner.
A day trip to visit their grandparent’s home at Kuala Kangsar was conducted after the whole bus load of not less than 40 people ‘invaded’ a coffee shop at Ipoh to taste the famous Hakka noodles as their breakfast.

At Kuala Kangsar, all of us were taken for a sightseeing tour of a few prominent places including the Istana Hulu and the Masjid Ubudiah before we stopped over at the ancestor’s house of the Leow family.

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Another round of reminiscence by the family members was in progress at the premise of the house.

Later in the day, we adjourned to a Chinese seafood restaurant at Sungai Siput for an eight-course luncheon before we called it a day at around 4 pm.

All the expenditure of the food and lodging for the two-day-one-night stay at Ipoh was paid by Mr. Leow who believed that the relationship of the extended family members should be maintained and strengthened by getting together more often. To achieve this objective, he had occasionally organized an eating spree to build up the close rapport among the members of his extended family.

Mr. Leow Yong Seang is a man of ‘all seasons’; he could play like a kid with the children at one moment and talk over serious matters with the elders in the next. With him around the atmosphere of a family gathering can become very jovial. He was just like a walking ‘juke-box’, providing beautiful and soothing music and songs to suit the needs of the listeners of all ages.

Undoubtedly,Mr. Leow’s success in business is not a coincidence. He is a visionary man. Through his hard work and wise decisions over the years, he has established himself as a leading entrepreneur in the footwear industry in the country. Currently he is the managing director of the Jukebox Shoes Franchise which offers fashionable shoes at affordable prices to the common people and is now available in over 40 stores throughout Malaysia.

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