Last night, I attended the Hari Raya Aidilfitri open house of Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad, a former political secretary to another ex-PM Tun Abdul Razak (1922-1976), ex-ISA detainee, Malaysia's former ambassador to the United Nations and former editor-in-chief of the New Straits Times, who, despite his retirement, is still intellectually challenging to younger generations and maintaining an excellent network of multiethnic and multinational friends. Tan Sri, also a Cambridge University graduate, has certainly accumulated a vast amount of experiences in the working of the Malaysia's political system as well as theories and practices of international diplomacy.