EULOGY As I sat in my home in Penang at 4am on the morning of April 17, 2014, waiting for my driver to come and pick me up to go to Ipoh Hospital, I felt numbed by the shocking news relayed to my wife Betty through my sister Hui Ying an hour earlier.

I had gone to bed early as I was not well, and was still groggy when the import of her words sunk in: DAP national chairperson Karpal Singh, who meant so much to us, was gone. A man filled with such vitality, brilliance and energy was no more.

Karpal, a leader who gave forth so much strength, vision and guidance had left. A true friend in our darkest days, whether in the depths of prison cells or the abyss of electoral defeat, had departed. A loving father and an even more loving husband had suddenly passed away on the early hours of this terrible, rainy April 17, 2014...