ONE noon in 1967, Col. Mulyono from Guntur Military Police Corp, Central Jakarta, gathered all Thomas Cup team members in an athlete’s flat at Senayan. In the building now already a shopping center, Plaza Senayan, the athletes whose names bore Chinese resemblance were subjected to rechristening. Col. Mulyono had prepared substitutes for the names. We all had to obey the order.

On the same day, the Thomas Cup team members had new names. Ang Tji