Hi fellows local guides. Greetings from Malaysia. My name is Simon Lau. I am a retiree now living in Petaling Jaya. However, my home town is in Sibu, Sarawak, East Malaysia. I joined Google local guide about 5 months ago and have been an active and avid contributor. Apart from the pleasure of helping many friends and strangers finding new places, I am grateful that the program also helped me recently in coordinating and updating my old buddies in our school reunion dinner social media group of the recent demise of an old buddy here. As the old boys stayed very far away in East Malaysia, most of them were unable to pay their last respects to our deceased old buddy. I was therefore asked to represent them. From the Google map app, first I was able to search and order a flower stand wreath on behalf of the school. For the next few days, I wrote 4 reviews of the places I have attended, namely for the wake, the funeral mass, the crematorium service and venue of appreciation lunch by the deased family. The organising committee of my school reunion dinner was indeed very grateful to me for sharing my lively reviews and photos of our recently deceased mate with them from a long distance. They are all able to read and see photos of the final moments of our dear, old classmate. Thanks to Google Map and the team. I am looking forward to seeing you all at Google Connect Live 2020. Bye for now.
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@Simonlau54 it seems your post was accidentally sent to the spam folder, but i have now released it.
Interesting post, by the way, and great that you shared with us how Maps was a help to you in such a meaningful way.
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