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Ham and biographer Paul Loosley at the recent launch of ‘The First Book of Ham’.
Bong raced after Ham as he left the bar, choosing to remain with McCann-Erickson, where he was hired in a case of being mistaken for his lifelong friend Malkeet Singh. He had to operate a bulky 35mm projector and make coffee, basically hanging around, volunteering snappy headlines to anyone who would listen.
The result was spotless, and they pulled the agency back onto the top of the heap from what was a potential disaster. The late Lim Kok Wing, who had months earlier denied Ham a job, had a change of heart and offered him a position with his flourishing Wings Creative Consultancy. Ham ignored him.“The First Book of Ham”, by Paul Loosley is chock-full of personal stories – some sad, some humorous – and intrigues in the advertising industry.The biography depicts Ham’s steady rise as an elite copy creator in the fiercely competitive world of admen.
Ham’s parables based on curiosity, tenacity and good instincts, at times amid emotional pain, paint him like a charismatic mentor rooting for the success of underdogs. He modestly credits one of his heroes, the late Daljindra Singh Dogra as the first Sikh advertising icon in the country. Ham at the desk of Peter Wong, regarded as the most decorated art director in McCann Malaysia in the 1980s. Ham recalled saving the Proton Satria launch storyboard by Suhaimi Saadun from the trash bin after the creative director dumped it in the 1990s.
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