Dr Too Chee Cheong, the 78-year-old seemingly obscure medical doctor in downtown Kuala Lumpur who has become a media 'star' in the last few days for his public outburst against Dong Jiao Zong and his comrade-turn-nemesis, Sim Mou Yu, is now a subject of debate of many Chinese Malaysians in the streets .

Breaking himself out of a time capsule and 30-year political isolation, Too has certainly made himself an object of historical inquiry among young Malaysians, and subject of passionate and nostalgic speculations for the elderly. History, like news, has always had more than one side of the story.

A retired general clerk of a Chinese clan association in Kuala Lumpur who is now a taxi driver told this writer that Too belongs to the Cantonese clan, and that his grandfather was Too Nam who migrated to British Malaya in the early 19th century. It is also revealed that the bilingual (Chinese and English) mausoleum of Too Nam is still located at a cemetery in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

Too Nam is well known among other older Chinese in Malaysia as a follower and supporter of Dr Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese revolutionary leader who overthrew the last dynasty in China and established a republic in 1911. These oral accounts have been verified by a written and open English-language source.