The tycoon, who turned 90 in April 2007, was renowned for his vision in transforming Genting Highlands from an unexplored hilltop to one of the world's most successful casino resorts.
The fifth child in a family of seven children, Lim migrated from China's Fujian province in 1937 at the age of 19 with only a small suitcase and US$175.
The idea of a hill resort was chanced upon by Lim amidst the crisp air of Cameron Highlands in 1964. Lim was then working on a hydro-electric power project at the popular hill resort, patronised mostly by British colonials seeking cool refuge from the tropical heat, when he foresaw a prosperous Malaysia of the future desiring a cool mountain holiday resort within the reach of all Malaysians.
To date, Genting Highlands Resort has five hotels and two apartment blocks at the hilltop and Awana Genting Highlands Golf and Country Resort.
The company, founded in 1965, has since expanded and diversified from its initial hotel and resort activities to plantations, properties, paper manufacturing, power generation, oil and gas, electronic commerce and information technology development under Genting Group.
According to Forbes Asia, the Genting Group founder was third richest in the country with a net worth of US$4.3bil (RM14.6bil).
Lim is survived by wife Puan Sri Lee Kim Hua, and their six children and 19 grandchildren.
On October 29, 2007(Monday), the burial at 1.18pm was a private affair for family members only.
The funeral on Monday ended five days of wake beginning last Wednesday after Lim died at the Subang Jaya Medical Centre.
Over the past five days, more than 20,000 people, including royalty, Asia's rich and famous, politicians, friends, business allies and members of the public had either attended the wake or sent wreaths and words of condolence.
The wreaths lined up the road to Gohtong Villa, stretching a distance of more than 1km.
We also attended the wake and sent words of condolence. Master Yeo and I together with a few feng shui followers also took this opportunity to study Uncle Lim's feng shui arrangement. We found that the Pagoda at Genting Highland has powerful feng
shui effect.
This is Master Yeo. According to him, the feng shui master of Uncle Lim is a very traditional master using San He formulae. If you visit Jiang Xi and studied the feng shuis that were designed by the Great Grand Master Yang Yun Song, they were all using San He method.
The interviews of Master Yeo about the feng shui of Genting Highland came out in the Special Weekly on issue 351 and 352 published on November, 26 2007 and December 3, 2007 consecutively.
In the issue 352, Master Yeo advised the visitors to take the lucky route on the left as shown in the picture to increase the probability of winning and to command better "qi" instead of going straight where the feng shui does not benefit visitors to the casino.
This is Master Goh, the author of this blog. You will notice there is a mountain at the back of Uncle Lim's bungalow which forms the support for the house. Master Yeo and Master Goh were in Jiang Xi, China, in 2001, to study the feng shuis that were designed by the Great Grand Master Yang Yun Song.
