Category: People
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What Makes A Man A Man
It was either last year or the year before, Selena Tan and I sat in the Esplanade Theatre, as the audience shuffled in at the opening show of Kumar’s Amazing Race. Looking around and up at the circle seats, she marveled – “Look at that. Filling up the entire theatre. He’s simply amazing”. The Esplanade…
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Pave The Way For Her Journey To Education
The Gyanada Foundation, set up by Adrianna Tan and her team, is hoping to send disadvantaged girls in India to proper schools where they’ll receive education. Click on the link to learn more, and donate if you can.
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Wah Tung Biscuit Confectionery Sdn. Bhd.
Tomorrow we visit the factory I spent many of my primary school holidays at, to say goodbye to the man whose fantastic life spanned nine decades and witnessed the end of Empire and the start of Federation, but more importantly, who made the best Hainanese kopi and kaya in Peninsular Malaysia.
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Vale, Uncle Datuk Lee Yoke Yea
My father’s older brother passed away peacefully in Seremban this morning. I think he was 90. He was born in Qionghai County, Hainan Island and moved with my grandfather to Port Dickson in the 1930s.
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The Only Celebrity Sighting Worth Having
We had several celeb sightings and near-misses on our trip. Our traveling companion L found Kanye West blocking her view of some freshly launched merchandise at Colette; her husband S found himself gushing about some ‘famous French actress I forgot her name but she is very popular’ after dinner at Hélène Darroze; I cursed about…