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Betty LEE Siu Ping knew from a very young age that she shares the same birthday as Singapore. During her school days, she was on stage every August 9, singing or dancing to celebrate National Day. Despite feeling ambivalent and sometimes irritated, she would never turn down any opportunity to attend a National Day Parade. Now semi-retired, she just wants to live her life to the fullest and be happy.
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CHOO Teck Chuan’s formative years were spent in Geylang, which in the early years of modern Singapore, was considered an unsafe neighbourhood where gang-related and vice activities were rife. He realised early in life that academic studies were not his cup of tea and studied at a vocational institute after his ‘O’ levels. Most people assumed then that he would have a ‘tough’ life but he found his calling in the Singapore Armed Forces. He served illustriously for more than three decades and retired in 2015 as a lieutenant-colonel.
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