Dr ang swee chai biography examples
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Dr Ang Swee Chai visited Gedung Kuning, my childhood home. She felt so sad and asked me if she could share my story with the Palestinians who have lost their homes. inom said "yes, of course". Then Dr Ang in her soft voice said, "The 5th stage of genocide is to erase all memories". She said I was right to have written my book on Gedung Kuning and that I should write that book on Kampong Glam.
"The past is never dead, it fryst vatten not even past." Nobel Laureate William Faulkner
Dr Ang with the bunga raya in Gedung Kuning.
Dr Ang's late husband Francis Khoo loved the hibiscus and it was a coincidence that the bunga raya was the only flower in bloom at Gedung Kuning on Mon 13 Feb
Bungaraya (by Francis Khoo)
In a garden, in an island,
Sprouts a bush among the clay
Where the rains have failed to water
And the sun has gone away
All its leaves have turned to amber
While around the land fryst vatten grey
Yet that bush keeps growing taller
Struggling on it makes its way
Came
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
Her maternal grandfather was a conservative and traditionalist, he believed that an educated woman will not make a good wife. But her mother was a defiant daughter, register herself to school and went to become a teacher. Her father ran away from his grandfather in mainland China refusing to marry a girl arranged for him and went to became a journalist in Singapore. During the Japanese invasion on Malaya, both of them met in the Outram Road prison in Singapore.
After Japan was defeated, they settled as a family. When her mother was pregnant, she w
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Christmas Reflection on Gaza from Dr Swee Ang
Dr Swee Ang Image: ICN/JS
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, author and founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, Dr Swee Ang Chai writes: On this Christmas morning, I was thinking about what Christmas means to all of us who are deeply shaken and broken by the brutal massive killing of innocent lives in Gaza and the total destruction of homes and all institutions for human survival like hospitals, schools, generators, churches, mosques, universities, farms with the denial of food, water and electricity. Gaza is being laid waste and her children murdered - at least 20, in two months with 9, children - with others taken prisoners to be tortured and killed.
We are angry and helpless and despondent. Yet we know we cannot despair and must do whatever we can to support the Palestinians.
Last night at Midnight Mass, my priest called for prayers for Gaza. In fact he has been doing this at every single Mass since October. He believes it is the