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    26 1 TODAY NATIONAL DAY SPECIAL Sunday August g, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY NATIONAL DAY SPECIAL Sunday August g, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SELF-RULE WITH 50 SUCCESS STORIES
    378 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO deputy news editor derrick@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS a question many of us ask whenever August comes around: How should we celebrate National Day this year? Play mahjong, go shopping, go overseas, watch the Parade? It isn't much different at
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    MY LIFE A TODAY PHOTO COMTEST THEEN & NOW
    1331 2 MY LIFE A TODAY PHOTO COMTEST THEEN NOW FIRST PRIZE DORIS KOH, 33, FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER The older picture was taken in November 1987. That's me in the middle; I was in Primary 5 then. We were at Clifford Pier, waiting to take the ferry to Kusu Island. My father
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      99 5 Positive Thinking for a Healthy Mind fw/ r /iff 30SSreJeCTec' 1 i" v my proposal. A A I think I'm a loser. 1 Iff No way! I think A I you're great and so does your family. You're the smartest fit I guy we know. J k%:!\ ~H Of course.
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    LEADING THE WAY
    190 6 WHAT makes us unique isn't so distinctive that foreigners go "Wow! There goes a Singaporean..." It is the actions that are so much apart of our lives we take them for granted. An expatriate chef leveraged on Singaporeans' love for food and introduced the concept of individual
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    476 6  - From my home to yours ZULOTHMAN HAPPY HOLIDAYS It's all about keeping the kampung spirit alive zul@mediacorp.com.sg IN MULTI-CULTURAL Singapore, what brings the races closer is the ease with which different races here are able to share in each other's festivals a practice, many would agree, helps to promote mutual
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    Lock icon 37 and she's still ahead of the curve
    210 6  -  CHEOWXINYI SHE is the icon of a 37-year-old company that not only bloomed quickly into the world's best airline, but also remains ahead of the curve when it comes to inflight entertainment, advanced aircraft and service levels. Singapore Airlines was born after
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    Lock icon A meal fit for royalty
    474 8  -  ANSLEYNG FOWL PLAY When Chatterbox presented it as a premium dish, it changed the way chicken rice was eaten ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN they travel, some people pack their favourite flavours, like sachets of chicken rice mix just in case their tastebuds get homesick. Others fly to
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    A nation of award-winning chefs
    388 8  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg THE perception of chefs in Singapore used to be this: They were ne'er do wells who had to slave in the kitchens because they could not get a better job. That stereotype crumbled about four years ago, said Singapore Chefs Association
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      82 9 WE WISH SINGAPORE A HAPPY 44™ NATIONAL DAY! At Global Orion Properties, we want to reach out and reach up together with Singapore, especially during this current economic climate. As we come together to celebrate Singapore's 44 th Birthday, we remember that our Nation has made it through turbulent times,
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    Lock icon The way we live
    523 10  -  ESTHER NG PUBLIC HOUSING From catering to residents' basic needs, HDB housing has since evolved to become design winners estherng@mediacorp.com.sg THE pond at Bukit Panjang and aluminium "fins" covering the windows of certain blocks of flats in Punggol are the work of now-re-tired Housing Development Board
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    Lock icon New roar for tried and tested balm
    552 11  -  CHEOWXINYI TIGER BALM A lot of Singaporeans come to me saying, Tm surprised I goto some 4ulu ulu'place, like Tibet and Bulgaria, and I see Tiger Balm there. When they recognise their own Singapore brand, they feel so proud. These days it comes
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    Lock icon The great Singapore sing-a-long
    348 11  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg MUSIC is a great stress reliever, according to the Chan brothers. No, not the travel giant, but Vincent, 41, and Eric Chan, 51, the two guys behind successful local karaoke chain Party World. And Singaporeans, it seems, are never far away from singing a
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    Lock icon The road less travelled
    620 12  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ERP Eyebrows were raised when congestion pricing was introduced, but now the Singapore example has been copied in European cities weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg ELECTRONIC Road Pricing (ERP) started along the East Coast Parkway on April 1, 1998. A decade later, motorists are now resigned to the road
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    Water treatment technologies: Singapore a leader
    326 12  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE went from being dependent on one source of water to being a leader in exporting water treatment solutions to the world in a span of 20 years. And even though it is scarcity of water that drove Singapore to look
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    Lock icon Making a clean sweep of things
    619 13  -  LEONGWEEKEAT UNSUNG HEROES While fellow citizens shun such jobs, this sprightly granny tackles her tasks with gusto weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg LAST month, while doing her rounds, cleaner Fong Kui came across some human faeces at a lift lobby. Unperturbed, the 75-year-old set about cleaning the
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    Nonsense? What nonsense?
    627 14  -  ALICIA WONG TALKINGCOCK.COM From a friends-only website, it has developed into a portal that offers a peek into the Singaporean psyche alicia@mediacorp.com. sg IT STARTED out as a private website shared between friends, and nine years down the road "an eternity in webtime" as co-founder Colin Goh
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    IN THE SPOTLIGHT
    143 15 IT'S MORE than the Asian reticence in us; it's the innate Singaporean modesty. Whether at home or abroad, we continue to win awards, head groundbreaking research, push the envelope in a variety of sectors. But when the spotlight is turned on us, the Singaporean in us grins
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    Lock icon They write the songs
    599 15  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH STARMAKERS Bj|||jffiJM ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■^■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■^H THEY kickstarted Stefanie Sun's career not only did Sun train under Wei Song, but he also produced her debut album, which sold over 1.3 million copies in China and Taiwan. But as Wei Song (picture, left), the founder of the Lee Wei
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    A quawomen
    420 16  -  TANYO-HINN GOLDEN GIRLS After 50 years, Singapore continues to produce one water babe after another yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE has produced some of Asia's best male swimmers. The late Neo Chwee Kok learned to swim in the waters off the Southern Islands and went on to win four gold medals
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    Lock icon Tech whiz, and philanthropist too
    158 16  -  CHEOWXINYI SINGAPORE has its homegrown version of tech whiz-millionaire Bill Gates in Mr Sim Wong Hoo, founder and chief executive of Creative Technology. In 1989, his Sound Blaster soundcards set the standard for sound in personal computer software and put made-in-Singa-pore technology on the world
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    Lock icon Laying the asphalt for future champs
    563 17  -  LAN DE COTTA MOTOR RACING PHOTO COURTESY We are now the proud hosts of Fi #s night race, but the Singapore Grand Prix helped bring a nation together ian@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE infancy of self-rule in the early *****, Singapore faced the twin threats of
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    Lock icon Singaporeans return to being rugged
    368 17  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg THE 1960s and 70s were ripe years for local sport. At the time, many of Singapore's athletes stood toe-to-toe with their continental counterparts. Canagasabai Kunalan, the 1966 Asian Games 100 m silver medallist, was feared on the track, while football
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    FAMILIAR FACES
    121 18 WHAT makes an icon an icon? In the case of a building, does it have to be the biggest, the highest, the most avant-garde? If the term is applied to a person, does he or she have to be larger than life, scale mountains, dive to the depths
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    Lock icon KUMAR: IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN
    176 18 "Being a minority, it's always more challenging. Which is why it's always good to have a place like Singapore to call home. I feel like the locals have embraced what I have to offer. I feel like I am one of the luckier
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    The safest place to have children then
    599 18  -  LINYANQIN I WAS BORN IN XX Women's and Children's Hospital is now lauded as a training centre for medical schools worldwide yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg AS PROFESSOR Chay Oh Moh, chairman of the medical division at XX Women's and Children's (KKH) hospital puts it: "I think
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    790 19  -  LEONARD THOMAS A 36-YEAR LOVE AFFAIR sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN asked if he had any ghost stories to tell, National Stadium groundsman Hajumi Lawin laughed. "Of course," he said. "But I don't know whether I should tell you because you might not believe me." I
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    Lock icon Kuo Pao Kun: The stage is too small for the man
    148 19  -  MAYO MARTIN WHAT would Singapore's diverse and thriving theatre scene today be like without the profound influence of the late playwright, director and doyen of Singapore modern theatre Kuo Pao Kun? His position as both a creator of thought-provoking,
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    Lock icon The people's game breaks new ground
    529 20  -  TANYO-HINN -,7.; /o, 7* >, ESlT^TcTwis Slowly but surely, the Malaysia Cup days are becoming just a memory yoninn@mediacorp.com.sg IT MAY not boast the riches and glamour of its European contemporaries, but there is no denying that the S-League has played a vital role
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    Lock icon The man whose name everyone knows
    415 20  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH BRIAN Richmond will be the first to admit that he's too well-known for his own good. "I can understand it when people say, 'Oh no, not him again'! "joked the 62-year-old "voice" ofNites With Brian and Sundays With Brian. Having started in 1971,
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    549 21  -  ALICIA WONG BOYS'TOWN Once regarded as a home for vbad boys institution has evolved with the times alicia@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE Boys' Town may change its building and facilities, its 61-year-old philosophy of caring for its residents and meeting individual needs remains strong. There is "lots of attention
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    Tang Da Wu: The artist villager
    474 21  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg BEFORE "contemporary art" and "biennale" became bywords among Singaporeans, before the opening of SAM BQ, before the country's recent victory at the Venice Biennale courtesy of Ming Wong and Tang Fu Kuen, there was Tang Da Wu. The year 1988 was
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    THEY LEAD THE WAY
    152 22 NO SURPRISE for us that the "Challenges" section of this National Day special carries a larger number of stories we wanted to share. The conventional meaning of the word is "An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance..." And this
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    Lock icon Ensuring Singapore stays green
    638 22  -  ONG DAI LIN r-wk.f Acting as an unofficial watchdog, the Nature Society keeps a close eye on Singapore's environment dailin@mediacorp.com. sg WHEN a group of bird lovers came across a mangrove area rich in migratory birds in 1986 and found out that the land was scheduled
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    Eric Khoo: Never say die
    316 22 CULTURAL medallion recipient Eric Khoo isn't content with just making films that travel the international film festival circuit. No, anyone with a camera can do that. Khoo intends to make sure that Singapore films continue to get made. "Part of Zhao Wei's big picture is
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    521 23  -  TEOXUANWEI FAIRFIELD METHODIST Why do its former students keep returning as teachers? xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg IT TURNED 121 years old this year. So, the fact that Fairfield Methodist School has possibly churned out the most number of teachers in Singapore is perhaps not surprising. Still, it is
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    Lock icon GONG LI: (NOW) A S'POREAN
    80 24 AFP globally-acclaimed actress has won numerous I acting honours and has workeawitnmovie^ powerhouses like Michael Mann, Wong Kar Wai, Rob Marshall and, of course, Zhang Yimou. But one of her most significant roles to date must be as a pink IC holder. It may not
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    Rise of the geek gods
    432 24  -  MAYO MARTIN NEW POSTER BOYS Let's all hail the new superheroes of our time: Game and toy developers mayo@mediacorp.com. sg AS A young boy, Gerald Tock would spend hours playing Spider-Man and Space Invaders on his Atari 2600. The 29-year-old still spends 12 to 15
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      70 24 MW .^bv VI SEND US YOUR NDP PHOTOS! Will you be at the Parade? Email your photos (max 1MB) from the National Day Parade with your name and contact details to today@mediacorp.com.sg. Be sure to check out our galleries at todayonline.com from Tuesday to see your pictures! V^J^A LAYERS AB^.
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    193 25  -  PSA WHEN Mr Leong Seh Nong started work driving lorries at PSA in 1974, the Singapore port was just watching the world container trade slowly take off. The boom came in the 1980s, when volumes at the port of a country with scarce natural resources surged
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    Moulding champions
    273 25  -  LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore Sports School opened its doors on Jan 5, 2005, when 138 students marched into its spanking new campus at the appropriately named 1 Champions Way, in Woodlands. A first for the nation, the school has been the envy of numerous foreign and local visitors,
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    Lock icon Keeping the flame alive
    547 26  -  ZULOTHMAN MAJLIS PUSAT zul@mediacorp.com.sg AS FAR as cultural societies go, Majlis Pusat, or the Central Council of Malay Cultural Organisations, isn't the only one dedicated to the preservation of Malay culture. But what makes the umbrella body made up of 33 cultural groups unique is that
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    472 26 FROM film to tape, digital and high definition, the production history of Singapore's television programmes mirrors that of the nation as it fast tracked from Third World to First in just one generation. Likewise, MediaCorp has come a long way from its days as a single
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    From kopi-o to carbo-loading
    343 27  -  LOWLINFHOONG SPORTS MEDICINE AND SCIENCE Athletes today are a lucky lot says Olympic silver medallist Tan linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg ALL he had was kopi-o to keep him going in the mornings, as weightlifter Tan Howe Liang juggled training and making ends meet to keep his Olympic dream alive.
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    359 28  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg WHEN self-rule came about in 1959, the concept of a sports industry was almost alien to a country which would gain complete independence six years later. Money was poured into bread-and-butter concerns such as housing, education, defence and job
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    478 28  -  NEOCHAICHIN SINGAPORE ZOO chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore Zoo's next icon might just be another orangutan, currently eight months old. Her name? Ah Meng Junior. Her mother Anita was one of the late matriarch Ah Meng's favourites, though they were not related. "I'm very sure she'll take over as
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    HAPPY ENDINGS START WITH THEM
    139 29 WE ALL love happy endings, but you can't have an ending without a beginning. And yet the best stories are those that are still works in progress, as all those featured in this section are. They have been chosen because in one way or another
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    503 29  - It all started with a puff TAN HUI LENG A SAVOURY PAST Now Polar Puffs and Cakes eyes overseas expansion huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SET up in 1928, Polar Cafe is today, Singapore's oldest western-style cafe. Located then at High Street, it served up curry puffs and cakes to scores of merchants before
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    273 29  -  KELVIN CHOW It inspired a squadron logo. Tiger Beer, born in 1932, X was already an iconic brand in 1937 when The Royal Air Force, then based at Seletar in Singapore, modelled its regimental insignia after the tiger and palm tree from the first generation Tiger Beer
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    The endeavour to fill giant shoes
    441 30  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg HAVING a "giant of a man" in your community is like having a shining light guiding your future. For widely-respected lawyer Harry Elias, Singapore's first Chief Minister and top criminal lawyer David Marshall was the hero he wanted to emulate. "It was
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    Going pro is the way
    220 30  -  LOW LIN FHOONG VOLUNTEERISM Volunteer sports administrators increasingly a thing of the past linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg HE SAILED the seas for more than 15 years, creating history when he won Singapore's first Asian Games sailing gold (laser class) at the 1994 Hiroshima Games. These days, Benedict
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    130 30 CHEOWXINYI The late Dr Lee Kong Chian born in 1893 in China was not just a shrewd businessman with a Midas touch who transformed many of Singapore's successful companies today, including the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation. This man, hailed as the'first modern
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    422 32  -  LINYANQIN THE REALTHING yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg SHE no longer lives in the East, but Fiona Wong, 29, still heads down to a childhood favourite haunt Chin Mcc Chin Confectionary a few times a year for a cup of coffee and what she declares as "the best kaya" in
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    216 32  - Bowling along TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THEY don't know how to stop the ball spinning at Singapore bowling. A little over a decade after Singapore gained self-rule in 1957, bowling changed from being a past-time or hobby among locals to a serious sport in the country. Football, swimming and track and field
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    Lock icon The 5 facets of Eu Yang Sang founder Eu Tong Sen
    313 32  -  KELVIN CHOW POLITICIAN When Singapore was still part of Malaya, X Mr Eu was the only Chinese representative on the Malayan Federal Council. Appointed an Unofficial Member of the Federated Malay States' Legislative Council in 1909, he held the
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    Lock icon The ties that bind
    454 33  -  ANSLEYNG It was a dirty and cramped shop in a back alley all of 200 square feet but we have fond memories of helping my father run errands. My dad worked hard to bring us up and send us to school and there were five of
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    575 34  -  NEOCHAICHIN SINGAPORE RIVER chaichvn@mediacorp.com. sg THE heart of Singapore's entrepot trade for two centuries, the Singapore River has over the last 20 years assumed a new role as a tourist attraction and nightspot. But talk to the river's long-time denizens such as Mr Png Chin Lai and
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    Written 'against this deep disquiet'
    131 34 "This was written in the early '70s when memories of the communist revolt in Indonesia, the war in Vietnam and other destabilising events were plaguing South-east Asia. It was against this deep disquiet, that the Government was determined to build Singapore into a nation. It
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    Catering for the People
    237 34 These are delinquent days. Brother kills brother in many islands, While some who lose that simple anger Take to town and politic each other. That Christmas truce is cruel. How to die thereafter, With peace in the heart, handgrenade in fist Goodwill in one hand? The
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    Lock icon Changi Airport: 5 ways it's flying the flag
    278 35  -  CHRISTIE LOH nHAD giant ambitions right from the start. Built in 1981 with a $1.5-billion budget (imagine how eyepopping that sum was in those days), Changi Airport Terminal 1 emerged out of reclaimed land to be Asia's then-largest and most modern airport.
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    570 35  -  KIERSTENOW The Fullerton Hotel Singapore lit up in all its splendour. P H OTO SB! FULLERTON BUILDING Now the Fullerton Hotel Singapore, it has been with the nation through good times and bad ON SUNDAY, the Fullerton Hotel Singapore will once again witness eel- ebrations to
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