By coming together in one collective voice, instead of going our separate ways as ten disparate countries, ASEAN members have strengthened our standing in the world.
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Malaysia and Singapore are like twins in a way, excepting that perhaps the elder twin is a little bit bigger than the younger twin, and a little bit older. But we have been able to live together in reasonably harmonious terms
It’s like a box of chocolates. You really don’t know whether you’ll like everything in the box
It is wrong to say one language or a dialect is better than the other. All languages and dialects should be protected because they are part of a civilisation.
You just have to be very comfortable in your own skin. Not many people in Singapore can accept nude modelling (but) it’s not that I’m showing a naked body to another person – I’m showing a naked body to an artist who wants to paint, who wants to photograph, for the sake of art.
I want that grey. I want the ups and downs, the lows and highs, because I feel so alive
