Sep
14
2006
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Check out Avenue_D‘s amusing entry on his encounter with a Singapore star of yesteryears.
Image property of National Archives of Singapore
Was reading today’s Straits Times feature on “Singapore: The Encyclopedia” in the Life Section when i came across the picture of the 70s star Sakura.
I remember she said she was a singer and probably my parents would know her.
Nice woman in her 60s now, she asked me if i wanted to eat tau sar piah during the long flight.
Hehehe
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Dear great-great-great-grandchildren,
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