The way of clay

Ng taking the claypots out to be sunned prior to sending to the furnace for baking.

It’s labour-intensive, it’s a lot of hard work and the hours are long, but Ng Ah Ming wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s been with the family’s claypot-making business for so long, it’s in his blood, writes LIM WING HOOI.

PEOPLE think inheriting a business means you get an easy passage through life because all you need to do then is to reap the toil of the earlier generation. After all, everything is already in place, right?