Married for 40 years and still smitten by each other

Mok and Leong bicker but it never turns into a big argument as they make an effort communicate and understand each other's point of view. Photo: The Star/Art Chen

It was love at first sight at the tuition centre. Helen Mok was a part-timer and Leong Sze Kwok a student, and they didn’t know what their future held. But they knew they were meant for each other.

“In those days, as soon as we like each other, we’d tell our parents. I told my folks but insisted that even if they didn’t approve of Leong, he was the man I was going to marry. Seeing how determined I was, my father couldn’t really do anything but he warned me that if I regretted my decision later, it would be my own fault, ” recalls Mok, 63, the oldest of eight siblings from Batu Pahat. “I have absolutely no regrets.”