The writer (left) visited a rubber smallholding in Dalat, Vietnam, in 2004. Photo: Yeo Teng Tay
In the olden days, I was known as Ah Hoe. I was born in the rural farming area of Tanjong Minyak, Melaka.
My father was a rubber smallholder, a taxi driver, and later a one-ton lorry driver, until a road accident in 1972 shattered his windscreen. He had nine children – four boys and five girls.
