OOI Chuan Aik, a 76-year-old resident of the Penang Home for the Infirm and Aged, may be blind but he happily describes the welfare organisation’s new “second home” – a colonial mansion at 8, Jalan Residensi – as “beautiful”.
“It is airy here, the taps are new and although I cannot see, I think this place must be beautiful since it has been restored and repainted,” said the former soldier from his bed in the mansion, now being referred to as the Residency Home.
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