The writer at the Parliament’s press room in 1994 with her seniors Wong Chun Wai, Leanne Goh and Nizam Isa.
TWENTY nine years ago on this date – June 27, 1992 – the page one photo story in The Star read “The World, Our Oysters”. It had my name on it and a photo credit to Bonnie Yap, The Star’s only female photographer then. We were both jubilant to earn our first front page bylines together.
Almost three decades on, I still have that article, along with my Star tag, reporter’s call card and copies of my published articles during my two years with “the people’s paper”.
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