SINGAPORE: When pioneer generation minister Othman Wok was a boy, it was his nightly duty to soothe his maternal grandfather’s sore muscles by stepping all over the elderly man’s back.
As young Othman worked on him, the old man would regale his grandson with stories of his own father’s daring feats, such as when the latter fended off a tiger in a thicket near Serangoon with just a parang.
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