pWhen Alison Lim was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia in her fifties, a form of dementia that affects speech, she feared losing everything - her words, her mind, her active life until then. But in her daughter, Jamie Buitelaar, she found a pillar to lean on.
When Alison Lim was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia in her fifties, a form of dementia that affects speech, she feared losing everything - her words, her mind, her active life until then. But in her daughter, Jamie Buitelaar, she found a pillar to lean on. In this episode of, Alison and Jamie recount how humour and resilience trumped darkness and despair.
For more than 40 years, Russell Wong captured the faces of some of Hollywood's most iconic stars – from Robert De Niro to Michelle Yeoh. But as a student in Singapore, he found himself thinking he was not good enough. Until his father, a doctor, gave him a camera before he left to study in the US. In this episode of A Letter to Myself, Russell opens up about how he discovered photography and what he would say to that young man.
Today, Syamlia Sri Dewi is a dedicated peer leader with the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association. She was 22 when she started consuming methamphetamine — known as “ice”. In this episode of A Letter to Myself, Syamlia opens up about the pivotal turning point in her addiction, and how her deep love for her children changed the course of her life.At just 25, Matthew Tay is Singapore's youngest bus interchange supervisor.
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