Empty Vessel, 1 Oct 2008, Ian Tan
I was a young intern in The New Paper the day I found myself interviewing him i 2001.
Actually I didn’t mean to. I had just finished doing a story at Somerset when somebody literally barked into my ear: “MAKE IT RIGHT! Make it right for Singapore!”
He was selling his book of the same title (Make It Right For Singapore) on the streets. The man was bankrupted, but man, you should have seen the fire in his eyes and heard the fervor in his voice.
I called back to the office, and the duty editor said it might make an interesting story to ask him how’s he’s doing. I was nervous, because it was like interviewing a lion, albeit a very old one. JBJ was classical fire and brimstone, except that his anger was directed towards the PAP.
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