[interview 4may11] The Real Aljunied Mother & Son Story

Q: From that time till now haven’t they helped you- Mrs Lim and Mdm Cynthia Phua? A: At that time it was different. It was at Serangoon, here is Ang Mo Kio. Q: So at that time in Serangoon did they help you? A: Yes they did help us a little. Lim Hwee Hua gave me a $50 NTUC voucher every month. That Mrs Lim Hwee Hua is very good, ah, yes very good (to us). Q: Do do think George Yeo and Lim Hwee Hua is not bad? (Do you think they) have people’s interests at heart? Yes..Especially.. Especially Mrs Lim. I think Mrs Lim is a good person. And she is a good MP. And our Lee Xiao Long (Lee Hsien Long) and Ah Gong (Lee Kuan Yew). His hair is already white, and that day when I was watching the TV saw him come out to say a few words. And he said that how he wanted to help (the people) he had already done so… if now , if he lost a GRC, he said that for us life still goes on. Q: (An article) said that Mrs Lim Hwee Hua is a bad person and didn’t help you, and Mrs Cynthia Phua is a bad person too who didn’t come to your help, Mr George Yeo is also not a good person either so should not vote for them. Those people who stay, the residents, in Aljunied and Serangoon say that, if so, Lim Hwee hua is indeed a bad person.. Is that so? A: No, she is not. Mrs Lim Hwee Hua gives me NTUC vouchers every month. Also when I moved here, she even gave us a cupboard. Because I I knew that when I am to leave Serangoon, I knew that I was moving to stay here and would not connect with her anymore. Before leaving, I told Mrs Lim Hwee Hua that I was moving there, and said that I would not have the chance to meet her anymore, only on TV. I also thanked her very much for her time with us the NTUC voucher every month in Serangoon which helped us, helped us with food ration and helped us as an MP. Just that at that time she wasn’t around and I say forget and forgive la I told her. forget and forgive la I told her. Then I said that since we are now moving to Ang Mo Kio GRC and it will be Ang Mo Kio GRC looking after us, I told her that I thanked her very much for helping us all these years. I did tell her.Then at that time I told her that in my home there is nothing and I could only afford the house. So she gave..so she said we should go to a furniture shop over there(in Serangoon) to choose. She said she will give it to us as a present. So I chose a dressing table and a sofa. A small sofa. The sofa you can open up to become a bed. A small one. I said goodbye to her and I also said thank you. We leave.. with respect for her as our MP. She has also shown us respect as residents and we say thank you to her. The papers published yesterday, looks to me like a misunderstanding from the other party or as ‘being a desperate way’, I am not too sure. The way I see it, they are talking about what is not good, what is good.. ...I mean, nobody is perfect after all. So, since we have now moved out of there, put that chapter of our lives behind us. She is… she is a good MP, not a bad MP. Life has to go on. They should not take this incident to comment negatively about Mrs Lim. They shouldn’t. Mrs Lim has her own family. She has three children. Then she is working from day to night, with completely no time for her family. She has no time with her children. She has three children. Always, by the time she reach home, she is so tired. She can only spend very little time with her children, to ask the children what problems they have. She has three children. She is after all a mother too. Those people, the opposition party cannot be using this incident to throw attacks at Mrs Lim and they think that they can discourage everyone to vote for PAP because of this incident. I will, no matter what, vote and stand behind PAP. The PAP side. I will not vote for the opposition. I am not afraid if the opposition party come to try to challenge me. They can come. I am doing the right thing.