I REMEMBER when I had my very first car, it was a banged-up second-hand seven-year old Opel Kadett 1100CC, and I had bought it with my first few months’ salary, with Mum and Dad having chipped in to top up the balance.
It was $1,200 and the year was 1970 – I urgently needed it for my first job at
TOMORROW, June 18, is celebrated as Fathers’ Day throughout most of the world.
It is usually a much lower-profile and lower-key affair in the family after Christmas, Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Gawai, Wesak, Deepavali, or Mother’s Day.
I would reckon that it even comes only after birthdays of