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Visitors' Briefing Room, Level 1

National Library Building 100 Victoria Street

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What is it about a 92-year-old Hakka woman that so compelled her son to write her life story? Hear from Chai Kee how the memoir of an uneducated matriarch’s roller-coaster life from pre-WWII into the new millennium evolves into a manual on how to face and fight adversity in his book “Even When She Forgot My Name”. The Author A Melbourne University-trained psychologist, Wong Chai Kee has run his own management consultancy firm for 22 years. He loves writing, and has written numerous articles... (read more)

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Experience Singapore Literature How to Write a Memoir at Visitors' Briefing Room, Level 1

What is it about a 92-year-old Hakka woman that so compelled her son to write her life story? Hear from Chai Kee how the memoir of an uneducated matriarch’s roller-coaster life from pre-WWII into the new millennium evolves into a manual on how to face and fight adversity in his book “Even When She Forgot My Name”.

The Author
A Melbourne University-trained psychologist, Wong Chai Kee has run his own management consultancy firm for 22 years. He loves writing, and has written numerous articles on psychology and on Christianity. A voracious reader, especially of memoirs and history, he has an insatiable urge to buy books.

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