Part One – The Foundation

Looking Back (Prologue)

• Why I’m writing this memoir
• Retirement, reflection, and gratitude

My Roots

• My Mother’s Family
• Growing up under My Grandmother’s Care
• My Mother - A Woman of Quiet Strength
• My Father’s Family
• My Father - A Man of Quiet Contentment

• Cambridge Primary School
• Geylang English School
• Monk's Hill Secondary School
• School of Printing

National Service: A Turning Point

• Send off party
• Basic Military Training
• Service Deployment
• Reserved Service

Finding My Career

• Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke GmbH & Co.KG
• Tan Chong Motor Pte Ltd
• Medidata Pte Ltd
• VITB - Baharuddin Vocational Institute

Part Two - Building a Family

• Matchmade
• Love of my life
• Marriage
• First born
• First house
• First Car
• My only daughter and 4 sons
• The Loss of my 2nd half
• Soul searching - The Pilgrimage

Part Three – A Life of Service Forty Years at VITB and ITE

• Teaching at Baharuddin Vocational Institute
• The Union Years
• Redeployment to Non-Teaching
• The Library Transformation
• The Retirement

Part Four – A New Beginning

• The Search
• My Second Marriage
• Adaptation
• Finding Peace
• Children's Marriage
• Grandchildren

Part Five - Discovering the World

• Hajj – A Second Journey of Faith
• Retirement Isn’t the End Life
• On Two Wheels

Final Part

• What Life Has Taught Me
• Reflections on Life
• A Letter to My Children and Grandchildren