When I reminisce about a place I have visited, what I remember most vividly are not so much the attractions and experiences but the people I met there. For instance, I will always associate Singapore with Alvin Yapp, the colourful owner of The Intan, a private museum of Peranakan heritage.
We were late for the tour of the Intan organised by the Four Seasons Hotel Singapore, and there was Yapp in a colourful printed shirt, red trousers, and a jaunty hat at the doorway of his Joo Chiat Terrace home. With a joke and anecdote a minute from the moment we met, I knew that the evening would be an interesting one.
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