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The magic of mementoes, and why we can’t let go of our worn keepsakes

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By Jonathan Wong Verified
| The Straits Times Verified
Slouched into my seat at the back of the bus, I was devastated. I had just noticed that the keychain on my backpack had split, and the two cross-stitched pieces inside were missing. Resignation soon followed as I knew it would be next to impossible to retrace my steps and search for the lost items. The keychain was, of course, no ordinary keepsake or some tourist trinket from an airport gift shop, but a one-of-a-kind item from my late grandmother.
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Straits Times New Year babies: Famous for a day, memories for a lifetime

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By Jonathan Wong Verified
| Yahoo Singapore Verified
Mr Daniel Cheong and his mother, Madam Lee Lay Choo, with a framed clipping of the ST report on his birth. He was the first baby born in Singapore in 1972. Of the few certainties in life, Mr Daniel Cheong is confident of this one fact: If you were born in Singapore in 1972, his birth year, he is older than you. After all, the optometrist has seen proof of this every day for the last 53 years in a framed clipping of The Straits Times in his home.
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Singapore’s sports odyssey, from amateur games at the Padang to Olympic triumphs

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By Jonathan Wong Verified
| The Straits Times Verified
SINGAPORE - Worn and faded though they may be, these ordinary objects at the Singapore Sports Museum at the Sports Hub would tell extraordinary stories if they could speak. The shuttlecocks with frayed feathers, for instance, helped Wong Peng Soon to his four All England titles in the 1950s. Chee Swee Lee’s blue spike shoes from 1974 are torn and faded. That was the year she won an improbable 400m gold at the Asian Games in Tehran, becoming Singapore’s first female Asiad champion.
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