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RIP Othman Wok 1924 -2017


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I can't find the photo, think i saw it in some exhibition before. But he was a quite handsome malay man when he was in his 20s. 

 

Can be Tv star that kind.

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RIP 1st generation leader and leader of Malays who helped eased racial issues which were very prevalent in the old days [thumbsup]

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I can't find the photo, think i saw it in some exhibition before. But he was a quite handsome malay man when he was in his 20s. 

 

Can be Tv star that kind.

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From botak's Facebook.  [laugh]

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I can't find the photo, think i saw it in some exhibition before. But he was a quite handsome malay man when he was in his 20s. 

 

Can be Tv star that kind.

 

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Doc, you are right.

 

Quite a good looking chap in his early days I must say.

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I think this one he already early 30s. can see his crow's feet.

 

There's one i saw when he was maybe at most mid 20s. He looked quite dashing.

I think it's at a LKY photography exhibition i chanced upon when i was at Suntec. A lot of pictures of old time singapore in the 1950s and 1960s.

 

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Doc, you are right.

 

Quite a good looking chap in his early days I must say.

 

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From botak's Facebook.  [laugh]

 

 

this one looked rounder but can run , the one on the right like CMI  .......

 

RIP 

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In the 1950s, when politics was often fought along racial lines, taking sides with the PAP instead of the Malay-dominant United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) earned Othman the epithet “traitor” from his own community. He lost his first election in Kampong Kembangan, in 1959.

 

 

I love multi racialism which we take for granted today

 

but it wasn't in his time and he was very brave to stand

 

up for this when so many political parties were based on

 

racial politics.  [thumbsup] 

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

 

Plato

 

That Mr Plato hasn't met my MIL.  [thumbsup]

 

:D

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RIP.

 

One of the highly-respected old guards, who helped built our country to what it is today - still many shortcomings, but certainly one of the most liveable countries in the world.

 

 

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RIP

 

I saw him once at Bugis cinema while waiting to go in. He was with his family going for a movie too. Already quite old that time, should be around 70+.

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R.I.P Encik

 

Your strong belief and legacy of a harmonious multiracial and multi religious Singapore will live on.

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