94-year-old Ouyang Huan Yan, Yan Kou, from Shunde, worked for Singapore's initial family as a nanny for four decades.
Yan Kou, when she was 18, came to Singapore with her sister. She started work with important abroad Chinese Tan Kah Kee's family for 9 years. After a war, Lee Kuan Yew's mother employed her to work for a Lees.
After operative for a Lees for 1 year, Lee Kuan Yew returned from his abroad studies in a UK.
Lee Kuan Yew wrote in his memoirs, his mother would go to office each day, his immature young kids were taken caring of by arguable Guangdong maids. Yan Kou is a single of them. While with a Lees, Yan Kou started with you do a laundry, selling as well as alternative chores. Yan Kou worked for a Lees for 40 years until 1986 when she as well as her sister returned to Shunde.
Recently, contributor Weng Shuxian visited Yan Kou to listen to her memories of operative as a nanny for Singapore's initial family.
Simple wedding
Yan Kou additionally remembered which after Lee Kuan Yew became a Prime Minster, she would mostly move a young kids to a Istana after propagandize in a afternoon. Lee Kuan Yew would entertain foreign dignitaries during a Istana, though one after another to live during his Oxley home with his family. Yan Kou would mostly prepares a simple breakfast during a home, Lee Kuan Yew usually drank a glass of Ovaltine, ate 2 pieces of bread as! well as 2 eggs. Mrs Lee worked in a day as a lawyer, though in a evening after work she one after another to do residence chores, take caring of a young kids as well as hope for dinner.
When Yan Kou initial met Lee Kuan Yew, he usually came behind from his oversea studies in a UK, he was not really well capable in Mandarin then. But in person, Lee Kuan Yew was not westernized, instead he was rather traditional. When Lee Hsien Loong was usually a few years old, Lee Kuan Yew brought a set of prolonged sleeves mandarin coupler for his son during a Chinese New year.
A despotic dad
When Lee Kuan Yew disciplined a young kids secretly in his room, no a single was authorised to enter, even Mrs Lee was not authorised to intervene, or enter. The young kids would not brave to talk back. Although Yan Kou as well as a workers have never seen how Lee Kuan Yew disciplined a children, they would know from a children's expression when they came out.
Yan Kou remembered once Lee Hsien Loong was third in his class. Lee Kuan Yew was not satisfied with a outcome as well as called his son to his room. Then Lee Hsien Loong was frightened, Lee Kuan Yew told his son to get initial subsequent time. Since afterwards Lee Hsien Loong would get initial roughly each time. Lee Kuan Yew was similarly despotic with his daughter who scored 10As.
Lee Kuan Yew additionally forbade a nanny to attend with a young kids to school. When Lee Hsien Loong was in Primary 3, he asked to go to propagandize in a propagandize train (instead of being driven). At initial Yan Kou was endangered Lee Hsien Loong would not be able to keep up with a propagandize bus, though Lee Hsien Loon! g told h er which he would dash to catch a propagandize train once a propagandize bell rang. Lee Kuan Yew reputable Lee Hsien Loong's decision, as well as let a young kids learn to adapt.
No airs
In addition, when a young kids turned 21, they were approaching to be independent. Very mostly a young kids would ask a workers to buy things for them, Mrs Lee would insist a young kids compensate for it themselves as well as would not compensate upon their behalf.
While operative for a Lees, Yan Kou would residence Lee Kuan Yew as Mr Lee even after he became a budding minister. His young kids were additionally really causal, as well as like their parents, have no airs. The workers would call a young kids by their names only.
Mr & Mrs Lee favourite to splash coffee, eat beef, sharp meals as well as curry, though that's not to a fondness of Yan Kou who likes fish as well as Chinese dishes. So Mrs Lee would let a workers hope for whatever food they favourite too.
Yan Kou pronounced operative for a Lees, was like staying during home. She usually indispensable to surprise a Lees prior to she went out. Sometime, she additionally invited her friends to her work place. Mrs Lee treated a workers well. In a past, a employer as well as employee contributed next to share to a employee's CPF. The Lees would compensate for her share too.
When Yan Kou motionless to leave a Lees, Mrs Lee requested for her to stay for some some-more years. Unfortunately Yan Kou's sister was in poor health.
Her home town did not have any telephone, though Lee Wei Ling would write to Yan Kou to keep in contact. Lee Wei Ling additionally sent a print of a "whole family" to Yan Kou. When Lee Wei Ling's crony visited China, she would ask her crony to revisit Yan Kou upon her behalf.
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