SINGAPORE: Earlier this week, Employees’ Social gathering (WP) chair Sylvia Lim posted a photograph of her father, Lim Choon Mong, with then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew from a long time in the past.
Mr Lim first had a profession in legislation enforcement after which went again to school, turning into a practising lawyer on the age of 39. In a similar way, his daughter labored as a police inspector after which as a lawyer.
“In the present day, 17 Aug 2026, is the ninth anniversary of my late father’s loss of life. Coincidentally, over the previous week, this photograph (revealed in 2014 in ST) resurfaced in color, because of a social media web page named Heritage SG Recollections. The {photograph} speaks a thousand phrases. #Pioneers,” she wrote in an Instagram submit.
In accordance with the caption, Mr Lim was briefing Mr Lee at a military camp when the photograph was taken.
In a remark to the submit, a netizen wrote, “He left a legacy that you just carried on.”
Ms Lim, who has represented Aljunied GRC in Parliament since 2011, has been candid about her relationship together with her father in social media posts previously.
In a Father’s Day submit in 2024, she wrote that she and her father had had some “turbulent instances.” Nonetheless, she adopted this up with, “however within the later years of his life, we grew to become the perfect ingesting buddies.”
“That’s Household! Blissful Father’s Day to all fathers!” the WP chair added.
In one other IG submit from October 2023, she shared that she had bumped right into a secondary faculty classmate of her father at Blk 58 New Higher Changi Street Market whereas distributing Hammer, the WP’s e-newsletter.
They started speaking about Ms Lim’s father, and to her shock, the older man received reasonably emotional and cried.
She added that the response of her father’s former schoolmate touched her, and he or she hastened to consolation him.
“I used to be very moved and informed him that there wasn’t any want for tears as he had lived a full life and had clearly impacted others. In the present day, six years after his loss of life, I nonetheless look to my late father for inspiration, particularly in tough moments. #Knowledge #Braveness“
In a 2013 AsiaOne interview, Ms Lim, who has been WP chair since 2003, stated that her father gave her a political schooling when he talked about Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his insurance policies across the dinner desk. Whereas Ms Lim’s mom, sister, and brother have been uninterested, she engaged in discussions with him. /TISG
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