32. The Second Generation is Now Complete

Sister Sweed Cheng, being the eldest of eight siblings and also the fairest, is often teased by her friends as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". However, this fairy-tale tag was made redundant with the arrival of our youngest sibling Sweed Lean on October 2, 1962.

Mother did not plan to have another baby as she was already 38. But she was pleasantly surprised with yet another happy addition to the already large family. It had been more than five years since having See Kun in 1957, and the other births were of 1½ to 2 years intervals. The mid-wife who had attended to mother's eight deliveries at home had since retired. Thus, Sweed Lean became the only one who broke the tradition, and was born at the Taiping District Hospital.