While other couples quibble over infant diets and baby names, Mr
Tan Kok Leong and his wife, a housewife, struggled over how to care
for a newborn.
Mr Tan became paralysed from the waist down after a fall almost
30 years ago during lion-dance training, while his wife was born
without her her forearms and hands.
But their disabilities have not got in the way of setting up a
family. Mr Tan has also carved out a career as a mouth painter.
Their daughter, 16-year-old Tan Ming Hui, used to stand far away
from them in public when she was young because she was embarrassed
of the attention from others.
But these days, she stares back at passers-by until they avert
their eyes.
