HIS life is the stuff of Channel 8 dramas. The plot goes like this: He is an orphan adopted by four Singaporean men he calls uncles. They turn out to be drug lords. He becomes involved in the drug trade too.

He tries to escape from his life of crime but is shot in the leg by an uncle. He becomes a wanted man. He goes to jail. He escapes from jail. He is arrested in Australia for smuggling heroin. He is now a model prisoner there.

WHEN she had her second child, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua took four years off work to care for her children.

Juggling career and family was no easy task and the then 26-year-old decided to make her family top priority. 'There's no right or wrong in such a decision. But I was prepared that younger people would get ahead of me and that I might have to work for younger bosses,' she said.