SINGAPORE - Mr Selva Raju Arumugam has many fond memories of the tactics his mother used to wake him up with in the mornings.
Sometimes she would threaten to pour hot water on him. Or she would say the time was much later than it actually was, making him jump out of bed in a panic.
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