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(Clockwise from top left) Professor David Tan, Mr Muhammad Fahim, Mr Benjamin Lim, Mr Muhammad Syahid Shamsuri and Mr Bjorn Alvarez.
PHOTOS: GIN TAY, JOANNA LAI, BENJAMIN LIM, MUHAMMAD SYAHID SHAMSURI, BJORN ALVAREZ
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SINGAPORE - People collect things for many reasons. Some do it for profit, others for pleasure or prestige.
Sociologist Kiven Strohm from the National University of Singapore offers yet another reason: "We might collect or hold onto particular objects and things because they keep alive memories and feelings or give us a sense of belonging both familial and collective (nation, community)."
