She says: "I love collecting door gifts. Once, I had to direct a roadshow for a bank, which involved going to different stations to collect door gifts. Of course, I went to every single one to get everything."
Her other "auntie" characteristic? "I have a wide collection of cards, like the Cold Storage or FairPrice ones.
"Years ago, when I started working, the cards I liked to collect were credit cards. But now, it's like, 'Do you have the PAssion Card?'"
Moses Lim, 68, food and beverage consultant
Uncle role: Tan Ah Teck from Channel 5 sitcom Under One Roof (1995 to 2001; 2003) It has been 15 years since Lim last played Tan Ah Teck on the long-running television sitcom Under One Roof, but strangers to this day love to ask him one thing: "So, what is the moral of the story?"
In the show, mini-mart owner Tan loves telling tediously long stories in the hope of teaching the listener some sort of moral lesson. He also tends to kick them off with the line, "Long before your time..."
Lim confesses that he is starting to sound "just as long-winded" as his famous character. "I noticed I started to tell longer stories as I got older. Also, I sometimes catch myself going, 'Back in the good old days when...', whenever I pass by a place that has changed. I guess this is a sign I've become an uncle."
Although people in the show are often exasperated with Tan's stories, the former actor believes that audiences liked the character because of how "genuine" he was.
"Tan Ah Teck always means well. He talks a lot, but he's a good person with a good heart," he says.
Lim, who has four granddaughters, does not mind being called an uncle in real life.
"I'm well past the age of just being an uncle so, of course, it is okay. I am already a grandfather."
Not that many people call him uncle anyway. Strangers prefer to call him Mr Tan.
"It just shows how popular the character was. Just the other day, a customs officer at immigration told me, 'Have a good day, Mr Tan.'
"I had to tell him, 'Look at my passport. I am Mr Lim.'"
Richard Low, 66, actor
Uncle role: Mr Khoo from the movie I Not Stupid (2002)
The child actors were the stars of Jack Neo's film I Not Stupid, but Low's haughty businessman was just as memorable.
Mr Khoo loves to refer to himself as "limpeh", which means "your father" in Hokkien, but is considered a rude term as it deems the speaker superior to those around him.
Low says in Mandarin: "Children who watched the movie started to imitate the character and say, 'limpeh, limpeh'. I have been scolded by parents because they said I had taught their kids bad manners." Mr Khoo is also one who talks very loudly to get his point across.
That came easily for Low because he is also very loud in real life, says the actor, who is married with three children.
"Before I became an actor, I had worked for years on a construction site in a supervisory role. The construction sites were, of course, very noisy, so I had to talk very loudly to the workers. I think it carried on from there."
So, what is his "most uncle trait"? "You know those uncles who love to gather at coffee shops or hawker centres for food and kopi? I'm one of them. I love to meet my uncle friends, wear comfortable clothes and just sit at the coffee shop for a whole afternoon and chat. It's relaxing."
Jayaram Ramaiya, 79, actor
Uncle role: MGR Sivaji from Vasantham sitcom Kudumbam United (2014 to 2015) Everyone fondly addresses veteran actor Jayaram as Uncle Jayaram - including the Prime Minister.
" When Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave a speech at the opening of the new Mediacorp campus, he referred to me as Uncle Jayaram.
"People usually associate the word uncle with respect and address older men as uncle with affection. I feel blessed to receive so much respect and adoration from everyone," he tells The Sunday Times in Tamil via an interpreter.
Much of that respect comes not just from his seniority in age, but because he has worked for such a long time in the industry.
He started out as a child actor, playing roles in theatre from the age of five and has since starred in numerous shows for Tamil language channel Vasantham.
Many of his television roles in more recent years are lovable uncle types and one particularly memorable one is that of MGR Sivaji in the sitcom Kudumbam United.
As the name suggests, MGR Sivaji is a big fan of Indian acting legends M.G. Ramachandran - more commonly known as as MGR - as well as Sivaji Ganesan. The two late actors were among the most popular stars of Tamil cinema during the 1960s and 1970s.
In the sitcom, MGR Sivaji shows his love of the actors by dressing up like both of them, as well as reciting some of their most famous movie lines. Audiences enjoyed the character's earnestness and funny antics.
However, Jayaram believes that it is MGR Sivaji's helpful nature that makes him everyone's favourite uncle.
"He is always hearing out his family members and helping them to resolve their problems, which I can relate to. I also offer my family a listening ear," says Jayaram, who is married with a daughter.
Jack Neo, 59, film-maker and actor
Auntie role: Liang Ximei from Comedy Night (1999 to 2002); Happy Can Already! (2016); Wonderful! Liang Ximei The Movie (2018)
Neo was enjoying plenty of success playing sweet old grandmother Liang Popo for popular comedy sketch show Comedy Night in the 1990s, but he realised that the role was running out of steam.
"I had played Liang Popo for more than a year and we had used up all the jokes we could think of for the role. The producers of Comedy Night decided it was time to create a new character, so we came up with Liang Ximei.
"We chose someone younger and made her very auntie because we felt that many viewers would be able to relate to her. It worked because we managed to write enough jokes for the character to last more than three years on the show," he says in Mandarin.
The jokes did not end there.
