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‘I’m sure I am not the complete vehicle yet’: Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow
He was ‘really suaku’ when he left for the US at 19. After 24 years in the civil service and a year in politics, Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow still sees himself as a work in progress.
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The first time Jeffrey Siow stepped onto a plane, he was 19 and headed for Cornell University in New York on a Singapore government scholarship.
Before the trip, he and his mother went to a shop in their Potong Pasir neighbourhood to buy a suitcase. “We had never really bought a big suitcase before,” he recalls.