Wearing a new pair of contact lenses, she put up a flawless performance in a Finals Games record.

Jasmine and Jian Huan saw an early lead erode as the Malaysian pair overtook them in the latter stage with a 793 to 790 point victory. I had a chance to chat with both of them before presenting them with scarves at the Victory Ceremony. Jasmine developed dry eyes mid way, and despite eye drops just couldn’t clear her eyes well enough. Poor Jian Huan was nursing a flu, and fighting drowsiness. Nevertheless, it was an excellent performance, and they have another day of competition tomorrow.

A real thriller of a game, had us all close to a heart attack!

A really precious first Gold for this team at the Commonwealth Games.

Table tennis starts its medal collection, and our shooters still firing away !

Congratulations to Gai Bin and Lim Swee Hon for the first Gold in the Men’s 50m Pistol. Jasmine Ser and Aqilah Sudhir won the second Gold medal in the Women’s 50 m Rifle event. WELL DONE !

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Dr Balaji Sadasivan passed away this morning. I knew him as a friend for over a decade, and knew of him even longer.

He was a great role model for all doctors and a wonderful colleague in politics. He had a towering intellect, capacious mind, deep curiosity and fine integrity. He was a principled man who was always true to his values, and did his best for his patients and the people of Singapore. His grace, equanimity, courage and dedication to public service in the last phase of his life despite his painful predicament was incredible. This is a terrible and painful loss for his family and all of us. No words or tears will do the man justice.

I was very touched to be invited on this special occasion. The invitation filled in parts of my maternal family history and family tree that I had previously not discovered.

I now know that my family has been in Singapore for more than a century over at least 4 generations.