Lunchtime: Samsui woman Loh Ah Kwai, 91, eats the simple meal she's prepared for herself -- a fistful of rice (washed thrice) with a few salted dates. She eats only boiled or steamed food and, like other old people in her Redhill block, gets a bag of rice, biscuits and noodles from a voluntary welfare organisation every Saturday afternoon. Madam Loh had kept to her lifelong routine of waking up at 5.30 every morning; she sleeps on a porcelain pillow, a replica of the one she had brought with her from Samsui, China. (Her original piece is displayed at the Chinatown Heritage Centre.) She lives off her savings and charity handouts these days but refuses to take welfare money from the state.