Reflection on times past: Madam Choy Yee Lui, 74, worked for most of her life on rubber plantations and rubber processing factories here and in Malaysia. She did short stints as a Samsui woman at construction sites. Still going strong, Madam Choy has continued with her lifelong habit of smoking 20 cigarettes she rolls herself each day. She lives in the same block of rental flats as Madam Loh and Madam Yip, fellow Samsui women.