Quah Kim Song joins Sylvia Lim at Serangoon North Hungry Ghost Festival dinner

SINGAPORE: Workers’ Party chair Sylvia Lim had a reunion of sorts at a recent Hungry Ghost Month dinner in Serangoon North, but what appears to have made it more special is that her longtime partner Quah Kim Song took part in the event as well.

“It was indeed a pleasure to be re-acquainted with familiar faces at Serangoon North at this Seventh Month Hungry Ghosts Festival dinner.

Though we had all grown a bit older, we better appreciated such gatherings after the hiatus during the COVID pandemic. Was happy that Quah Kim Song could join this dinner, at the organiser’s special request. Heng Ong Huat Ah! #兴旺发,” Ms Lim wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday (Sept 2).

Ms Lim, 58, who has been serving as a Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC for the past twelve years, represented Serangoon ward from 2011 to 2020. Previous to that, she had been a Non-Constituency MP from 2006 to 2011.

Since the WP won again at Aljunied in the General Election in 2020, she has been representing Paya Lebar ward.

Ms Lim and Mr Quah, 71, have been together since 2013. The international football player met the WP chair in the same year.

The two share a love for music, as Mr Quah is an avid guitarist and Ms Lim loves to sing. She has also said that she was a fan of Mr Quah in his heyday as an athlete and would cheer him at matches.

A member of one of the best-known football families in Singapore, Mr Quah, a former striker, was nicknamed “Mercurial”, “Quicksilver” and “Speed Demon” in the press and by his many fans.

He has two adult children with his wife, Madam Shirley Wang, who died of cancer in 2007.

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