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|October 08, 2025
Financial adviser Joel Seet extending his hand towards the same lamp seen in a 1989 video recording his mother made when he was one year old. This moment is one of many found on almost 30 tapes he passed to Mr Krishna for digitisation.
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Product consultant Muhammad Zaki Saifee and his mother, Madam Haslinah Abdullah, 67, recreating a moment from a 2000 home video recording - albeit without his two older brothers. His father, Mr Saifee Saharan, 71, is seen in the mirror's reflection (left) recording the moment on his phone - just as he did with a camcorder more than two decades ago. Business owner S. Sathiskumar (right) and his father, Mr D. Sathiyanandan, in front of a video recording that the father made in 1991 during Panguni Uthiram - a Hindu festival celebrating divine marriages and unions - when Mr Sathiskumar was an 11-year-old carrying a milk pot, with his eldest brother carrying a kavadi behind him.
university student, Mr Sandeep correctly answered six out of 15 questions and won 10,000 rupees, which could cover 21/2 years of his college tuition in India.
"The show did help me on the monetary level at that point of time," he said.
SAYING HELLO TO THE DEAD
Ms Tanya Tan, a 28-year-old legal counsel, first chanced upon the tapes of her family's home videos in 2018. She decided to restore the tapes with Mr Krishna's help in 2024, before her mother's 13th death anniversary.
This story is from the October 08, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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