PLAY IT AGAIN SAM - BY SURESH NAIR
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM THE weekend suddenly turned grey and gloomy when shock news arrived from Melbourne, Australia, that cancer-stricken Sam Quah lost his battle and faded away…and within minutes even the local air-waves were filled with multiple obituaries as deejay extraordinary Brian Richmond saluted him over Sunday’s ‘Vintage Showcase’. Sam was simply a happy-go-lucky lad, multi-talented in music, sports and was like a jack-of-all-trades during his early teenagerhood days as the football-famous Quah family from the Sembawang Naval Base created island-wide headlines. For four decades, there was at least one of the Quah brothers in the national team, from second brother Kim Beng in 1954 to Kim Song, who played for the country from 1968 to 1983. Sisters Theresa, Doreen and Rosa also played for the national women's team in the 1960s. But Sam looked on to greener pastures and migrated to Australia, in the mid-1990s, with wife Kui Lan Theng and three teenage kids, Cain, Cassie and Ni...