SINGAPORE: It was half past eight on a Thursday morning at Toa Payoh MRT station, as commuters filed into Exit D on their way to the train platforms.
Mrs Ang welcomes custom orders, saying that she has crocheted shawls, decorative pieces, larger handbags and tablecloths. These pieces, however, cost more and take much longer to make. For instance, she can crochet a tablecloth in two to three weeks and sell it for S$60. This was also where Mrs Ang learnt how to crochet, sew and make carpets as a teenager, a passion she held on to until now. Christabel was eventually found to have a mental condition - Mrs Ang said she can't walk and talk properly - and now lives in a welfare home in Telok Blangah.Mrs Ang visits her sister every Saturday."I've been visiting her for 35 years," she said as she showed a video of her teasing a smiling Christabel at the home.
Mrs Ang insisted that she was only there to sell what she has made at home, and that she would immediately leave the area if told to.Ms Olivia Wee, 31, said she had read about Mrs Ang and cried, and vowed to buy some of her crochet products to help her out. Ms Wee, who works in a tech company, rushed to Toa Payoh MRT station before going into the office on Thursday, only to find that Mrs Ang had sold out.