Silver Entrepreneur Interview with Ms Rosie Wee - Author & Painter

Rosie Wee shares her passion about life, experiences and history. She is a Silver Entrepreneur who paints and writes books, the most recent “The Heart Remembers”.

I am never happier than I am today. She wrote her debut novel “The Heart Remembers” – a historical fiction work. “Rosie Wee’s debut novel grapples with the sweep of historical events that plunged Singapore and Malaya into war and struggle between 1942 and 1969. Her fictional characters blend seamlessly with real historical figures as events unfold and flesh out in dramatic scenes. The episodic plot, fraught with tension, violence, and danger, is balanced and tempered with joy, love, tenderness — the stuff of the human condition.”

I never knew I could paint or produce a novel until retirement. It is very different from academic writing. You get spurts of surprises, and you never know until you explore and adventure.

Ms Rosie Wee, 70 years old, Silver Entrepreneur, Author, Writer

A graduate of Master of Arts in English Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), ROSIE WEE was Head of Department (English and Literature) in a secondary school before her retirement in 2005. Post retirement, she was a part-time tutor at the Centre for Language and Communication at NUS from 2006 to 2011. She has conducted workshops and training sessions in materials development and pedagogy for teachers in Singapore, Soroako (Sulawesi), and Chongqing Technology and Business University, People’s Republic of China.

If there is one thing you would like to change about Ageism, what would it be?

We must have the mindset or paradigm shift that ageing does not mean moving towards death. It can be the best time of your life. You are out of the woods. Out of the crazy working hours. I am a retiree and pensioner, when I received the letter, I wanted to kiss the floor. Its freedom to do what I enjoy, not having to work for money. For those who have the choice and want to continue working, that is their choice. If it makes them happy to go on working, that’s their choice.