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Seeing is believing

Chew Sutat
Chew Sutat • 7 min read
Seeing is believing
In Grumpy Cat Finally Smiles! by Yip Yew Chong, the character’s trademark scowl turns into a smile when he puts on spectacles and sees the world in a new light. Illustration: Yip Yew Chong
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Two decades ago, while at Standard Chartered Bank, our flagship corporate social responsibility programme was “The Greatest Race on Earth,” which included marathons in Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Nairobi. 

Some colleagues even took leave to run all four legs in a year.

When we acquired Union Bank in Pakistan in 2006, our new colleagues proposed adding a fifth leg in Karachi.

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