Life-changing hobbies: The blind pianist and the artist with no hands

(From left) Madam Tang Lai Mui and her husband, Mr Sim Kah Yong, took their first music lessons thanks to the Temasek Trust-CDC Lifelong Learning Enabling Fund. Mrs Renuka Vadivellu signed up for an iPad workshop with support from the fund. ST PHOTOS: AZMI ATHNI, HENG YI-HSIN
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SINGAPORE – When Mr Sim Kah Yong was a boy, his parents bought a piano because he loved music.

“But it was very difficult to find someone to teach me,” says Mr Sim, who is 60 and a guide with Dialogue in the Dark Singapore. This collaboration between Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Dialogue Social Enterprise employs visually disabled people.

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