Cute! That is the last word one would associate with a high flying senior editor of Singapore’s foremost financial daily and a 22 year veteran of financial reporting. But there she was, across the table from us fresh from her yoga session, still togged out in her gym wear and tucking into her fried kway teow supper, and that word just sprang into my consciousness. 

Early this year Alvin and myself got in touch with and shamelessly name-dropped ourselves into an interview with Teh Hooi Ling. We have read her articles and we have bought her books. We would have imagined that someone who deals with complex financial numbers, writes in absolute terms and has done well for herself in the cut throat world of journalism would be hard headed and absolutely no-nonsense. 

To interview an veteran journalist is akin to giving Michael Schumacher a ride to work, ...