"She is very, very particular about hygiene, cleanliness and etiquette. "Mum is strict but not garang," she says. I have been spoiling them with good food since they were young, so they have very particular tastes now," she says, laughing.Īdlin, who declines to reveal her age, returns once a year when her two boys, aged 12 and eight, are on their summer holidays. She supervises the cooking very closely, especially when her children come over for meals. "I am happiest when my house is clean," she says. She gets regular visits from her close friends.Įven with the maid, she admits to being a stickler for order and cleanliness, and insists on doing many of the household chores herself. Until three months ago when she finally relented to her daughter's repeated requests for her to hire a maid, the fiercely independent Kartina lived alone. Adlin was the winner while Noor Indera was placed sixth. They took part in the now- defunct national singing competition Talentime in 1982, organised by the then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. She has three children - daughter Adlin Adnan, who lives in London with her husband and two sons and sons Shah Reza, 40, who lives in Malaysia, and Noor Indera, 49, who is married and will soon be a father.Īdlin and Noor Indera briefly followed their mother's footsteps. She is famously tight-lipped about her marriage, it is a part of her life that she would rather leave in the past, she says. She credits her age-defying looks to jamu, or natural herb remedies, her paternal Javanese grandmother made and insisted that she take daily when she was a teen, to enhance her health and beauty. "I don't believe in going for cosmetic enhancements." "It's all natural," says the winner of the Perdana Emas (Gold Prime) award at Malay entertainment awards ceremony Pesta Perdana in 2009. When Life! meets her at her condominium in the central part of Singapore for the interview, the grandmother of two has lost none of her elegance and is immaculately dressed in a blue baju kurung and matching tudung.Īlthough her voice is a little raspy, she is chatty and friendly, laughing often and looking at least a decade younger than her age. She continues to do so, even though her performing days are over. I will find out the concept of the show or programme that I am appearing in and make sure that I am dressed appropriately." "I am very particular when it comes to presenting myself. Most of the dresses and traditional baju kurung and kebayas she wears for public appearances are her own. She is her own stylist and does not trust anyone but herself when it comes to clothes, she says.
"With this show, we celebrate her life and her music that we still listen to today."Īlways seen in classy traditional Malay garb, Kartina is highly particular about how she presents herself. The concert is a way of recognising Kartina's contribution to the local Malay music industry, says Ms Norhayati Yusof, who is her 40s and is the Esplanade's associate producer of programming.
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