Why she called him Dayan
By Chang May Choon
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THE name of the celebrated Israeli general who wore an eyepatch lives on in Singapore.
The newborn son of Singaporean pastor-turned-singer Sun Ho (right, with hubby and new baby) has been named after Moshe Dayan, Israel's Defence Minister during the Six-Day War against Egypt in 1967.
Sun didn't even know who Moshe Dayan was when her husband, City Harvest Church founder Reverend Kong Hee, suggested the name.
Said Sun: 'Kong (Hee) is into history and he really respects this general. When he suggested the name, I was like, 'Who is Dayan?'
'But he explained it to me, and I think Dayan Kong sounds quite nice. We hope he'll grow up to be an upright man.'
Sun had wanted to stay in a regular maternity ward. But thanks to her generous American managers, she is now resting in a posh suite at Gleneagles Hospital after giving birth yesterday.
Mind you, the suite, with two bedrooms and a living room, costs $3,500 a night. A deluxe ward is only $500 a night.
But the 33-year-old's management agency, Tonos Entertainment, is footing the bill of $10,500 for her three-night stay.
'It's their gift,' a cheerful Sun said hours after her caesarian surgery.
'I had wanted to stay in a deluxe room, but they said go for the best. I'm grateful, lah.'
Maybe it is her agency's way of rewarding Sun for scoring yet another No 1 on the US Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart with her third English single, Without Love. Her previous two singles were also chart-toppers.
Sun said her managers had been urging her to sign a two-year US$5 million ($8.25m) contract and release a full-length English album in the US after childbirth, but she is adamant about being a mother first and pop singer later.
'Dayan is my top priority now, after seeing him, hugging him and breastfeeding him.'
Sun said she opted for an epidural, as she wanted to remain awake to see her baby.
'My gynaecologist told me what was happening, like 'You can see one leg, two legs, his buttocks', and I just started crying. Tears of joy and relief,' she said.
'Then they let me see the baby, but I'm short-sighted and all I could see was a lot of hair, so I said, 'He has a lot of hair, hor?' '
She needed guidance from a midwife in cradling her 2.97kg son.
'I don't know how to carry babies. This is the first time I'm carrying a baby and it's my own baby,' she said, laughing.
