The Singapore Sweep: Winner of The Big Sweep Lottery First Prize

Many years ago when I was young, I'd heard from an elderly work colleague that he knew someone who'd won a first-prize from The Big Sweep lottery in the mid-1970s. That first-prize sum of several hundred thousand dollars was big money back then when gold was selling for only US$150 an ounce. 

Today, the price of gold is about US$2,450 an ounce. 

That lottery winner was a humble craftsman working in a goldsmith shop at Chinatown and he'd still continued working, riding a bicycle to work daily. 

He'd saved his money for his children, and donated some money to charity. If he'd bought an apartment or some gold at that time, he (and his children) could be very much richer today.