 Woon , a Peranakan , was born on 12 September 1956 in Singapore to schoolteachers . He was a head prefect at Pasir Panjang Primary School ( which his father became principal of years later ) and a prefect while at Raffles Institution . Following his A @-@ levels he was considering business administration , but ended up accepting a scholarship from DBS Bank to study law instead . According to Woon in an April 2008 interview , " When I went for the scholarship interview , the interviewer said , ' We looked at your results and you look like you might be a lawyer ; would you like to do law ? ' I said , ' Fine , if you want to give me the scholarship to do law , I 'll do law ' . I didn 't plan to do law . " 
