From RAW Meal To REAL Deal / 鱼生 • 余生

About the Book

From RAW Meal To REAL Deal is the first of the "RAW and REAL" series written by a uniquely REAL author from Singapore, Princess Cathie (aka Cathie Chew). Cathie shares unreservedly her unexpected roller-coaster journey through a major health crisis of her husband in her usual raw and real way. That crisis resulted in a series of seemingly unfortunate tsunami of events that unfolded; a near death encounter, the hearing loss, the loss of his career and finally seeing her giving up her life insurance of 24 years, Cathie seeks to give insights into her first-hand experience as a wife and primary caregiver, and yet thriving in the midst of her adversities. Her deepest desire is to give hope to the hopeless, give help to the helpless and give joy to the joyless. Cathie hopes to inspire others to do the same.

About the Author

Cathie is the founder of BEYOND WOW Services Pte Ltd. After more than 2 decades of impacting lives through the miracle of paper and ink, she left her only career with Prudential Assurance Singapore. Cathie became an accidental writer when she emerged as the Winner of a competition in TODAY sponsored by SingTel in 2009. She picked up writing again since Nov 2015 when she suddenly became her husband’s primary caregiver due to the Raw Fish Episode. Several of her articles have been published in TODAYOnline, Straits Times, LianHe Zaobao 联合早报, Mustsharenews etc. Cathie also won for herself 2nd Prize during the V-Day Love Story 2017 by STOMP. A lifelong learner and advocate, Cathie has been featured by several Training Providers including NTUC Learninghub, Equinet Academy. Together with her husband, they were also featured by Blissful Brides Magazines, DollarsAndSense.sg and Mothership. Cathie was the recipient of the RainMaker Award in 2024 and was recently conferred Supply Chain Trainee of The Year 2025. Come end of 2026, Cathie would be featured by British Publishing House Ltd in their 8th edition of BRITISHPEDIA – “Successful People in Malaysia and Singapore”. Cathie, a mini charity advocate since Nov 2001, has an “enlarged” heart for the least, the last and the lost. She is relentlessly passionate about building strong marriages and bringing up emotionally healthy children. Cathie is married to her RAW to REAL Man, Sim Tharn Chun for three decades. They have 3 amazing grown-up children- Charis, Micah and Charity. The couple have a 22-month-old grandson, Chase, the firstborn of Charis and their son-in-law, Chester.