MMA world title beckons for Tiffany Teo in Jakarta

Phuket

FROM the comforts of her Punggol flat, Tiffany Teo has switched to spartan living in a small first-floor room of a wood-and- mortar lodge that can take only a bed and a cupboard.

Her abode for the last three weeks has been at the remote Puding Lodge room along a dusty street called Soi-Ta in Chalong, Phuket, which is infested with hawkers, peddlers, tattooed muscular men and skimpy-clad Caucasian women.

Not an ideal place for a pony-tailed Singaporean with a choir-singing background and a psychology degree, it seems.

But for a martial …