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"Every morning we had to sing the national anthem, then we marched to class." Before the Japanese occupation, teenagers did not sing the Japanese national anthem but during the Japanese occupation, life in teenagers terrible as education were use to teach students and teenagers the Japanese national anthem.

" It was hard for we students to adapt to these changes as we could not understand Japanese."
Before the Japanese occupation teenagers did not have to speak the Japanese occupation but during the Japanese occupation, teenagers  were not very experience in the Japanese language.

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1) The teenagers do not know how to cook the rice. They didn't know anything about greens till a week after the boys were getting scabies, what they used at first was a hibiscus leaves, a common plant in Singapore. When they first started eating it raw, they burnt their mouths with that sticky stuff. So they cooked it for five minutes and mixed it with rice."

The teenagers had to cook the hibiscus leaves in order to not burnt your mouths with it. It was this troublesome. During the Japanese occupation, the food were destroyed.

2)  Teenager's life  during the Japanese Occupation were difficult as they only had basic necessities like Rice,salt and sugar and that food was always scarce and that only some side dishes was added into the rice to make it a bit more filling.

The evidence is in "Basic necessities like rice,salt and sugar were controlled through rationing."

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Teenagers' had no oil to cook with and that they had to use Palm oil which tasted bad with food and that the palm oil was also hard to get off from the food.

Before,the Japanese Occupation teenagers have proper cooking oil and the food that was cooked in the cooking oil made the food taste tastier.The oil was also easy to get off of from the food that was cooked in it.
The evidence is in "We had to eat them even if they were not delicious.We had to use hot water to wash them until there was no more of that oil."

The teenagers' lives were tough had to adapt in order to survive.They had to use whatever edible things that can have their hands on and use it into their rice to make it taste better.
Before,the Japanese Occupation,teenagers had a easier life and all they needed to do to survive was earn money and buy food that was already made nicely for them
The evidence is in "So we cooked it for five minutes and mixed it with rice".

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The teenagers can interact with people from different races. The evidence is ''It was the first time I learnt about other people how they lived, their difficulties, and their problem.''
Before the Japanese occupation, the teenagers didn't get to interact with one another. They stay together with their own races, but after the Japanese occupation came, the teenagers are able to communicate with one another, knowing people from different races well.
This source tells me that it is dangerous for teenagers to watch something they like or do and they felt very insecure. The evidence is ''You watched in fear. At anytime they could came.''
Before the Japanese occupation the teenagers feel very comfortable as they can do whatever they want, the teenagers feel safe but after the Japanese occupation the Japanese feel very scared because they feel that going to cinema is dangerous as  the Japanese might suddenly appear and take away young men to work on the Death Railway.

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All the races, including the Indians and Malays teenagers, were taught Japanese language in school. This shows that in terms of education teenagers were given equal rights to learn Japanese. In other words the teenagers were forced to learn the language. Before Japanese occupation, students still went to school, but were not forced to learn Japanese, to learn English and Mother tongue. Some felt school is not compulsory. But now, after the Japanese occupation, teenagers still go to the school to study and its a compulsory not a force on teenages

A Malay boy and a Indian boy writing Japanese words/letters on the board.

Japanese respected their emperor in Tokyo. They also wanted the others to follow the same as they did. This routine was very new to the local teenagers. They were in a confused state of mind as everything seemed so different from the British ruling. This shows that, teenagers during the Japanese occupation were in unstable and confused mind set as the changes was drastic.

''each day, the Japanese flag was raised and everyone present bowed to the North-East in the direction of the Japanese Emperor in Tokyo.''