Historical Investigation by Su Yun https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f en-us 2016-04-21 06:12:49 UTC 2016-04-27 06:08:42 UTC hello@padlet.com School Life ngsuyun_suyun https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107339017 Source A
Source description: An account by Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam                               about his school life before Japanese occupation
Source date: 2005
Source type: Oral source
Source A: “...I really enjoyed my school days and I think that's very important that students should enjoy their school days. It wasn't, in those days, there wasn't that pressure on us and the teaching was good...
Source origin: The Nationals Archives Singapore online

Source B
Source description: An account by Chew Cheok Hai about what happened to people and education during and after the Japanese occupation.
Source date: 21 July 1994
Source type: Oral Source
Source B: “I went to a Japanese school. And in fact, they were all our former schools...And we would only learn the Japanese language...We only knew ourselves, the teachers, who after one, two years, we all left... Went back to school, some were disrupted, some didn’t want to go back. They thought, well, I’m old enough, go back to work. So the three and a half years must have changed the lives of many people.”
Source origin: The National Archives Singapore online
]]> 2016-04-23 01:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107339017 WORKS/JOBS trina_lee_ying_qing https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107433844 Source D : Oh Choo Neo was a young girl of 17 in 1941. She was born in a well-to-do family. Her father sold black silk and they could easily afford luxuries and was living a life of comfort in their wooden-type bungalow. Most of the straits-born Chinese were educated in English and had a higher standard of living than the other Chinese community.   
-Source description : An account by Rita Gupta  about her family before Japanese Occupation
-Source Origin : Interview
-Source type : Oral source ]]> 2016-04-25 01:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107433844 Finances  https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107435402  Source C: ”Oh Choo Neo was a young girl of 17 in 1941. She was born in a well-to-do family. Her father sold black silk and they could easily afford luxuries and was living a life comfort in their wooden-type bungalow. Most of the straits-born Chinese were educated in English and had a higher standard of living than the other Chinese community…Singapore was enjoying good economy. Thus there were a number of people who were rich, Oh Choo Neo’s family being one of them.”
-source description:Oh Choo belonged to a rich family and had high standards of living. As such she didn’t face any financial issues.It was similar for many others too as Singapore was enjoying good economy.
-source date:1941 
-source origin:(1) Jim Baker, Crossroads, A popular history of Malaysia and Singapore, 1999, Times International, pg 204)&(2)     Tan Beng Luan, Irene Quah, The Japanese Occupation 1942 –1945, 1996, Times Edition
-source type: Oral interview 

Source D:”Goods were hard to come by during the Japanese Occupation, and people sold them at high prices on the black market.The decreasing value money only caused the situation to worsen.”
-source description: Back then,Singapore faced an economic recession after the bombing of ports by the Japanese.Therefore, good were hard to come by during the Japanese occupation.Thus, the goods were sold at high prices as the decreasing value of the new currency introduced by the Japanese made the notes seem very worthless since the Japanese printed notes whenever there was a shortage of it.
-source date: 21st August 1955
-source origin:Singapore: The Making of A Nation-state, 1300-1975 Secondary Two Star Publishing Pte. Ltd. Chapter 2.3 Daily Life Syonan- to PAGE 38 (History Textbook)
-source type: Written source


]]> 2016-04-25 01:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107435402 WORKS/JOBS trina_lee_ying_qing https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107435435 Source E :
-Source description : picture during the world war II
Source origin : Website]]> 2016-04-25 01:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107435435 Leisure and Recreation marychiarieltubao https://padlet.com/ngsuyun_suyun/20k333kify9f/wish/107687661 Source G
Source Description: Adapted from an autobiography by Lee Pei Chiok, an teenager during Japanese Occupation.
Source Date: --
Source Type: Written Source
Source G:  "Before the Japanese invaded, we could play lots of activities. We played with spiders, marbles and cards. Sometimes, we will go to the nearby cinema to watch videos that is being screened. "
" But after the Japanese came, the activities we could do was restricted. We started to climb trees, and played with rubber bands, or we would go the nearby story-telling place to listen to stories. "

Source Origin: http://singaporeshistoryjo.weebly.com/

Source H
Source description: An account by Lim Choo Sye on why fewer people go to Cinema shows 
Source Date: 14 September 1983  
Source Type:  Oral Source                       
Source H:
 “and by the way there were lots of rumours flying around in those days, that the Japanese administration would catch hold of the younger people who went to the shows and shanghaied them to other parts of Japanese occupied territory like Java where they made to work as labourers or even as slaves.”
“The Great World and The New World were functioning. But then they were places of gambling where gambling went on. These parks were turned into gambling dens, gambling halls”       
                                                  
Source Origin: The Nationals Archives Singapore online


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