by Sen ShengWen https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7 en-us 2016-04-12 02:53:25 UTC 2016-05-15 11:18:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Work / Jobs before Japanese Occupation ( Source A ) sorfinayee https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107435941 - Source Description ( Lee Kuan Yew's life information 
- Source Date ( - )
-Source Origin ( Online, wikipedia )
- Source Type ( Written )

 “He then attended Raffles Institution in 1935,... He obtained several scholarships, and came top in the School Certificate examinations in 1940, gaining the John Anderson scholarship to attend Raffles College (now National University of Singapore).”

]]> 2016-04-25 01:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107435941 School Life Before Japanese Occupation (Source E) sorfinayee https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107436048 -Source Description ( Book by Lisa Lim)
-Source Date(2004)
-Source Type(book)

'the British still sought to promote English-medium schooling among the elite'"..." In 1950's Singapore,education became effectively universal,and English-medium education became more and more the norm. By 1952,43% of the school enrolment was English-medium education overtaking those registering for Chinese-medium education by the end of that decade.']]> 2016-04-25 01:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107436048 Food (source G) sorfinayee https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107436071 Description: food during the japanese occupation

Date: 20 December 1991

‘tapioca and sweet potatoes were about the only food they could get. Pork was expensive and there was always a long queue for it. The best food went to those who worked for the Japanese.’ ‘risk losing her head to buy food from the black market’ ‘penalty imposed by the Japanese for anyone caught’ ‘no choice but to creep out in the early hours of the morning to buy vegetables from roadside stalls’ ‘Neither the meat nor the vegetables were ever fresh’ ‘it was not too bad if one bought the food from the stalls before the sun started to rot the perishables’ ‘Fresh fish was also never available - only salted and dried ikan bilis’ ‘found herself a job as an odd-job labourer, not for the $1 a day she was paid but for the cigarette tinful of rice she received together with the money’ “This amount of rice came up to three bowls when cooked. Rice, she said, was better than money”


Source origin: The Straits Times


]]> 2016-04-25 01:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107436071 Leisure / Recreation (Source C  ) sorfinayee https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107436090 -Source Description (Lee Pei Chiok's autobiography)
-Source Date (-)
-Source Origin (Online, Blogpost)
-Source Type (Written)

“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. "

]]> 2016-04-25 01:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107436090 Work / Jobs during Japanese Occupation ( Source B ) sorfinayee https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107819031 - Source Description ( Oh Choo Neo's Oral interview 
- Source Date (18th October 2003)
-Source Origin ( Online, Interviewer Rita Gupta interviewed Oh Choo Neo )
- Source Type ( Written )

"Madam Oh was the sold-breadwinner in her family after her father lost his shop. She worked as an assistant nurse in a hospital despite not being trained in nursing. She had plenty of encounters with the Japanese during her days in he hospital. ... Then she changed her job to become a salesgirl in a Japanese company that deals with imports and distribution. That was when she became involved in the black market. She tampered with the sales record after selling the goods to the Japanese first. She recorded a higher sales figure than the actual case, and then took the goods to the black-market to sell. She could sell the goods at 10 times the original price. During that time she described that almost everyone did black-marketing for livelihood despite the heavy penalties associated with it."


]]> 2016-04-26 15:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107819031 School life during Japanese occupation ( Source F) beeny https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107825900 Source Description ( Oral interview of Oh Choo Neo)
Source Date: 18 October 2003
Source Type: Oral source


'Most of the straits-born Chinese were educated in English and had a higher standard of living than the other Chinese community"..."It was the day of her ‘O’ level examination. "..."Madam Oh was the sold-breadwinner in her family after her father lost his shop. She worked as an assistant nurse in a hospital despite not being trained in nursing. "..."Then she changed her job to become a salesgirl'

Source Origin ( National Institute of Education)

]]> 2016-04-26 16:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107825900 Leisure/ Recreation (Source D) shengwensen https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107856531 -Source (Recount of japanese occupation)
-Source Date (1984)
-Source Origin (Online, Oral History Interviews)
-Source Type (Written)

“Leisure time we play badminton, badminton very common, we play badminton.”
They went to cinemas and there were “Generally Japanese pictures, Japanese propaganda pictures, and news also, all Japanese new.”
“All the cinemas were packed. Even at that time when they had dialect theatres playing, like Merchant Road there. So very crowded.”

]]> 2016-04-26 17:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107856531 Food (source H) rachellai37 https://padlet.com/shengwensen/m7vq1wbl10s7/wish/107876982 ource description: food selling before the japanese occupation (the street hawker food sold outside the Telok Ayer Market)
Date :1900s

‘Food sellers in the streets’ ‘sold mee goreng, rojak, indian breakfast… chinese people would sell chinese food… malays were selling laksa’ ‘hawkers were selling their wares… call out ‘rojak’, ‘mee goreng’, ‘puttu mayam’’ ‘north indians brought rotis in the basket… sometimes they brought cows, and sold milk’

Source origin: account by Kannusamy s/o Pakirisamy

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