Had a talk about whether singapore has a lartial tradition. It was in Safti library with so many knowledgable pple. !@#$. I seriously cannot believe that my course officer send my batch there without any history or background knowledge. Though there was a portion on where it was so so damn hard to stay awake, the rest of it was really interesting. The talk was given by a Dr kevin somehting... not very good with names. It suggested links with the SVC. Singapore Volunteer Corps. If everyone knows, i cannot stand history at all. But this was weird. I was listening. Intently to the arguments... After that, COL CHIANG suggested that those 'heros' that singapore has not known could be becuase Singapore only came about after Malaya and during those times, we, as a society tend to adapt our heros to where they are applicable to us at the current point of time. This made me rather sad and made me wonder... i have never questioned the facts and the background of what i did learn in pri or sec school. I only assumed that it was correct. Could this be some kinda propergander? One cant be all that sure right? I will not attempt to cover in extent what the lecturer covered becuase, one, i am not able to, and two, the extent of details provided cannot be portrayed by me. I cant rem. Lastly, it laid evidence on somethings about how our singapore society works and how we could related to your grandparents or whomever was in tthe war. By personal choices that they made, In those times, everyone could have been a hero.!
--Just some food for thought--
--Just some food for thought--
