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One Singapore
Author's account as an educator in Singapore.
236 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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January 12, 2018
Divided into 6 segments: Encounters, Discoveries, Family Gems, Memories, In Light Vein, Inspirations.
I read about the uproars of the hotest topic in Singapore in 1950, teenager Nadra Ma'arof - conflict "between Nadra's foster mother since the war Che Aminah and natural Dutch parents who left her." The Maria Hertogh Rioters And Miss Joseph. Missing Out Of The Luck of 1888 is an eerie story.
Chinese Tea, observation of Uncle Sen, unwavered love for his son Hock (for sone reason I imagine this man ugly or not-with-a-face-one-feels-nice-looking-at). As writer, I am not satisfied with Hock for driving Uncle Sen out of his own house to a badly managed elderly house 3 months after the change of name in the house title.
A mothers's pet - "Her speech was normally whisper-soft, but with that soft tongue she could flail as punishingly as any old-school Chinese mother-in-law knew how to...suffered incredible hardships..transformed her into ... dragon lady... one tough cookie...earned respect of notorious Telok Ayer Street samsengs."
The stories in the last section are especially good read. I like Samsara and Every Individual is Precious. This sentence from Pasha. A Muslim is something "She embraced them with unreserved love - Muslim and Budhist and Hindu and Christian of another denomination, everyone - with more love than she could ever extend to them before."
I read about the uproars of the hotest topic in Singapore in 1950, teenager Nadra Ma'arof - conflict "between Nadra's foster mother since the war Che Aminah and natural Dutch parents who left her." The Maria Hertogh Rioters And Miss Joseph. Missing Out Of The Luck of 1888 is an eerie story.
Chinese Tea, observation of Uncle Sen, unwavered love for his son Hock (for sone reason I imagine this man ugly or not-with-a-face-one-feels-nice-looking-at). As writer, I am not satisfied with Hock for driving Uncle Sen out of his own house to a badly managed elderly house 3 months after the change of name in the house title.
A mothers's pet - "Her speech was normally whisper-soft, but with that soft tongue she could flail as punishingly as any old-school Chinese mother-in-law knew how to...suffered incredible hardships..transformed her into ... dragon lady... one tough cookie...earned respect of notorious Telok Ayer Street samsengs."
The stories in the last section are especially good read. I like Samsara and Every Individual is Precious. This sentence from Pasha. A Muslim is something "She embraced them with unreserved love - Muslim and Budhist and Hindu and Christian of another denomination, everyone - with more love than she could ever extend to them before."
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