Dear reader,
These stories were gathered for an oral history project by a group of Secondary Two Express students in 2006. They were tasked with interviewing a relative and gathering responses. Students typed their projects in word documents and printed them for grading. The students were given two grades; one for English and another for history. This was a cross-curriculum project. At the end of the day, they also had a story of a family member for posterity (future generations).
If you would like to have the set of questions used by the students to conduct the interview, it is found in the first entry to this blog. Go ahead and interview your own parent or grandparent, aunt or uncle and discover your own roots!
I think that stories from the past help us appreciate the good life we have now and also show us the choices and decisions our forefathers made have an impact on us now.
For former KR students of the 2E class of 2008 who want their biographies, I have the soft copies of most of your biographies (unless you did not save the final copy for some reason). If you would like them, you can email me at karina.heng@gmail.com. If you would like the biography to be placed on this blog, please get permission from the person you interviewed and then email me. I have only uploaded the ones whose consent forms I had received in 2006 who agreed to have their stories uploaded.
I am grateful that technology allows this type of sharing on this platform.
SG50 is in 2015, I cannot think of a better way to celebrate than to tell these stories of ordinary Singaporeans who have lived their lives here on this little red dot. So we will not forget.
Happy Birthday, Singapore!
From a daughter of Singapore.
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