a bit bit of knowledge

I learnt a few things from morning till now..

• The dark blue personnel that we see at the MRT train stations or on the trains are actually from the police side, not the civil defense side.

• My tutee's dad shared a bit of history with me while he was driving me to the train station. During the 1960s, in Singapore, the British took care of almost everything for the citizens. Mothers only have to stay at home to do her job. If anyone need to go to any hospitals, there will be buses fetching them to either SGH or KK or.. don't know where.. :s You could just go down to the British Office for anything. If you have a damaged lightbulb, you could just bring it down and they would exchange a new one for you. The life was so good then that when Singapore wasn't under the British Rule anymore, some people immigrated to Britain. A lot of Indians and Bengalis who lives in London now, were actually from Singapore... Anyway, my tutee's dad is an Indian. I don't really know whether this is true anot, but his story made Singapore's history a bit more.. "alive" for me. It's very different hearing it from teachers and from people who have really been through that period.