Semangat Yang Baru @ National Musuem Singapore

redeemed the famous Singapore breakfast for lunch before going for today's NE gai gai... 

Had signed up for a $5 package that included transport to & fro National Museum from Serangoon MRT station and a guided tour for Semangat Yang Baru exhibition @ National Museum

we were allowed to choose Team Bao Li for Chinese commentary or Team Hidaya for English commentary... i was in Team Bao Li cos lesser people... 😏

nice to see so many old couples, old friends as fellow participants... i'm really living a retiree's life seh... 😍😍😍

really nice to have a guide cos got to listen to plenty of interesting historical stories... 

> National Museum was opened as Raffles Library & Museum in 1887.

> It remained intact during WWII & Japanese Occupation because the museum housed many plant specimens and a super high rank Japanese soldier loved plants. Not only did he gave orders not to destroy the colonial building, he had his minion soldiers patrolled to protect the building and also the statue of Raffles which was hidden beneath the building. 😅😅😅

didnt even know Semangat Yang Baru is actually the lyric in the National Anthem despite listening to it every work day... 

1950s - The start of democracy in Singapore - Let's VOTE !!!

PAP rally @ Farrer Park

1970s - A Common Language; to Unify & to Progress Together 

used to think dialect is very uneducated (sorry 🙇🙇🙇) but 越老越觉得方言有亲切感, 尤其是对老人家们s

report books from English & Tamil medium school vs Malay medium school 

i am old enough to own a hand written report book too... wahahaha... weak in music since young and Art wasn't a graded subject !!! like it that PE was graded as Active vs ??? instead of the A, B, C now... 

感恩有你们，我才能是南大校友 !!!

9 August 1965

Independent - Others Need to Know, Others Need to Come

Mr Lee returning from one of many networking trips 

Legalising gambling - 玩 TOTO, 中 多多

designer took inspiration form Andy Warhol's pop art style?!?!? 

Share your Singapore Dream 

Farewell goody bag given at the end of the 1 hour narrative by Guide Bao Li... was given the option to explore for another 25 minutes on our own then take the bus back to serangoon or to OTOT explore / leave the museum there after... 

decided to take the bus back cos i was super tired... 

so pretty & cheery... i like !!!

I'll be back

for the LKY 100 digital trail (must be the first 200 pax per day by 29 Oct) and Now Boarding; Experiencing Singapore through Travel by 19 Nov.