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Shiing! At the briefing before we left. (:
Sherm. She looks bored...XD
This was at Bukit Chandu. I tried getting all the names but couldn't....
If you see Malay personnel fifth from the top, (Sorry you have to tilt your head) that's Adnan Saidi, and his story is really heroic but very sad. I...don't want to post my feelings about the history trip for that reason. Really. It's all too sad, just too sad, and being there makes it all the worse. Perhaps it's just better if I don't even think about it anymore.
Anyway, moving on....
This was also taken at Bukit Chandu. This picture depicts the battle of Bukit Chandu, or the battle of Pasir Panjang. If you look carefully at the painting you can glean alot of information about it, like how outnumbered the Malay regiment were...by the way, the tanks in the background were the Japanese. And so were the planes, I think.
Okay this was funny in a perverse way. I was look at the bayonet with Teesh, when she went, "The knife is so blunt! How can they stab anybody?"
Account of a soldier turned POW.
The last part of the poem by Edwin Thumboo. (By the way, the first part of the photos are all at Bukit Chandu, including this one.) This poem struck a chord in me. If I can find it on the Net I would post it here.
THIS IS REALLY COOL. The model was suspended on the ceiling, so in order to look at it right-side up...
....You have to look at it from the mirror. It's in the shape of a well. Really cool product, won't you say?
We'd left Bukit Chandu. Was on the bus with JX when we spotted this building. Doesn't it look like Uno Stacko? XD Nowadays building structures are very interesting. Haha.
This was taken at the replica of Changi Chapel. This cross is the only thing that was taken from the real Changi Chapel. It was made from bombshells by the POWs to gain hope in times of war. The bottom part, the part inscripted with words, was cut from the bombshell.
Inscriptions on the Changi Chapel.
One thousand paper cranes, known as "Tsuru", is a symbol of world peace after World War 2. According to a Japanese legend, anyone who folded a thousand paper cranes would have their wish come true.
Notes written by previous POWs and their families.
The sand came from Changi Beach, where the massacres were carried out. The candles were lit by other people. (Talia lit a candle too! =D But it's not featured here.)
The replica of Changi Chapel.
Teesh! Eating her porridge and reading Marley and Me. We were at Changi Village eating our lunch. I <33>
Si Rui, Talia and Jessica.
Gloria! I refuse to be sabo-ed anymore! XD
Is JX CRYING?!?! Naw, she just doesn't want me to take her photo. (But I still took it in the end. Haha.)
Banana money! We were at Ford Factory.
...Ah. This is the Kranji War Cemetry. At the sides are the tombstones of the soldiers. If you see the memorial, the top part represents the army from the sea as the submarine, the wings are the air army and the columns are the land army.
On the columns are the names of the soldiers whose bodies were never recovered. One of them was Adnan Saidi. So you can guess.....what happened to him during the battle.
Sad. Really, terribly, horribly sad.
Actually I have more pictures but I'm too lazy to upload. So sue me. XD