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Chronicles of Old Singapore | Asok Kumar – To Singapore with Love from India Part 2
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Asok Kumar had a culture shock when his father decided to retire in India. The family packed up and left in 1973. When he returned to Singapore in 2010, the old staff quarters at Breeze Road were gone. But he managed to find his former classmates at Silat Primary School.
00:00 Leaving Singapore in 1973
03:19 Buses in India
09:09 Breeze Road Quarters Demolished
10:37 Taking a Ship to India
17:19 Finding My Old Classmates
21:20 Heritage & Remembering the Past
I am Dr Loh Kah Seng, the people’s historian. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.
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