I Remember

Page 29

I did woodwork and metalwork

For two years 1970 and 1971 when I was in Gan Eng Seng School, I was knocking, sawing, filing in an adjacent building of the school. This housed the technical workshops. I did not appreciate back then why my cohort had to pick up woodwork and metalwork skills in Secondary One and Two. Singapore was independent not too long ago and growing the economy was urgent. Industrialisation and productions in factories were the thrust of the economy. It was the real thing. I could make a wooden pencil case without using nails from the basic raw materials from scratch. I remember I was quite proud of the end product. The joints fitted perfectly without gaps. I also made a hand-held trowel, a gardening tool to scoop up soil. I learned how to cut the metal to shape and then hammered it to a curved shape. I had to wear goggles to protect my eyes from loose debris. Imagine at my age, I was learning these skills. In addition, I studied one subject called Technical Drawing. We had to bring our T-Square and drawing board to school. Taking the public bus with these items was common sights. It was really clumsy especially when you were small-built like me. I must say I quite like technical drawing and was able to do a good drawing with precise measurements. After Secondary Two, I then moved into academic stream instead of the technical stream. I was not cut out for vocational type of work. However, these skills were in my subconscious. I find that I dared to do simple plumbing work and minor repair to the house.


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Epilogue

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pages 59-60

From Executive Diary to Smart Phone

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page 56

My Uncle from Malaysia

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pages 57-58

Coopers & Lybrand

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page 55

My Education

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pages 53-54

My First Driving Licence

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page 52

My First Property to Live In

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pages 48-49

My parents stayed in rental flats of public housing

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page 47

Investing in Investment Property

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page 50

Joy of Reading

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page 51

My journey through National Service

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pages 45-46

My Parents stayed at Craig Road before

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page 44

DBS Fixed Deposit in 1993

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page 43

Do you plan for retirement?

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page 42

National Day Parade in 1971

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page 38

Matriculation for Accountancy course in 1978-9

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pages 39-40

GCE “O” Level Results were published in Newspaper

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Enrolled in English-Medium stream in primary school (1964

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page 41

You write long-distance and then wait days for reply

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page 36

You will know this special bond

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page 35

PSC Undergraduate Scholarship 1976

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page 34

National Library of yesteryears

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page 31

My years in National Junior College

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page 33

Early years of bus transport

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page 30

My Hobbies

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I did woodwork and metalwork

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page 29

My National Service Days

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pages 27-28

Bukit Ho Swee Fire

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My First Savings Account (POSB

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page 26

From poor to rich

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page 24

Chinese New Year

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page 22

Games played

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pages 19-21

Credit facility

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page 23

My Home at Ganges Avenue

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pages 17-18

Living each day as it comes

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A Private Person

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pages 14-15

Saving habits

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pages 12-13

I Remember

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pages 7-8

Preface

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My School Days

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Career

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page 11

Inferiority Complex

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page 10
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