Singapore River really wasn’t what my history textbook described it as. Instead of being a busy trading port, it evolved from storehouses into tourist attraction filled with night clubs and restaurants. Before the storehouses were demolished, it was an important part of Raffles’ success as it was used to store goods which came from the many various parts of the world. You see, when Raffles arrived in Singapore, he made Singapore a free port which draw the attention of the many traders from all over the world. In addition, Raffles also separated the river into multiple parts for the different races to avoid any racial disputes.
Singapore River really wasn’t what my history textbook described it as. Instead of being a busy trading port, it evolved from storehouses into tourist attraction filled with night clubs and restaurants. Before the storehouses were demolished, it was an important part of Raffles’ success as it was used to store goods which came from the many various parts of the world. You see, when Raffles arrived in Singapore, he made Singapore a free port which draw the attention of the many traders from all over the world. In addition, Raffles also separated the river into multiple parts for the different races to avoid any racial disputes.
This picture shows a sculpture of two Malays chatting with a European man. Unlike the previous sculpture, this shows that the lives of the successful people of early Singapore were much better than the foreign immigrants. From this, I can say that we all must study hard and excel in life to avoid having the same lives as the coolies in the
sculptures.
If I were one of the poor immigrants in the previous page, I feel like a failure as every day I wake up, I’ll have to go to work as coolie, labourers or rickshaw pullers and end up with so little money. This cause me to feel very worried as I don’t have the enough money to send back home for my family.
Whereas, if I were one of a rich businessmen, I would feel much more relax as I have the money to feed my family, buy my necessaries, and enough for my retirement money.
Overall, if I were to pick to be either one of them, I would obviously pick the rich businessmen. This all shows we have to study hard in order to prevent being like the coolies in the past. |
Statues of Sir Stanford Raffles are located on the northern bank of Singapore River in Civic District in Downtown Core of the Central Area. There are two statues - one is made of dark bronze and the replica is of white poly marble. The original bronze statue is situated in front of Victoria Theatre. The duplicate is located near the North Quay which is named as Raffles Landing Site. The second poly marble statue was unveiled in the year 1972 whereas the bronze statue in 1887. Tourists must visit the place to witness the historic statue and know the root of Singapore.
From this information I have consolidated, I can say that our various forefathers have many values to show off. For instance, the coolies represent tremendous amount of self-discipline by waking up every morning and attend to their horrid jobs just to send sufficient money back home. The businessman shows passion for his country to make sure Singapore remains a good port. Finally, Sir Stanford Raffles shows excellence as he turned a quiet fishing village into a bustling trading port.
This learning journey taught me and my partner a lot of thing of our forefathers and their lives. This also taught the both of us to be more grateful of the things we have.
Thank you Mrs Kal, Mrs Heng and Ms Gomez for taking us on this fun learning journey. Hope we have more of this.
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