Comments on: Huang Kaide’s ‘Our Memories’ http://s-pores.com/2007/04/our-memories/ new directions in singapore studies Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:41:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mark Ravinder Frost http://s-pores.com/2007/04/our-memories/#comment-33 Mark Ravinder Frost Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:09:26 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=69#comment-33 It might enhance this esteemed contributor’s reflections on the revamped National Museum to actually visit it. He might overcome his childhood trauma. Alternatively, he might become even more wary of national history. And as for the question ‘what has this city done to make us remember it?’: it has given you a passport, restricted your movement, ordered your life, upgraded your amenities, cleared your kampongs, made you into a citizen army, encouraged you to ’stop at two’ … the list goes on and is really quite unforgettable. It might enhance this esteemed contributor’s reflections on the revamped National Museum to actually visit it. He might overcome his childhood trauma. Alternatively, he might become even more wary of national history.

And as for the question ‘what has this city done to make us remember it?’: it has given you a passport, restricted your movement, ordered your life, upgraded your amenities, cleared your kampongs, made you into a citizen army, encouraged you to ’stop at two’ … the list goes on and is really quite unforgettable.

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