Reflections on trip to Changi Museum

            After flag-raising, my sabbatical-mates and I went to Lecture Theatre 2 to undergo a short briefing. Soon after the briefing, all of us went to the car park and waited for the school bus. After some time, we boarded the bus and headed for the Changi Museum, which was a rather long distance from Hwa Chong Institution.
            It was quite a pleasure to chat with my good friends during the bus journey. This time it was not about Maple Story, which was good for me. Anyway, when we reached our destination, we had to pay a fee of three dollars. This was for the trip around the museum with a tour guide.
            We started the tour at the chapel. Through the guide, I knew that the cross was the only item which was not a replica. I had been looking at that item, due to its central position, its colour and its attractiveness. After some facts were given to us, we were allowed to have a mini-tour around the chapel. To me, even the replicas were captivating after I gave a close look. I am quite embarrassed to say that until this day, I had not known that there was such a place in Singapore!
            We proceeded to the air-conditioned museum. I supposed that everyone must be more refreshed after the greeting of the cooling air. My attention was rather fixed at a board. It was written that there was a legendary Changi tree which was fifty metres tall! The picture revealed its perfect health. It had shown its tremendous height and straight ‘posture’.
            The guide went to educate us more about the World War II. I was amazed. There was so much information that I did not know before this trip. This information taught me some things---textbooks are inadequate and history is not just a classroom affair. The way the guide explained to us the happenings were quite funny, as could be heard from the laughing from my sabbatical-mates. Even I giggled at two occasions.
            We were told the evil deeds of the Japanese such as an incident whereby a person was listening radio and the evil Japanese put two sharp needles into each of his ears. Then they pressed the needles together and made that person deaf. This is downright cruelty! They are simply inhuman to treat their own kind like that!
            Soon, we watched a video interviewing Madam Elizabeth Choy. However, it wasted my time as I did not really understand what she was talking about. It should be about her sufferings as I saw her being electrocuted by whips. I felt for the innocent commoners who lost their lives during World War II.
            On the whole, this trip is certainly a good and amazing one. I had fun learning the concepts and absorbing the knowledge which could not be found in our History textbooks. However, this trip was a rather short one and it could be better with more elaboration on the concepts or more places for us to visit. Despite this, I do felt that the three dollars entrance and tour fee was indeed well-spent!

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