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Grandpa stories: SG60 is a good time to recount lives of pioneer citizens
Get students to talk to elderly Singaporeans in their homes or in the community to record and tell their stories.
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At Singapore approaches 60, get students to talk to pioneer citizens and record their stories before these are lost.
ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA
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This is the time of year when I often think of fathers.
My father was born on the 23rd day of the ninth lunar month, which falls this year on Oct 25. Around his birth date each year, I get into a pensive mood. I may have vivid dreams – of childhood, of family, of male authority figures. A moth, or two, would often find its way into my room around this time, and stay for a few days. Some say these are spirits of deceased relatives, revisiting you. I usually do my best to aid the moth as it flits its way out, but sometimes the moth doesn’t make it, leaving a feathered corpse for me to sweep up. This year, I slid a piece of paper under the moth and brought it gently from the bedroom to be released into the garden. Go in peace.
