Little India is a busy place where Indians lived. It was given to the early Indian settlers that came to Singapore.
On the 16th of May, the five classes lined up in the canteen and settled down. The teacher in charge told us about the history of Singapore. It was once said that the Sumatran prince Sang Nila Utama sailed to Singapore . When he reached , he saw a creature, which his men told him it was a singa or lion. I learned something while waiting for the bus. The animal Sang Utama saw was not a lion, it was a tiger.
When the bus arrived, we scrambled up the bus. During the bus ride, the facilitator told us the different types of gods that the Indians believed in. Examples were Shiva,Krishna etc.when we arrived, we glanced around. We were at the Tekka Centre, one of Little India's shopping malls.
We went to a shop selling saris. The shopkeeper greeted us and showed us how the 6 metre sari was worn and all about the Bindi. She also showed us how her husband did the Henna design. She told us that the paste was grounded from henna leaves and put onto the hands of a person to form a tattoo.
We went to a shop selling Indian snacks. Yummy! Those snacks are making me hungry. Unfortunately, we were only here to do a study trail.sigh...We found out that the cheapest snack was the Jabli, which was 50 cents.The most expensive was the Rajajoli, which cost a dollar.
After all the work, we went to look at the shop houses in between Campbell lane and Dunlop street. Now, the facilitator showed us a magic trick. He asked us to add the numbers of the shop houses and divide it by seven. This was our answer:68+66+64+62+60+58+56=534. 534 divide by 7=62??! Impossible...
Lastly, we went to Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple. We noticed the devotees ring bells when the prayers enter.Our facilitator told us that it was a gesture of asking their gods to grant their requests.We then entered the temple. We saw the goddess Shiva. She looked kind of GROSS.Blech! She was stepping on a man, holding a woman, holding onto a baby and the yuckiest part was the mother's intestines were dangling from her mouth!EWW..
After the trip, we went to wait for the bus in the car park. It was invested with flocks of pigeons!We waited for ten miniutes before the bus arrived. After we boarded the bus, the bus' horn sounded, and we saw the feathers fly! We handed in our booklets and relaxed as the bus took us back to school.
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What a fruitful trip!
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Adding the 7 houses' numbers to get the total and when divided by 7, the answer is 62.
This is just a trick!
Just arrange these 7 numbers in ascending order first. Take away the first and last numbers, 2 at a time. You will be left with 62 which is also the centre number.
This is a trick! Don't get tricked!
WY, be very wary what the teachers teach you from their history books.
History books are written by people with different feelings and interpretations, they can also mean different things. Sometimes, history books contain may inaccuracies, designed to trick or mislead the reader (you).
For example the animal that the Sultan saw was in fact not a lion but a tiger (lions are not known to appear in this area at all), so why our country is wrongly named Lion City?
It should be Tiger City. Or Cat town.
To be more sure, read more widely and counter check with other historians or books. What the Singaporean teachers teach you, may not be accurate, but they are doing their best.
You may also ask them politely, where is their data source and if they had verified it with some independent information.
The teachers can only teach you what THEY know or what they think they know, and not everything they know. (Although they would like you to think that they are the best knowledge sources)
If you like, YOU should learn more from others, not just teachers.
Reading widely will help you do that. And the internet is a very good tool for that. However be also careful, because similar to the history books, all which are written here, can also be false information.
Now, can someone really prove the Americans were the first people on the moon? How to prove? It could all be a movie studio trick.
GuGu
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