I don't know why i don't seem to have anything better and less frivolous to do than watch the repeat of the Golden Globes on tv (although i'm at least trying to do some minor nie stuff in between)
Anyways, last week i happened to be in the library (a regular haunt, now that it's near enough to my place) and went up to the tenth floor, after seeing a sign below that advertised for a special exhibition on Lee Kong Chian and Tan Kah Kee. However, i was about five days too late, as it had closed with the year's end.
Instead however, there was this real brilliant, if still somewhat abrogated exhibition on the life of David Marshall, which i'd highly recommend, even if you're not a history buff. Anyways half the exhibition is on his life before the stuff we all know (or hopefully still remember) from lower sec history and is rather fascinating. Like apparently he was born just down the road from my place, in a house that (surprise surprise has been demolished) occupied the land where peace centre now is, and that his family came from Baghdad of all places.
There also is this even smaller but nonetheless interesting exhibition on the same floor on the origins of some road names in S'pore, and the short biographies of the people they were named after. Just so happens that two of the roads were named after my ancestors (my proverbial grandfather's roads, or more accurately, great great grandfather and great great great great grandfather). Not that it has any influence on my recommendation of course.
So if you're in the vicinity, do check it out (have no idea when they will end though, so don't complain if they're gone by the time you get there...)
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