Comments on: 10 Fun Trivia on Singapore’s History http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/ A guide for food lovers. Reviews of restaurants, hawker stalls and various eating establishments in Singapore. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:53:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ahtokie http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-80278 ahtokie Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:39:03 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-80278 I LOVE YOU WEBBY! so beautiful! I LOVE YOU WEBBY! so beautiful! View all comments by ahtokie

]]> By: Veron http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2799 Veron Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:00:51 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2799 <p>Thanks SL, same to you! </p> Thanks SL, same to you!

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]]> By: SL http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2798 SL Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:42:12 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2798 Love the layout of your blog and the fact that you have something different to offer to your readers. Hope you find success in whatever you do. :) Love the layout of your blog and the fact that you have something different to offer to your readers. Hope you find success in whatever you do. :) View all comments by SL

]]> By: Veron http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2777 Veron Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:04:22 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2777 <p>py, I have already linked the Gate of Hope to the entry you posted at yesterday.sg. Very informative! </p> py, I have already linked the Gate of Hope to the entry you posted at yesterday.sg. Very informative!

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]]> By: py http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2776 py Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:34:22 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2776 Hey, I have wrote a post with a photo of the Gate of Hope, you might have passed by this Gate of Hope when you were last at CHIJMES. Here's the <a href="http://oceanskies79places.blogspot.com/2006/03/chijmes.html" rel="nofollow">post</a>. Hey, I have wrote a post with a photo of the Gate of Hope, you might have passed by this Gate of Hope when you were last at CHIJMES. Here’s the post. View all comments by py

]]> By: Veron http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2773 Veron Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:43:48 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2773 Good to have another career option! Good to have another career option! View all comments by Veron

]]> By: Lain http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2772 Lain Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:41:03 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2772 I think you'd make a good tour guide, honestly. I think you’d make a good tour guide, honestly. View all comments by Lain

]]> By: chup http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2769 chup Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:12:47 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2769 correction -_- abandoned baby too place every year... just that during the dragon year there is a boom in abandoned baby ger... correction -_-
abandoned baby too place every year…
just that during the dragon year there is a boom in abandoned baby ger… View all comments by chup

]]> By: chup http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2768 chup Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:11:35 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2768 ermm actually i dun think you "stick to 2" or my "2 is enough" policy had anything to do with the abandoned girl at all Singapore adopt the policy in a soft method, meaning instead of punish for the 3rd baby (like china) they mainly just take away the incentive. abandoned girl issue only happen in the dragon year, where Chinese believe having a dragon baby boy will bless the family and thus contribute in the sudden baby boom. when a ger is born, u know what happen la.. as a matter of fact... our PM is born is the lunar year of dragon, Jan 15th, and this is not a coincidence lor ermm
actually i dun think you “stick to 2″ or my “2 is enough” policy had anything to do with the abandoned girl at all

Singapore adopt the policy in a soft method, meaning instead of punish for the 3rd baby (like china) they mainly just take away the incentive.

abandoned girl issue only happen in the dragon year, where Chinese believe having a dragon baby boy will bless the family and thus contribute in the sudden baby boom. when a ger is born, u know what happen la..

as a matter of fact… our PM is born is the lunar year of dragon, Jan 15th, and this is not a coincidence lor View all comments by chup

]]> By: chup http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2767 chup Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:07 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2767 i attend all the tour for free =D wahhahahaa yah there are off spring of the monks.. but technically they are not allow to do so right? but anyway skip this discussion else u get mad again. i want my red border *_* i attend all the tour for free =D
wahhahahaa

yah there are off spring of the monks.. but technically they are not allow to do so right? but anyway skip this discussion else u get mad again.

i want my red border *_* View all comments by chup

]]> By: Veron http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2766 Veron Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:59:09 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2766 <p>I have always wanted to go on one of the <a href="http://www.singaporewalks.com/" title="The Original Singapore Walks" class="extlink" target="_blank">Singapore Walks</a> (but am too cheap to pay $18). Are you sure it's the same one we're talking about?</p> <p>As for the baby skeletons, obviously they came from the offspring of those nuns and monks didn't they?</p> <p>I think the "Stick to Two" baby policy came about only during/after the post-independence baby boom period, and has nothing to do with those abandoned baby girls. </p> I have always wanted to go on one of the Singapore Walks (but am too cheap to pay $18). Are you sure it’s the same one we’re talking about?

As for the baby skeletons, obviously they came from the offspring of those nuns and monks didn’t they?

I think the “Stick to Two” baby policy came about only during/after the post-independence baby boom period, and has nothing to do with those abandoned baby girls.

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]]> By: chup http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2765 chup Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:57:37 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2765 oh yah, i think the policy was "2 is enough" campagin. Maybe that explain why u n me both have 1 slibing only? and also why u have the purple border around ur comment ah? i wan also leh i wan red, u go program for me! oh yah, i think the policy was “2 is enough” campagin. Maybe that explain why u n me both have 1 slibing only?

and also why u have the purple border around ur comment ah? i wan also leh

i wan red, u go program for me! View all comments by chup

]]> By: chup http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2764 chup Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:47:25 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2764 yah i think it singapore walk. been thru 3-4 of such trip b4, cant remember.. (sch trip + amry trip etc..) during that time, times isn't good. post war period and those saga etc. probably they think the baby girl will have better chance of survial in church etc. u are right about the secret chamber that connect a nunnery to a monastery (but that not my question here -_-) Anyway, do u knwo why skeletons of baby were found? (hint: u wun like the ans....) yah i think it singapore walk.
been thru 3-4 of such trip b4, cant remember..
(sch trip + amry trip etc..)

during that time, times isn’t good. post war period and those saga etc. probably they think the baby girl will have better chance of survial in church etc.

u are right about the secret chamber that connect a nunnery to a monastery (but that not my question here -_-) Anyway, do u knwo why skeletons of baby were found? (hint: u wun like the ans….) View all comments by chup

]]> By: Veron http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2763 Veron Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:22:21 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2763 That culture trip you went on, was it a Singapore Walk? I thought baby girls would be abandoned only in China! We didn't have the one-child policy, did we? Or was it the "Stick to Two" policy back then? Otherwise why couldn't those people just keep their daughters? About the so-called secret chamber, I heard about one that's in Europe. It connects a nunnery to a monastery, where many years later skeletons of baby humans were found. That culture trip you went on, was it a Singapore Walk?

I thought baby girls would be abandoned only in China! We didn’t have the one-child policy, did we? Or was it the “Stick to Two” policy back then? Otherwise why couldn’t those people just keep their daughters?

About the so-called secret chamber, I heard about one that’s in Europe. It connects a nunnery to a monastery, where many years later skeletons of baby humans were found. View all comments by Veron

]]> By: chup http://sparklette.net/archives/10-fun-trivia-on-singapores-history/#comment-2762 chup Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:16:31 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=404#comment-2762 1. Hope of a new life >> was there years ago on a culture trip and was told about the story also. There is a particular year (year of dragon) where alot of baby girls is being abandon because family normally wanna have dragon boy. if i'm not wrong, it the year where our PM was born.. and also the legend of the secret camber under the church, did the article talk about it? =D 1. Hope of a new life >>

was there years ago on a culture trip and was told about the story also.

There is a particular year (year of dragon) where alot of baby girls is being abandon because family normally wanna have dragon boy. if i’m not wrong, it the year where our PM was born..

and also the legend of the secret camber under the church, did the article talk about it? =D View all comments by chup

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