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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Wan Chan Peew applied to Tanjong Katong Technical School in 1960, eschewing both the grammar schools and apprenticeship scheme in the Naval Base. He remembers taking two jam-packed buses to Tanjong Katong Road where the school was, his classmates and the strict principal N. Vaithinathan, who walked around in a white shirt and shorts with a cane in his hand.

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00:00 Introduction
05:14 I chose Tanjong Katong Technical
12:54 Two Buses to the School
18:10 Threatened by Another Boy
28:07 Principal N. Vaithinathan & School Discipline
36:53 Samuel Robinson
41:09 My Classmates

I’m Dr Loh KS, the people’s historian. I’m interested in the history of Singapore and the lives of its people. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city today.

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1. People and places.
2. Change and continuity.
3. The importance of heritage.

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