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I'm very proud of myself. Today, instead of hitting town as usual, went to Changi War Museum. I was expecting it to be stuffy with lots of old photos and lengthy writeups. Thankfully I was wrong. The whole place was small, set up in a U shape around the actual Changi chapel, preserved since wartime. The whole experience was very interesting, something you seldom say about museums. The Japanese Occupation takes centrestage, with many photo montages accompanied with quotes and actual war relics like tools POWs used and so on. The most striking things were the extreme cruelty of the Japanese, especially to foreign POWs, and the resultant suffering. Imagine having to fashion your own tools from waste materials and grow your own tapioca(which was used in almost every dish they cooked). Also, the torture methods made famous/infamous by the japs like the water torture made me sick. Such actions were not just limited to POWs. Ordinary citizens, whole families even could be rounded up and sent to internment camps to work hard as and when the japs saw fit. What touched me the most were the handwritten notes posted on a board by the families of POWs who suffered under the japanese. "We'll never forget you" "God be with you" these words embody the sadness of having had a family member suffer so much yet they also show hope and acceptance that those men are remembered and honoured for what they did. After all that...I was simply thinking "fuck the japanese" they should die for what they did. Then I realized that isnt right. Not when we adore jap goods like Sony and Bathing Ape. We cant fight fire with fire and hate with more hate. Alright I seem to have gone all philosophical haha. Everyone should go down to the Changi War Museum at least once..its our past and we should show some appreciation for what happened then. Okay..no more political correctness. While I was there a bunch of tourists from China came in, talking at the top of their voices, taking it upon themselves to provide running commentary on every exhibit. Fuck them too. All the foreigners there were respectful enough to move around silently while observing the exhibits. I was damn ashamed to be a Chinese then. Those china people should have more sense and tact in them for Japan invaded China too during WWII. Wooh I just did a whole entry and I didnt talk about myself at all..no whining, complaining, grumbling and grousing etc. Feels good.
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