I’m going for a national education trip later on at 1PM and honestly, I’m not exactly keen on it. This time the national education trip is at Jurong Town Council. I wonder what’s there to view there, probably some industrial buildings and a history of the manufacturing sector in Singapore – which doesn’t interest me that greatly I have to say.
(I drew the above when I was a kid, it looks like I have excess amount of red crayon and paint it seems. Either that or I really like red that time. I was trying to depict the scenes of National Day Parade. I realize most of my art are about Singapore and the local culture.)
But I kinda have a liking to these national education trips during national service. I didn’t quite tell my friends this; they probably think I’m crazy of something. These trips are actually quite interesting, it brings me to places I don’t really know and it’s always fun to go around exploring the city. (And of course – a clear opportunity to go out of camp.)
It’s through these trips that I learn more about the country I live in. I’m quite clueless about our past and our buildings and stuff. I keep thinking that it’s what’s happening now that really matters. However, I start appreciating the history and might just start to understand what people mean when they say “history is important”.
These little history made me appreciate what we have and it shows you the mistakes we had made in the past. And when I made the trip to URA last year, I felt hopeful and motivated to move as a whole (minus the national service part since I couldn’t quite agree with the presense of national service till today).
Well, I’m off to Jurong Town Council already. No pictures this time, but I’ll share with you guys what I learnt.
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