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    My Personal Singapore History, From 1959 To 1980 (A Family Doctor’s Tale 2)
    My Personal Singapore History, From 1959 To 1980 (A Family Doctor’s Tale 2)
    My Personal Singapore History, From 1959 To 1980 (A Family Doctor’s Tale 2)
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    My Personal Singapore History, From 1959 To 1980 (A Family Doctor’s Tale 2)

    By Kenneth Kee

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    Introduction to Politics

    “You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government.
    You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again” – Lee Kuan Yew

    My political journey began when I was 11 years old when I was first introduced to politics in my primary school in 1959.

    The principal and some teachers of the primary school that I went to were DeLaSalle Catholic brothers asked the students of the school to tell their parents not to vote for the People Action Party.

    They were worried that if the People Action Party (PAP) were elected the Government they would close down all the English teaching schools and send their teachers packing back to home (Ireland, England or America).

    I told my mother who was also a teacher in a Chinese speaking school what the principal had said.

    She laughed as she usually did in an amused way.

    She told me that the Catholic brothers were mostly Europeans and were worried the new People Action Party which was a socialist democratic political party may close all the Catholic and English speaking schools.

    She was confident that the leaders of the PAP were not so stupid that they would do such a thing.

    In fact she believed that the leaders of the PAP were mostly English educated and would not hurt the English speaking community.

    My mother was a clever and well educated woman who was educated in Shanghai in Chinese.

    She was one of the top teachers in our Singapore Chinese speaking schools.

    In Shanghai she had seen how the Europeans carved up her beloved city into British, French, American quarters just to further their trade.

    In 1842, when the Shanghai port was opened to western trade, Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Portugal established extraterritorial rights in the city's so-called foreign concessions-the International Settlement, administered by a municipal council of western powers, and the French Concession, headed by the French consul general.

    She was also not pleased that the local Chinese kowtowed (lowered their dignity) to their European traders.

    Because of the Japanese invasions into Nanking and the atrocities committed by the Japanese, she had fled with her elder sister into Singapore to begin a new life teaching here.

    It was a tough time for them to get teaching jobs in Singapore.

    She was able to get a teaching job in a small school in Johore Bahru, Malaya where she met my father.

    She was 5 years older than my father and was giving tuition to him on Chinese and education in general.

    My father was intrigued by her and wanted to marry her.

    It was mainly the Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore that persuaded her to get married to my father.

    I was the fifth of 6 children that she gave birth to.

    TABLE OF CONTENT
    Introduction to Politics

    Chapter 1 Full internal self-government (1959–1965)

    Chapter 2 My Secondary School Days
    (1960-1965)

    Chapter 3 Singapore Fully Independent
    (1965-1972)

    Chapter 4 My Medical Studies and Married Life (1966-1972)

    Chapter 5 Medical Doctor and Father (1972-1974)

    Chapter 6 A New Medical Clinic and Better Singapore (1974-1980)

    Epilogue

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKenneth Kee
    Release dateFeb 26, 2016
    ISBN9781310749889
    My Personal Singapore History, From 1959 To 1980 (A Family Doctor’s Tale 2)
    Author

    Kenneth Kee

    Medical doctor since 1972.Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours inthe afternoon.He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.comThis autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.The later books go into more details of medical disorders.He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) startingwith the Apple computer and going to PC.The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.Dr Kee is the author of:"A Family Doctor's Tale""Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine""Case Notes From A Family Doctor"

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      My Personal Singapore History, From 1959 To 1980 (A Family Doctor’s Tale 2) - Kenneth Kee

      My

      Personal

      Singapore History,

      From

      1959 To 1980

      (A Family Doctor’s Tale 2)

      By

      Dr Kenneth Kee

      M.B.,B.S. (Singapore)

      Ph.D (Healthcare Administration)

      Copyright Kenneth Kee 2023 Smashwords Edition

      Published by Kenneth Kee at Smashwords.com

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated

      To my wife Dorothy

      And my children

      Carolyn, Grace

      And Kelvin

      This book describes My Personal Singapore History Part 1 from childhood to adulthood

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      Introduction

      "You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government.

      You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again:

      Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again"

      – Lee Kuan Yew

      My political journey began when I was 11 years old when I was first introduced to politics in my primary school in 1959.

      The principal and some teachers of the primary school that I went to were DeLaSalle Catholic brothers asked the students of the school to tell their parents not to vote for the People Action Party.

      They were worried that if the People Action Party (PAP) were elected the Government they would close down all the English teaching schools and send their teachers packing back to home (Ireland, England or America).

      I told my mother who was also a teacher in a Chinese speaking school what the principal had said.

      She laughed as she usually did in an amused way.

      She told me that the Catholic brothers were mostly Europeans and were worried the new People Action Party which was a socialist democratic political party may close all the Catholic and English speaking schools.

      She was confident that the leaders of the PAP were not so stupid that they would do such a thing.

      In fact she believed that the leaders of the PAP were mostly English educated and would not hurt the English speaking community.

      My mother was a clever and well educated woman who was educated in Shanghai in Chinese.

      She was one of the top teachers in our Singapore Chinese speaking schools.

      In Shanghai she had seen how the Europeans carved up her beloved city into British, French, American quarters just to further their trade.

      In 1842, when the Shanghai port was opened to western trade, Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Portugal established extraterritorial rights in the city's so-called foreign concessions-the International Settlement, administered by a municipal council of western powers, and the French Concession, headed by the French consul general.

      She was also not pleased that the local Chinese kowtowed (lowered their dignity) to their European traders.

      Because of the Japanese invasions into Nanking and the atrocities committed by the Japanese, she had fled with her elder sister into Singapore to begin a new life teaching here.

      It was a tough time for them to get teaching jobs in Singapore.

      She was able to get a teaching job in a small school in Johore Bahru, Malaya where she met my father.

      She was 5 years older than my father and was giving tuition to him on Chinese and education in general.

      My father was intrigued by her and wanted to marry her.

      It was mainly the Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore that persuaded her to get married to my father.

      I was the fifth of 6 children that she gave birth to.

      The first child died at birth.

      The second child was my eldest brother followed by the third my second brother.

      The forth child was a girl whom she called Sea child whom she said

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