ARASARATNAM Rose (Mrs)
Communities of Singapore (Part 2),
Accession Number 000433
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 7
Total Reels
- Pitt Kuan Wah
Interviewer
- 02:47:16
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 7
Metadata
- 30 May 1984
Recording Date
- 00:21:21
Running Time
- MP3
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Synopsis
Personal background. Father a clerk and mother, a housewife. Tracing family tree. Moved to Ipoh. Father a strict disciplinarian. Relationship between father and mother. Division of duties. Had man servant. Food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Table manners. Food taboos. Neighbours in Ipoh. Relationship with them.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 7
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- 5 Jun 1984
Recording Date
- 00:24:51
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- MP3
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Synopsis
Studied in primary school in Sungei Patani, Kedah. Subjects studied. Practical aspects of subjects. After school, helped out at home. Went to Penang to do teacher's course. Subjects taught. Completed course and went back to Ipoh to teach at old school, Anglo-Chinese Girls' School.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 7
Metadata
- 5 Jun 1984
Recording Date
- 00:25:28
Running Time
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Synopsis
Taught in primary one. Starting pay of $100. No allowances and benefits. Standards of teaching. Job terminated before outbreak of war. Start of Japanese Occupation. Registered to teach Japanese. Learned Japanese songs. Given cigarette rations. Resigned in December 1944 to get married.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 7
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- 5 Jun 1984
Recording Date
- 00:21:15
Running Time
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Synopsis
Went back to teach in Anglo-Chinese Girls' School, Ipoh. Came here to teach in St Hilda's School Singapore in 1948. Taught in government-aided school in Geylang in 1949. Difficulties faced. Children's background. Retired from teaching in 1959.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 7
Metadata
- 12 Jun 1984
Recording Date
- 00:24:31
Running Time
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Synopsis
How checks were made into bride's and bridegroom's backgrounds before marriage. Wedding preparations. Example of sister's wedding. On third day, bride ready to go with bridegroom. Interviewee married during Japanese Occupation. Simple preparations.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 7
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- 12 Jun 1984
Recording Date
- 00:25:04
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Synopsis
Continuation on arrangements for weddings. Position of females in community. View towards intermarriage before and after the war. How family names were passed on. Preference for number of children. Differences in the way parents brought up sons and daughters.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 7
Metadata
- 12 Jun 1984
Recording Date
- 00:24:46
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Synopsis
Precautions mothers took during confinement. Community's attitude to unmarried women. Reasons why women remained single. Attitudes to divorce, widows and widowers. Future of women in Ceylon Tamil community.
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