KHOO Ban Choo 邱曼珠
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Accession Number 003838
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 11
Total Reels
- Moey Kok Keong
Interviewer
- 06:12:45
Total Running Time
- Mandarin
Language
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Reel/Disc 3 of 11
Metadata
- 23 Dec 2013
Recording Date
- 00:32:46
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Subjects studied in Yock Eng High School. Civics lessons in primary schools. On learning History, Geography and Biology. How students were seated in the classroom according to gender. Memories of teachers and Art lessons. Memory of a History teacher who had a dialect accent while using Guoyu (Mandarin) in teaching. Teachers taught English using Guoyu (Mandarin). Memory of the Discipline Master. Marks would be deducted from students if they committed offences. Recalled the incident when she and her friends were summoned to his office as they were late for school. They were late because they sent a classmate off to China at Clifford Pier. Recalled a police search in her classroom in Yock Eng High School for propaganda materials. Memories of physical education lessons and uniforms. The school choir in Yock Eng High.
在育英中学修读的科目。在上小学时曾修“公民”课。如何学习历史、地理、生物。学生的座位按性别分配（育英中学）。老师及美术课。回忆一位历史老师带方言腔的国语（华语）。老师用国语（华语）教授英文。训育主任。学生若犯校规，将遭扣除分数的处罚。有一次因为和同学到红灯码头为另一个同学送行而迟到；结果被送到训育主任处。警察在育英中学的课室内搜查宣传物。体育课及运动服装。育英中学的歌咏队。
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Reel/Disc 4 of 11
Metadata
- 27 Dec 2013
Recording Date
- 00:34:51
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Her dialect group. Memories of living in the Bendemeer area. Extra-curricular activities (ECA) in Yock Eng High. Description of the incident where she and her classmates in Yock Eng High were persuaded to participate in a student sit-in at Chung Cheng High (Goodman Road). She was led in to classrooms where she talked and played games with other students. She was given porridge and coffee. Students were not allowed to leave the classrooms. She slept overnight in the classroom. Her feelings of not being allowed to return home. Some students cried. Students were not allowed to make phone calls and parents were not allowed to see their children. There were “guards” outside the classrooms. Reasons for the sit-in – according to the organisers. The police came in the next morning and used water cannons against the students. The situation was chaotic. She dashed out of the school and was received by her mother. Memories of basketball activities in Yock Eng High. She completed three years of secondary school education in Yock Eng High and enrolled in Chung Cheng High but only completed the first year. Memories of Chung Cheng High: sitting arrangement in the classroom, interaction with male students and the lake at Chung Cheng.
她的籍贯。在明地明亚一带居住的情况。育英中学的课外活动。同学和她被说服参加中正中学（月眠路）举行的学生占据校园抗议活动。她被带入课室内与其他人交谈及玩游戏。主办者提供粥及咖啡。学生不准离开课室并在课室内过夜。不准回家的心情。有些学生哭了。学生不准打电话；父母不能同子女见面。课室外有“守卫”把守。主办者占据校园抗议的原因。警察隔天进入校园并用水炮驱散学生。情况非常混乱。她逃离课室，由母亲接应回家。育英中学的篮球活动。在育英中学完成三年中学教育。在中正中学念了一年高中就辍学了。回忆中正中学的生活：课室座位的安排、同男性同学的交流及对“中正湖”的印象。
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Reel/Disc 6 of 11
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- 27 Dec 2013
Recording Date
- 00:33:36
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Went to Chinatown with her colleagues for supper after work. Working hours of the “morning/afternoon shift”, which was mainly in-charge of the Fukan （副刊）section. Relationship between colleagues in different sections in Nanyang Siang Pau. Operation of the proof-reading department: assigning proof-readers, number of proof-readers, ratio of males to females, superiors. Proof-reading work: common mistakes, checking the reliability of news articles provided by the reporter, used a Chinese brush that dipped in red ink to highlight characters that were amended. The reporters’ handwritten articles for the day would be bundled up and stored away. Repeated rounds of proof-reading. Typesetting work: description of and mistakes made, Interaction of typesetters with reporters and editors. Relationship between typesetting and advertisements. How to handle emergency news. A colleague would stay back after office hour to proof-read emergency news.
她和同事们下班后到牛车水一带吃宵夜。“早/午班”的工作时间。这个班负责编辑“副刊”版。《南洋商报》不同部门同事之间的关系。校对部的运作：版位的分配、校对员人数、男女比例。校对员的工作： 校对时经常出现的错误、找记者查问新闻的可靠性、用毛笔沾上红墨汁修改有问题的部分。记者的手稿被存档。对新闻稿进行多次的校对。排字部的工作： 排字时出现的错误、排字员同记者及编辑的互动。排字与广告排版。校对员在下班后留守应付突发新闻，称为“守夜”。
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Reel/Disc 7 of 11
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- 30 Dec 2013
Recording Date
- 00:33:52
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Layout of the proof-reading department in the Nanyang Siang Pau office building at Robinson Road. The editorial and translation departments were in other offices on the same level. Description of dinner provided by the company for night shift staff and supper for proof-readers. Memories of her colleagues in the proof-reading department. Her husband (eventual) Phua Sin Ping was in the same department. Reason for arranging females to take the “morning/afternoon shift”. Staff in Nanyang Siang Pau usually stayed in their jobs for a long time. Memories of Company events such as year-end banquet at “Da Tong”（大同酒家）restaurant. Memories of changes in the work week, rest days, vacation leave. Little impacts on work on her social life as she looked forward to work. Reason why she stayed on as a proof-reader. Colleagues would not reveal content of the day’s paper to external parties. She joined Nanfang Wanbao（南方晚报）in 1960 as a proof-reader.
回忆校对部在《南洋商报》罗敏生路办公楼的办公处。编辑部和翻译部在同一层楼。报馆为晚班员工提供晚餐和宵夜。回忆校对部的同事，包括后来同她结婚的潘先并。报馆为什么安排女性员工做“早/午班”。《南洋商报》的员工一般上留守岗位多年。回忆报馆的年终活动如在“大同酒家”举办的晚宴。工作制度的改变：每周工作时间、休息日、假期。做晚班并不会影响她的社交生活因为她喜欢工作。为什么她多年来一直从事校对工作。校对部的员工不会泄露新闻给其他报社。她在1960 年加入《南方晚报》担任校对员。
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