Historical Narrative

It was December, two weeks had passed since the Japanese had landed in Southern Thailand and had invaded Northern Malaysia. News had spread from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore about the invasion by the Japanese, even the 2 battleships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince Of Wales had sunk on the second day of the Japanese's Landing in Southern Thailand.

Ahmad was living at Johor Bahru by himself during the invasion. He thought that the Japanese were no match of the Great Britain, but the Japanese had proved him wrong. the Japanese had moved in such great speed that Great Britain was taken by surprise. When the Japanese had reached Kuala Lumpur, Ahmad had gone to Southern Singapore to join the army and for shelter as Singapore was known as the impregnable fortress of the British Empire in the East.

After 1st February 1942, Singapore was not a impregnable fortress anymore. the Japanese had bombed Changi, Pulau Ubin at the North-East of Singapore to land at the North-West of Singapore. Two days after the bombing, the Japanese had taken most of the supplies left by the British. Another two days had passed, the battle at Pasir Panjang had led both sides suffering a heavy casualties. When the British was cornered of at the South of Singapore, they made it last stand at Bukit Chandu. Although Ahmad was in the army, he survived his first battle at Bukit Chandu.

When the British had surrendered to the Japanese, Ahmad went hiding in one of the sewers in Singapore as the Kempeitai, known as the Japanese military police, came to capture the Anti-Japan in Singapore which marked the new beginning of terror.

English (What makes you sad?)

Sad is a human’s emotion. Often, people may feel sad when people lose their trust, friendship or even love. Sometimes people may also feel sad when there were traffic accident claiming innocent lives. Also, people may also feel sad when they lose something important like house key, mobile phone and even their cash cards.

For me, I feel sad when my relatives had passed away especially those that had treated me well when they were still alive. I remembered that my aunt who had passed away when she was 75 years old when I was still in primary three. She had treated me like a precious child and she had bought anything that I liked. When she died, I was so sad that tears rolling down my cheeks. I kept telling myself that that wasn’t real and every night, I kept thinking about my aunt, the happy moments that we had when I was young. After a few days, I began to accept the truth of that my aunt was dead.

I also feel sad when I saw a few people died in natural disaster like tsunami and earthquake. The natural disaster that made me sad was the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The earthquake had killed more than a hundred thousand innocent lives. There were few thousands of people who are injured, more than thousands of people were missing, and millions of people were homeless. The Sichuan earthquake had created some aftershocks which exceeds the magnitude 6, causing more damage and more casualties.