By Lutfi,Zhen Yang,Choon Kang,Jonte

Before going to the trip,we were all given a piece of paper regarding the homework we had to do during the June holidays.After a trip of thirty minutes on the bus we finally arrived at our destination at Old Ford Factory and Bukit Chandu.The moment we stepped out of our bus,we were enjoying the Surrounding of the nature in the area.We were taken to a threater,we learned about the past of Singapore when we were under the rule of the Japanese when they conquered us.

While we were in the Museum we saw a projection of the World War II.

We were than taken to a Musuem at Bukit Chandu to take photos of the pictures on the wall.

The photo above is about the Battle plan of the Japanese when they were coming to fight us,and the direction they were coming to face us off the battle.

The photo above is the dollar note of the Japanese we had to use,We couldn use our Singapore Note as they were not available through buying things from stores.

Adnan led a 42-strong platoon from the Malay Regiment in the defense of Singapore against the invading Japanese. The soldiers fought at the Battle pasir sir Panjang, at Pasir Panjang Ridge in the Bukit Chandu (Opium Hill) area on 12–14 February 1942. Although heavily outnumbered, Adnan refused to surrender and urged his men to fight until the end. They held off the Japanese for two days amid heavy enemy shelling and shortages of food and ammunition. Adnan was shot but carried on fighting until he succumbed to his injury. After the battle was lost, the Japanese soldiers tied his body to a cherry tree and bayoneted it.

The Japanese punished the Chinese most severely. This was because they had actively helped China in its fight against Japan. The Japanese gathered all Chinese men, aged between 18 to 50, for an anti-Japanese examination. During the examination, a masked man would scan the people and single out those whom they thought were anti-Japanese. These unfortunate Chinese would be taken in lorries to the Changi Beach or other beaches on the east coast. There, they would be shot by the Japanese soldiers. Those who were not identified as anti-Japanese were allowed to go home.

They were forced to make rice and harvest them for the Japanese and to harvest their own food to eat.
These people that were unwilling to coorperate were imprison or killed.

When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, Lim and many other overseas Chinese in Singapore participated in anti-Japanese activities, such as boycotting of Japanese goods and fund-raising to support their fellow countrymen in resisting the Japanese invaders in China.
Towards the end of 1937, hundreds of overseas Chinese working in Japanese-owned industries in Malaya went on strike. At that time, the Japanese government owned a tin mine in Dungun, Terengganu, Malaya, where nearly 3,000 Chinese labourers were employed. The tin was shipped to Japan and used as raw material to manufacture weapons. Lim felt that if the Chinese workers in the Dungun mine went on strike, the Japanese would suffer a huge loss, so he planned to make the workers go on strike. Around February 1938, Lim travelled to Dungun with Zhuang Huiquan of the Singapore Anxi Association to carry out their plan. Zhuang went to the mine to persuade the workers to go on strike while Lim contacted the local police and gained their support. By early March, Lim and Zhuang achieved success as the workers left the mine and followed them to Singapore. On March 11, 1938, Lim and the Singapore Chinese community held a welcoming ceremony for the workers, who were later resettled and found employment in Singapore.
In December 1941, Lim was put in charge of organising a group of volunteers to resist the Japanese, who were advancing towards Southeast Asia. The volunteers put up a fierce fight against the Japanese invaders during the Battle of Singapore in February 1942.

Lim Bo Seng was captured by the Japanese under Marshal Ōnishi Satoru at a roadblock in Gopeng the next day. Lim Bo Seng was taken to the Kempeitai headquarters for interrogation and he refused to provide the Japanese with any information about Force 136 despite being subjected to severe torture. Instead, he protested against the ill-treatment of his comrades in prison. He fell ill with dysentery and was bedridden by the end of May 1944. Lim died in the early hours on June 29, 1944. He was later buried behind the Batu Gajah prison compound in an unmarked spot. After the Japanese surrender, Lim's wife, Gan Choo Neo, was informed of her husband's death by the priest of St. Andrew's School. Gan travelled with her eldest son to bring her husband's remains home later.
Lim's remains arrived at the Tanjong Pagar railway station in Singapore on Dec 7, 1945. Upon arrival, the hearse was sent off by a large procession of British officers and prominent businessmen, from the Station to Hock Ann Biscuit Factory in Upper Serangoon Road, via Armenian Street. On the same day, a memorial service for Lim was held at the Tong Teh Library of the Kuomintang Association in Singapore.

All of us had a Fun time in the Trip to Ord Ford Factory.