"Story. This book is also an ordinary man’s story. It is not an autobiography. There is nothing extraordinary or spectacular about my life worth documenting as history. I am simply reminiscing about growing up in a Singapore that has long vanished from the face of this planet. I am simply using my personal recollections to paint a picture of the childhood that many other ordinary Singaporeans of my generation experienced in the 1950s and 1960s. In order to give a more complete picture, I have included several sections contributed by my friends"--Introd.