It brought to my mind my school days. It reminisces the times I was engrossed in Mr LKK's history class with his verbose almost theatric narrations of events of history as if LKK was a time traveller glancing at events through a panoramic crystal ball! The very same approach is used by the compere of an ongoing history podcast in commemoration of Singapore's 50 years of existence as a nation. Of course, the history of Singapore cannot exist without Malaysia's, it may appear like as a subtle gesture to put straight Malaysia's own history! The interesting thing about history is that it has a weird sense of humour, repeats itself and in its own way tells us, "I told you so!". We think we are wiser, only to repeat the whole fiasco all over again in another way. I heard about a certain strike by rickshaw pullers in 1919... Rickshaw pulling was the go-to job for unskilled job then. You do not need capital. All you need was brute energy and the tenacity to wo...
It is all Mimesis