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lemoocharlenee's review
4.0
This was surprisingly quite educational and I got to learn a bit more about Singapore's history. I liked how Chia not only wrote about her life, but injected nuggets of information throughout the book - thing like the meaning of road names (never knew Toa Payoh meant 'big swamp'), historical events and cultural practices by the various ethnic groups. It's an interesting glimpse into how Singapore was like just 70 years ago, when people still lived in kampongs with no electricity, and it's amazing to see how far the country has come since then. However, because the stories are designed in a way where you can read each stand-alone, certain explanations were repeated quite a number of times throughout. It's nothing major, but it did get tiring to reading similar things again and again.
crispyrainbow's review against another edition
4.0
This book was interesting and insightful although the repetition of certain facts throughout the chapters made it feel like I was rereading certain points
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