To: ACH421@traveladdict.com
Subject: URGENT TASK!
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:30:37 +0800
Hi team,
I’ve got an urgent task for you. It is Travel Addict’s 50th anniversary and we are planning to publish a special travel guidebook on Singapore. The aim of the travel guide book is to compare and contrast Singapore’s past and present. Thus, travellers get a historical perspective of the tourist destinations. I’ll need your professional history perspective for the section on Kerbau Road in Little India. Here is an excerpt about Kerbau Road from the old guide book.
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The kerbau in Kerbau road means buffalo in Malay. The road got its name from the once thriving cattle trade in the area. Cattles were kept here as it was near the slaughter houses. Kerbau Road was populated mainly by Hindus and the rearing of cattle for transportation and milk products was concentrated here.
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Cattle Trade
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Interestingly, there is a Chinese villa, called the Tan Teng Niah House, at No 37 Kerbau Road. This eight-room villa was built by Tan Teng Niah, a prominent Chinese businessman, for his wife in 1900. He was the owner of a confectionary business, a few sweet-making factories anda rubber smokehouse on Kerbau Road.
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| House of Tan Teng Niah |
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Now this is your task.
Recently, I’ve received these photographs from a Travel Addict photographer.
Based on the information and photographs provided above, observe at least 1 similarity and 1 difference between Kerbau Road then and now. Look out for the change and continuity which had took place in Kerbau Road. You may record your findings in a graphic organizer provided in the task package. Please email me the organizer once you are done with it.
One last thing, be prepared to share your photos and findings with other Travel Addict! Sharing is caring!
Good luck.
Your BOSS,
James Traverse
