Alexandra Hospital & Bukit Chandu

Next stop in our journey: Bukit Chandu, where the Malay Regiment so bravely fought against the Japanese in the are which we now call Kent Ridge Park. At Memories of Bukit Chandu, we saw the war through the eyes of the men fighting in it and the many sacrifices they made. Something that we cannot show you on film was the extra-sensory show that we watched that took us back to the Battle of Pasir Panjang, sights and sounds included.

Before we reached Bukit Chandu though, there was a little detour that we made. Alexandra Hospital was a site where civillians were killed mercilessly, and certainly illustrates the unecessary terrors of war. These terrors include the beheading of innocent newborns and the shooting of a young and severely injured patient that was already lying on a hospital bed. Unfortunately, we could not enter the building to visit the small memorial located in it due to preventive measures against H1N1.