IH Merger Questions
1. Why did they propose the merger to be on 1963 but not on 1961?
2. Why did Singapore want to merge with Malaysia?
3. What are the benefits of the merger?
4. Did the citizens in Singapore and Malaya agreed to have this merger?
5. Why does Malaya also merge with Brunei, Sarawak and Sabah instead of just Singapore?
6. What are the potential problems faced if there is a merger between Singapore and Malaya?
7. Who will be the ruling party if Singapore and Malaya merged?
8. Why did Malaya asked for 50 million Grant initially when Singapore actually offered a 150 million loan to them?
9. How would they share the responsibility of governing a country with Singapore? (Responsibilities like finance and education)
10. What are the conditions both parties agreed on?
11. Why didn’t the Malaya settle the diplomatic relation with Philippines and Indonesia?
12. Will the trade in Singapore be affected after the merger?
13. Why choose Malaya instead of other countries for the merger?
14. Do you think that Malaya is in a stable state for the merger?
15. How would you tackle communist problems after the merger?(Both sides)
16. Why do you feel that an independent Singapore will weaken the moderates within the PAP?
17. What would life be for minority races?
18. What will be the national language after the merger?
19. How is Malaya going to pacify and handle Philippines and Indonesia who also wanted Sarawak and Sabah?
20. What measure will be taken against Indonesia and the Philippines?
21. Why did Indonesia refuse to recognize Malaysia and argued that both Sabah and Sarawak should join Indonesia?
22. Will there be no tariffs after the merger?
23. Were there other political factors which made you want to merge with Malaya? (Other than natural resources).
24. What was the poll to get the views of the citizens called?
25. When was the poll held?
26. Questions in poll?
27. Why does the Sawarakians and the Sabahs want to join Malaya too?
28. Why didn’t Brunei join Malaya?
29. Did communism problem exist in Malaya before 1963?
30. How will things change after the merger?
31. Would Singaporeans be given equal opportunities as the Malaysians after the merger?
32. What is Malaya going to call themselves after the merger?
33. What is the merger about?
34. What are the 11 states involved?




The two categories the questions can be grouped into
Domestic Foreign
-Economic
-Social
-Political

Mrs Anur P.S: This is the only post I am putting which has nothing to do with the English blog as Mr Balan wants me to pass all these questions to my classmates. There is no time to create another blog, put the questions and inform my friends about the website as they only know my English blog website. Please pardon me.

The Wizard of Oz

This story is about a girl called Dorothy, her dog Toto, Uncle Henry who adopted Dorothy and Aunt Em who was his wife. One day, a very big storm blew Dorothy and her dog, together with the house to an unknown place. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry escaped the storm. When she woke up, she was amazed to see a very beautiful scenery outside of the house. Later, she found out that she had actually landed in the land of the Munchkins and that she had killed the wicked witch of the East unknowingly with her house. The wicked witch of East had been using the Munchkins (people who lived in the land of the East where the witch ruled) as slaves. Then, Dorothy travels to the City of Emeralds to find the Wizard of Oz who could help her to get back to her homeland, Kansas. On her way, she saves Scarecrow (who wishes to have a brain), Tin Woodman (who wishes to have a heart) and the Cowardly Lion (who wishes to have courage) whom later part in the story, helps her in the battle against the wicked witch of the West. She reaches the City of Emeralds and the Wizard of Oz wanted Dorothy and her friends to kill the Wicked witch of West before he would help them. After numerous challenges they faced, they finally killed the witch and got what they each desire to have.

My favourite character is Dorothy. I feel that as a little girl, she is very mature to be able to handle things very well and this can be seen from the adventure where she kills the Wicked Witch of West. She is also very brave as she kills the witch with her friends. She is a very loving girl and she likes her family a lot. When she completes her 'mission', the first thing she wants to do is to get back to Kansas as she misses her uncle and aunt. This story is very interesting and I enjoy it a lot.

L. Frank Baum (15 May 1856 - 6 May 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856. His father, Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, originally a barrel maker, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing(his father bought him a cheap printing press).

Saffy's Angel

This story is about four Casson children, whose mother, Eve is a fine-arts painter, have all been given the names of paint colours. Cadmium (Caddy) is the eldest; then Saffron (Saffy); Indigo, the only boy; and Rose, the youngest. Saffy discovers that she is adopted and and is very sad, although the others assure her that it did not make any difference at all. Saffy is actually the daughter of Eve's twin sister, who lived in Siena, Italy, and died in a car crash. Thus, Grandad brought Saffy, as a very small child, back from Siena. When Grandad dies, he left something to each of the children. However, as the will is written around 8-10 years ago, some of the things left behind like the house for Caddy and car for Indigo. He leaves Saffy with a stone angel and Saffy treat it like a treasure and is determined to find the angel as that is the only thing she felt could make her feel not so left out. Indigo dislikes school and Caddy had failed a lot of exams but she aspires to work in a zoo. Caddy also had a driving instructor named Michael. Indigo aspires to be a polar explorer and thus he is curing himself of vertigo by sitting by the windowsill. Sunday afternoons were used to discuss important events where the whole family sits together. Saffy eventually finds her angel with the help of Sarah, her neighbour whose legs are very weak that she has to sit on a wheelchair using the method of stow-away. Although she sits on a wheelchair, she is very energetic. Later in the story, we find out that the discipline mistress of the private school is actually her mother and Sarah understands her parents really well from the phrase,"would probably reply".

My favourite character in this book is Sarah. I feel that Sarah is very smart and she had always done her "homework" when she is planning for something. She has the never give up spirit even though she is physically handicapped. She gives the reader the message that one must not give up even if we have physical disabilities. I would recommend this book to those handicapped people so that they would be motivated and be like Sarah.

This book is written by Hilary Mckay. She is a young English author and acquired a degree in botany and zoology at St. Andrews University. She took up several jobs and one of them is laboratory work as an analyst. She now lives with her family in Derbyshire, England.