Name: Xia Shan Shan Registration number: A0114327 Focus group number: 24 In the early 1960s, Singapore was not yet fully independent - the British controlled its internal security - she was not part of the Malaysia that people felt she should belong to. The ongoing political changes have had an impact on the Chinese at the former British naval base at Sembawang. Due to these political issues, Choy Kam Fong's family faced many difficulties and challenges. Based on Choy Kam Fong's account of the critical period of the 1960s, his memory played a major role in what has been called the "recovery story". Born in 1953, Choy Kam Fong was one of the people who witnessed Singapore's political changes in the 1960s. Growing up in the former British naval base in Sembawang since birth, his father was one of the former workers from the British naval base. The former British naval base was a strictly British restricted area and only those with a pass could enter (see Fig. 1). In fact, even the houses they lived in had also been provided by the British. In total, there were only four blocks in his neighborhood. Choy Kam Fong's family lived in one of the rooms on the second floor of their building, but there were no real doors except the common front door shared by a total of six families in one floor.Fig. 1 Sembawang Gate of the former naval base, welcoming many residents of the base. Source: The Long and Winding RoadThe neighbors were also workers at the former British naval base and their family members. These were mainly Hakkas, Hokkiens, Cantonese as well as a few other Chinese dialect groups. Although they spoke a dozen different languages, they shared a common form of entertainment that would bring together...... middle of paper ......rmed a collective societal memory shared by the people who lived in the 1950s to 1980s. As Choy Kam Fong recalls: “The only time we could forget the chaos and turmoil outside was when we calmed down to listen to Lee Dai Sor's stories. » It was a time when listening to the radio was a collective activity, creating community, connections and solidarity; radio was then a shared entertainment. It was a group of friends or neighbors gathering around a radio at a certain time to listen to their favorite programs on the air. Yet as technology has made leisure activities more affordable, a wide variety of electronic entertainment devices have moved from the streets, to stores, to homes and individual bedrooms. Today, listening to the radio has become a private activity to be practiced by oneself, but Rediffusion remains a collective memory for older generations..