Personal name, Surname
House number and road name
Towns and townships
Districts and states,
introduced by the British
Our roads
our roundabouts,
and road junctions,
our traffic lights
brought to us by the British
We drive
on the left side of the road
in right-hand drive cars
the British did it first
Post Office
selling postage stamps,
money orders and postal orders,
air mail and aerogramme,
started by the British
Police Station,
with CID, and ISD,
OCS and OCPD,
Traffic Branch, Special Branch,
and Federal Reserve Unit
first organised by the British
Hospital
Outpatient Department
Accident and Emergency
Admissions,
doctors and nurses
MB,BS. MRCP, FRCS
a legacy of the British
The Army, the Air Force and the Navy
their Regiments,
their Squadrons
and their Fleets
patterned after the British
Our schools
with morning and afternoon sessions
monthly tests and term exams
classrooms and class-teachers
a time-table divided
into forty minute periods,
British.
Our electricity supply
240 volts, 50 Hertz AC
billed in kilowatt-hours,
Our water supply
with its meter and main pipe
just outside our house
That's also British
Everywhere we go
we see British
Our country is shaped
in a British mould
We continue
to live colonial lives
in post-colonial times
"British"
by Harold B Huang
Wed 13Apr22 1950 hrs GMT+8
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Day 13 : "post-colonial"
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