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hi one of these days pls walk behind Plaza sing (the exit at the 7-11 at PS) there u will see a old eerie looking building..... it is actually apartments.... really scary.. checked out the place i will soon post a few pictures... the bulding looks like it is alomost about to be torn down. but the amazing thing is that PEOPLE live there. looking at the place i can confirm that it has things. but when me and my fren tried to enter the guards stopped us.. really eerie. but when the guards have a toilet break usually at 1 am we sneaked in the funny thing is that u have to walk through the carpark to the lifts.. freaking scarry u can feel things imme.. this freaked both of us but to find the lift it is difficult by that time the guad was out had no choice had to leave as the police had been called down..
it is easy to enter as the guards are mostly old mans. tried to talk to one of the residents.. but did not understand english.. my guess is that no singaporeans live there.
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it ps is in the town area so none my thing anything about it.. but this apartments r linked to the hill. with old scary looking trees. i can tell u that there is something there. confirmed. -
scarry looking trees??
OH you mean this?
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was there last week......
i was walking at the bottom of the hill.....then i look up......relli eerie.......
got a sch up there last time...... -
do u know that PS movie cinema used to be a abortion centre
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The area use to have a japanese building thingy or some sort...
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MGS ???Originally posted by FireIce:was there last week......
i was walking at the bottom of the hill.....then i look up......relli eerie.......
got a sch up there last time......
Is it still there or have they moved ??? -
You guys toking abt St. Margret Girls Sch?
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Saw it before, damn eerie after 7 pm, best is to ask the guards whether there are things ?
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jolin80, u got yinyang yan, is it?
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Methodist Girls' SchoolOriginally posted by erijazz:You guys toking abt St. Margret Girls Sch?
You have to climb a long flight of stairs just to reach it ...
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i seen lights in the top floors at night...funny how daring the resident is living in the whole eriee looking building all alone!
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You're spot on dude! The old YMCA building used to be there. That was where the Kempeitai (Japanese Secret Police) tortured the POWs during WW2 for information.Originally posted by DeathScyth:The area use to have a japanese building thingy or some sort... -
I checked out the place on can.com.sg, and it was listed as Cathay Apartments, which is linked to the old Cathay Building. The hill that it stands on is Mount Sophia.
Did some research on it and here's what I got:
From a blog of a MGS alumni
"The other day I was cutting my way from the old Cathay cinema towards Plaza Singapura when I stopped and saw something that brought back many fond memories of my mispent youth. tucked between what used to be Picturehouse (those of you of a certain vintage (sic) will remember this place) and Cathay Apartments is a nondescript flight of steps known fondly to students of MGS back when it was til at Mt Sophia as "The hundred steps'. it wasn't exactly one hundred, more like 97 or 98, but somewhere along the way, it was just stuck with the name."
"Memories of trudging up this flight of steps every morning came flooding back. It was a good short cut then, despite the early morning excercise. the other alternative would have been to walk all the way pass Paradiz centre and walk up Adis Road. sometimes, when we were feeling particularly lucky, we'd use the lift at Cathay Apartments. Just take the lift to the 7th floor, door open and we're right at the top. of course, the security there didn't take too kindly to the infringement and once in a while, Mrs Tham would announce over the PA during morning assembly that under no circumstances were we to use the elevators at Cathay Apartments to get to school. the girls will obey for about all of 2 weeks and after that, we'll be back again..."
"Picturehouse and Cathay cinema is now no longer. in its place, there's some construction going on. but it was really nice to see that the hundred steps has not succumbed to development in the ever changing landscape of singapore."
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Here's more photos of that place:
"Cathay Building & Cinema closed in December 1998. The 17th-storey building was the tallest building in South-east Asia when it was completed in October 1939.
Built by Frank Brewer, it was designed as a hotel. A subsequent glut of hotel space led to its transformation into an office building, both by filling in all the balconies, and making bay windows."
"Cathay building and cinema is now undergoing a S$100-million redevelopment which will see the construction of a new 15-storey complex, comprising offices, apartments, cinemas, and retail space. The historic building's brown-tiled facade will be preserved. The new complex will be ready by the end of 2005."
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"Closer to Bras Basah, the redeveloped Cathay Building will stand tall again at 17-storeys with 80 apartments and some 180,000 sq ft retail space come 2006/07.
Adjacent to Cathay Building is Cathay Apartments, which stands a good chance of being redeveloped into a 60,000 sq ft apartment tower with ground floor retail to take advantage of the renewed buzz in the area brought about by the presence of the SMU.
Centrepoint Properties' Mount Sophia site will generate 280 units and add to the variety of housing forms and choices available once completed. This cluster of new developments will add to the city-living developments in the area like The Bencoolen, Burlington Square and Sunshine Plaza.
It will not be a long shot to say that a sizeable portion of the built-up space in the new developments could be designed with the teaching professionals and student population in mind such as the two-bedroom units planned for the Cathay Building project."
I believe that the residents in the building are the construction workers who are working on the redevelopment project, hence explaining the lights that many have saw in the building at night. -
Eh, how come the building got my nickname "Kismet" on it .... errr ...Originally posted by PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0:Here's more photos of that place:
"Cathay Building & Cinema closed in December 1998. The 17th-storey building was the tallest building in South-east Asia when it was completed in October 1939.
Built by Frank Brewer, it was designed as a hotel. A subsequent glut of hotel space led to its transformation into an office building, both by filling in all the balconies, and making bay windows."
"Cathay building and cinema is now undergoing a S$100-million redevelopment which will see the construction of a new 15-storey complex, comprising offices, apartments, cinemas, and retail space. The historic building's brown-tiled facade will be preserved. The new complex will be ready by the end of 2005."
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Wah... long time never see the original cathay building... all i remember is it's in yellow... hahah