Remembering Singapore the way it was
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Basket!!!! You so fast 'recognise' relatives!
There were not many rich families then that is why -
Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Basket!!!! You so fast 'recognise' relatives!
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
There were not many rich families then that is whyCome to think of it, there are plenty of rich people in Singapore then.
The Korean and Vietnam Wars rubber boom created many rich people. Even the coolies are earning $300-500 a month. A terrace house then is only about $7000-$8000. Some amahs worked for the Brits soldiers owns quite a few houses too.
The ones that doesn't benefits much durings the 50s-70s are the small businesses and the hawkers. Anything angmohs were big fat profits.
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I think I posted this before.
But heck.....just for the fun of it again.
At the front yard of the zinc roof kampung house at Gulliegard Road. Now Singapore expo.
We were the atas family in that kampung. Got big tv and got flush toliets.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
I think I posted this before.
But heck.....just for the fun of it again.
At the front yard of the zinc roof kampung house at Gulliegard Road. Now Singapore expo.
We were the atas family in that kampung. Got big tv and got flush toliets.
You mean Geluga Road or Somapah Road?
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
4-D number alert! 4 -D number alert! 4-D number alert! -
Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
You mean Geluga Road or Somapah Road?
No no....its Gulliegard Road. I saw it on my baby brother's Birth Cert. -
Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Come to think of it, there are plenty of rich people in Singapore then.
The Korean and Vietnam Wars rubber boom created many rich people. Even the coolies are earning $300-500 a month. A terrace house then is only about $7000-$8000. Some amahs worked for the Brits soldiers owns quite a few houses too.
The ones that doesn't benefits much durings the 50s-70s are the small businesses and the hawkers. Anything angmohs were big fat profits.
Like the way you described it and that is the whole truth. -
I actually had copies of my papa's NS cert and Birth Certs and Adoption papers.
Somehow, the scanning or the scanned format is wrong. So I have no choice but to delete those documents from my drives.
Too bad. And I just deleted them off just this morning! I no longer hold the hard copies.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
I think I posted this before.
But heck.....just for the fun of it again.
At the front yard of the zinc roof kampung house at Gulliegard Road. Now Singapore expo.
We were the atas family in that kampung. Got big tv and got flush toliets.
Where is/was Gulliegard Road?
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I think I still have my pink colour NRIC somewhere......with two holes punched into them to indicate they are now invalid......those days in pigtails photo and pinafore school uniform......
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Onlyl one Guillimard road or something like that.All old certificates and offical documents were spelled by people who didint go to school back then>LOL
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Where is/was Gulliegard Road?
Where Singapore Expo now stands. -
Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
I think I still have my pink colour NRIC somewhere......with two holes punched into them to indicate they are now invalid......those days in pigtails photo and pinafore school uniform......
the laminated one with the large thumbprint? -
Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Where Singapore Expo now stands.I know the area was Somapah Rd and left turn to Geluga Rd, going straight you hit the sea at Air Gemuruh.
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Bye.
Chat later.
Dinner's ready.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Onlyl one Guillimard road or something like that.All old certificates and offical documents were spelled by people who didint go to school back then>LOL
Gulliemard road still around what. Pararell to Old Airport Road and adjacent to the Geyland lorongs.And I kinda just sold off my Jalan Dua's flat last year.....so I roughly know lah.
I had a grandma that sold fake tooth and dental equipments and them families are still operating that business at Race Course Road. Temple of Thousand Lights....moha bodhi school.......
And my maternal side was or still in construction........my mother's favourite recollection of her youth is how she was always chauffered to school by a ahmad in a jagaur. We always were able to collect those red seeds from the sagara trees lining Katong area.
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Ya... in the past only sg'reans and most probably... malaysians... now become rojak...
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
I know the area was Somapah Rd and left turn to Geluga Rd, going straight you hit the sea at Air Gemuruh.
if you are refering to left turns, then you are 1/2 right there. Though you probably are talking of earlier times. Of roads or kampung nearby the same area. -
Anyone remembers the big pond at Outram Park estate? There were a few tortoises there. And there was a Da1 Ren2 emporium at the estate.
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Ex-classmate just recognised her cousin and linked me to her thru this old photo on facebook.
Lets see whether I can found more ex classmates from Changkat Changi Primary School. Roughly 1981-1985.
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I lost touch with all my school friends except for army friends.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
I lost touch with all my school friends except for army friends.
Still in touch with a few school mates. Some went back to Malaysia.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Still in touch with a few school mates. Some went back to Malaysia.
I remember you once wrote something about WW2.My uncle was only 14 or 15 but still he was forced to go up the truck although that was not supposed to happen,he was never seen again.Of course you not my uncle lah but just sharing this with you also>LOL