Remembering Singapore the way it was
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
The coldest week temperature recorded in Singapore? If I am not wrong aobut 18c or 19cI know the coldest was in 1970 or 1969 but 21c or something. Even the cooking oil harden.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Remembering the fountains at the roudabouts of Marco Polo Hotel and at Holland Rd/Farrer Rd (if i got the rds wrong please correct)
Yes, the Tanglin Circus and Farrer Circus had fountains.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
I know the coldest was in 1970 or 1969 but 21c or something. Even the cooking oil harden.
The second coldest week was in 1986 it was raining cats and dogs for a week in Pulau Tekong and all the time we were out in the field,it was like training in Brunei good thing I brought a bottle of Chevas Regal with me>LOL -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
The second coldest week was in 1986 it was raining cats and dogs for a week in Pulau Tekong and all the time we were out in the field,it was like training in Brunei good thing I brought a bottle of Chevas Regal with me>LOLNot that cold in 1986, just cool in the night. Those big floods of yester years? Almost all corners flooded.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Not that cold in 1986, just cool in the night. Those big floods of yester years? Almost all corners flooded
Yes and dead livestocks floating around.Children making extra bucks pushing stalled cars.Ciros theater along with all the others slowly became a house of worship.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Yes and dead livestocks floating around.Children making extra bucks pushing stalled cars.Ciros theater along with all the others slowly became a house of worship.
Those cinemas were converted to place of worships in the 80s when videos killed them.
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Remember the 60s Cantonese dramas with always the bad mother-in-law tormenting the young daughter-in-law.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Remember the 60s Cantonese dramas with always the bad mother-in-law tormenting the young daughter-in-law.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Those cinemas were converted to place of worships in the 80s when videos killed them.
Geez I never thought about it...just thought certain denomination got rich and adventurous. -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Geez I never thought about it...just thought certain denomination got rich and adventurous. -
i remember canteen used to sell chicken rice at 50 cents each, a cup of soya milk at 10cents
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
The last movies I watched at Ciros were all Kung Fu movies..Dont know if you remember Alexander Fu Sheng,he died when he crashed his Porche.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Hahaha now it is the other way around>LOLI called that generation gap, something that call fall into.
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Originally posted by 2cansam:
i remember canteen used to sell chicken rice at 50 cents each, a cup of soya milk at 10cents
mid 70s?
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
I called that generation gap, something that call fall into.
I call it damn sway for the future mother in law of Ris Low -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
The last movies I watched at Ciros were all Kung Fu movies..Dont know if you remember Alexander Fu Sheng,he died when he crashed his Porche.
Not very familiar with the kung fu stars although there is always Wong Fei Hong on the soap.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Not very familiar with the kung fu stars although there is always Wong Fei Hong on the soap.
And the famous and hilarious Buddha's Palm.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Not very familiar with the kung fu stars although there is always Wong Fei Hong on the soap.
Anybody can play Wong Fei Hong but first you have to convince that person to spot a groovy hairstyle -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
mid 70s?
I know the Prince Edward Bus Terminal canteen sold that during the 70s.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Anybody can play Wong Fei Hong but first you have to convince that person to spot a groovy hairstyleOnly the skinny Kuan Tuck Heng and Sek Kin all the time never change the storylines also.
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And I remember there was a leper colony in Singapore somewhere and Singapore's very own 'Harvard' Woodbridge University >LOL
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
And I remember there was a leper colony in Singapore somewhere and Singapore's very own 'Harvard' Woodbridge University >LOL
You mean behind Woodbridge Hospital, the Trafalgar Home where they housed the lepers.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Only the skinny Kuan Tuck Heng and Sek Kin all the time never change the storylines also.
but still housewives would watch them and tell the kids what was going to happen in the next scene.And those Tamil Movies and P Ramlee Malay movies......all same same.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
You mean behind Woodbridge Hospital, the Trafalgar Home where they housed the lepers.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
but still housewives would watch them and tell the kids what was going to happen in the next scene.And those Tamil Movies and P Ramlee Malay movies......all same same.
Remember Hamid Bond, the joker?