Remembering Singapore the way it was
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recovering from flu so I better try to get some sleep ....to be continued
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Went into Malaysia with my landlord early yesterday morning.
Have I ever mentioned that he loves old stuff?
He bought me to this place called Cendol Factory. And they do serve fairly good Chendol. The place is pretty modern with Chendol green coloured walls and dark modern furniture with some old type furnitures for decoration.
I was still suffering from the effect of my dentist trip in JB, so didnt take pictures. I was eyeing a particular old style drawer unit there and landlord tells me. He was eyeing that piece of furniture too!
And when I was flipping thru the 2007 year Malaysian Her World Magazine. It mentioned some old places and stuff that is no longer in Singapore!
Landlord was telling me how he cannot find a particular Macdonalds ad from Youtube. And I remembered a bit about it.
There was a bunch of school kids supposedly going to the zoo (We all know zoo never had macdonalds outlets.) It started to rain and teachers and kids all cramp into a macdonalds outlet and had fun with some macdonalds kids meals toys. When the rain kinda stopped. The children all put on rain boots and duck yellow raincoats, and sang something like a duck song and lined up and walked thru the puddles of rain like little duckies following their teachers.
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Then just now. I was flipping thru Weekender Today newspaper (provided free to town area residents).
They showed a particular room in Chendol Green wall and wallpapers. Nicely done up.
I really want to get my own place and paint it Chendol Green and mix is with maybe wallpapers that is Singapore old Army Uniform Camo greens!
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I should have stolen the Her World Magazine from the Cendol Factory cafe.
Now I can't seem to remember what was in that magazine that mentioned old Singapore thingy. Gawwwwww!
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Went into Malaysia with my landlord early yesterday morning.
Have I ever mentioned that he loves old stuff?
He bought me to this place called Cendol Factory. And they do serve fairly good Chendol. The place is pretty modern with Chendol green coloured walls and dark modern furniture with some old type furnitures for decoration.
I was still suffering from the effect of my dentist trip in JB, so didnt take pictures. I was eyeing a particular old style drawer unit there and landlord tells me. He was eyeing that piece of furniture too!
And when I was flipping thru the 2007 year Malaysian Her World Magazine. It mentioned some old places and stuff that is no longer in Singapore!
Landlord was telling me how he cannot find a particular Macdonalds ad from Youtube. And I remembered a bit about it.
There was a bunch of school kids supposedly going to the zoo (We all know zoo never had macdonalds outlets.) It started to rain and teachers and kids all cramp into a macdonalds outlet and had fun with some macdonalds kids meals toys. When the rain kinda stopped. The children all put on rain boots and duck yellow raincoats, and sang something like a duck song and lined up and walked thru the puddles of rain like little duckies following their teachers.
In old days Chendol only have the red beans and green bean stripes with gula melaka and rich coconut milk. At most attap seeds added.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
In old days Chendol only have the red beans and green bean stripes with gula melaka and rich coconut milk. At most attap seeds added.
Probaby can still get this kind of cendol in ulu areas of Johore like Mersing.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Probaby can still get this kind of cendol in ulu areas of Johore like Mersing.
Not anymore lah, the last one I had was in Kuala Lipis.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Not anymore lah, the last one I had was in Kuala Lipis.
see la even food becoming extinct not just animals and insects -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
see la even food becoming extinct not just animals and insectseven the wet markets are going to be history, the supermarkets are taking over with govt backing.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
even the wet markets are going to be history, the supermarkets are taking over with govt backing.
Anything smelly must go.Yes ,you did say you had swum in the rivers when you were a kid...how you tahan ar? River clean up didnt happen until decades later and before that Kallang must have been the mother of all champion rivers. -
Right now listening to grandmother songs, one from the movie 'Music Man' by Shirley Jones title is 'Till there was you'
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Anything smelly must go.Yes ,you did say you had swum in the rivers when you were a kid...how you tahan ar? River clean up didnt happen until decades later and before that Kallang must have been the mother of all champion rivers.Not stink during high tide near Fullerton back in the 40s.
Dad bought a membership of the Chinese Swimming Club in Katong after the war knowing I like to swim. I swam on every weekend.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Right now listening to grandmother songs, one from the movie 'Music Man' by Shirley Jones title is 'Till there was you'
Yup too old lah.
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A walk down memory lane reading these posts......
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Not stink during high tide near Fullerton back in the 40s.
Dad bought a membership of the Chinese Swimming Club in Katong after the war knowing I like to swim. I swam on every weekend.
Wow your dad also elite> Don't know how much a member at CSC would cost these days but in the old days you just have to be a Chinese>LOL.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Wow your dad also elite> Don't know how much a member at CSC would cost these days but in the old days you just have to be a Chinese>LOL.
Singapore Swimming Club only for the ang mohs. Chinese can swam in Chinese Swimming Club only.
Apartheid existed then.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Yup too old lah.
Songs like those help me keep in touch with the past so that I can write better in this thread.As a music lover I would look into the lyrics as well and see the chimness of the song.Hahaha -
Originally posted by 4sg:
A walk down memory lane reading these posts......
Always welcome and do feel free to write anything in here. -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Songs like those help me keep in touch with the past so that I can write better in this thread.As a music lover I would look into the lyrics as well and see the chimness of the song.HahahaTry these.
Don Henley - End of the Innocence
John Farham - You're the Voice
More you listen to these stuffs, the more you can write in Speaker's Corner.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Singapore Swimming Club only for the ang mohs. Chinese can swam in Chinese Swimming Club only.
Apartheid existed then.
The mixed went to the Tiger Swimming Club opposite Haw Par Villa.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Try these.
Don Henley - End of the Innocence
John Farham - You're the Voice
More you listen to these stuffs, the more you can write in Speaker's Corner.
We have the same listening taste.Like that I wonder what those wall of text writers listen to everyday?LOL.Check out Jim Brickman on You Tube.If only people listen to songs like his......Aunt Agony can close shop oreddy.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
The mixed went to the Tiger Swimming Club opposite Haw Par Villa.
You mean the Indians?LOL -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
You mean the Indians?LOLOther than the ang mohs. LOL..
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
We have the same listening taste.Like that I wonder what those wall of text writers listen to everyday?LOL.Check out Jim Brickman on You Tube.If only people listen to songs like his......Aunt Agony can close shop oreddy.
Probably why we bother to reply each other in this thread.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Probably why we bother to reply each other in this thread.
Singapore was the bully kecik team in the Malaysia Cup up till the 70s.10 long years never lost a single game at the Kallang Stadium until David Lee let in one through a corner and Kelantan became the first team to beat Singapore fair and square (No kelong but got referee kayu)