Remembering Singapore the way it was

• Shorter ninja

  9 Mar 10, 08:57

  I wonder if they still have those 'Tikam Tikam' tickets where kids kena scam into believing they could scratch and win something.Then when they grow up they wouldnt mind paying $100 entry fee to play more tikam tikam.

• Marco_Simone

  9 Mar 10, 11:47

  Can someone tell me what's the round building in the bottom right side of this pic?

  http://202.172.178.226/DJVUServer/getImage.jsp?file=/picas_data/tn_pcd/19980006625-8105-3181-1815/img0015.jpg

• Shorter ninja

  9 Mar 10, 12:07

  Simi pic? NPNT

• Dondontan

  9 Mar 10, 12:15

  Aunties talk about Pek Sun Teng.    Is this an old place in Singapore?  Where is this place?

• Shorter ninja

  9 Mar 10, 12:18

  I wonder if pictures are not allowed in the forums..havent seen one for quite some time

• sbst275

  25 Mar 10, 22:12

  Originally posted by Dondontan:

  Aunties talk about Pek Sun Teng.    Is this an old place in Singapore?  Where is this place?

  
  Bishan

• Shorter ninja

  26 Mar 10, 11:35

  Keep this topic alive!

• Arapahoe

  26 Mar 10, 11:50

  I recalled when i was a kid i saw old lady put 10 cents coin to cover their ears.....

• Barbara

  26 Mar 10, 12:00

  i was wondering how singapore looks like without mrts....and better still, without all the expressways....can't imagine how ppl then travel from one end to the other, might take a few hrs!

  i miss fantasy island in sentosa. wild wild wet cannot be compared to fantasy island, the thrill while on those rides is not comparable.

  and oso the ch8 tv shows. the stroy plots in gernaral are more interesting than the last few years.

• Dondontan

  26 Mar 10, 12:02

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  Bishan

  
  Bishan?   Someone told me it is Bright Hill

• Shorter ninja

  26 Mar 10, 12:46

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  I recalled when i was a kid i saw old lady put 10 cents coin to cover their ears.....

  
  hahaha that was my granma nad her ears were like her purse.Old people used to  that cuz 10 cents could  buy a few things.back then.

• Shorter ninja

  26 Mar 10, 12:50

  Originally posted by Barbara:

  i was wondering how singapore looks like without mrts....and better still, without all the expressways....can't imagine how ppl then travel from one end to the other, might take a few hrs!

  i miss fantasy island in sentosa. wild wild wet cannot be compared to fantasy island, the thrill while on those rides is not comparable.

  and oso the ch8 tv shows. the stroy plots in gernaral are more interesting than the last few years.

  
  A drive from Queenstown to Changi point was about 1 and a half hours

• _Da_Dood_

  26 Mar 10, 15:06

  Originally posted by Dondontan:

  
  Bishan?   Someone told me it is Bright Hill

  
  its very near RI...its a place where pple are laid to rest...

• mancha

  27 Mar 10, 18:56

  This was Raffles Place before before before ....

  

• Shorter ninja

  28 Mar 10, 00:47

  thats a good ole pic Mancha

• JJxJJ

  28 Mar 10, 13:46

  Originally posted by Marco_Simone:

  Can someone tell me what's the round building in the bottom right side of this pic?

  http://202.172.178.226/DJVUServer/getImage.jsp?file=/picas_data/tn_pcd/19980006625-8105-3181-1815/img0015.jpg

  isn't it the shorter 1 of the 2 towers (Swissotel)

• Shorter ninja

  19 Apr 10, 14:42

  I remember somewhere in the 60s when the Queen visited Singapore.The garmen build two long rows of wooden fence at the edge of both sides of the road to hide the kampung and wooden houses all along after Paya lebar Airport.They should have just blind folded the Queen to save all that trouble.

• Arapahoe

  19 Apr 10, 20:54

  Originally posted by Shorter ninja:

  I remember somewhere in the 60s when the Queen visited Singapore.The garmen build two long rows of wooden fence at the edge of both sides of the road to hide the kampung and wooden houses all along after Paya lebar Airport.They should have just blind folded the Queen to save all that trouble.

  
  hey welcome back thought you get caught with the Ashes or Earthquake...ha ha ha

• Shorter ninja

  22 Apr 10, 13:51

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  
  hey welcome back thought you get caught with the Ashes or Earthquake...ha ha h

  Thanks.I went back to SIngapore with my family to try the Singapore Flyyer,Singapore Night Safari and Singapore Universal Studio.....must say Singapore three times then people know that everything with the word 'Singapore' means spend money.

• Arapahoe

  22 Apr 10, 17:19

  Originally posted by Shorter ninja:

  Thanks.I went back to SIngapore with my family to try the Singapore Flyyer,Singapore Night Safari and Singapore Universal Studio.....must say Singapore three times then people know that everything with the word 'Singapore' means spend money.

  
  alas should have pm me and we can meet up.

  Anyway thank you for stimulating the Singapore economy and continue to be a royal Citizen or excitizen of Singapore.

  any site that you visited and was not there anymore?  

   

   

• Shorter ninja

  26 Apr 10, 08:42

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  
  alas should have pm me and we can meet up.

  Anyway thank you for stimulating the Singapore economy and continue to be a royal Citizen or excitizen of Singapore.

  any site that you visited and was not there anymore?  

   

   

  Honestly,spending  lots of money stimulate my wife more than the Singapore economy>LOL

• Arapahoe

  26 Apr 10, 14:30

  Originally posted by Shorter ninja:

  Honestly,spending  lots of money stimulate my wife more than the Singapore economy>LOL

  hey so long as they are contented and you will be a happy camper.

   

• chase788

  26 Apr 10, 16:39

   

  so much about our little island.

   

  Old bedok centre with video arcades and rubiks cube (the toy was at its craze back then).

  
  Those katong ah beng billiard and arcade centres with ah lians in tow.

   

  Streetfighter machines.

  
  Marina Square kids with funny hair and ugly jeans.

   

  Branded Jean Paul Gaultier bengs walking down orchard road.

   

  
  Teenage textbook and army daze.

   

  Chaplins bar at Holland V.

• Hitman+

  27 Apr 10, 13:32

  remebers east coast lagoon....only went there once.it had lotsa edible siput reddish flesh shell fish and one time i saw a squid squirting ink and running away from me......thats was my only time i saw a sotong!!!!it was fast.

  singapore those days had waters fulla edible sea creatures and great shellfish.

• Kawac151

  27 Apr 10, 13:41

  Originally posted by Hitman+:

  remebers east coast lagoon....only went there once.it had lotsa edible siput reddish flesh shell fish and one time i saw a squid squirting ink and running away from me......thats was my only time i saw a sotong!!!!it was fast.

  singapore those days had waters fulla edible sea creatures and great shellfish.

  
  Yeah, and the sotong squirted ink at your face when while it's running away. I get your point.