Remembering Singapore the way it was

last SG · 2009-09-29T12:02:51+00:00

Time moves pretty fast. Speaking of those days, I'm probably the last 20th century kid who still remember everything, before 21st century.

Short Ninja SG

Basket!!!! You so fast 'recognise' relatives!

There were not many rich families then that is why

Chew Bakar SG

Basket!!!! You so fast 'recognise' relatives!

viciouskitty74 SG

Chew Bakar SG

There were not many rich families then that is why

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.

viciouskitty74 SG

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.

Chew Bakar SG

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?

Short Ninja SG

4-D number alert! 4 -D number alert! 4-D number alert!

viciouskitty74 SG

You mean Geluga Road or Somapah Road?

No no....its Gulliegard Road. I saw it on my baby brother's Birth Cert.

Short Ninja SG

Come to think of it, there are plenty of rich people in Singapore then.

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.

viciouskitty74 SG

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.

Short Ninja SG

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?

viciouskitty74 SG

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......

Short Ninja SG

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

viciouskitty74 SG

Where is/was Gulliegard Road?

Where Singapore Expo now stands.

Short Ninja SG

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?

Chew Bakar SG

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.

Chew Bakar SG

Bye.

Chat later.

Dinner's ready.

viciouskitty74 SG

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.

caleb_chiang SG

Ya... in the past only sg'reans and most probably... malaysians... now become rojak...

viciouskitty74 SG

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.

« Previous Page Next Page »