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Times of My Life
Times of my life
Times of my life
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Hi there,
A colleague saw your blog and linked us to it. I must say I absolutely love everything here! It’s fantastic!! Thanks for capturing all the nostalgia for us Singaporeans. It occured to me that maybe we should get all the SIngapore young kids to use your blog as a resource for their history lessons.
Keep up the good work. I’ll be back quite often!
Cheers
Bigdaddy
Thanks Bigdaddy and welcome here. Glad you like it.
Hi there,
Interesting entries. Hope you don’t mind me linking it.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Rene,
Welcome here and pls go ahead and link.
Really loved your entry on Plaza Sing. I too remember very fondly my days of sitting just below the escalator, waiting for mum to pick me up from music classes at Yamaha.
Hi,
Just wonder you can find this oldies ‘Butterfly’. I have been searching for this song but still couldn’t find any in the local CD shops.
Anywhere checked from intenet & the song was sang by Daniel Gerald seems like a French singer but without English lyrics. Can’t rembered the name of the singer who sang the English version.
Hi YE Xian, I don’t think I’ve this ‘Butterfly’ song. Sorry.
i need the old english song Tonight it’s a duetto
Sorry no song request here.
I was staying there at haig road fairdrive during the 80s for almost 10 years,Thanks for your blog it really brings back good memories during my childhood there. i do sometime travel back to katong just to relive those memories.
HI Damien,
Welcome here. Glad to find another one staying at Haig Road here. A place where there were many cinemas to choose from. BTW are you a swimming instructor too?
What a coincidence, I used to study in Haig Girls School, and together with fellow delinquent, Rita G.-who rode a mean bicycle (no Harleys in those days),we would streak n shriek our way down to Seaview Avenue and collect loads of tiny hermit crab shells at low tide.
We became such pros at playing truant that we would presuade the school jagar to let us keep our uniforms in his quarters so we could change into beachwear and galivant at will. We had very little pocket money but made up for this with lots of great laughs
Rita was a great swimmer and the old Chinese Swimming Club was a fave hangout during and after school.
I still remember the principals were Mrs Desker (lovely lady) then came Mrs. Szetoh (very different strain altogether).
Outside the school were a number of ’sagar seed’ trees.
The ground was always dotted with brightly lacquered seeds,
we loved it. It was pretty, free and kept us amused.
So cool remembering, promised myself I would rediscover the old neighborhood soon.
HI Thirdsister,
Thank you for your inputs. Do you remember which year was that (estimate)?
Hi Mr Lau
I need a photo image of the front of an old Singapore classroom ie. with the old blackboard, maybe a old clock, calendar, worldmap, on the wall. Do you know where and how I can get it? Appreciate any advice. Thanks!
Bigdaddy
HI Daddyto3,
You may try the PICAS search from National Archives of Singapore at;
http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/picas/public/internetSearch/
hi, i’m currently a fashion student and i’m actually researching on the topic of ‘popular shops and contemporary shopping practices’ of singapore in the 1970s. seeing how interesting your blog is, i wonder if you might be able to help me with it?
Hello, I came across this site when I was searching for some information on Cedar Girls. That Scottish costume was worn during the folk dancing. In old the days, Cedar was known for its folk dancing lead by the teacher with a big hairdo. Cannot remember her name, but she was hilarious. The principal was Mrs PC Tan - AND SHE WAS VERY STRICT;
I was there from 1966 to 1969 and really enjoy myself there.
Hi Cam,
Welcome here. I’m not sure if I’m of any help but you may email me your questions.
Hi CathyO,
Welcome here and so you are from Cedar. Wonder if such folk dance CCA still exits in Cedar now?
hi. i wonder if you’ve received my e-mail?
Hi Cam,
Yes already replied.
Hi Laokokok,
No i m not a swimming instructor. I m more of a footballer ha ha, i use to play football with friends at haig girls school grass field during my time there.
HI Damien,
Sorry, probably a mistaken identity haha.
Um, I’m a Vicotrian, and this year’s Opw (online project work) is about the history of katong. Mind if I borrow a few articles??
hi
i was from braddell rise primary too! born in year 1965. do you have siblings/cousin/friends that was from my batch, if so, please ask them to contact me. some of us met yesterday and we are trying to locate the other missing 27 .
Hi Zhe Chuan,
I’m aware of the OPW project for Sec.2, pls go ahead.
Hi Guat Bee,
Welcome here. I do not have any friends from Braddell Rise Pri, sorry. Anyone here can help??
Hi,
I wonder if it is possible for u to do a blog on Victoria school (from the early days to the site at Tyrwhitt road to Kallang then to the current site at Marine Parade). The old one in Tyrwhitt road is currently undergoing a re-construction; seems like it will be converted into People Association HQ.
Lots of fond memories there; classrooms with 8 doors, the raised corridoor, the attic of the library etc….
Thanks.
regards,
Ning
Hi Ning,
I’m not too sure if you mean more in details of Victoria School from past till now? I’ve already done one under the post “1 School 3 Generations” here.
Thanks, laokokok
Hi
Love the site - brings back a lot of memories!
My father was in the RAF and we lived in Changi in 1964/5 - I’m writing a novel based on my childhood and am trying to track down where we lived (unfortunately both my parents died in 1991).
I know it was away from the RAF camp and we lived opposite the jungle which had a kampong in it. Just over the road and in front of the jungle area there was a field of oxen. There was a small swamp at the end of the road and we were near a cemetery (not a christian cemetery)
I believe it was in the Siglap/Bedok area and thanks to Google Earth had worked out that it may have been Swan Lake Road in the Opera Estate as there used to be a kampong there and there is a cemetery next to the Flamingo condominium. But I remember mum and us kids walking to the ahma’s night market and have worked out that we walked along the Bedok canal, which seems to be a long way from Swan Lake Road?
Any ideas?
Cheers
Des
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I missed out the “1 School 3 Generations” article previously.
Love your blog site as it really have brings back lots of nostalgia memories.
regards,
Ning
Thanks for the memories. It’s very kind of you to share so much of the past with us. I’ve always wanted to embark on a similar project to chart the changing landscape in Singapore but no time la… you are even better, contextualize every memory and sharing that part of your life with us. I am very grateful to have stumbled upon your site, sheer force of serendipity.
Hi sgMyHome,
Thank you and welcome here. It will be good if everyone starts to embark on charting their experiences of life in Singapore. Ppl like Peter and Chun See (regulars here) who are 1 generation earlier than me may have different experience than mine, and you may also be different from theirs and mine too. So it will be interesting to read from different ppl though we are in the same island.
Hi Laokokok!
My name is Jean and I’m thoroughly enjoying walking down memory lane with your fab blog.I grew up in Katong in the 70s.I’ve already commented on 2 other posts here.I’ve sadly forgotten the name of the road we lived in.It was a discreet road by a side entrance to St.Patrick’s School.Can anyone help me?We lived a few houses away from St.Pat’s.I know it may sound silly but I can’t recall the road’s name.On one end there was St.Pat’s and on the other end it was my school KC, Karikal Road and the Grand Hotel.
Thanks for this blog Laokokok.Its certainly made my day.I’ll be back for more.
Hi Jean,
Welcome here and thank you for your comments and posts.
Hello
This is GREAT! I’ve enjoyed all the pics and your memories. I’m staying in Katong and loved the old photos.
I’m not originally from Singapore, but am working on a project and have to learn everything I can about Singapore in 1970 - 1975(info about day to day life is not so easy to find!)
Some of my questions are about what cars were popular, anything about gangs, China town, old Kampongs in rural areas, clothes, food (typical rich people’s dinner, poor people’s dinner), hawkers, boxing!, catching and training fighting spiders, fighting fish, making and flying kites, what teens got up to and how they got in trouble then, what clubs people went to, etc.
Any thoughts, memories, stories, etc would be interesting and greatly appreciated!! I hope this is bringing back some fun memories for you!!
I love all your details and hope you have some ideas about the above!
THANKS
Mez
hi, can you talk about vintage item from singapore like the metel coin bank that was given out in the past? they have few design from pig, rino .. any info on them?
thanks
HI Dave,
I’ve not come across any of this. Maybe others can help, anyone?