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Gor Zhang Chiu Kar
The spot where the five Angsana trees stand in Esplanade Park in popularly known in Hokkien as "gor zhang chiu kar", which means "under the shade of five trees". Between the 1960s and 1980s, this area...
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NAS 'Zoom Live' Experience
I would like to thank the National Archives of Singapore for giving me the opportunity to share my first personal experience and memories via 'Zoom'. This is the first time I am using 'Zoom' in the...
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60th Anniversary of Bukit Ho Swee fire in 1961
With courtesy of The Straits Times published on 24 May, 2021 to remind Singaporeans the Bukit Ho Swee for 60 years ago here . The earlier Bukit Ho Swee fire happened when Singapore was then a British...
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Zoom Teleconference Experience
With the courtesy of the National Archives of Singapore, I am pleased and humbled to be invited to share my first person childhood memories of Bukit Ho Swee kampong.Due to Covid19 safe distancing...
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Bukit Ho Swee: The Turning Point
Dr. Loh Kah SengThe title of this blog "Bukit Ho Swee - The Turning Point" is the chapter based on Dr Loh Kah Seng's contribution to ICAS Publications Series. The International Convention of Asia...
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Outram and 30 years after
Outram Secondary School's class of '62 had its first reunion. YEO TOON JOO, member of that class, looks back on its peculiar situation then.[Source: The Straits Times, 10 September 1992]'The students...
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Experience of fatherhood with love
Son,Every father would like to write a personal letter to his son about his fatherhood experience with love.Time is a strange thing. It's hard to appreciate what you have until you're looking back at...
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MM Lee's Eulogy to His Wife
By Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew[Source: Straits Times, 7 October 2010]Ancient peoples developed and ritualised mourning practices to express the shared grief of family and friends, and together show...
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Making Memories Count
Emotional connections: A photograph of Mr Gene Tan, director of the Singapore Memory Project, with his mother and three older siblings growing up in a one-room flat in Circuit Road.By Jennani DuraiThe...
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Royal Charter: From "Town of Singapore" to "City of Singapore" on 22...
This blog is inspired by Dr Tan Wee Kiat's latest "Singapore Stamp Stories" blog here . I haven't heard about 'City Day' in Singapore until this is mentioned in his blog. Every stamp tells a story....
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Old Buses in Singapore in the Past
My pioneer generation friends will remember how risky it was to cross the road after boarding the old bus in the 1960s.The bus commuters did not bother to queue and would rush for the bus once it...
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Traditional Chinese New Year Celebration
What is the difference of traditional Chinese New Year celebration and modern Chinese New Year celebration?Although Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is celebrated by Chinese Singaporean in Singapore,...
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Countdown 2020 at Our Tampines Hub
When I was a child in the 1950s in Bukit Ho Swee kampong where I was born, I have not heard about the 'New Year End Countdown'.The New Year End (NYE) countdown celebrations is very meaningful for every...
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Memories of schooldays past
In a land-scarce country where urban renewal takes place at a breathless pace and buildings are torn down relentlessly to make way for new developments, lone, unoccupied buildings and houses are as...
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Christmas spells merry-making
Christmas spells merry-making ... and jangle of cash registersBy Betty Khoo[Source: New Nation, 26 November 1971]Every year the Christmas cheer and celebration seems to get bigger and brighter. But...
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Our Forgotten Zoo
Singapore's first zoo, housed on the grounds of a family bungalow, had so many exotic animals like seals, tapirs, zebras and orang utans that even a visiting Albert Einstein was impressed.By Yuen...
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People's Market - If Walls Could Talk
SundayLife! traces the 118 year history of Lau Pa Sat, which went from a wet market close to the sea to a foodcourt surrounded by skyscrapers.By Clarissa Oon[Source: Straits Times, 22 July 2012]With...
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The real and reel of Edmund Chen
"To HOUGANG with LOVE ... from THE CHENS'I am surprised to bounce on this article by Lynn Lee in The Straits Times on 3 June 2005 to share on this blog.No, that's not the name of a new sitcom starring...
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A family takes in the museum
Raffles Museum (now National Museum of Singapore in 1950s. Photograph is taken by Dr Carl Gibson-Hill, Curator of Zoology, Raffles Museum, from 1947 to 1956 and Director from 1956 to 1963. [Courtesy...
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Shaik Kadir's Birthplace, a National Monument
BY:SHAIK KADIRFOR THE STRAITS TIMESThe writer is a retired teacher and author of several books[Source: The Straits Times, 17 January 2011]Not many people in their 60s these days have the good fortune...
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