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History Becomes Memory,
Memory is not Psychology;
It is historiography.Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-85268748298464883742024-01-16T12:09:00.005+08:002024-01-17T17:20:40.305+08:00Mythical Dragon Has Landed SYSNMH<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div>Usher in the Year of the Dragon is approaching... this year 2024 will bring more festives, workshops, touring temples and more!<div><b>Lawn Installation: Prosperity All Year LONG</b></div><div>The word 'LONG' rings the bell to me if I could remember reading the book somewhere long ago.</div><div>In Chinese culture, there are four mythical dragons that hold significant symbolism and represent different aspects of nature and power. Well, these dragons are reversed and have been an integral part of Chinese mythology for centuries.</div><div><b>LONG Dragon:</b> The LONG dragon, also known as the <b>Yinglong</b>, is the most commonly depicted dragon in Chinese culture. It is believed to have control over rain and water, symbolising abundance and fertility. The LONG dragon is often portrayed with a serpentine body and a fiery pearl, representing wisdom and spiritual enlightenment.</div><div>Other three mythical dragons are: <b>LUNG Dragon</b> refers as FU Dragon, <b>FEI LIAN Dragon</b> known as Flying Dragon or Wind Dragon is associated with storms and tempests, and lastly the <b>Qiulong Dragon</b> referred as the Horned Dragon is associated with waterfalls and flowing rivers, often portrayed with multiple horns on its head and a serpentine body.<br><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Four-Metres Tall Twin Dragons</b></div><div>Titled Prosperity All Year LONG, this year’s lawn installation is a collaboration between SYSNMH and local toy designer and artist Ziqi. It features the designer’s popular character, Dino, reimagined and redesigned in a collaboration with Japanese artist Yasu (EBINEKOYA).</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>The Striking of Mononoke Dinos</b></div><div>Dressed in auspicious colours of red and orange, the Mononoke Dinos are a modern interpretation of the mythical dragon and as with dragons, they symbolise success, strength, nobility, abundance and good luck. Moreover, the presence of twin dragons represents a “doubling” of opportunities and good fortune in the year ahead.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Cute Mononoke Dinos</b></div><div>This installation therefore conveys the Memorial Hall’s wish for success, abundance and good luck for our visitors, for Singaporeans, and for Singapore in the year 2024. It will be on display on the lawn of the Memorial Hall until 25 February 2024.</div></div><div>Come and celebrate in the year of the Dragon at SYSNMH with friends and family with full of joyous and prosperous lunar new year. The fun never stops at SYSNMH.</div><div><br></div><div>Programmes highlights as below:</div><div><b>Auspicious Lion & Dragon Dance Performance</b></div><div>Date: 10 February 2024</div><div>Time: 10am – 11am</div><div>Admission: Free</div><div><b>God of Fortune Visit</b> </div><div>Date: 10 February 2024</div><div>Time: 10am – 12pm</div><div>Admission: Free</div><div><b>Lunar New Year Free Admission</b></div><div>Date: 10 & 11 February 2024 (LNY Day 1 & 2)</div><div>Time: 10am – 5pm (Last admission at 4.30pm)</div><div>Admission: Free</div><div><b>Wan Qing Festival of Spring Weekend Open House</b></div><div>Date: 17 & 18 February 2024</div><div>Time: 10am - 7pm</div><div>Admission: Free admission with some ticketed activities.</div><div><br></div><div>Public are encouraged to participate at the workshops, touring temples and food trail that can be purchase tickets via Peatix from <b>19th January 2024</b>, 10am onwards.</div><div>For more information about Wan Qing Festival of Spring 2024, please visit SYSNMH’s website (https://www.sysnmh.org.sg/en) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/sysnmh) throughout the festival period.</div><div>Below are some of the photos taken during preview.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>The kids are having fun on the ride.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Meanwhile... I run out of ideas of what these two mononoke dinos talking to each other.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>This is how these two dinos are trying to act as mythical dragon. Giggles</div><div><br></div><div>The Chinese Lunar New Year 2024 is not just a passage of time, but a celebration of life, relationships, and the hope for a prosperous year ahead. May this Chinese New Year bring joy, prosperity, and happiness to you and your loved ones.</div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-90067630079890619912023-08-28T23:30:00.000+08:002023-08-30T01:31:14.657+08:00Panda Paw-trait celebrates Mid-Autumn Fest.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>This year’s annual outdoor lantern installation titled <b>A Mid-Autumn Paw-trait</b>, be greeted by two adorable giant panda lanterns as they call the front lawn of the Memorial Hall home for the festival period.<br></div><div>Roll into the “panda-stic” festivities of Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival 2023 at the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall from 29 August to 1 October 2023.</div><div>The installation will be on display on the green lawn of the Memorial Hall from 29 August to 1 October 2023, daily from 10am to 9pm. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Hokkien Perfect Match game</b></div><div>For this year’s festival, SYSNMH has teamed up with various clan associations to present programmes for visitors of all ages to learn more about the dialect cultures of the Chinese community.</div><div>Challenge your mastery of Hokkien and Mandarin through games such as “mix and match” and tongue twisters brought to you by Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan.</div><div><b>Drop-in Activity Station: Language Game Fun</b></div><div>(Supported by Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan)</div><div>Date: 23 & 24 September 2023</div><div>Time: 10.30am – 6.30pm</div><div>Admission: Free</div><div><br></div><div>Discover the story and traditions behind Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the oldest cultural festivals in the world, and revel in the rich historical and cultural significance of the festival with a line-up of live performances, cultural workshops, heritage walking tours, storytelling sessions, and more during the weekend open house. Highlights for the Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival Open House include a Teochew Cultural Trail by the Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan, a Hokkien Song & Rhymes Workshop by Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan, and a Parent-Child Hakka Abacus Seeds Making Workshop by Nanyang Hakka Federation.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information about the Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival, please visit SYSNMH’s website (https://www.sysnmh.org.sg/en) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/sysnmh) throughout the festival period from 29 August to 1 October 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>Below photos taken during media preview - 28th August 2023:</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Thanks to Alvin & his team for the invite and thumps up for their great work/job.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-70242562986046939282023-01-08T11:33:00.001+08:002023-01-08T11:33:51.328+08:00CNY Temple Tours & Trail<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>This Lunar New Year is a time of family reunion and festive cheer celebrated by Chinese and other Asian communities. Other than celebrating with family and friends, many Chinese also make it a point to visit temples during CNY (Chinese New Year), arguably the most important traditional festival and holiday for the Chinese.</div><div><br></div><div>Let take a quick peek thru two temples that I attended a preview on the 5th January 2023 in the morning.</div><div><b>Poh Chung Tian Chor Sian Tong (普忠殿助善堂)</b> and its rich history.</div><div>A quaint temple is nestled and dwarfed by public housing estates that no one noticed where it comes from in the first place! Not far from the main busy road that hardly seen by the public.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>The main hall</b></div><div>The main deity of the Poh Chung Tian Chor Sian Tong Temple is <b>Dai Song Sam Tiong Ong 大宋三忠王</b> (San Zhong Wang), thus referring to the three faithful officials <b>Wen Tian Xiang</b>, <b>Lu Xiu Fu</b> and <b>Zhang Shi Jie</b>, who lived during Southern Song Dynasty.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Some of the photos taken during preview (5th Jan 2023) as below</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>A Dragon</b></div><div>A symbol of taoism is embedded on the ground between the two ancient horses, is called Tai Ji signifying the Supreme Ultimate. It represents the opposing energy forces, Yin (negative) and Yang (positive), darkness and light respectively, that complement and counterbalance each other to attain the true harmony and final unity, the TAO</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Beautiful art of paintings were hanged on the wall of the Archway outside the temple.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><b>Toa Payoh Seu Teck Sean Tong (大芭窑修德善堂)</b><br></div><div>One of the many temples build in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to commemorate Song Da Feng 宋大峰 (b. 1039) during Song Dynasty of China. <br></div><div>The Toa Payoh Seu Teck Sean Tong Temple had its humble beginnings in an attap-roofed hut in the then Boon Teck road (Hup Choon Hng). Established in 1942, the temple is part of the shan tang (charitable and religious institutions prominent in Southern China in the 17th century) network.<br></div><div>As part of shan tang (善堂) tradition, an altar dedicated to Reverend Song Dafeng (宋大峰) was blessed in Singapore’s first shan tang, the Seu Teck Sean Tong Yian Sin Sia (founded in 1916), before being installed in presently Toa Payoh temple.<br></div><div>After the Japanese Occupation, a purpose-built temple on the site of its current location was completed in 1959. Besides its religious function, the Seu Teck Sean Tong Temple also carries out activities in accordance with the shan tang mission.<br></div><div><b>Brief history of Shantang (善堂) and Song Dafeng (宋大峰)</b></div><div><i>Teochew Shantang (善堂) is a type of charitable organization with a religious component. The first shantang was built in Heping, Chaoyang (广东潮阳和平), in honour of Buddhist monk Song Dafeng (宋大峰), which is also the town that he was buried. Song Dafeng was born in AD1039 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang (浙江温州), and was appointed as magistrate of Shaoxing, Zhejiang after passing his imperial examinations. But he was disappointed with the corruption and inefficiency of the system and so he quit his job to do charitable works, mostly in Fujian and Chaoshan. After spending several years in Fujian he moved on to He Ping Village in Chaoyang, Guangdong, where he continued his good works, and his most significant project was to build He Ping Bridge (和平桥 Bridge of Peace) for the ease of travelling across the river and served as an alternative to boats.</i><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><b>Ancentral Tablets Hall</b></div><div style="">Ancestral Tablets - The “Xiu De Tang” (修德堂) Ancestral Hall is located in the second section of the Temple, directly behind the Main Prayer Hall. It is a two storey building housing ancestral tablets in multi-tier sections.</div><div style="">My late grandparents and their family, their urns that are placed in the niches, still keep in this hall about 3 or 4 decades ago till present except my late grandma's grave (buried in 1999 at CCK cemetary) was exhumed a few years ago and moved in and her niche was reserved a long time ago.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Columbarium Hall</b></div><div>The “Gui De Lou” 歸 德 樓 Columbarium Hall is located at the third section of the Temple, directly behind the Ancestral Hall. It is a five-storey building. This building offers members of the Temple the facility to house the ashes in honour of their forebears and relatives. It is a traditional way for the living to perpetuate the memory of their beloved ancestors and relatives. <br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Pictures Of 24 Filial Piety Stories at the top level is seen as above picture.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Seu Teck Sean Tong was a Chinese clan charitable institution that provided free Traditional Chinese Medical services to the public irrespective of religion and creed at no charge, thus benefited to many and the name of the 'Sean Tong' became well known to the people . The organisation established multiple branches over the years.<br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Blue Cross Charitable logo</b></div><div>Currently, the temple also houses a kidney dialysis unit. Toa Payoh Seu Teck Sean Tong was one of the Blue Cross Charitable Institutions, to help the war victims in the past.</div><div><br></div><div>Some photos taken during preview on 5th Jan 23 as below:</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Main Deity Hall</div><div>The Reverend 'Song Dafeng' occupies the central position on the altar in the main prayer hall. It is understood that Song Da-Feng’s birthday falls on the 29th day of the tenth lunar month and a one day prayer ceremony to celebrate the occasion will be held in this temple’s premises.<br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>The Mural Wall</b></div><div><div>The bluestone slab reliefs and inscriptions on the stone walls on both sides of the archway, telling the story of Song Dafeng's birth. Family deeds and the spirit of helping those in need.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The TCM Clinic</div><div>TCM Clinic established in 1967, provided by the Shan Tang the internal medicine and acupuncture services are completely free.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>39 Adorable Hongbao Designs</b></div><div>Now in its 9th edition, the 2023 Museum Roundtable Lunar New Year Hongbao Campaign returns with new red packet designs based on the Zodiac Year of the Rabbit!<br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>A Collector's Album</b></div><div>Each Collector’s Album will include two full sets of special red packet designs from our 39 participating museums displayed in a customised album. The red packets in the albums are not identical to the red packets available for collection at participating MR members – the key difference is that the red packets in the album will feature a pink background colour, while those available for collection at the 39 participating museums will feature a red background colour.</div><div><br></div><div>A limited quantity of 450 albums will be available for purchase only at Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall (12 Tai Gin Road Singapore 327874) on 14, 15 and 20 January 2023, while stocks last. Please note that NHB does not sell the Collector’s Album at any of its other museums or offices.<br></div><div>Each album will be sold at <b>SGD $88</b> nett. Each person is limited to the purchase of only one album during the sales period. As the payment for and collection of the Collector’s Album will be a physical event, the purchase of the albums is available only to persons in Singapore.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Limited Edition Collector's album.</u></b><br></div><div><div><i>Pre-register for a purchase slot.</i></div><div>Registration opens on 9th Jan 2023 at 10am at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-museum-roundtable-hongbao-campaign-sale-of-collectors-albums-tickets-494502970697">https://mrhongbao.eventbrite.com</a></div><div>Pls note that sales of the collector's albums on 14 & 15 Jan 2023 are restricted to individuals who have sucessfully obtained a time slot on either date. No walk-in purchase to individual without a time slot on either of these two dates will be allowed.</div><div>For those interested members of the public may choose to walk-in to Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial to purchase a collector's album on 20th Jan 2023, on a first-come, first-served basic.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>3 of the 39 red packet designs</b></div><div>Each Museum and gallery for MR Hongbao 2023 pack contains eight pieces of red packets and is limited to one pack per visitor.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Meet the newest Museum Roundtable member, Children's Museum Singapore, who will be participating in Hongbao Campaign! </div></div><div>Children's Museum Singapore is the newest member that joined in October 2022, and is participating in the Hongbao Campaign for the first time.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>16 of the 39 red packet designs</b></div><div>So.... curious to know which museums and galleries are participating in this year’s Hongbao campaign?</div><div><br></div><div>Please <a href="https://www.nhb.gov.sg/what-we-do/our-work/sector-development/museum-roundtable/2023-museum-roundtable-lunar-new-year-hongbao-campaign#list"><b>click here</b></a> to view the list of participating museums and galleries, their red packet collection addresses and collection criteria.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Members of the public can visit the following link for more information on the museum Roundtable Lunar New Year Hongbao Campaign: <a href="https://www.nhb.gov.sg/what-we-do/our-work/sector-development/museum-roundtable/2023-museum-roundtable-lunar-new-year-hongbao-campaign">https//go.gov.sg/mrhongbao2023</a></div><div><br></div><div>Below are the photos taken during preview on 3rd Jan 2023.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>At last but not least...</div><div><b>Lunar New Year Celebration @ the National Museum of Singapore</b></div><div>Venue: National Museum of Singapore</div><div>Date: 4th Feburary 2023</div><div>Free admission to the museum permanent galleries on 4th Feb.</div><div>So...Hopping into the Lunar New Year at the NMS with your family and friends, with an exciting array of activities prepared to usher in the Year of the Rabbit. From the lively lion dance performance to hands-on activities when you can create your Lunar New Year memontoes based on the museum's collection, there is something for everyone to experence at the museum!</div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-38829672025131510792022-12-30T18:46:00.001+08:002022-12-30T18:46:41.410+08:00Hopping to the Year of the Rabbit 2023<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div>Hopping to the Year of the Rabbit 2023 at Wan Qing Festival of Spring located at SYSNMH!<div>Join us for a festival weekend Open House on the 4th & 5th Feb 2023 (Sat & Sun) 10a.m to 7p.m.</div><div><u>Festival Installation</u></div><div><u><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></u><div style="text-decoration-line: underline;">"<b>Bunny-ful</b>" Blessings (Supported by Hong Kong-based illustrator and designer Chan Siu Kau)</div><div style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Date: 29 Dec 2022 – 19 Feb 2023<br></div><div style="">Time: 10am – 7pm (Closed on Mondays)</div><div style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Admission: Free</div></div><div style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><br></div><div>Titled “<b>Bunny-ful Blessings</b>”, this lawn installation is a collaboration between the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall and artist Chan Siu Kau, a Hong Kong illustrator and designer. It features two of the artist’s Bit Bit Forest character, Bit Bit, rendered in the form of daruma dolls decorated with the words 幸 (xìng) meaning blessing, fortune and luck, and 福 (fú) meaning happiness.<br></div><div>The daruma dolls sound ringing to me, is like a Japanese doll dressing in a bright red to usher the Chinese Lunar Year.</div><div>This coming January CNY, SYSNMH has rolled out a series of events, workshops, hertiage tours, lion dances...etc for the public to enjoy this festive period.</div><div><u><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></u></div><div><u style="font-weight: bold;"><b>Festive Hongbao Giveaway</b></u> (Supported by National Hertiage Board)</div><div>Date: 6th Jan to 22nd Jan 2023</div><div>Time: 10a.m to 5p.m (closed on Mondays)</div><div>It's time to usher in the Year of the Rabbit with the Museum Roundtable (MR) and Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall (SYSNMH)! Get ready to collect specially designed hongbao from 39 participating museums and galleries.<br></div><div>Don’t miss the chance to get the limited edition SYSNMH hongbao for FREE! To redeem, simply visit the Memorial Hall, follow the SYSNMH Facebook page, and verify at the visitor services counter. Limited to the first 50 visitors per day (1 pack per person) and available whilst stocks last!<br></div><div>More details of this will be released on Jan 3, 2023.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b><u>Auspicious Lion & Dragon Dance Performance</u></b></div><div>Date: 22 January 2023</div><div>Time: 10am – 11am</div><div>Admission: Free</div></div><div>Revel in the festivities and usher in the Lunar New Year at the Memorial Hall with our beloved annual lion and dragon dance performance on the first day of the Lunar New Year!<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><u><b>God of Fortune Visit </b></u></div><div>Date: 22 January 2023</div><div>Time: 10am – 12pm</div><div>Admission: Free</div></div><div>Rub shoulders with the God of Fortune for an auspicious year ahead! The God of Fortune will be at the Memorial Hall and giving away sweet treats for a bountiful year.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b><u>Children Lion Dance Workshop</u></b></div><div>(Supported by Martial House)</div></div><div><div>Date: 4 February 2023</div><div>Time: 1.30pm – 2.30pm, 3.30pm – 4.30pm</div><div>Admission: $10 per pax; purchase tickets via <a href="https://wqfos2023-liondance.peatix.com/"><b>Peatix</b></a> from 6 January 2023 onwards.</div></div><div><i>Recommended for children aged 6 years and above. Workshop will be conducted in English and Mandarin</i>.<br></div><div>Let your child get into the festive spirit with this interactive lion dance workshop! Limber up with a series of full body stretches, learn basic dance movements from expert instructors, have fun trying on miniature lion dance costumes, and discover the origins behind this well-loved art form.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b><u>Children Festive Chinese Drums Workshop</u></b></div><div>(Supported by Martial House)</div><div>Date: 5 February 2023<br></div><div>Time: 1.30pm – 2.30pm, 3.30pm – 4.30pm</div><div>Admission: $10 per pax; purchase tickets via <a href="https://wqfos2023-festivedrumming.peatix.com/"><b>Peatix</b></a> from 6 January 2023 onwards.</div><div><i>Recommended for children aged 6 years and above. Workshop will be conducted in English and Mandarin. </i><br></div><div>Drum up a storm in this energetic musical workshop – your child will learn basic drumming techniques used for Chinese percussion instruments and experience a variety of rhythms and beats.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b><u>Parent-Child Festive Cute Tangyuan Workshop</u></b></div><div>(Supported by MiracleMo SG)</div><div>Date: 5 February 2023<br></div><div>Time: 10am - 12.30pm</div><div>Admission: $38 per parent-child pair; purchase tickets via <a href="https://wqfos2023-tangyuanmaking.peatix.com/"><b>Peatix</b></a> from 6 January 2023 onwards.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Recommended for participants aged 6 years and above. Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Make adorable lunar new year-themed tangyuan (glutinous rice balls) with us! In this popular workshop, learn various skills such as making glutinous rice ball skin, wrapping and shaping of tangyuan, cooking methods and many more.</div></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Temples Tour</u></b></div><div>This coming Lunar New Year 2023, is a time for family reunion and festive cheer celebrated by Chinese and other Asian communities. Other than family and friends visits, many Chinese also make it a point to visit the temples during the Chinese New Year (CNY), the most important traditional festival and holiday for the Chinese.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Join us as we explore local temples during the CNY period to have a peek at how they and their devotees celebrate the New Year. 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</div><div>Look like a Rabbit sitting on the grass!</div>Last but not least, a group photo too.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-47449724127607947962022-09-21T06:12:00.001+08:002022-09-21T06:12:42.066+08:00Festival of Lights<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><b>Indian Heritage Centre (IHC)</b></div><div>The Festival of Lights is known as Deepavali (deep - lamp, vali - array), which falls on the 24th October 2022. COVID-19 has been a dark and difficult two years. </div><div>The festival is a time for rejoicing and renewal.<br></div><div>Celebrations revolve around the triumph of good over evil, purity over impurity, light over darkness, is one of the most important Hindu festivals.</div><div>The Festival of Lights takes place on the darkest night (first night of the new moon) in the month of Kartik in the Hindu calendar.<br></div><div>Deepavali is typically marked by a display of lights in the 'Little India' district, which is where the Indian community are mainly located.<br></div><div>LISHA is collaborating with LTA for Deepavali designs to line the sides and floors of public trains and buses.<br></div><div>The Indian Heritage Centre (IHC) will lined up to offer exciting gaming tours, where participants can explore the streets to understand the history and heritage of the precinct which will start from 30th Sept 2022 to 23rd October 2022.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Miniature of replica of Little India Deepavali street light-up arch</b></div><div>A crowd-favourite, a Miniature replica of Little India street light-up arch along Campbell Lane beckons the public and visitors to join in the festivities at IHC.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Take a photo at IHC, upload it onto social media with the hashtag #IHCDeepavali, and redeem limited-edition money packets featuring oil lamp and peacock designs from IHC!</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Little India Trishaw Trails</u></b><br></div><div>Date & Time:30 Sep & 7, 14, 21 Oct |6 – 8pm (15mins per ride)<br></div><div>Fee: $10 per trishaw ride (2 pax per ticket)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Trishaw ride every Friday evening starting from 30th Sep while taking in the sights, sounds, and festivities of Little India as the precinct ushers in Festival of Lights!<br></div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><b><u>Little India Big Bus Tour</u></b><br></div><div>Date & Time: 1, 8, 15, & 22 Oct |7– 8pm (30mins per tour)<br></div><div>Fee: $10 per pax<br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><p></p><p><b><u>Deepavali Cooking Demonstration with Chef Devagi and Chef Vasunthara</u></b><br></p><p>Date & Time: 15 & 16 Oct |10.30am – 12pm<br></p><p>Fee: $10 per pax<br></p><p><b><u>Cultural Craft Activities</u></b><br></p><p>Date: 1 – 23 October 2022<b><u><br></u></b></p><p>Venue: IHC Lobby<br></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The young and the young-at-heart can try their hand at various drop-in activities at the IHC lobby. This includes decorating of oil lamps and creating of Ramayana shadow puppets that narrate the story of Deepavali.<br><p></p><p><b><u>Community Lego Mural</u></b><br></p><p>Date: 1 – 23 October 2022<br></p><p>Venue: IHC Lobby</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Come together and contribute to this community LEGO mural shaped as a Rangoli design. This community Lego mural is designed in collaboration with LEGO artist Jeffrey Kong.<br><p></p></div><div>Other Deepavali-themed programmes - Deepavali in Animal Land (22nd Oct 22, Time: 11.30am, 2pm and 3.30pm. Price: $10)</div><div><br></div><div>For workshops, cooking-demos, heritage trails and evening trishaw and Big Bus rides. Registration is required for certain programmes at <a href="https://ihc-programmes.peatix.com/">https://ihc-programmes.peatix.com/</a> . Admission to IHC is free for all.</div><div>For more infomation about Deepavali's programmes, refer to <a href="https://www.indianheritage.gov.sg/en/whats-on/programmes/detail/deepavali-2022">here</a> or <a href="https://m.facebook.com/indianheritagecentre/">IHC's facebook page.</a></div><div><br></div><div>Below some of the photos taken on the 19th Sept 2022 Deepavali Open House media preview.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div><i>Iniya Deepavali Nal Vazhthukkal (Happy Deepavali)!</i></div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-32306703369161595252022-09-19T07:01:00.001+08:002022-09-19T07:01:44.235+08:00Heritage All Around Chinatown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div>"Mini-museums” have been set up around Chinatown at 11 heritage businesses which have at least 30 years or more of rich history, passed down from generations to generations. The highest number of participating businesses in any precinct, under the National Heritage Board's Street Corner Heritage Gallery programme which was launched on the 15th Sept 2022 in the morning at Chinatown.</div><div><b>Street Corner Heritage Galleries</b> is a 3-year pilot scheme which was first launched in the Balestier precinct in March 2020, followed by the Kampong Gelam precinct in April 2021 and the Little India precinct in Jan 2022. The SCHG scheme will soon be rolled out to the Geylang Serai precinct next year in 2023.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><b>Wing Choon Yuen retains its origin</b></div><div>Spring Court, formerly known as Wing Choon Yuen 咏春园 ("singing in a spring garden" in Cantonese), currently located at Upper Cross Street (the street where I frequent many decades ago till present) which started out by founder the late Ho Loke Yee. In 1929, the late Ho Yoke Yee (from Dongguan in the Guangdong province of southern China) then a lorry driver turned restaurateur set up a temporary makeshift stall in the garden of Wing Choon Yuen (咏春园) at Great World Amusement Park where the present Great World City now stands.</div><div>During the time in 1930s to 1960s, many business associations, elite as well as newlyweds would flock to the restaurant for celebratary feasts and its business was so brisk that the late Ho Yoke Yee often had to sleep over at the restaurant on a makeshift bed of dining tables.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><b>Ho Yoke Yee in his makeshift stall</b></div><div>Spring Court is where reunions, birthdays, wedding banquets as well business associations alike have been celebrated for generations. Spring Court of its heydays has been commemorated in newspaper write-uo and television documentaries and was the star of the 2011 Singapore hit movie It's a Great Great World.</div><div>When the business declined due to decreased of the visitors to the Great World dwindled. Wing Choon Yuan relocated to the former site of Oriential Theatre at New Bridge Road in 1978, renamed "Spring Court" and retaining its Chinese name <b>咏春园</b> before moving to 52-56 Upper Cross Street in 2004 till present. The artefacts at a "mini museum" in the restaurant still document and celebrate its past history.</div><div>Below are the 1940s photos and the artefacts taken at Spring Court and its surrounding.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Do visit the restaurant if u are craving for delicous food....Well... Food for thought...that makes you.. time travel from the past..to their mini-museum displaying artefacts and 1940s photos hanging on wall of the Spring Court restaurant.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>The book: "Delicious Heirloom" </b></div><div>This book supported by NHB, recounts the sacifices and hardship that many of the founders experienced to eke out for a living. It includes personal anecdotes from family members of the early days and discussions with the next generation on how they plan to keep the restaurant and the spirit of their forefathers alive.</div><div><br></div><div><u style="font-style: italic;"><b><i>LIM CHEE GUAN 林志源 </i></b></u></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div>Established in 1938, homegrown barbecued meat (bak kwa) brand Lim Chee Guan was founded in 1938 by late Lim Kay Eng, a Chinese immigrant arrived in 1920s from Fujian, China. Late Lim Kay Eng had two daughters and two sons. He passed away in 1988 at 79 years old.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>1st photo 1960s & 2nd photo 1980s - Lim Chee Guan at five-foot way along Chin Chew Road</b></div><div>Lim Chee Guan started as a provision stall along a five-foot way along Chin Chew road in 1938, selling bak kwa. The late Mr Kay Eng had learnt how to preserve meats from his mother and his grandmother's recipe.<br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>"Diamond-shaped" Egg tarts</b></div><div>Founded in 1935, Tong Heng had a long journey from humble begining as a street stall by its founder, late Fong Chee Heng who arrived in 1910s, started out as an hawker peddling drinks in various teahouses.</div><div>Over the years with his savings, he bought over Huang Hou Teahouse at a pre-war Chinatown's shophouse at Smith Street in 1934, later renamed as "Tong Heng".</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Tong Heng's flagship store at Chinatown</b></div><div>After WWII, many of the pre-war shophouses tranformed into eating houses, Tong Heng preserved its making traditional confectioneries. In 1960s, the family of Tong Heng installed a showcase displaying egg tarts in baking different shapes to attract more customers.</div><div>I remember 'round shape' egg tarts! My favourite egg-tarts! My family loves it whenever we buy pastry for occassions.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><b>Tong Heng's "Mini-Museum"</b></div><div>In 1980s, Tong Heng had to relocate its premise from Smith Street to South Bridge road due to redevepment of the Chinatown's area.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>4th-generation Ms Ana Fong</b></div><div>Presently, Tong Heng is managed by 4th generation, Ms Ana Fong who is now in her 50s. Currently, Tong Heng has two outlets - 285 South Bridge road and Jurong Point Mall B1-10.</div><div>Tong Heng's artefacts showcase as below:</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Other participating heritage businesses include traditional Chinese medicine retailer Eu Yan Sang, dessert shop Mei Heong Yuen, Pek Sin Choon tea shop, Chop Wah On, On Cheong Jewellery, Tin Sin Goldsmith, Bee Cheng Hiang and Kim Poh Hong Goldsmith.</div><div>Please refer to the full write-up of all participating heritage businesses <a href="https://www.roots.gov.sg/stories-landing/stories/street-corner-heritage-galleries-chinatown">here</a></div><div><b><br></b></div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-18509761536771111542022-08-23T13:29:00.001+08:002022-08-23T13:29:20.040+08:00Walkabout the magic of the S'pore Night Festival 2022<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div>The Singapore Night Festival (SNF) is back this year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to take a hiatus over the last 2 years.<br></div><div>Starting from <b><u>19 to 27 August 2022</u></b>, SNF returns with the theme<b> </b><b>Rebirth</b> for its 13th edition. This year’s festival will zoom in on the BBB precinct’s heritage and stories through makes its highly anticipated return after two years, going hyperlocal as it focuses more closely on the heritage and identity of Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB), and on local artists and arts groups. The festival will feature over 55 programmes including enthralling projection mapping installations on iconic landmarks, Night Lights installations all across the precinct, various performances, and a series of experiential programmes that shed light on the lesser-known stories of the precinct.<br></div><div><b>#SGNIGHTFEST by Pan United</b><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Over 7-metres long, the #SGNIGHTFEST art installation comprises 3D-printed concrete letters specially created by homegrown concrete company Pan-United. <br></div><div><b>#SGNIGHTFEST</b> is Pan-United’s second installation at the Singapore Night Festival.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Stories from Forbidden Hill by Maxin10sity</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><div>Hungarian projection mapping production studio Maxin10sity gives us a feast for the eyes with Stories from Forbidden Hill, using ancient wall murals and nature to paint the narrative of Singapore’s history dating back to the 14th century.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also there is one hidden germ at the corner end of National Museum of Spore - STEPS (2022).</div></div><div><b>STEPS (2022) by Victoria Hertel</b></div><div>Date: 19th to 27th Aug 22</div><div>Time:7.30pm to 12midnight</div><div><div class="separator" style="font-weight: bold; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div></div><div>Triggered through visitors entering the work's sensory radius the LED light strips change color from their initial white light to various hues along the visible light spectrum, The LEDs reset to white light once the visitor has moved on to the next step.<br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Cathay Hotel: <u>The Curse of the Missing Red Shoe</u></b><b><br></b></div><div><div style=""><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Orang Minyak</b><br></span>Watch characters from the local film come to life in an immersive outdoor performance opposite the Cathay Building for 6 nights only - <b>19th, 29th, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th Aug</b>. Time: 7.30pm, 8.45pm with additional show at 10pm on 19th, 20th, 26th & 27th Aug. <br></div><div>Produced by local art collective <strong>Vertical Submarine</strong>, the group created a replica of the historical Cathay complex for their show at a Cathay Green tentage.<br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Classic Ticket in 1960s</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>TERRARIUM by AUX Media Group, Binary Style, PAPERSYNTHESIS and BIOS: Living by NFTs</b><br></div><div><div>Date: 19th to 27th Aug 22</div><div>Time:7.30pm to 12midnight</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Imagine a hybridised reality that ponders future possibilities for nature and how technology could blur the lines between what’s living and what’s truly alive. Step into an immersive garden landscape dreamt up by AUX Media Group in collaboration with lifestyle brand Binary Style.<br></div><div>Look out for hornbill flying and otters running as well as Dragon playground on the screen located at National Design Centre.</div><div><br></div><div>Touring around BBB to locations such as Armenian Street and Queen Street, as well as familiar landmarks such as CHIJMES and the National Design Centre, to enjoy the vibrancy of the precinct and discover its stories together. Not forgetting the Stamford Court - Stamford Clock Tower.<br></div><div><b>The Melting Pot by Adeline Tan & Benedict Yeo</b></div><div><b>Madeleine by Lueur</b></div><div><b>Glitches of You by Amanda Tan</b></div><div><div>Date: 19th to 27th Aug 22</div><div>Time:7.30pm to 12midnight</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Look out for a beautiful hornbill (Top: 1st & 2nd pic) projected on Stamford Clock Tower. The animated bird will take you on a virtual tour of the Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) precinct, which is set to glow in the dark between 19th to 27th August. Time: 7.30pm to 12mn.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div><b>PALIMPSEST by William Chan and Brandon Tay</b><br></div><div><div>Date: 19th to 27th Aug 22</div><div>Time:7.30pm to 12midnight</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>PALIMPSEST is a poetic expression of the artists’ contemporary take into the history and evolution of the now pedestrianised street.<br></div><div>The evolution of Armenian Street to a palimpsest – a medieval wax tablet or parchment from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make space for another text, these multiple translucent screens can be seen as a series of connections, presenting the Street as a palimpsest both literally and metaphorically, inscribed with layers of meaning of “here and then” and “then and now”. <br></div><div><div><b>Photosensitivity Advisory:</b> This work features flashing lights. Visitors with light-sensitive conditions should exercise caution.</div><div><br></div></div><div><b>Paddy Fields by FARM</b><br></div><div><div>Date: 19th to 27th Aug 22</div><div>Time:7.30pm to 12midnight</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Paddy Fields recalls the forgotten practice of drying cultivated rice along the banks of Sungei Brass Bassa (now Stamford Canal) in the early 19th-century. The area was close to the paddy fields that used to be located opposite today’s KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. South Asian washermen and women also laundered clothes there, laying them out to dry on an adjacent open space. Using a palette of humble materials, this installation seeks to evoke the sentiments reminiscent of these activities from a bygone era.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Further up along the walkway is the Raffles City where there is a huge structure stood tall located outside ihe entrance</div><div><b>An Ocean Without the Anchor by SPEAK CRYPTIC</b><br></div><div><div>Date: 19th to 27th Aug 22</div><div>Time:7.30pm to 12midnight</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>An Ocean Without the Anchor is inspired by the lighthouse, a sturdy structure synonymous with being a beacon of hope shining in the darkness. A guiding light for those lost at sea, the lighthouse gives a sense of comfort to seamen leaving and returning home.</div><div>The tower comprises five figures sitting stacked on each other’s shoulders. At the top is the roof of a traditional kampung house, signifying shelter and safety as our community slowly transitions into “the new normal”.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The SNF2022 also expands to Fort Canning Park this year, showcasing works that <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">festival-goers can enjoy at any time of the day. <b><i>Tobyato Bird Pitstop</i></b> by <b>tobyato</b> is an artistic </span>nod to Singapore’s rich bird biodiversity, inspired by the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, inviting festival-goers to rediscover the well trodden park by night.</div><div>Trolling in the park, <b><i>Under My Tree Roof </i></b>is artist <b>Chloë Manasseh</b>’s first voyage into <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">translating her artwork into a digital print displayed on the iconic Fort Canning Spiral </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Stairway.</span></div></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><br></span></div><div><b><u>Night Lights</u></b></div><div><div style="">Art Installstions within Bras Basah.Bugis</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Date: 19th to 27th Aug 22</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Time:7.30pm to 12midnight daily</div></div><div style="">There are lots of Arts Installations located at Banyan Tree, Waterloo Centre, Stamford Arts Centre, Ford Canning park, SMU Campus Green snd Bras Basah Complex.</div><div style="">Below are some of the photos shot by me.</div><div style=""><b>Celebration of Life+Style by Justin Lee</b></div><div style=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Floral Cross Stitch Patterns</b></div><div>Don’t miss the “Get-to-Know" sessions on Chinese opera, Hainanese rod puppetry and Peranakan embroidery to learn something interesting about our traditional arts and crafts.</div><div>Swipe through and book your tickets now with <a href="https://www.klook.com/en-SG/activity/75001-explore-sg-night-fest-trishaw-uncle-singapore/">Klook</a>, the Official Ticketing Partner for the Singapore Night Festival 2022!<br></div><div><br></div></div><div style=""><div>There are more programmes available and you can refer to the <a href="https://www.nightfestival.gov.sg/whats-on">Festival website for the full listing</a>. Also keep a look out for food kiosks adding to the festivities over the weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information on the Singapore Night Festival 2022, visit the <a href="https://www.nightfestival.gov.sg/?utm_source=media&utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_campaign=snf2022">Festival website</a>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In addition, there is a tentage just outside NMS - <b>HEAT OF THE NIGHT</b></div><div><div>Date: 26th to 27th Aug 22</div><div>Time:7.30pm to 11pm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div>The memory of this Singapore Night Festival 2022 and join a self-guided race down memory lane in the Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) precinct. The fastest racers will be in the running for attractive prizes including dining vouchers and a staycation at The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore, on top of bragging rights! Gather your friends and families to solve clues and uncover stories (and heritage) behind some beloved spots of the BBB city centre through interactive activities. Buy your tickets for this self-guided race now!<br></div><div><p>Registration: Information Booth located outside National Museum of Singapore.</p><p>Admission Ticket: S$10 per person *Bundle deal from 3rd to 27th Aug – S$50 up to 6 persons in one group.</p><p>Tickets can be purchased from Klook here: <a href="https://www.klook.com/en-SG/activity/74704-heat-night-singapore/">https://www.klook.com/en-SG/activity/74704</a></p><p><br></p></div></div></div></div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-15970085748597885062022-08-16T16:23:00.000+08:002022-08-16T16:23:24.932+08:00SYSNMH - Celestial Baby Planets <div><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Metropolis, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625em; line-height: 22.235px; letter-spacing: normal;"><div class="separator" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Your kids could love it!!</span></div><div><b><u>Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival 2022</u></b><br></div><div><font color="#666666" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><div style=""><div style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall </div><div style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">Date: 16 Aug – 25 Sep 2022</div><div style=""><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">Opening Hours: Time:</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;"><b>Lawn Installation hours:</b></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">16 Aug – 25 Sep 2022</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">Time: 10am – 9pm daily</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;"><b>Extended Gallery hours:</b></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">20 & 21 Aug 2022</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">27 & 28 Aug 2022</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">3 & 4 Sep 2022 (Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival 2022) </span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">10 & 11 Sep 2022</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">Time: 10am – 9pm </span><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;"><div>Revive and rejoin the story, traditions behind mid-autumn festival, one of the oldest cultural festivals in the world, and revel in the rich historical and cultural significance of the festival with a line-up of live performances, cultural workshops, heritage walking tours, storytelling sessions, and more during the weekend open house.</div></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">For more information about the Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival, please visit Sun Yat Sen </span><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">Nanyang Memorial Hall’s website (https://www.sysnmh.org.sg/en) and Facebook page</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal;">(https://www.facebook.com/sysnmh) throughout the festival period.</span></div></div></div></font></div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-31533786539010981982022-07-09T00:50:00.000+08:002022-07-09T00:50:06.496+08:00Old-Age Craft X New Design<div><div style="font-weight: bold;">How would you put a modern spin on products produced by traditional crafts like rangoli making, ketupat weaving, Chinese lantern making or Peranakan </div><div style="font-weight: bold;">beadwork and embroidery?</div></div><div style="">Last year in July 2021, National Heritage Board (NHB) put out an open call for designers to work with local craft practitioners. NHB's efforts to breathe new life into traditional practices whose future is increasingly uncertain.</div><div style="">The four craft practitioners have been selected, variously involved in Chinese lantern making, ketupat weaving, rangoli making and Peranakan beadwork.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Craft X Design </b>is to raise public awareness and appreciation of local traditional crafts; and to explore how traditional crafts can be revitalized to ensure their long-term sustainability and commercial viability.</div><div>The project is aimed to help traditional local craft practitioners to discover new audiences, modernising the crafts and creating new markets in the long run.</div><div><b><u>Making of traditional Chinese lanterns</u></b><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Raymond Wong x Joanna Lim/Joanne Quak</b></div><div>Mr Raymond Wong has been practicing Peranakan beadwork and embroidery for more than 16 years and is one of the last few Peranakan kebaya makers in Singapore. He is the co-owner of boutique shop Rumah Kim Choo, where he also conducts classes to teach and promote Peranakan beadwork. In addition, he has been a part-time lecturer at the Fashion Textile Faculty in LASALLE since 2013. His works have been extensively featured in various museum exhibitions and fashion shows, both in Singapore and internationally, including in Malaysia, China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Czech Republic and Uzbekistan.</div></div><div>Ms Joanna/Ms Joanne Quak are designers from Aller Row, a Spore-based fashion label. Formerly known as B1NARY, Aller Row has been featured with H&M and in the ASEAN Fashion Designer Showcase. Their works have also been featured individually and as a team across various online and printed platforms.</div><div><div><u><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></u>Beaded Shoes</b></div><div>Sport shoes can be made by beaded layers for fashion too. Even Peranakan high heel shoes were made by beaded with flora/flowers by stitching it. My mum wore Peranakan high heel shoe in her younger days.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Rangoli</u></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The thin and flexible metal slices were then folded by hand into the form of the lampshade and the bowl.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b><u>Ketupat weaving</u></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Mdm Anita Tompang </b>(left)</div><div>Mdm Anita Tompang started learning the skills of ketupat weaving at the age of 9, and now has nearly 50 years of experience with it. She was recently featured in Berita Harian for her <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">commitment to this tradition, having woven ketupats by hand every Hari Raya for over 20 years. Although ketupat weaving has become a less common activity, she has persisted in </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">her own efforts to keep this craft alive in Singapore, including teaching and involving her own children in ketupat weaving.</span></div></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The variety of Ketupats on display are all woven by ICH practitioner Mdm Anita Tompang and show how ketupat weaving techniques could be used to create a range of different ketupat forms and shapes.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Ketupat Ribbon</b><br>This ketupat ribbon looks like partyforte decoration that I saw my "Malay-Muslim" neighbour, hanging ketupat ribbons in their home for Hari Raya occasions.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Raya Furniture</b> - instead of coconut leaves and rice cakes, strips of thick felt were woven around foams of different densities, inspired by function of Ketupats as containers.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Four craft practitioners and designers</b></span></div><div>Their works to be showcased to the public at NHB spaces or online platforms together with videos and photos of the craft-making process.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><br></div><div>Get up close with these modern prototypes of age-old crafts at the National Museum as part of National Heritage Board's inaugural Craft X Design showcase.</div><div>The "Craft x Design" exhibition by the National Heritage Board (NHB) at the National Museum Singapore (NMS) is on from <b><u>1st July 2022 to 31st July 2022.</u></b></div><div><div><br></div><div>They will be sharing more about collabroration process, their experiences and challenges, and their reflections on their journey of adapting traditional crafts into comtemporary products during this sessons.</div><div><br></div><div>Participants will also be given the opportunity to try their hand at weaving ketupats or creating rangoli, in hands-on sessions conducted by Mdm Anita Tompang and Mdm Vijaya Mohan respectively.</div><div>Date: <b>9th July 2022</b></div><div>Venue: National Museum of Spore, Activity Room Space, Level 3, 93 Stamford Road S178897</div><div>Time: 1.30pm to 4pm</div><div>Admission: Free with registration at https://go.gov.sg/cxdsharing2022 (limited seated available).</div></div>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-30803408687152736212022-06-02T21:51:00.001+08:002022-06-02T21:51:26.826+08:00Khalsa Former Home <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>The construction of the dockyard HMNB Singapore (HM Naval Base) particularly its extension and refurishment in the early 1940s. Near the jetty, there used to be ROYAL TORPEDO DEPOT. Along the stretched road, there was ASIAN QUARTERS to housed coolies. The same site where the former Khalsa Crescent residents moved in 1950s to 1970s after it was newly built in 1950.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div><b>Newly built in 1950</b></div><div>Blk 1 foreground & Blk 2 far end on the left, on the right Blk 3 far end and Blk 4 foreground on the right.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><i><b>The Present Day</b></i></div><div>In 1950s, the newly built Khalsa Crescent quarters of seven 2-storey blocks (former sites of coolies lines - ASIAN QUARTERS) to housed the families from Naval Base Police Force and Fire Brigade Quarters (later in year 1980). Fire Brigade Quarters (FBQ) caught fire and it razed to the ground in Feb 1980 and FBQ residents like Kamal & his family moved in at Khalsa Crescent in March 1980 till August 1980 at blk 3 Rm 17. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Contruction site ongoing can be seen at the far end of the large outdoor shade. Rapid Transit System (RTS) will link to Thomson East Coast Line (TEL) from Woodlands North, will be completed by 4th quarter 2026. The site was once a "R.M.N. FOOTBALL & SPORTS GROUND (no longer exist) where Khaksa Crescent ex-residents' as their playing ground - soccer and others during their younger days.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Blk 5 known as "Admin Block" was housed the Sikh families in 1950s till 1960s, some families relocated to Rimau (View Road) when the Asian N.B. Police Barracks already started in late 1950s while some families stayed behind. Other families moved to Cochrane Crescent at the same year.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Bachelors' Block</b></div><div>Staircase leading up to the bachelors' restrooms. A long metal bell hanging by the hook at the wooden window.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b><i>Group photo of former Khalsa Crescent residents</i></b></div><div>A special invitation, a private session all former Khalsa Crescent residents and guests to be invited on 21st May 2022, and to reminiscing and sharing memories of their former homes for their 1st and their last farewell to their former home. Khalsa Crescent private event was organised by URA and NHB, in collaboration with Old Sembawang Naval Base (OSNB) group admins - Sofya & Kamal.</div><div><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>A Stretch of Seven 2-storey blocks</i></b></div><div>A home to the former Khalsa Crescent residents was once known as "<i style="font-weight: bold;"><b>TORPEDO DEPOT ASIAN ACCOMODATION</b>" </i>before it converted into <b>Khalsa Crescent Drug Rehabilitation Centre</b> (DRC) in late 1970s and it was changed to <b>Khalsa Crescent Prison</b> in June 2005 according to Prisons Act (managed by SPS) till it abandoned years later. The first Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) in Singapore was the Opium Treatment Centre (OTC) at St. John’s Island. In 1977, Prisons Department developed five DRCs including Khalsa Crescent DRC.</div><div>In 1995, all drug addicts were sent to Sembawang DRC for medical checkup during their drug withdrawal and recuperation after their arrest. After recuperation, they were tranferred to other DRCs based on their records, the 3rd time inmates to Khalsa Crescent DRC.</div><div>Soon to be demoished to make way for new residental developments except Blk 2 to be conserved.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>The children stood and posed at the street name - KHALSA CRESCENT wooden signage, behind them was Anthony shop made of wooden hut located the entrance.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The wooden signage was where the children stood located near the watchtower.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b><i>Photo Credit: Cheng YamSan</i></b></div><div>One former Khalsa Crescent Assam Pedas (a boy by nickname) and his grandmother at the rooftop of Blk 2 by climbing up through the 'open' window. Behind them was a badminton court.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>This is Blk 2 where a boy and his grandma stood at the rooftop. Sadly, the badminton court was no longer there but a grassy field.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b><i>Group photo at Blk 2</i></b></div><div>Finally, we posed for the group photo, ex-residents have fond memories of their once meeting spot and their activities during their time at their former homes. They also shared fond memories and their stories here during their younger days.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Visit Entrance hut was built for the visitors, next to the watchtower near the entrance and Guard house (hidden from view).</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The entrance to the Security Control Office (SCO). Visitors must produce their ID to the SCO before they are allowed to visit their loved ones. Also all Staff surrendered their weapons (The Arms) to the Security Control Office after office hours or off duty. </div><div>I admitted...I accompanied my old friend whose brother was at KC DRC, walked in this building. He was a drug addict and had family issue. I declined further about his family.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b><i>Security Control Office</i></b></div><div>The SCO was once Delta Isolation Hall, during that time DRC & Khalsa Crescent Prison occupied, the Hall became Security Control Office.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>One former Khalsa Crescent resident, Keenman shared his memory about Bomb Shelter located behind blk 4 up the hill. We didn't go there cos' the gate was locked, the path we walked all installed caged fence.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>Close-up of the bomb shelter</b></div><div>Former Khalsa Crescent residents stumbled the bomb shelter but didn't venture in bcos of bad stale air smell. There were broken helmats scattered near the entrance. </div><div>I believe the bomb shelter had sealed up after DRC & Khalsa Crescent Prison occupied the premises.</div><div>My block and neighbourhood blocks also built above SCDF bomb shelter in 1990s, namely Civil Defence Public Shelter (HDB). It has been around more than 25 years. Currently the bomb shelters occupied by childcare educations and other organisations.</div><div><b><u>The Workshop 1 & 2</u></b></div><div><u><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold;">The DRC workshops provided trainings for potential inmates and offenders, to learn their job work skills during their journey of rehabilitation. By end of 2003, SCORE had 10 subcontract workshops, 4 each in Jalan Awan Prisons (JAP) and Sembawang DRC, one each Changi Prison and Khalsa Crescent DRC. They employed a total 900 inmates. My hubby's company also had 3 inmates to work at production lines, one of the inmates worked under my hubby's supervision. One inmate (attached a device on his leg hid under long pant) accompanied with SCORE staff to introduce to my hubby. Well, that was long time ago.<b><u><br></u></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br></div><u><b>PRISON VISIT CUBICLES</b></u></div><div><div class="separator" style="text-decoration-line: underline; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Remember the word "MASAK" means "To Cook" in Malay in which the inmates, mostly male and chinese called this. The former inmates' pastimes in S'pore's Prisons and DRCs during 1970s and 1980s was to cook supper - was a CRIME. Old timers should have known about it.</div><div>The 'large' prison kitchen probably at blk 4, designed to provide food preparation for the inmates but before this, KC ex-residents used this kitchen to cook for their families, neighbours including the bachelors.</div><div><b><u>Delta Housing Unit</u></b></div><div><b><u><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b>The 'Open-Air' men's loo (toilet)</b></div><div>There is a 'open-air' men's loo (toilet) at the corner near the gate inside the 'outdoor' yard. Well, there was two guys posed at this 'open-air' loo. So... who's the guys, from 'T.R.E.E' group? I have a photo of these 2 guys shot at the 'open air' loo.🤫</div><div><b><u>Life in Solitary Confinement</u></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">
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</div>Walking in a passageway in a dim light was once Khalsa Crescent ex-residents' rooms turned into prison locked cells and installed grilled windows covered by a metal sheet with small holes, in each room as well as outside corridor including metal doors with a 'rectangle' hole (served cooked food) at the bottom.</div><div><div class="separator" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">
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</div>The room that ex-residents stayed, had fond memories of what livelihood they had gone through all the years. To the KC ex-residents a 'Sweet Memories of home' and to the former inmates a 'Hell & Boring life'.</div><div><div class="separator" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">
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</div>Every ex-resident's room or prison cell has a story.</div><div>The cell room where the inmates slept on the top of the long solid metal bed. It can hold about 8-10 inmates in each cell room depending of the room size.</div><div><b><u>The 'blue' Spiral Staircase</u></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Although we had a short time walking around, sweet memories and shared storied, separated into different groups. The tour took us a few hours to walk around the seven 2-storey blocks. But we had a great time, getting to know one another. </div><div>It's indeed heartened to see former Khalsa Crescent residents' close bonding like families, even students and teachers whom they can't recognised each other when they were young at that time.</div><div><b>Another group photo</b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b> Lantern Riddle</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"><b>Deciphering Lantern Riddles! 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Introduce your children to lantern riddles, and join them in the</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"> <u>first episode</u></b><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"> with Riddle</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"> Association (Singapore) and Bong Qiu Qiu to find out the strategies and the thought process behind guessing lantern riddles.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;">There will be <u><b>second episode</b></u> for <b>Adults</b> with Riddle Association (Singapore) and Bong Qiu Qiu to find out the strategies and tips to guess the lantern riddles.</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><i>Date: <b>23rd Sept 2021</b> (for Adult)</i></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><b>What does Your Lantern Say About You?</b></span></font></div><div><i><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);">Date: <b>14th Sept 20</b></span></font><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248); font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><b>21</b></span></i></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);">Lighting lanterns is a popular traditional activity associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival - they chase away the darkness, light the way home at night, and represent a desire for union and the aspiration for a better life. Most importantly, lighting add a touch of festivity and are a great fun for all ages. Find out the five types of lanterns most frequently found in Singapore, and which type of lantern may be more suitable with which type of personality! </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);">Could be your personality tells yo</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);">u to pick one lantern of your choice? 😁</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><b>Help Hou Yi Shoot the Suns</b></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><i>Date: <b>17th Sept 2021</b></i></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);">Did you know? Legend has it that there used to be tens scorching suns and it caused famines and sufferings to the people. An expert archer, Hou Yi shoot down nine of them and was rewarded with an immortal elixir. Help Hou Yi shoots the suns and learn more about the stories of Chang'e and Hou Yi!</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><b>Mid-Autumn Craft Tutorial: Create Your Own Unique Lantern</b></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248);"><i>Date: <b>21st Sept 2021</b></i></span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 250, 248); font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">Get your creative juices flowing and try your hand at making your own unique lantern! With the help of their DIY Mid-Autumn craft tutorial. Yoy could be able to explore using upcycled materials for a unique Mid-Autumn experience.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Learn More About Jade Rabbit</b></div><div><i>Date: <b>24th Sept 2021</b></i></div><div>Have yoy ever wondered why the rabbit is often featured in designs and decorations for the Mid-Autumn festival? Fibd out more from the video to learn the story of Jade Rabbit, its selflessness and its kindness!</div><div><b style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">Let's Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with Uncle Ting!</b><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"><i>Date: <b>6th Sept 2021</b></i></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;">Looking for activities to engage</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"> your child at home? 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Along Kreta Ayer road was once a settlement area for early Chinese immigrants to Singapore thus became famous for cultural arts scene including Chinese Opera troupes and music scene that took place here. I have been watched Chinese Opera and puppet shows in my area since 1970s till 2000s and my mum was once an artist opera/performer (Sin Sai Hong troupe) in her younger days and she still love to watch it on TV when there is one. Those were the good old days.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kreta Ayer Heritage Gallery</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The Kreta Ayer Heritage Gallery showcase which is slated to open to public on Sunday 14th July and will feature its five intangible cultural heritage elements: Chinese Opera, Nanyin instruments, Chinese puppetry, Chinese painting & calligraphy and Chinese tea ceremony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a typical costume worn by an actor/actress playing a male/female general during battle scenes in a Chinese opera performance. The body of the costume is usually covered in scale-like motifs, which are modelled after ancient Chinese armor. Compared to the male general's costume, female kao costumes tend to incorporate a shoulder cape and more feminine touches such tassels. The Four-triangular flags attached to the back of the costume are a reference to pennants of command awarded to generals in the past. They also symbolise preparedness for war, and heightens the costume's dramatic effect. The flags can be removed after the battle scene is completed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Many of the cultural arts and traditional instruments were brought here by migrants from southern China which is linked to Kreta Ayer's rich culture history. There will be performing shows including puppet shows and lots of programmes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Puppetry is an ancient form of artistic expression that is a variation on storytelling or human theatrical production. In puppetry, a drama unfolds that is entrirly or primarily acted out by specialized representational objects, which are manipulated by a puppeteer. The human animator may or may not be visible to the audience. Cultural variations of puppetry developed independently in many parts of the world, with distinctive types still carried on today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Marionettes were usually carved from pieces of wood and the assembled parts are hung on strings. Chinese marionette plays are mostly performed in the open air without a curtain to conceal the puppeteers.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visitors may try their hand at the calligraphy, puppet shows, tea refreshment ceremony and more programmes that will held inside the gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the traditional instruments were donated by Siong Leng Musical Association for public viewing and education. These cultural practices still exists to this day. The gallery features showcase more than 170 photographs and artefacts contributions from cultural practitioners and former residents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This notebook used by Chat Thye Poh to record Cantonese opera lyrics. It was written on the first page are the actor's lines from a scene in a Cantonese opera entitled Li Qi Ran Jian ("Li Qi's cries from the Prison Cell" in Mandarin).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Membership Pass for Part Woh Wui Koon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Membership Pass was issed in 1956, belongs to Chat Thye Poh who joined Part Woh Wui Koon in 1934. The Guild that establilished for member of the Cantonese opera, was founded in 1857 and still operated in Keong Saik Road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other contributors include: Ms Joanna Wong, a Cultural medallion winner and veteran Cantonese opera artist; Mr Yong Cheong Thye, an award-winning calligraphy artist; and Nanyin Musical group Siong Leng Musical Association.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Notable items on display such as old photographs dating back to the 1970s that set the scene of the popularity and dynamism of Chinese Opera. In the late 1960s, Kreta Ayer's People Theatre used to host performances by international opera troupes in 1970s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition, there is an exhibition wall panel just outside the Kreta Ayer People's Theatre. It was officially reopened in July 14th 2019 by Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Trade and Industry, and Deputy Chairman of People's Assocication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Road to Adam Park Estate</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adam Park is one site where a series of war events unfolded. If you have a nice house that can't save everything then you've to think how to protect these structures and its heritage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the morning on 04th Nov, we took a cab instead of bus or station as it's just a short distance from my place about 10 mins. We arrived at 7 Adam Park before 9.45am and it's still early. As it could be the last series of 8th tours which was started on July 2017 conducted by Jerome Lim, supported by SLA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>View of 7 Adam Park</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We roamed around the house and took some shots of the building and some quickie selfie shots with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon reaching at 7 Adam Park Colonial house (NUSS Guild House), does it look familiar I recall that the house was once occupied by 7Adam - a chic and stylish restaurant-gallery in 2012. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Adam Park Estate was an exclusive expat residential area with 19 huge colonial black-and-white houses, tucked away in the jungle and plantations of Singapore. Cocktails were sipped and long hours were whiled away at the country club playing golf in the years before the WWII. The estate was the site of an intense three days of fighting in the battle for Singapore. The men of the 1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment held off a series of attacks by the troops of the Japanese 41st (Fukuyama) Regiment but the island collapsed to the Japanese.<br />The Allied soldiers were sent to Changi Prison and the estate was turned into a prisoner of war (POW) camp, with Japanese soldiers using the homes as a base.<br />The Colonial bungalow at 7 Adam Park that was used to house with Art Gallery, restaurant and workshops (for family and kids) in 2012 till early 2014. I remember that my friends once told me about Art Gallery and restaurant at Adam Park years ago. I did visited once in 2013 with two of my old friends for a meal at the park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>No 13 Adam Park (2014)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Jun 2014, I looked up 'The Adam Park Project (TAPP2)', is a ground breaking battlefield archaeology project managed by Jon Cooper, looking into the wartime heritage of the Adam Park housing estate in Singapore and joined them as volunteer digger to dig up the soil looking for relic items at No. 13 Adam Park. My interest is to look in its heritage of the building and its rich history of the battlefield as well as wars relic objects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Me Holding A Cap Badge@13 AdamPark</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the last moment, I unearthed a cap badge from Royal Corps of Signals at No 13 Adam Park in Jun 2014 as if God sent me down to look for it. That was 3 years ago!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>View of former NB Police Qrts/View Rd Hospital</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most everybody knows about Woodbridge Hospital, but little is known about View Road Hospital which I used to call it - 'Mental Hospital', situated at the end of View Road, off Admiralty Road West. It's the kind of isolated place that you would easily miss. Yes, I had been there, visited one of my relatives who had mental illness and my dad's brother since 1980s - early 1990s. The most closest patient of mine is my dad's brother who was a patient almost 2 decades till his mother (paternal grandma) brought him home and stayed with her who lived at Ghim Moh estate (demolished) before it closed in 2001. I remember I visited him once every month due to my hectic work, only my paternal grandma often visited him. At one time, she told me that her son almost jumped down from the building. I do not want to talk about it as it saddened me to think of how sick he is and he is very quiet, stared at the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">View Road connected by another roads - Hawkins Road and Rimau Lane in 1970s to 1980s which were defunct now. It is understood that in Hawkins road, there was Refugees' camp to house Vietnamese people (boat people) who escaped from their countries after the Vietnam Wars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former View Road Hospital (1975-2001)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">View Road Hospital (used to be Police Quarters at that time) was located at View Road junction of Admiralty Road West. It used to be a medical complex in Singapore specialising in the treatment of patients with mental illnesses. The view road hospital used to be a subsidiary of Woodbridge Hospital (1951) also formerly Mental Hospital (1928-1951) now known as the Institute of Mental Health (1993 to present) and was closed down in 2001. In later year, the premise was converted into a foreign workers dormitory known as View Road Lodge in late 2000s. Previously known as "Batu Rimau Gurkha", the building was allotted by the British Bases Conversion Unit to the Ministry of Health around the late 1960s to early 1970s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Floor plan of what looks like 'E' shaped</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived before 10am by cab from Admiralt</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y Station it's because the North-South Line we took from Circle line, travelled so slow and it stopped abruptly a few times in between each station that took us longer time to reach our destination. Oh..gosh...we still have 15 mins more before 10am...so we decided to alight at Admiralty station instead of Woodlands station as it's not far from there in less than 10 mins by cab.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Posed a selfie with them from left (front) - Roszelan's daughter, Kamal, me and Harry. Behind - Juneta and Roszelan (former resident at 10 view road)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quickie Selfie before the tour</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we reached, I saw lots of participants already there before us...So I quickie selfie with some of them before the tour, organised by Jerome, supported by SLA. Look how happy we were...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wo of the special guests, Encik Baharudin and Encik Roszelan were children who lived at 10 View Road with their fathers who were with Naval Base Police Force in late 1950s to around 1972, shared their childhood experience with participants at former NB Police Quarters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former resident Encik Baharudin's old passport shows the address at View Road unit room 50, Police Quarters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former resident, Encik Roszelan (Hang Leqiu) pointed at his former unit at level 3, unit room 55 while Encik Baharudin who also stayed at level 3, unit room 50.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behind him is the Bomb shelter that built above the ground in 1940s during British rule. Once a Naval Base Police Force quarters in late 1950s to around 1971/72 where Asian policemen and their families lived. The Naval Base Police Force comprised of SIkhs, Punjabi Musalmans and Malays. During the time, there was a Sikhs temple - Naval Police Sikh Temple located within the compound. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Gurdwara Sahib Naval Police, was registered in 1960 by the Sikhs of the Naval Police Force. This Gurdwara later merged with Guru Khalsa Sabha in 1971, when the Naval Police Force was disbanded with the withdrawal of British military forces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former NBP officers and its families lived each units</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former residents like Encik Rozselan and his families lived in the unit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1971, the British transferred the Naval Base at Sembawang to the Singapore Government. The Naval Police Force was also disbanded at this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The badminton court (foreground)where the former NBP officers' children who played sports within the compound. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The drain (far right) where the children played</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On raining days, the children would play at the drain which stretched all the way to the main road. Well, I would think of the tadpoles showed up at the pond drain or the wet 'pond' fields where I used to collect tadpoles in my younger days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Front entrance</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1969, as Woodbridge Hospital reached a peak of 2,654 a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">verage daily occupancy and there was a need to relieve overcrowding at the hospital and the location of the serene surroundings of the building made it ideal for the Ministry of Health to set up a secondary </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />institution there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Used to be counter for Enquiries</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I stepped into the main building, the window grille I saw, used to be counter for Énquiries if I could remember and there is a door next to the counter that used to be "Ádmission".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Anti-suicide Stair Protection</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have seen many stairwell with anti-suicide stair protection in other places/countries, be it restaurants at old buildings, hospitals, lunatic Asylum building, old folks homes...etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Closeup: Anti-suicide netting</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anti-suicide stair netting protection was installed after the incidents over the years at the hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grilled gate locked for prevention</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grilled gate installed to prevent patients ruining up to the rooftop/watchtower, similar to one of my oldest uncles' 3-storey bungalow's spiral staircase on the 3rd level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The watchtower</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the watchtower, again I took a 'quick' selfie with these beautiful ladies - Louise and Catherine before going to bomb shelter which is on the ground below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The empty field once the site of the old Swing</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the watchtower, I spotted the small 'empty' plot of field that used to be the site of '7' wooden board swings where the 'sick' patients seat on the wooden board if I could<br />remember. The '7' wooden board swings just next to the 'long' drain (longkang), located facing the main building (front) as if I could remember.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lighting Conductor is seen at the top</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In June 1972, the building was handed over to Woodbridge Hospital (WH). Concrete plans were then put in place in July 1973 to convert it into a secondary mental hospital, about S$700.000 project (reli</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eved overcrowding at WH) for the rehabilitation of less severely-ill patients on their way to recovery, officially completed on 27 May 1975 and commissioned on 1 August 1975. The first batch of patients were admitted to the hospital on 4 August 1975 - 35 patients set foot in View Road Hospital, a psychiatric facility with 250 b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eds for the rehabilitation of patients with chronic schizophrenia. Ward 21 of WH was converted into a new psychiatric Outpatient Department while Ward 23 became a medical ward. Patients at the view road hospital would undergo a rehabilitation programme to learn some useful trade such as woodwork, laundry, tailoring, basket-making and toy-making, was expected to help them recover faster and form a pool of semi-skilled workers on their return <br />to society. It reported stated that the 3-storey building was renovated on the lines of <br />rehabilitation hospital rather than hospital wards.<br />In 1990, the hospital began to take in female patients and the following year, the hospital undergoing major renovations. By 1994, there were close to 294 patients housed at the <br />hospital.<br />Psychiatric rehabilitation has been carried out in View Road Hospital since 1975. The training and programmes have been developed over the years and were individualised according to each patient's abilities, handicaps and needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ground floor at the left of the main buidling</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were 2 sick bays - the ground floor of the main building building would accommodate among other things, 9 rooms with 33 beds, 2 sick bays with 12 beds an administrative office, charge nurse/medical officers' office, a treatment room, a staff room, a barber shop and a large dining hall for 125 patients. The 1st floor housed 19 rooms with 89 beds, an area for craft work and a tailoring department, while the 2nd floor had 38 rooms with 128 beds. Recreational faculties would be provided. There was occupational therapy at the workshop connected to the left of the main building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Used to be Offices</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The spacious hall</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The spacious Kitchen which is inside the building at the ground floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Another Kitchen outside the building </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Kitchen shelter in the middle (foreground)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are two sections of kitchen of which one is outside next to it along the kitchen corridor in between. The hospital chefs and cooks had to prepare meals so that the sick patients will get the food intake which they need to help with recovery.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In View Road Hospital was on work rehabilitation and social functioning so that the patient can adapt to outside life. Its success is reflected in the Day Release Scheme. Of the 250 patients in View Road Hospital, 92 patients were on the 'Day Release Scheme' that was happened to be one of my relatives who developed mental problem after his wife passed on. The 'Day Release Scheme' was to identify factors that contributed to the chronic patient's quality of life from both the patients' and staff's point of view. This included in any lack of congruence between staff and patient perception as these could have significant implications for planning long-term care. In 1997, 50 of the patients under the Day Release Scheme at View Road Hospital and the staff were given a modified questionnaire concerning the patients' quality of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>View Road Lodge (2008)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This former view road 'mental' hospital converted into foreign workers' dormitory called 'View Road Lodge' in 2008 which I heard from an old friend (happened to be my primary school classmate) whose friend who was a lodge manager, in charge of view road lodge. There was some incidents like fighting among workers are very common...Here it went like this...."Most workers' dormitories have at least two burly, specially trained guards on duty at any one time. They will conduct spot checks every hour when there are workers around. Said his friend, lodge manager at View Road Lodge in View Road: 'You cannot employ any normal general worker to be a security guard at a workers' dormitory. You need someone who is fierce and can take control of difficult situations." But before that it was called "View Road Worker Dormitory" at that time after the hospital ceased in 2001. This former hospital has been managed by different operators and rented out for the workers' accommodation thru MOM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>former NB Police unit became Workers' room</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fighting among the workers are common...eg. When fights break out and cannot be stopped, the guards will first threaten to call the workers' employers. This tactic is usually successful as workers are most afraid of being repatriated. But if the fight continues, the police will be called in. Normally....the dormitory, which houses 3,000 workers, has never had a fight since it started operating years ago. Other dormitories prefer a simpler method of keeping peace: providing more space and better facilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Washing bay</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The View Road Lodge managed by Tonga Engineering Pte Ltd (incorporated in Mar 2008 till July 2017).Tonga Engineering was to operate and manage foreign workers dormitory in Singapore for building construction industry, and also in partnership with expertise set-up tower crane leasing. The lodge</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> allowed residents to install their own TV sets in their rooms so that they will not have to share the common set. Gambling, drinking, cooking and bringing girls back are all not allowed there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hindu Shrine outside at Bomb Shelter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Closeup: Hindu Shrine</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also built shelter for their deity (hindu god) outside at the bomb shelter which we saw it on that day during the tour supported by SLA. At that time, there was no Hindu Deity when it became View Road Hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>An above ground Bomb Shelter (front)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>An above ground Bomb Shelter (back)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bomb shelter (Rimau Bomb-Proof Office 1941) surprisingly built on above ground rather than underground in those times. At the back of the bomb shelter which is toilet door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Spotted a spoon inside bomb shelter</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside the bomb shelter, I spotted a spoon (below foreground) in the drain that was left by foreign workers when they moved out. What it has got to do with foreign workers inside the bomb shelter? Cooking inside the bomb shelter?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lizard eggs on the wall</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spotted dozens of lizards eggs on the wall inside the bomb shelter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The door to the shelter rooms and toilets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Generator room inside bomb shelter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>fluorescent lamps on top of the tank</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spotted the fluorescent lamps on top of the 'red' tank, a table and a vintage Handsaw in the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There would possibly sharing a toilet during in crisis or whatever in cramped space. The bomb shelter would accommodate hundreds of people in each hall/rooms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After walked about an hour and 45 mins, it's time for us to end our tour. My hubby left early before me and went back to his office to check on his foreign workers. As I was walking out of the gate, I took some shot of the gate and then I heard Harry calling out, I turned around....and then....Click!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hooray! Harry jumped for 'joy' </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hooray! Harry jumped high for 'Joy' after completed his mission, beside him is JJBB looked on, smiling...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I walking down the road, there is police's signage board that indicated in May 2017, 11 people were arrested for trespassing. That's how trespassers left a '2017' mark on the wall of the stairwell. So don't play play by entering the premise without warning. There is motion sensor CCTV and alarm sound that is monitoring the movements of intruders/trespassers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'former' View Road Hospital is the last two series tour conducted by Jerome with supported by SLA. I am glad to be able to visit the former hospital that I used to visit in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Aerial view of former Beach Rd Police Station</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Style of Colonial buildings constructed during that period, way back to early 1930s shaped like a colonial-style bungalow built by colonial government located at Beach road. Apart to the Colonial buildings that faced to the sea where the present Suntec City located at Marina Centre after the reclamation land from the sea. To the other side of Beach Road Police Station, there was a small road 'Jalan Laut' (defunct) to where Clyde Terrace Market stood, now the present 'The Gateway'. The road 'Jalan Laut' became Rochor Road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It stood 3-storey high and was made of mainly red-bricks that are seen today which are covered white-washed painted. The high ceilings and spacious corridors as well as huge spectacular field that built with basketball court and open-air courtyard for training and recreational purposes. It was one of the largest scale buildings that were built upon reclaimed Beach Road area date back in 1840s. The main building of former Beach Road Police Station (seen as top above in the middle) on the left beside the empty plot of land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1930s, the two of the 3-storey buildings in Beach Road were single men's barracks and married men's barracks. On the ground floor of the former building, there were mess and recreation rooms and dormitories on all 3 floors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Quarters with Verandah on each floor (right)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The married men's quarters consisted of living rooms with a separate verandah on each floor, and there were 3 entrances leading to staircases rising to the upper floors, thus flanked a third 3-storey building. The ground floor occupied by a guard room, offices for an assistant commissioner, inspector and clerks, quarters for a sergeant and armoury, garages for a number of cars and stores. The cell rooms was behind the guard room which was approached by a covered way. Quarters for European and Asiatic inspectors occupied the upper floors. The area of the site along Beach road is near to the 'Demolished' of the theatre - Alhambra that built in 1930s. Now, there is wooden balcony on the 2nd floor where they can look out to the courtyards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Geylang Police Station in Paya Labar Road</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the BRPS closed in 1988, its staff relocated to the 'ultra-modern' Geylang Police Station which was opened in the same year in Paya Lebar road to replace Beach Road. The landmark along Beach road, the 3-storey building (Beach road Police Station) occupied by NCC (National Cadet Corps) later in the same year. Then in 1992, CPD (Central Police Division) headquarters moved in till 2001 when the newly Cantonment Police Complex completed, then they moved in till present where one of my classmates who works there as plainclothes for a long time. The station remained its operational for more than 70 years till 2001.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Side view of Old Beach Rd Police Station (2015)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Former Beach Road Police Station was ceased in 2001 and was marked as conservation and historical site in Oct 2002. As part of an initiative by the Government to lease out disused state buildings to private schools from 2003 to 2006. A few years later in 2007, Raffles Design Institute took over the site and coated it with bright orange painted if I could remember when I passed by this route years ago. URA sets aside the building for future redevelopment and it turned out to be strict restoration and conservation stipulation to any future developers and to ensure that this site continues to have a future.<br />As you can see the two newly 'high-rising' buildings of which one under construction at that time (photo taken in 2015 as above) already completed with three former Beach Road camp blocks 1, 9 & 14 (all conserved and retained) revamped into Singapore's newest lifestyle - South Beach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This bright orange-coloured building was used to be Art show gallery in 2015 and 2016 of which I was there, knowing </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that the place was once an old Beach Road Police Station which was vacant for 2.5 years since 2013, had turned into an art paradise spaces for Art lovers like myself, managed by Singaplural, is a home-grown festival started by SFIC (Singapore Furniture Industries Council) in 2011, in conjunction with our annual trade fair, International Furniture Fair Singapore (IFFS).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These buildings has become modern art after installed air-cons, lighting, propeller ceiling fans, raw canvas...etc left there untouched that we saw yesterday during touring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The entrance to former Beach Rd Police Station</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tour managed by SLA and Jerome, which was held on Sat 7th Oct yesterday. We arrived early as usual as there are 4 of us including Ms Juneta (tree member/participant) waited outside the entrance at 9.30am as the tour started at 10am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Exterior of the former Beach Rd Police Station</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we have to take a few shots before the rest of the participants. We saw SLA staff arrived early and they were inside the building, to foresee the grounds for any damaged wooden floor/ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is indeed damaged/broken wooden pavement outside of one of the buildings. The orange-colour painted 'colonial-style' bungalow/building was done by the previous Art company - Raffles Design Institute took over from 2007 to 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Alhambra and Marlborough Theatres in 1920s</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The orange-coloured building along the beach road, once the site of two theatres - Alhambra and Marlborough theatre at between Hoi How road (defunct) and Beach road, years later around 1980s-1990s the Prince and Jade theatre now ..present Shaw Towers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Retired Ex-Officer Philip Xavier</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the ex-officers Philip Xavier who was stationed at Beach Road Police Station (C Division HQ) in 1970s, shared his story one of the rooms that used to be 'rest room' for the officers with rotating shifts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "Column" Block with Chimney at the rooftop, the block used to be officers' small resting rooms without air-con but there was a exhaust fan through the wall in the past. I was wondering who could endure the heat in the Singapore's tropical weather...maybe the young generations couldn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Barrack overlook towering skyscraper</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behind the "Column" barrack, the face of towering skyscraper 'monster' ( partly seen) sits beside former Block 14 Beach Road Camp (background) revamped into Court Martial Bar recently. Block 14 then in early years the first as quarters for Malay Company of the Singapore Volunteer Corps and later on it converted into a HQ Building for the People's Defence Force (PDF). Actually, there are three pre-war buildings - Blocks 1, 9 & 14 still stand today, together with NCO (Non-Commissioned Officers's) Club that are given conservation status in 2002. These 4 blocks have been revamped high technology modern compound and managed by South Beach Consortium Pte Ltd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The doors of 'resting' room on the right</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the two 1934 barrack blocks that were once part of the original station construction, used as a resting room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not far from the restroom, there is a toilet/washroom for the officers on each side and each floor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the recent coated in bright red on the wall of the staircases on each level on one side whilst the other side coated in white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 3-story block (see above) where the group of police officers posed for a picture in 1970s. Does it look familiar as below?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Group photo of Police Officers 1970s </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo Courtesy: Philip Xavier</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This group photo was taken at 'C' Division building at that time when retired ex-officer Philip Xavier stationed. This photograph (above) belongs to retired ex-officer who shares his photos with us (participants) I took a shot of it and I was grateful to him for his generous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the front of the 3-storey block is the training ground and recreation sport (basketball court). Much thanks to the SPF for their arrangement to have retired ex-officer to share his storey and its historical building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Retired Cop Philip Xavier in his younger days</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He (Philip) even showed us an old photo of him - short-pant uniform in 1960s. He looked young chap in his 20s.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember that my god-sister whose uncle was a policeman, wore short-pant uniform in 1970s, rode on a bicycle around outside the Beach Road Police Station when he was called on radio page on his shoulder about the gangs. My good friend Dick Yip told me that he was stationed at former Beach Road Police Station in 1968 for 5 years after completed his Basic Course at Old Police Academy, Thomson Road. He wore short-pant uniform in 1968-69 and a year later his uniform changed to total blue uniform. At the station, he (Dick) did police work and opt to do anti-crime work, so he has to carry gun, baton, handcuffs...etc, at night use his own small torchlight and sometimes he was on a bicycle on patrol. Also his work.. was plainclothes in later years. On a day or night, he would report to Briefing room and got his orders and acted accordingly. He (Dick) never stayed in 'living' quarter or restroom during his time in the force, he just knocked off after work and went home as he has family at home in Sg. His good friend, Lionel, who was once well-known detective in 1960 till he retired in 1988. He was once served as national crime watchdog. He achieved national recognition in 1971 when he played a pivotal role in the expeditious solution of the infamous "Gold Bars Triple Murder" case. He was awarded many Commendation Certificates and Commissioner of Police Testimonials, including the Malaysian and Singapore Defence Medals. In 1960s, he played in smashing an international syndicate involved in counterfeiting and trafficking of counterfeit US currency notes and the successful apprehension of the syndicate members. Like other retired veteran or long-service officers had fond memories of how they were kept on their toes when Bugis Street was a popular tourist attraction in 1960s and 1970s. Currently, he owns PI firm at Katong.<br />I remember...there was once news reported in 1980s...."Like most old buildings, the old Beach Road Police Station has it</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s own dark tales. Officers on night duty that have claimed they have heard creepy noises. That's why I did not see many of my officers at night, said Supt Bakar"...if I could recall the name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The living quarters were refurbished in early 1970s and converted into offices, the ceiling fans on each floor that kept the officers cool as there was no air-con at that time the building was built in early years. The floor plan pasted on the wall of the main building which I took a shot at the corner end staircase (shaded in blue foreground) where I walked up earlier.<br />The Havelock Road Police Station was demolished in 1969, followed by the Tanjong Pagar Police Station in 1972. The Central Police Station, one of the biggest police stations built during the British era, was also torn down in 1978 due to the widening of Upper Pickering Street. The former of Hill Street Police Station, former Beach Road Police Station and Pearl’s Hill’s Lower and Upper Barracks were the only colonial police stations located in the city area that had escaped the fate of demolition.<br />The former Beach Road Police Station was once involved in quelling riots fuelled by the Maria Hertogh (Nadra) custody case in 1950s.<br />In recent news reported that URA launched the public tender for the plot of land along Beach road - former Bea</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ch Rd Police Station located and this building is no ordinary property transaction, whoever takes over the land, one must conserve and restore the former police station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'one-direction' group that I took, their heads turned around, looked up and waved in the air, only to realise that there was a SLA staff on the 2nd level floor at the other block on the right (hidden from view) to take a shot of the group below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very much thanks to the organisers - SLA and Jerome for the series of tours for the past months since the starts of July 2017. Looking forward to the next tour in two weeks time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well but not least, I saw one of the trees bearing red berries, don't offer edible bounties and many are highly poisonous, but the colourful fruits will brighten up the simply greenery of trees in the Old Beach Road Police Station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A variety of both leafy, deciduous trees and needle covered evergreen offer red berries that add colourful highlights to our Singapore's landscape and the berries also attract song birds will love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Currently, the GuocoLand Limited successfully won the bid tender of S$1.62 billion for Beach Road site during recent land sale exercise and plans to develop the site as "work-live-play" trends. The two 3-storey barrack blocks which are not conserved, possibly will demolish by successful developer as part of redevelopment in the future. So the developer will have the option to retain or demolish near the main building. The main building (U-shaped) built in 1931, is a simple 3-storey Art Deco Building, is given conservation status on 9 Oct 2002, must be retained.</span></div>
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Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-3313542352074928602017-09-25T10:24:00.000+08:002017-09-27T16:57:10.794+08:00Attending to My Dearest Bro Ariffin's Simple Traditional Wedding <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little did I know ....I received WhatApps from my dearest brother Ariffin inviting me to his big day on 24th Sept 2017! And of course, I do love to see him as it's been long time since I last saw him a few years ago despite our busy schedules so we still keep in touch on what's going on in our life even in Facebook as well as others. I was so happy for him - found a new love of his life. <br />It was a hot beautiful Sunday with full of clouds as if it was a good omen (called portent or presage) for his big day. I arrived at Bedok North estate where he lives with his family.<br />Well, I have been to many Malay Traditional weddings before that was in 1980s including my childhood friends' Malay Wedding at 'Kampong' huge tent at the badminton court just outside my mum's block where she and her family lived 3rd storey above the block. They have different types of setting up a spacious or grand wedding especially my childhood friend and one of her brothers who also got married on the same day as her. What a grand 'double' wedding they had. I vaguely remember during the times I attended simple Malay Traditional Wedding at one of my colleagues who is Muslim who held her wedding at void deck of her family's block but they put a lot of hard work on decorations, gatherings and sent invitations to close friends, relatives, colleagues and even foreign colleagues/bosses too. Nowadays, many Malay couples would go for cosplayer's themes such power rangers, superman...etc whom they go for... or are close friends or active members from TokuCos Singapore. Such entertainments and fun would add up enjoyable wedding blues...<br />That was what my dearest brother Mohd Ariffin whom I know him for a long time, He is an active member of TokuCos Singapore and a Mighty Morphin Red Power Ranger (MMRPR) cosplayer himself among with other power rangers in his group (see pic below)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mighty Morphin Power Rangers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture was taken in 2013 and shot by one of my close friends, John Kwok (also his close friend) attended his close friend, Airffin's wedding too. Bro Ariffin, a Red Power Ranger is one of the group photo. If these five power rangers were at his wedding and it would be great to see them in group. Performing Silat or Self-Defence Art are Black Panther', 'Green Ranger' ...attended at his wedding and performed <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/wwsscp/videos/1718380088206265/"><span style="color: red;">'Silat Pengantin/Malay Self-Defence Art'</span></a> </span></b>and at the end of the video..hilarity ensues. What a fun day for the Groom! You could name them - Zyouh Eagle, Green Ranger, Black Panther and MagiShine (blue and Gold Armor).<br />For the skill and knowledgeable, every ‘silat’ movement has its own meaning, for example, blessing the couple, respect the “royalty”, protection and etc. But nowadays, ‘silat asal boleh’ (anyhow ‘silat’) is also welcomed because it’s also a form of entertainment.<br />Originally, Islamic solemnization is very simple and straight ceremony which Bro Ariffin's <span style="color: red;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ariffin101/videos/1590642554339464/"><span style="color: red;">solemnization</span></a> </b></span>held at ROMM or outside ROMM before his big day on the next day. There is a ‘wali’ (guardian), 2 witnesses, a small amount of ‘mahar’ (dowry) and/or a ring with a small dinner ‘walimah’ (celebration). Now, additional wedding gifts and dowry are expected. Usually ‘akad nikah’ is done the night before the big ‘walimah’ but sometimes, it can squeezed in a day. Bride and groom is offic</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ially married after this ceremony. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to the wedding finest hall that what used to be a void deck that the simple Malay Traditional wedding that he wish for and yet it turned out to be grand finest wedding, with some of the world's finest Superheroes that happened to be his close friends. The Magnificent Four Superheroes stood on guards behind Bride and Groom are - from left Muhammad Ridhwan Bin Sulaiman (MagiShine), MuhayminLeo Azman (Zyouh Eagle), Abang Kamarr (Black Panther) and Chazzy Van Meezy (Green Power Ranger).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only superheroes as what I heard that they also got experience in pencak silat kesenian / Silat Pengantin and one of them is a former Singapore Silat representative and medallist. Well, they are doing their close friends a favour as 'Bodyguards' to escorted them to their festivities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some superheroes dressed up their own clothes and they would bring their own either helmet or power ranger belts to show who they are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I arrived in the afternoon at 1plus and was told by his uncle that Ariffin and his bride will arrive at 2pm onwards, So I could help myself with my meal and desserts while waiting for Bride and Groom. Consequently, I could end up chatting some of his relatives or family's friends at the same table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A wide variety of foods</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are wide range of fruits, desserts, snacks, drinks and even hot beverages too. Of all the foods I love most during my kampong days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After meals, I would watch them singing in a Malay Traditional songs and I even videoing it. I do understand the Malay songs they sang and dance in a traditional way. You can watch it as below</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following the groom to the bride is not only his entourage but also a procession of several men playing the ‘kompang’ as an announcement of his arrival. The men playing the ‘kompang’ also would also sing ‘ghazal’ (lyrical poems) and songs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After all the ceremony (and picture taking) the bride and groom will be guided to their own dining table to have their lunch but not before feeding each other first in a traditional way. There is no specific reason behind this but just an act of being romantic to each other as a husband and wife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe that each family may have their own practice so it maybe slightly different from others, just like my childhood Malay friend's wedding in 1980s in their kampong styles..<br />At around 3plus before I leave, I met two of our close friends - John Kwok and Ms Wong who came later and had a short chat with Bro Ariffin who was having his wedding meal half way. I brought them to the meal section for them to have their late lunch. <br />Then I walked back to the gifts counter and the lady passed a cute box of cake ( a cupcake) with thanks and calling out to him and said 'Goodbye'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To My Dearest Brother Ariffin and Ruzainah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You look marvellous as a couple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will face on this new journey of life.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May your married life be filled with harmony, peace, joy and love,<br />Congratulations to both of YOU.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There has been lots of speculating video news or internet speculating news about cosplayer's Silat Pengantin/Self-Defence Art, had garnered lot of attention and mixed reviews by netizens on Facebook. Eh..There's nothing wrong with cosplayers performing Silat...or singing the Kompang songs. In my views, I do hear many kompang songs in my childhood days, be it kompang gang songs or whatsoever. they are humans and they did a favour for their close friend, Ariffin for enertainment and fun once in his lifetime. Their knowledgeable in Malay traditional wedding... but nowadays people even their kids love to see their favourite cartoon/comic cosplayers in actions and even old generations would hear the oldies kompang songs. Why not? It's an entertainment and fun for the Malay couple, friends and family with kids. They have their close friend's family approval of their entertainment to the guests, young and old alike. There's no specific rules in Islamic and Malay in engaging their entertainment views on cosplayers. I don't see any negatives on my side and even my good old friends said that they love to see my photo albums that I posted on Facebook. It's a new Fashion trend nowadays. So do you?</span><br />
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Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-16459830373270137132017-09-18T12:00:00.000+08:002017-09-20T23:41:56.143+08:00Beautiful Old Admiralty House<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the 16th Sept Saturday morning at 10am, I including my husband and my classmate visited the Old Admiralty House (An English Country Manor) organised by SLA and Jerome. We met at Sembawang Mrt early as expected and the distance to the house is about 6 mins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Encik Kamal grew up in Sembawang and is very well knowledgeable around the places including old admiralty house and its grounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon reaching there, saw some of my friends here and there and quickie took some shots before our turns at 10am.<br />This two-storey brick bungalow was constructed in 1939. The development sits on a 5.6 hectare site, consisting of six hostel blocks, six academic blocks, a dance studio, swimming pool, tennis courts, basketball courts, laundry block and an air-raid shelter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former Old Admiralty House (Front)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This old colonial house with its distinctive red tiles and white columns was built back in 1939 and was originally the British Naval Headquarters, used by the Royal navy Officers until 1970s.<br />Built in 1939 towards the end of the movement and designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the two-storey brick building resembles a traditional English cottage that has a steep roof clad with terracotta tiles in a French pattern. The asymmetrical design of the building allow for numerous turns through the corridors, while the first storey is heavily stuccoed and painted white.<br />Between 1939-1945, it was first named the Canberra House and served as the residence of the Commodore Superintendent of the Royal Navy Dockyard as well as the strategic planning headquarters of the British armed forces during World War II.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the next few decades, the name of the building would change frequently along with purposes. From the Admiralty House (1958-1971) where it was the home of the Commander of the Far East Fleet, to the ANZUK House (1971-1974) where it served as the residence of the commander of the Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom forces that provided interim defence protection while Singapore and Malaysia built up their militarises. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After WWII, the building was renamed Nelson House, after the famous Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson. Lord Nelson is recognised even today as one of the greatest admirals in English history, lauded as a hero of the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). Nelson House then became the residence of the Flag Officer of the Malayan Area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Old Admiralty House became the residence of Commander of the ANZUK forces after the pullout of the British forces in 1971.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the British pullout, in 1972 , Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh had lunch at Old Admiralty House during their visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Gate inscribed "ANZUK House" </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1958, the residence became known as Admiralty House. It housed the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Station. When the British withdrew its forces in 1971, the Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom (ANZUK) tripartite force assumed the responsibility of Singapore’s military defence. Once again, the Admiralty changed its name – it became ANZUK House. Until this day, the words ‘ANZUK House’ can still be seen on the entrance gate of the state property (see above pic).<br />Four years later in 1975, following the withdrawal of the Australian forces from the ANZUK, returned the house keys to the Singapore Government. Sembawang Shipyard inherited the estate and used it as a recreation club. While its owners changed over the years, the monument continued to house recreation facility clubs until 2006. When the building was declared a National Monument in 2002, it was renamed for the last time as the Former Admiralty House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over time it was also used as a private residence, hotel, recreational club and Yishun country club, before it became home to the FIS Institute (辅仁预科学院) (present Furen International School), a private educational institution (boarding school) to cater mainly Chinese nationals and Overseas as of 2011 till present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former Old Admiralty House (Back)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The balcony private quarters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The white-washed wall above the 'semi-circle' of the balcony private quarters with the rooms below. In those days, the column white-washed walls that were used to have blinds in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The 'Open' Balcony Private Quarters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Balcony Private Quarters looks more space to look outside the garden , a plain lawn overlooking the Straits of Johor through cutting in the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the balcony, to where the green lawn with a pond, is seen here with early participants still there taking a selfie at the far right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A wide verandah is seen above the 'semi-circle' Balcony and the exposed red bricks seen on the 2nd level of the Old Admiralty House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are two staircases (see below) that could have described in different ways..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Main Staircase</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Corridor from the main staircase (at the end)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What could have been the servants quarters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walked up from the main staircase leads to the corridor of the rooms to the end of the narrow of what to be the servants stairwell (staircase) to the kitchen blocks below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Fire-hose Tower is seen at the rooftop</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The development includes an elegantly proportioned fire-hose tower which serves as a local landmark</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for both the Sembawang area and the shipyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rooftop Lightning Conductors</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I could have seen lots of lighting rod conductors that are built on rooftop of the hostel and academic blocks, office & laundry block as well as the main block of an Old Admiralty House. It is usually made out of a rod of metal with a pointed end and is mounted at a high spot such as the roof of a building. The rod is connected to ground through a cable that is attached to a stake that is driven into the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Servants and Kitchen Blocks</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grounds of the Old Admiralty House recently added structures - a pond, entrance gate a guard post and the single storey blocks around the swimming pools also added with classrooms and accommodations by the School (FIS). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'deepest' swimming pool is said to be built by 200 Japanese POWs for the British after Japanese surrendered in 1945.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The area of the forest was once a water tower and stone steps. The background of the building was once Sembawang Forest West Hill now HDB flats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 30msq underground bunker was discovered in 1990 that is believed to be a Air Raid <br />Shelter (Bomb Shelter) located at the driveway of the building of Old Admiralty House close by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bomb shelter (Air Raid Shelter) is rather small and clean. The Air Raid Shelter has a wooden roller shutter above, this is to pull down and close the shelter. There's a small 'round' hole in the middle of the steps. When there is rain, it will flow into the hole, preventing floodwaters flowing into the Air Raid Shelter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Back of the Bomb Shelter</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the left inside the bomb shelter, what remains of a squatting toilet closet (water closet) and has several light fittings can be found inside the shelter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The room hall with propeller fan</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only one room hall that can accommodate member of the buildings with one propeller fan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Colonial Lighting inside the shelter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several light fittings mounted on the wall can be found inside the bomb shelter. A very grand colonial lightings could be seen inside the Air Raid Shelter and is believed to be built in 1930s or later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 6-blade Propeller fan mounted above the concrete ceiling to where the toilet closet is and the vibration is minimal and have better holding power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tree roofs seen sprouting from above the concrete ceiling wall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the right side of the bomb shelter, is the metal staircase leading to the...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">escape route (pic as above) to where the carpark located nearby., just at the back of the shelter above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the 3 colonial concrete lampposts can be seen in the premise of an Old Admiralty House which is only one left in the original building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Flag Mast was taken down from Kranji Wireless Station on the 12th May 1970 and re-elected at Admiralty House on the same day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A pair of 'Fu Dog' statue is seen at the staircase handrail next to the entrance gate after you walked from the Old Nelson Road driveway to the Old Admiralty House.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a national monument, the former Admiralty House is set to be a centrepiece of the future Sembawang Community Hub and enrich the community development with its rich heritage. It will give the fresh sporting, recreational and community amenities in a park setting an added dimension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the news has announced that a 12 hectare plot of land in Sembawang will soon be home to an integrated sports and community hub, just a five minute walk away from Sembawang MRT station. The FATE of the Furen International School, which will vacate the premises in 2020.</span></div>
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Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-13389310713602205482017-09-11T22:30:00.000+08:002017-09-15T13:51:22.928+08:00Iconic Old Changi Hospital<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Built in 1930's, together with an A/E opposite the road and several blocks of commando barracks cum Changi prison nearby, the iconic Old Changi Hospital (OCH) is situated at 24 Halton Road along with Changi Chalets. It has quite a long and rich history for being the former hospital of today's modern Changi General Hospital in Simei in 1997 and Toa Payoh Hospital equipped with world-class facilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>View of Old Changi Hospital (OCH)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With its classical design, one can see that OCH is a typical replica of buildings built by British Colonial architects in the early 30's. So surprisingly is that OCH was not meant to be a hospital when it was first built (same for the A/E). The British was planning to have a heavily guarded military location in the east of Singapore. The site was strategically selected for it is high on top of a hill overlooking the sea surrounding most of the east side and the south side of the island. For about 10 years before the war, this classical 7-storey high building compound was used as military command quarters and barracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was first commissioned and named RAF (Royal Air Force) hospital in 1935 to serve the Royal Engineers in Kitchener Barracks (a camp used to house British POWs with Fortress Units), the Royal Artillery in Robert Barracks (currently Changi Airbase) and the Gordon Highlanders (2nd Battalion) in Selarang Barrack (formerly Malayan General Hospital).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From February 1997 onwards, OCH was closed for its hospital operations were replaced by the new Changi General Hospital. It got isolated and left vacant there since then. According to some insider sources, the abandoned OCH will remain as it is and it opened for the 'public' during 2005 for the Army Camp or for the Officer Cadet School (OCS) Trainees.<br />The Old Changi Hospital itself had over 70 years of rich history when it survived from the dreadful World War II that took place from 1942 to 1945, witnessing the fall of Singapore and the little mistreats towards the prisoners of war (POW) that happened there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An old logo of Changi Hospital at Block 24 that reminds us of the past history of once a Military building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although Old Changi Hospital is a restricted access site, this has not stopped Singaporeans from trying to enter despite of being risk of getting caught by the authorities. A police signboard outside of the hospital warns that 20 persons have been arrested or investigated for trespassing into the area (see above pic). So...don't try to get yourself caught as there are many motion sensors installed at all buildings by SLA and the police and even in the bushes too, to detect the intruders' movements even in the faces that stored in surveillance cameras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Weeds overgrown defunct stairs</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did see the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eKj0e7wuG8"><b><span style="color: red;">video of the youths</span></b></a> (they received stern warning from the security guard) trying to enter the premises in 2016 thru the old defunct stairs (see pic above) covered with overgrown vegetation from the locked fences where I took a photo earlier on 9th Sept 2017 conducted series guided tours by SLA and one of my nostalgia friends, Jerome Lim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Film 'Haunted Changi' movie (2010)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the year 2010, a local horror film, Haunted Changi, even draws on popular belief in the hospital's "haunted-ness" for its story-line. In the movie, a group of Singaporean film makers get caught up in the spiritual happenings of Old Changi Hospital and wind up suffering unimaginable fates. Changi Hospital combined with Toa Payoh Hospital to form a new hospital in Simei named Changi General Hospital in 1997. The vacated site was used for filming local films and television dramas once they became available for short-term rental from the Singapore Land Authority. <br />Local dramas were filmed there, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UseKl_DRXzI"><span style="color: red;"><b>Growing Up</b></span></a>, Incredible Tales and Crime Hunters, for its rustic colonial architecture and eerie nature. In 2006, the Singapore Land Authority put up the site for commercial lease for a long term development of the site. The tender was won by Bestway Properties, which proposed to build a luxurious spa-resort by the first half of 2008. However, the project did not materialise and the site remained vacant. The three year leased expired in 2010, and was returned to the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At 10am In the morning, I was supposed to meet them at the entrance of the OCH, so I took a direct bus from Simei Mrt and it took me 15 mins to reach there and walking distance about 7 mins on the straight road path from Halton Road where the bus-stop (opp.Maranatha Bible Presbyterian Church) along Loyang Ave without any turning direction like Netheravon Road and Sealand Road (too troublesome).<br />In fact, my mum did mention to me that in the early 50s, she worked at the salon shophouse which was above the floor and below was motor workshop in the rows of 'kampong' shophouese near Changi Villages in the past. Local villagers could see the hill of Old Changi Hospital that was used to be Military Buildings.<br />One of my nostalgia friends from UK, his name is Stephen whose sister was born at Old Changi Hospital in 1962, stated as British on Crown Territory. He shared his fond memories in Sg. Here it goes...His father worked at RAF Changi FEAFOC (Far East Airforce Operational Command) as Air Traffic Controller from 1947 to 1977 when he retired. He and his family lived in Upper East Coast road in the house owned by Mr Kiong Chin Eng and at Maria Avenue on the Opera Estate in Siglap from 1960-1963. From 1969 to 1972, they lived at 60-4 Upavon Road at RAF Changi, then they moved to RAF Tengah and they lived at 49 Meteor Road. My friend was 3 months old at that time when his family first came to SG. At the age of 11, he and his family came back to the UK in 1971. My friend studied at RAF Primary School at Changi and Tengah. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note: "My friend will find the photo of his father of his time in Airforce and will post it here later. Akan Datang".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the former staff who worked in operating theatre, accident and emergency in 1960s, like Mr Lim (one of the participants) who was a medic at the Changi Hospital. Most people still hold special memories of the place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A TREE member, Shona Trench was born in Old Changi Hospital in 1961, was a baby no. 246 in the hospital ward. She is seen interviewed with a group of TV media whilst her husband, Robert shared his old photo with TREE member</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OCH's Baby Shona no. 246</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the TREE members, Shona Trench was born in OCH in 1961, baby no. 246 shared her fond memories of the hospital and her own</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> family lived at SAF Seletar</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at that time. In 2010, Shona and her own family returned in S'pore and have been living here for 7 years. She is seen with TV crews among other participants together with her husband, Robert Trench. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seeing positive participants walked into the Old Changi Hospital with ease without having thought of being paranoia and yet seeing an old building in the sense of quiet and beautiful place to hear the story of deep historical of the colonial building from 193</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">0s built by the British.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Station Quarters for sick patients at Block 37</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Block 37 was put up as a station quarters for 'sick' or unwell patients in 1946.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The former hospital complex comprises the 3 buildings which are Block 37 with atop of the barrack or FEAF (Far East Airforce) Hill. The Block 37 was completed in 1935 after delay initiated in 1930 by the then Labour Government. Block 37 was never to be a fully operational hospital which was supposed to be marked as 'Hospital' before the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Blk 37 with X-Ray & dental room (background)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Barrack Hill where the HQ Air-Command SEA being moved to, the hospital was also set up by RAF in 1947.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Two operating theatres on one side</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The former 'H' Block 24 together with Block 37 were serving as the main admin block and casualty</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> entrance with two operating theatres at one side whilst the X-Ray on the other side and the dental room also at the same wing (pic above).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Mr Lim, a participant who was a medic at the hospital, said that there was an operating theatre here at A&E building (pic above)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ambulances came up from Hendon Road to sending 'sick' patients to the lower block, the former 'H' block 24 for treatments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1962, the construction of the block 161 allowed the link connection between the two original blocks previously separated by a flight of 91 steps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Linkway between Blocks 37 and 161</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the fond memories by former patients was that they got to see the sea view from their wards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A sea view from Block 161</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Linkway between Block 37 and 161 as seen above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Once the occupied wards in this wing</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wards at level 5 or 6 were used to be occupied with patients and the sounds of the babies could be heard and now it's empty wards that brings fond remembered by the former patients who were warded or worked in the theatre and hospital emergency rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An air-conditioning cooling unit outside the Block 161</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Block 34 </b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apart from Block 37 down the slope to Block 34. The former 'H' blocks 24 and Block 37 were built as part of Kitchener Barracks, the Changi Garrison. So... Block 24 (H Block) was one of the early blocks that completed to house the Royal Engineers in 1930s and served as barrack block and dinning room. <br />Many British POWs were sent to work on projects such as Burmese Railway by mid 1943, Kitchener and Roberts were be vacated and were taken over by Imperial Japanese Airforce with the construction of a landing strip at Changi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Block 161 is where the bulks of the wards were located in this 7-storey building when it was opened in 1962 ( my friend whose sister was born in 1962). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>To the top of Block 24 via link Bridge</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 3rd floor of Block 37 connected to the top floor of Block 24 via link bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Link bridge between Blocks 161 & 24</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2nd floor of Block 37 that connected the link bridge between Blocks 161 and 24.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former Barrack Block 24</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The former Barrack Block 24 which became a maternity block when Block 161 was added. The building is a kind of tropical barrack block design which has no aircon at that time. And it built with wide verandah and high ceiling and window for insulation and ventilation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Single room that once housed 40 soldiers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This room would have been a single room to accommodate 40 soldiers. This hospital's maternity wing which also brought more than 1000 babies of families of all services. It was retained as for military use for ANZUK Military Hospital when the British pulled out in 1971. In 1975 it was handled over to SAF and the locals or civilians were allowed to use the hospital for treatments instead of being transferred to the MOH (Ministry of Health). From the same year, MOH consolidated with 150 beds with about 36 Changi Chalet Hospital and it soon became Changi Hospital in July 1976 till it closed in 1997 when it was combined with Toa Payoh Hospital to form General Changi Hospital which opened in Simei in 1998.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Signage mounted on the gate</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, these posters of state land and Live Detection of Intruder by CCTV pasted every nook and corner of the gate and even signage mounted on it. So...don't try sneak into the building without warning if captured on recording by motion sensors everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So...who see the ghost in broad daylight, the only lady ghost on the wall spotted by the participants. I thought the building is creepy one but it makes me feel peaceful setting around environment for healing recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tour lasted for 2 hours and there will be another slot in the afternoon which was at1pm. My visit to Old Changi Hospital was part of SLA's state property part of series tours organised by Mr Jerome, is supported by SLA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>View of Former Kallang Airport</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once the seaplane bases at Sembawang and Royal Air Force Seletar were completed in 1920s, a final decision was made in 1930s to build a civilian airport at Kallang.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Kallang, there were once the kampongs (villages) that were relocated for the construction of the grass runaway and the terminal building.<br />The former Kallang Airport is sited on reclaimed land of what was once the swampy Kallang Basin, located at 9 Stadium Link and fronting the Nicoll Highway today, The landing strip was a large circular field in front of the Terminal Building. The boundary of the Airport once extended into what is now Old Airport Road. The surrounding land and the runways were redeveloped in the 1950s when the airport facilities were relocated to Paya Lebar Airport.It's been six years I last stepped into an iconic old Kallang Airport during Singapore Biennale 2011 which I have blogged about <a href="http://mimiworld-catcat17spiritual.blogspot.sg/2011/05/old-kallang-airport.html"><span style="color: red;"><b>Old Kallang Airport</b></span></a>. But before that, I have been there in early 1990s and am a member of PA since till now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SLA Secret Spaces conducted the tour on 26 Aug 2017 which was yesterday and the meeting point - 9 Stadium Link at 4pm. We reached there by taxi after our late lunch at National Stadium (Kallang Wave Mall). It took us 5 mins to reach our destination. Earlier, we walked to the Link Bridge to the National Stadium to have our lunch there.</span><br />
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<b>Original Lamp Post</b></div>
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The gate posts with the lions crest and original lamp posts are also conserved to complete the historic setting of the site.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More recently it has also been used creatively for events like the Singapore Biennale 2011 and even fashion shows by Calvin Klein & Hermes (Apr 2014).</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former Kallang Airport was built by the British Colonial government as Singapore's first civil airport, located in Kallang was completed at a cost of S$8 million which was opened on 12 June 1937, functioning as an airport until it was replaced by Paya Lebar International airport in 1955 till it (Paya Lebar Airport) closed in 1981 and thus replaced by RSAF.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he Land was chosen as the site of the Airport and in 1931, the 300 arches of swamp was reclaimed and a circular bund was built up above the level of the highest tide commonly known as the foundation of the present airfield. It was started after an announcement to be built Kallang Airport that was made by then Governor Cecil Clementi on 31 August 1931. Six years later upon completion of the airport and was officially opened on June 1937 by Governor Shenton Thomas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Royal Singapore Flying Club (RSFC) in 1937 with the opening of Kallang Airport, the Club moved to its new quarters on the airport and that year, with increased activities, flew 542 hours on seaplanes and 1,665 hours on landplanes</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. By 1937, the RSFC had 9 aircraft including a DH 87 Hornet Moth and a Miles Magister. In 1938, a Miles Withney Straight augmented these 9 aircraft. By 1939, the last seaplane was dismantled and taken into stock as spares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During WWII, Kallang Airport was used as military airbase and planes carried out bombing missions against the invading Japanese military forces. The Japanese bombed the airport three or four times a day and made fresh bomb craters which made it possible to use only one strip of the runway (700 yards long).<br />During the Occupation, the Japanese laid down the runway which has been repaired by Dept. of Civil Aviation since the Japanese surrendered. The Airport building are concentrated into a small area to reduce obstructions. Inside the main building were airline offices, and customs offices, medical post and a restaurant.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1954 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crash</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only air disaster in Singapore occurred on 13 March 1954 when a BOAC Constellation crashed as it struck on seawall on approach to the runway. A total of 32 passengers and 2 crew members died in that disaster. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1948, the Kallang civil Airport was not adequate for the increased air traffic; the development of the Airport was limited because it was close to the harbour and built-up areas. Decision was taken to build a new airport in Paya Lebar. The new airport was officially opened on 20 August 1955 and the Kallang Airport was closed to air traffic in 1955<br />In 1952, the taxi track at Kallang Airport was to be resurfaced which cost about $100,000 and work will began in 2 or 3 months and completed in July 1952. And the extension to the main building that housed customs, Immigration and medical officials and office spaces for airline companies.<br />When Kallang Airport was closed in 1955, the old runway which ran parallel to Mountbatten Road became Old Airport Road, while the surrounding public flats became known as Old Airport Estate or Kallang Airport Estate. I remember.. in 1960s to 1990s, along Mountbatten Road, the field open space used to be the site of Gay World Park and Gay World Stadium (Geylang Indoor Stadium in 1990s). This Mountbatten Road was defunct and changed to new road names - Kallang Airport Drive and Kallang Airport Way in early 2010s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The design of the building is accredited to Frank Dorrington Ward, the Chief Architect of the former Public Works Department. The building clearly displayed the new Modern architectural language of functionalism, with exposed concrete, horizontal lines, transparent glazed walls and streamlined curves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Antique Semicircle Spiral Stairs</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The narrowest and smallest Antique Metal Spiral Stairs in the world. Leading up to the control towel and outside the tower corridor which is also narrow walkway in circular path.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A video of a Petite Spiral Stairs leading up to the control tower at Old Kallang Airport taken by me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>East Block next to Blk A, B, C side by side</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The East Block which is next to Block A, Block B & Block C side by side is seen above pic which is out of bounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>West Block corridor leading to the door</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alongside the terminal are the two buildings of East and West block originally built to house the airline offices, are designed simply and built in reinforced concrete. They are similar in appearance to other military buildings found within British military camps, with the regular repetitive columns and windows. Did you see anything unusual at the door of West Block as above?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hangar that once housed the various aircrafts, including perhaps even seaplanes that landed on what was once a grass runway. Built with reinforced concrete, the heaviness of the hangars provides a stark contrast but also architectural balance to the lightness of the terminal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hangar which is out of bounds, only on the 2nd level of West Block for overview of the hangar. Luckily I was there in 2011 and able to view on the grounds of the hangar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Me@2nd level of West Block</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surprisingly, I didn't know my husband took a shot of me at the open window on the 2nd level of West Block building after the tour ended. I was holding a selfie stick took photos of hangar open space. Anyway, the hangar is out of bounds. Guess how did he do it? Giggles... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hangar adjacent to the West Block is a lofty and simple column-free structure where planes used to park. The building is a functional piece with large expense of windows to bring light into the space. The hangar is also conserved to complete the aviation history for the site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ever wonder what the airport looked like before the runway and taxiways were torn up and removed to build the National Stadium, this is a rare aerial photo of Runway taken in 1955. The terminal building is at the bottom left, and at the basin end of the runway you can see the slipway (where Oasis now stands) originally built to allow flying boats like the Imperial Airways Short S.23 Empire to be served at the same terminal as land planes.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People's Association Headquarter (1970s)</b></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The People's Association was officially inaugurated by the Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew at the old terminal building of the Kallang Civil Airport on 20 August 1960. The headquarters of the People's Association was also to second line of defence against the communists.<br />The National Stadium, the Kallang Theatre and other sporting facilities new occupy the former runway of the old Kallang Civil Airport. It operations run till 2009, thereafter, the building holds lots of events including fashion show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Group@OldKallangAirport (OKA)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The group photo taken at Old Kallang Airport (OKA for short) which conducted by SLA and Jerome on series tours.<br />Old Kallang Airport touted as one of the most modern airports of its time.</span>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-50058901550509970812017-08-21T20:30:00.000+08:002017-08-22T09:14:51.570+08:00Beautiful Serene of Mount Vernon Columbarium<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>World United for Life@GraceServiceHall</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the morning of Sunday, 20th Aug which was yesterday, my husband and I attended at The World United for Life 2017 day held at Grace Service Hall at Mount Vernon Sanctuary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Inside Grace Service Hall</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a global event that offers Singaporeans a private and serene place to reflect and remember their loved ones, to commemorating the life of those who have gone before us, celebrating life and the lives of our loved ones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And Mt Vernon Columbarium where my husband's late parents' resting place we visited every year since early 1990s till now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After this, we managed to stroll within Mount Vernon Sanctuary surrounding to capture the peaceful and calm of the large greenly space with six service halls for wakes, Mt Vernon Columbarium Pagoda and complexes.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The design were laid out like a hexagon (below pic) and from the top of the Pagoda, the blocks of them neatly spaced out and it's impressive sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">View of Mt Vernon Columbarium Complex from Pagoda</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The plot of land and the building that Mount Vernon Sanctuary occupies used to be Mount Vernon Crematorium. The single colonial style building on 11,500 sq ft of land, had been unoccupied for 5 years and the condition of the place was poor. The "4th Generation" Ang Brothers from Ang Chin Moh Group (founded in 1912) managed to savage and maintain the colonial style building in its facade and to refurnish it. The founding of Ang Chin Huat Casket (1912) is an early pioneer of the funeral profession in Singapore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mt Vernon Columbarium Complex & Pagoda</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Pagoda Columbarium is a nine-storey building where the urns are kept inside the niches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mt Vernon Columbarium Pagoda</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone or something (a place) that is serene is calm and quiet that lies in lushly huge greenery space that was once Mount Vernon cemeteries in the past. Mount Vernon is named after British Royal Navy Vice Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757). Mount Vernon Columbarium opened its operations in 1962 and was the first state run crematorium in Singapore to handle cremations. Due to inability to handle the amount of cremations needed daily, a new crematorium was built at Mandai. On 30 June 2004, the crematorium at Mt Vernon ceased cremation services. The Cremation services have been shifted to the new Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium Complex at 300 Mandai Road in July 2004. Mt Vernon Columbarium complex is still in operation to this day till the news announced of the re-location and is set to make way for the Bidadari estates and its 10,000 Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats as well as 1,000 private homes (Condo). The Mr Vernon Columbarium (which came after the crematorium) was built in many phases. The first Columbarium was built in 1976 with only 161 niches filled in the first year. More were added over the years including Pagoda. The niches were arranged in numbered blocks that featured Chinese-style green roofs and also were housed within a distinctive-looking nine-storey Mt Vernon Columbarium Pagoda. After 45 years of operation since it opened in 1962, the Mt Vernon Crematorium and funeral complex held its final service. Its lease ends on Mar 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The old lift and Spiral staircase</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The old lift that takes me to the 8th floor only and one floor level, I have to walk up the spiral staircase. The lift installed emergency phone, should any problem arises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wind chime prevents pigeons flying in and sometimes it may call a sound of a spirit lurking around when member of the public would hear the tinging sound coming from the Pagoda. It's also to drive away bad Feng Shui. Sound freaky..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saw the wired window to prevent any small animals like pigeons to come into the window above the wall on the Pagoda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Overlooking the niche blocks and Maris Stella High School (seen in the background) from the top of the Pagoda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a hill which is the home of Mount Vernon Camp (red rooftop on the left), the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force training and residential facilities which is inaccessible to the public. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I noticed the Columbarium complex at the corner that niches holding the urns of the departed are inside whereas most niches outside are lack of connected sheltered walkway in rain and shine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The family of the deceased choose to have a sheltered for their loved ones from rain and shrine and the cost would be high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>One of Mt Vernon Service Parlours ceases</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'blue rooftop' Columbarium building is next to the service hall 1 that had stopped its operation since.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mt Vernon Funeral Parlour Service Hall with a tall burner or Crematorium Chimney that was used in the past till it ceased in 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Service Hall 1 Torn Down</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concrete stone chairs inscribed the name of the Mount Vernon Crematoria has been widespread since in early 1980s and what will happen to these chairs if over 20,000 niches move to Mandai and the complexes including Pagoda will demolish in later year in 2019. The leases for Mount Vernon Parlours 1 and 2, which are run by Singapore Casket ends in Dec 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The old crooked tree with curved branches</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The old crooked trees that have curved branches stands alone in the middle of niches blocks in between.Will the trees preserved? It looks eerie when night falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A coconut tree if preserved, will remind me and my husband of his late parents-in-law's resting place, just next to the niche block and Christian service hall (below) is located.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Christian Service Parlour Hall</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recognise the blue rooftop building that my ex-colleague, a christian, passed away in mid 1990s. Her casket held at this building that my boss, my colleagues and I attended at her wake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Colonial 'Bidadari' Cemetery of Yore</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rich history and heritage of Bidadari will be assimilated into the new housing estate to be built there. Bukit Timah Cemetery was closed in 1907, and Bidadari Cemetery was officially opened on January 1, 1908.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Bidadari Memorial Garden</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The crest of lion standing and royal palm tree embalmed on the wall pillar of the gate, would be done by famous sculptor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>View of Bidadari Memorial Garden from Pagoda</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lion standing and Palm Tree</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The land once belonged to the Sultan of Johor in the mid-1800s, and was the site of a grand residence – the Istana Bidadari (Bidadari House), from which the area takes its name. In later years, during the early 1920s wealthy Arabian family the Alkaffs built a magnificent Japanese-themed garden with a large lake nearby, called the Alkaff Garden. The name Bidadari is believed to be derived from the Sanskrit widyadari, meaning ‘nymph of Indra’s heaven’. It is said that the cemetery was named so after one of the wives of Johor Sultan Abu Bakar, on whose Istana residence the cemetery is sited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Christian Section of Memorial Garden</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The government acquired the 45 acre land in 1903 for $112,500, opening it in 1907 as the third cemetery in Singapore at the time. It was divided into various sections according to religion, with the Muslim, Hindu, and Singahalese section at the base of Mount Vernon, across Upper Aljunied Road from the Christian and Catholic section. After the land was acquired by the Municipal Council of Singapore (the administrative body pre-Singapore’s independence) for use as a cemetery, the first burial at Bidadari Cemetery, a Christian one, took place in December 1907. A Muslim section was added 2 years later to the initial Protestant and Roman Catholic plots, and a Hindu section added eventually in 1925.When the cemetery closed 66 years later in 1973, there were altogether approximately 147,000 graves.<br />Lim Boon Keng was a prominent Peranakan social activist and philanthropist. He was the first Malayan to receive a Queen’s Scholarship, and studied medicine in Edinburgh University. Mr Lim was a member of the British Legislative Council in Singapore, a member of the Chinese Advisory Board and a Justice of the Peace. He co-founded the Singare Chinese Girls’ School, encouraging the education of Chinese girls and also co-founded the Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early Singapore’s prominent members of the community were buried in Bidadari. Among them were Chinese physician and community leader Dr Lim Boon Keng (Boon Keng Road), known as the “grand old man” of Singapore’s Chinese society; Mr Ahmad Bin Ibrahim, Singapore’s Minister for Health and Labour in the 1950s and 1960s (Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim in Jurong); and Dr George Herbert Garlick, a prominent medical practitioner (Garlick Avenue in Bukit Timah).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Headstone of Alfred John Bidwell</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Among the 12 headstones preserved in the memorial garden is that of Regent Alfred John Bidwell, architect from Swan & Maclaren who later practised as an independent architect. Accomplished architect Alfred John Bidwell didn’t get a road named after him, however he is well remembered in the iconic and much-loved buildings he designed that are preserved today – the Raffles Hotel, Goodwood Park Hotel, and the Victoria Theatre. The graves in Bidadari Cemetery were exhumed from 2001 to 2006 however as the government had big plans for the site given its attractive central location. Bidwell passed away in 1918 at Tanjong Katong, and was interred in Bidadari Cemetery</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Headstone of Koona Vayloo Pillay</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the three original gateways of the Christian cemetery was relocated to the garden to mark the main entrance. Next to it stands a cupola dedicated to Koona Vayloo Pillay who died on 24th March 1931, the father of Pakirisamy Pillay and Narayanasamy Pillay. Pakirisamy Pillay served as the served as the Chairman for the Hindu Temples’ Committees of Management for four different Hindu temples, including </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sri Krishnan Temple </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at Waterloo Street. He contributed to the extensive development of the temple. A bronze plaque donated by the British Merchant Navy Personnel Association, dedicated to the lives lost in WWII, could also be found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Muslim Section@Bidadari Memorial Garden</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Muslim cemetery covered the area 24ha of land with over 78,000 graves. The selected of headstones of prominent personalities relocated to this memorial garden as a remainder of their contributions to Singapore's growth and development, others who played their significant roles in our nation buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A prominent unionist and politician, Mr Ahmad was Singapore's Minister of Health from 1959 to 1961. He was instrumental in unifying all hospital administration and during his term as Minister, the first Open Heart Surgery was successfully performed in Singapore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Woodleigh MRT Station sitting right on the ex-cemetery grounds was opened in 2011. The park adjacent to Upper Serangoon Road is split into 2 sections by Upper Aljunied Road. The hilly wooded bird-haunt area is north of Upper Aljunied Road and used to be the Muslim part of the cemetery, while on the other side wide open green fields with paved paths in between stretch away where once the largely Christian cemetery stood. Once the final resting place for many of our ancestors, Bidadari Cemetery will soon become a home for future generations once a new housing estate is complete. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pigeons gathered at the incense burner</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guess what the pigeons doing at the incense burner? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not surprising to see the fly trap hung to the ceiling to trap flies.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This trap is baited for fly species which are most common in agricultural areas -- including house flies, false stable flies, blow flies, blue and green bottle flies, flesh flies, face flies and many others. The Big Bag Fly Trap contains a fast-acting fly attractant that starts working as soon as you add water. Food and feed additives are combined with other dried ingredients to make the attractant. Lured by the scent, flies enter through the yellow top cap and drown in the water. As you can see the flies struck inside the yellow bag. Well, some households use home made Fly Trap</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was at 2pm in the afternoon, we decided to head back to the Grace Hall where we chatted one of the staff while waiting for free shutter bus to Serangoon pick out point area. According to him, he said that in the past the cremation of an average human body takes from two to three hours to burn completely and will produce an average of 3 to 9 pounds (1.4 to 4.1 kilograms) of ash while the gas burner takes 1 hour plus to burn the body completely. Minutes later, we took free shutter van to head back to where we boarded earlier.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At last but not least, my husband and I will remember his late parents' ashes that has been kept for almost 3 decades and will definitely miss this place and greenery surroundings. Some member of the public like us in the hope that authorises to preserve one or two historical building such as 9-storey Pagoda or a remembrance plaque, and to educate future generations that Mt Vernon Columbarium and Cemetery were once stood at their new estates.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, it is a piece of heritage soon to be listed in the history book of Singapore!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Entrance to Former Kinloss House</b></span></div>
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Up the hill off Orange Grove road road at 3 Lady Hill Road, was once a boarding school for the children of British soldiers from 1957 to 1970, has been turned into training centre for insurance agents and financial advisers in 2008. We used to buy personal insurance from AXA in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived at 3 Lady Hill Road before 3.30pm on 12th Aug 17. I saw an elder couple stood outside the gate. Saw a few SLA staff inside the building as it was still early and we managed to take some shots surrounding the area.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former Kinloss House</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is the little history which I heard years ago in 2000s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Kinloss House was a British Army managed boarding house for children attending Bourne School at Alexandra and Gillman Barracks in the 1960s. There were dormitories lower down the hill on 2 levels with the girls living mainly in the house but with a few living in huts on the first lower level.</b></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rising up the graceful staircase (which went from right to left) brought you into the large open communal space that was used for homework (dozens of desks), Saturday night cinema and Sunday night dances (of the old style ballroom). The girls' dormitories entrance doors led off from this common room.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><br />Outside the main house, one level down (a short flight of 6 steps or so) was the first 'quadrangle' of 3 dormitory huts in a straight line: 2 boys' and behind a wire fence, one girls'. Each hut had 4 dormitories, with a toilet block at the end of each. One small part of a boys' hut next to the partition fence with the girls' accommodation was used as a disco.<br />The next level down was via flights of about 20 steps. It was a largely open space with more huts. On the left going down was a boys' dormitory line and to the right was the teachers' hut. There was a further level below this that was used only by boy scouts making fires; but there was also a large bungalow down there in which the service staff, such as cooks and service chef.</b></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In recent years, some of these buildings have even been converted into educational or training institutions by commercial entities that seek to leverage on Singapore’s status as a business and financial hub in Asia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like one of the buildings at 3 Lady Hill Road, home of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Singapore between May 1970 and 1976. It was formerly an officers' mess for the British Forces. Later, it became office of the SILO Home Appliances Centre (1981-1982), the Arms and Explosives Branch (1983-1993), Hup Chung Electronics Corporation (1986-1990) and Kinloss Co-operative Society Limited (1992-1995). The Faculty, formerly located at the Singapore Polytechnic in Prince Edward Road, was renamed "Faculty of Architecture and Building" in October 1972. In April 1976, it moved into the Kent Ridge campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Main Entrance of the building</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The former Kinloss House, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">building set on 1.9 hectares of land was the last tenant of the AXA University Asia Pacific Campus, a training centre for the AXA Group. It houses 10 training rooms, a large multi-purpose hall and numerous break out spaces before it moved out. AXA, which has leased the property from the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), renovated the building and outfitted it with equipment and technology enhancements while respecting its 'historical character'. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AXA invested a total of $7.7 million to refurbish Kinloss House, with additional funding from the Singapore government, which was keen to ensure the building’s colonial and historic heritage was well preserved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember in 1980s. there was a Kinloss Retail Shop (first opening Police Co-operative Store) that was named in its location in the Kinloss House (next to former Ladyhill Hotel) located near No. 3 Lady Hill Road. A year later, The Police Co-operative moved to No. 3 Lady Hill Road, the site of the Kinloss House, which would lend its name to the Co-operative’s Kinloss Retail Shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main stairs leading up to the old library of the former boarding school.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little did I heard that AXA had received 'requests' from people who wanted to hold their weddings in this former Kinloss House however they (AXA) turned down their requests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This spacious room could be a conference meeting room for AXA. However this common room could have filled with chairs and tables for British students of boarding school in 1950s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looking at the corridor of multi-purpose hall, there is a simple classic desk facing huge glass window wooden shutters on the left, the side wall on displays could be the book shelves side by side, on the right a built-in cabinets against the wall if I could think of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main staircase to multi-Purpose Hall that used to be the old library for boarding school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Long Corridor room (then)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet another long corridor passageway to the dorm doors of boarding school and training rooms for AXA. Looking at the chandelier hung on the ceiling reminds me of my oldest uncle's 3-storey bungalow has similar century elegant style chandelier in the living hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could be a TV or Monitor screen placed on the shelf in the multi-purpose hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Elegant Chandelier@Kinloss House</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elegant chandelier at former Kinloss House with 16 candle tubes adorned with brass lead crystals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Spectacular Chandelier@Bukit Teresa Bungalow</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most spectacular antique vintage Black Chandelier at my oldest uncle's bungalow at Bukit Teresa with 32 brass candles tubes is adorned with high lead pear shaped crystals as well as high lead octagonal shaped crystal droplets. It suits in every colour of the wall that is present in the living room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> The Indoor Planter box room</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This room holds gatherings or high tea meeting clients and students of AXA. There used to be some plants decorated in the centre of the indoor concrete planter box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Vintage Fire Alarm Bell</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Typical old school fire alarm bell can be found in old buildings, old schools and industrial buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The spiral staircase at 3 Lady Hill of former Kinloss House is wide compared to one of my oldest uncles' 3-storey bungalow at Bukit Teresa road which is too narrow and made of teak-wood steps. Walking up the narrow spiral staircase </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Outside the former Kinloss House, down the hill facing the white-washed arch, there is the staircase down to basketball court and tennis court field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Balcony on Upper floor</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main building of former Kinloss House with carved out balcony on the upper floor, to view outside the scenery of opposite colonial buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>View of former Kinloss House</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1st group outside former Kinloss House</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former Kinloss House has lots of history that was built by Scotsman in early 1900s and this beautiful colonial house has been thru historical eras. Once a colonial house then it occupied by Japanese during Occupation, and then it became a Boarding School for Bourne students from Gilman Barracks followed by Police Co-operative mess and the last recent AXA University (Asia Pacific Campus) till 2017. Currently, the building is vacant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to SLA and Mr Jerome for the wonderful piece of history of the colonial building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Layout of Budget Terminal (2011)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In September 2012, Changi Airport’s Budget Terminal made way for the construction of a larger passenger building to cater to continued traffic growth and further strengthen Singapore’s air hub status. The new terminal, Terminal 4, is designed to handle 16 mppa but will open with an initial capacity of 12 mppa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Budget Terminal of yore (taken in 2011)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The terminal will be designed to enable efficient passenger processing and quick turnaround of aircraft. Unlike the Budget Terminal, Terminal 4 will have a wider choice of retail and food and beverage offerings, as well as passenger amenities that will better serve the needs of travellers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Newly Changi Airport T4</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I received confirmation letter email from Changi Airport before its opening house on the 7th Aug which I booked on the first day! It was like a family affairs outing at the newly airport T4. We have been to Changi airports including Budget Terminal since 1980s till now. As you can see Budget Terminal floor route as above of how it looked like in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were thrilled to see a spectacular and yet amazing Changi Airport T4 and T5 still under construction going on, will be opening in the next 10 years, 10 times biggest than Vivocity. Future Changi Airport T5 will be served with two new Mrt Lines to make more accessible for visitors and travellers. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cathay Pacific will be the first airline to operate out of Terminal 4, followed by Korean Air, Vietnam Airlines, the AirAsia Group, Cebu Pacific and Spring Airlines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Layout of Open House</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Changi Terminal 4 will not be FULLY operational, there are no food and beverages outlets available during T4 Open House. Please bring along your water bottles to stay hydrated throughout the tour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Carpark Link Bridge to T4 </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The new Terminal 4 will be a two-storey, 25-metre-high building with a gross floor area of 225,000 square metres. 17 stands will be available for narrow body aircraft, 4 stands for wide body aircraft. A Link bridge across Airport Boulevard will be constructed to enable buses and other airside vehicles to move from T4 to the aircraft stands. We walked from carpark to the Link Bridge to Terminal 4 to take a lift to level 2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>At 2nd level to T4</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My family of 3 and I booked in the afternoon time slots and driven by my younger brother to the newly Changi Airport T4 and yes, he was a former CAAS staff at Changi Airport in 1990s. Here we go and check it out how it looks like compare to the old changi airport (Budget Terminal) and T2 (newly renovated some time ago). I used to like T2 before T3 in the past and now it's renovated and makeover with electronic systems compare to the old ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Check-in Zone counter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Firstly, we walked to the Check-in Zone counter and the staff issued us boarding passes and discount vouchers after handed QR codes to the staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While waiting at the lounge, we still have time to roam around before our time slot be called. Here we see...as below</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A beautiful view of Petal Motifs</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cute cushion aircraft hung on the ceiling</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thereafter, we ushered to the waiting area and sat on the chair and waited, to hear an announcement and the screen will appear time slot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cute Robot Cleaner</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After our time slot called up and we proceeded to Start Point row to begin our journey in T4. Some area have been blocked and out of bound during the tour. We have to follow according to the Open House layout. It took us about 90 mins or 2 hours to complete the tour. Some visitors would spent hours by sitting on the beautiful soda equipped with USB charging or watch the show and music at the Heritage Zone (Peranakan Shophouses).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passengers check-in via these automated machines (kiosks) which can scan passports and print boarding passes. There are some manual check in counters located in the centre of the hall while the staff called "walkers" will be available along each row to provide assistance.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a Art installation of Trishaw - “Hey Ah Chek!” is a bronze sculpture by Cultural Medallion winner, Chong Fah Cheong. This is a figurative sculpture depicting a nostalgic scene in the 1950s of a mother and son hailing a trishaw rider after a trip to the market, is easily recognised by Singaporeans and foreigners. It is located at the corner end of FAST self-service system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passengers are able to drop their check-in bag at the automated bag-drop after their identity is authenticated by the machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We viewed the installation of six identical grand-scale kinetic 'cloud-like' sculpture - "Petal clouds" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the departure and transit areas, as well as the Baggage Claim Hall. They move gracefully to choreographed music and lighting changes, creating a feeling of lightness and timelessness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Automated Clearance at Departure Immigration</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An enhanced version of the automated lanes in Terminals 1 to 3, passengers are able to scan their passport, boarding pass and fingerprint to facilitate identity checks by the automated immigration gates at T4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a new Food-court is seen in the background on the top level which is not open during T4 Open House. The whole area on the top level is out of bound during T4 Open House (7th to 20th Aug). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Centralised Security Screening</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 70m long Immersive Wall is seen above at Centralised Security Screening and it has 16 different immersive showcase Singapore's skylines and entertains passengers waiting at the queue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This tour is T4 airlines showcase (above) which will be known as Fun & Excitement in Events & Entertainment areas when it officially opens.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The popular retail brands awaits at unique duplex retail outlets with 11-metre in-store ceiling and gorgeous storefront designs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tiger's Den & Bar</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cushy chairs and Charging port in the departure transit area provide comfort and relief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Travelling Family Sculpture</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The Travelling Family” is an aluminum sculpture by renowned Swiss artist, Kurt Lawrence Metzler. Mr Metzler is well-known for combining elements of the figurative and abstract to create opinionated sculptures depicting everyday life such as reading, doing business or people travelling. His main works are made of different materials like marble, bronze, iron, fibreglass and aluminium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Relaxing Green Sanctuaries</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colourful and cushy chairs in the departure transit area provide comfort and relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Heritage Themed Facades</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can experience the feel of local Peranakan culture if you walk into Heritage Zone (Beautiful Heritage Shops Fronts) with music and show. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The colourful Peranakan shophouses nestled around Singapore, our </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">#ChangiT4 Heritage Zone is home to proud Singaporean brands such as Bee Cheng Hiang, Bengawan Solo, Curry Times, Eu Yan Sang <b>余仁生</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and Heavenly Wang</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with heritage-themed facades, interior design and furnishings to invoke a sense of nostalgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Local Peranakan "Love Story" Show</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Set in 1930s Singapore, the Peranakan Love Story is an unlikely romance between two passionate musician-neighbours living next to each other. The video is played on a 10m x 6m LED screen spanning two shopfront bays on the Peranakan façade. The digital wall transforms into a theatre, with a stage setting reflecting the living rooms of two Peranakan homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The production is done in collaboration with Singapore’s local talents and artistes including Dick Lee, Adrian Pang, Benjamin Kheng and Koh Cheng Mun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Boulevard of Trees at Boarding Corridor</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we walked to the Boulevard of Trees at Boarding Corridor near the boarding gate on the right (hidden from view).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Boarding Gate</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passengers simply scan their boarding pass at the boarding gate and authenticate their identity with the facial recognition system.<br />Actually the bus gates is on the lower level after passing through the automated boarding gate, you have to walk down the corridor below. <br />Then we walked towards the Arrival Hall in front and the escalator takes you down to the Hall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A spacious Arrival Hall Greenwall, the Petal Clouds is seen above the hall where passengers pick up their luggage from the belts.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Passengers bask in natural light against greenery on the walls of the Arrival Hall as they wait for their luggage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Bird (Les Oiseaux) perched on the ground while the other two suspended in mid-air, soaring high.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The three birds symbolizes the connection between sky and earth, between dream and reality and reflects the poetry of daily life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Outside the Arrival Hall, there is a Shutter Bus to T3 for those who come by mrt. As we walked towards the Information Counter to receive the mystery gift after I completed the survey by clicking check-out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, after received a mystery gift, we walked out to the carpark to where my younger brother parked his car. Well, the carpark is installed with a mystery parking 'red' light above every vehicle and motorbikes.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The walking distance for the entire T4 Open House is approximately 1km. Each tour will last approximately 90 minutes. Tours are scheduled to run from 7th to 20th August 2017 between 9am to 6pm. Bon Voyage! </span></div>
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Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879616429817825762.post-34776745420204021212017-08-01T14:08:00.000+08:002017-08-24T12:58:47.310+08:00The Red Brick Power from Time to Time<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon hearing the red brick building hidden away from human traffic. That's reminds me of my block that built on red bricks itself and eventually painted in dark brown over the years upon upgrading. I did love to see red brick buildings everywhere and of course I did see them before in 1980s where I worked in Jurong and even in Kampongs where my late grandma lived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was thrilled to see one of the red brick buildings and yet abandoned beautifully shrine brightly under the hot sun. On the 29th July this year, after received email from my heritage blogger friend, Jerome who is in collaboration with SLA (Singapore Land Authority) on series visits to the State Land, and of course, I registered earlier beforehand before it run out fast. Thanks to him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Actually, I was supposed to join my hubby to visit the last Sembawang Hot Spring that was closed end of July 2017 and one of the farms that conducted by community organisation on the same day that clashed my schedules. So I have to leave out one of the events and asked him to go ahead without me. And of course, he could help me to take lots of photos he went. Hahaha...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be honest, I had been there before but not the red brick building, it is not far from it - Pasir Panjang Ferry Terminal where I last joined an event conducted by MPA in 2012 and also other islands that was long time ago. I arrived at the Labrador Mrt early as usual, walked a few mins to reach and took some photos before catching up with some friends and other participant waiting outside the road not far from the gate as the gate is locked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Picture first before the Gate Opens!</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Managed to have a small group of friends for a photo taken before the gate opens! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The “PPPS Experience” provides participants like me with an orientation on power energy as an alternative resource, a brief history of PPPS, and a red brick power plant walk through the major components of the plant. From the outside, the imposing red brick structure looks stark and abandoned. With walls made of thick red bricks, the building looks like a perfect fortress for a zombie apocalypse when night falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former Pasir Panjang 'A' Power Station</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The red brick building that I was talking about is - former Pasir Panjang 'A' Power Station which built in early 1950s, the structure of that similar hanger I saw at old kallang airport and Paya Lebar airport years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what is Pasir Panjang 'A' Power Station looked like in year 1953... see below. Source by MITA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Buildings like this are getting more and more rare these days with developers snapping up any spot of land left right and centre, but lucky for us participants if you visit the hustle and bustle of the Singapore city and head a couple hours away, there are some true gems still sitting there rusting away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe it took 5-10 years to construct this monster of a power station as you can see why it took so long and over 500 -1000 workers camped here during its construction, finally it was officially opened and stayed active for nearly 30 years until ceasing operation. Just my thought. A lot of the heavy machinery and generators were removed/cleared out from the site on closure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former Pasir Panjang 'A' Power Station is believed to be the third (people called it second) power station in Singapore, after St James Power Station built in 1926. The PPPS was officially opened on 3 July 1953 by then-governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, at the cost of $38m.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you know.. In 1906, the first opening of Mackenzie Road Power station marked the "official turning-on" of electricity in Singapore and it was demolished after Japanese Occupation. But before electricity came, lighting at night was provided for by gas lamps. The first investment in electricity generation in Singapore was made by private investors − the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company invested in electric lighting so that work in the Tanjong Pagar wharves could continue after sunset. Eventually it became a government agency, and built the first power station at Mackenzie Road in 1906.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Singapore’s second power station − St James Power Station − opened to generate power for big infrastructure projects. It used coal to generate electricity and in 1940 became the first power station to switch to fuel oil. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">St. James Power Station was unable to meet the island’s future electricity demand. In September 1948, the site for the new Pasir Panjang Power Station was approved. The site covers 37 acres and is designed for an ultimate capacity of 150,000 kilowatts. Construction of the new power station, awarded to George Wimpey and company, however, did not begin until January 1951.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the 2nd July 1960, the 3 new generators at St James Power Station went into action, adding 18,000 watts to Singapore's power supply. The engines were the first 3 of 6 free-piston gas generators being installed oat a cost of about $19mil. It was expected that all 6 would be working bu the end of the year. St James opened in 1927 but closed in 1958, when Pasir Panjang Power Station came into service. In the 1980s, it was converted into a warehouse, and in 2006, became a nightlife complex. The building was gazetted as a national monument in 2009, its owners cannot alter its facade. Nor can they build any extensions or hack any walls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I saw this beautiful building standing all alone in the field, it was massive, bigger then i expected, a lot bigger. It stretched long and far and reached up to the sky. The ceilings are extremely high and when you look up you see a plethora of new things to admire and take in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside, it’s like a maze of rooms containing the “state of the art” (for its time), who could imagine that every piece of old machinery and generators (not seen) lying everywhere. After our host Mr Jerome gave his speech, o</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur first stop was the Turbine hall with all the hulking space, lots of steels structures and numerous knobs and switch boxes mounted on the walls. It was interesting to be able to set foot inside and see everything preserved and well-maintained.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most sublime abandoned power stations - the old ones (if the older generations know) that linger in our subconscious, generating bittersweet emotions and inspiration instead of good old electricity.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the WWII in 1952, Singapore commissioned the Pasir Panjang 'A' Power Station to meet post-war electricity demand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The interior of an old Power Station</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2nd level of Turbine hall</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a second level which is easy to access although some areas are out of bound, the elevated level gives you a new view on the ground level, and then if heights don't bother you there's a staircase at the far end that gives you access all the way up to the top and gives you a stunning view over the whole place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Former Pasir Panjang 'B' Power Station</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the years, Pasir Panjang Power Station has undergone expansion, Pasir Panjang 'B' Power Station was officially opened by our late then MP Lee Kuan Yew in 1965. This was expansion to generate more electricity to support Singapore's rapid industrialisation. By 1992, Pasir Panjang, one of the 4 power stations owned by PUB, was said to have a capacity of 201 MW. The 3 power stations under PUB were Pulau Seraya (Jurong Island), Senoko and Jurong. In 1980s, the first offshore power plant was built at Pulau Seraya (now Jurong Island), along with undersea cable tunnel, bringing electricity to the mainland.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1990s, Senoko Power plant was Singapore's first power plant to be fuelled by pipe natural gas from Malaysia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Overlooking Pulau Bukom and Watch tower</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And PPP 'B' Station enabled its power to be supplied to Pulau Bukom refinery that was relying on the generators.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Policemen to guard PPPS in 1956</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the past, there were policemen stood guard at Pasir Panjang Power station to prevent possible sabotage. The Singapore City Council ordered immediate recruitment of more watchmen. It was because of the explosion at St James Power Station which threw nearly all Chinatown into darkness and the SCC suspected that it was caused by sabotage. According to the sources, in 1960s, the late then MP Lee KY wrote that he had been warned that there were also plans by Indonesian sabotages to destroy the Pasir Panjang Power Station and the water mains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mortared Red Brick</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Red Brick wall built of different stones of the buildings in Singapore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Outside red brick wall of Turbine building</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Inside Turbine Hall overlooking the building</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the right is the office (hidden from view) where engineers and office staff to report to the administration and registration office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Heavy Duty Fireproof Door</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have seen many types of old fashioned heavy duty fireproof doors with a pulley counterweight system in old days when I worked at factory many donkeys years.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Many of the old fixtures, like the sliding metal exit door with counterweight designed as a water tank, are still a part of the former factory buildings and warehouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Door to Door of rooms</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The office area seems to of been a garage/storage on the bottom two levels, but there are a lot of stairs could have remnants of showers, classrooms, labs and some other rooms that are still mysterious in their use. Hours can be spent climbing these levels of steel stairs and navigating the pretty shitty floor plan that makes you feel like you are running a bit of a maze, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Staircase leading to office & Fire Roller shutter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fire Roller shutters are to be made to the latest British and European safety standards and CE marked accordingly. The activation of fire shutters in the event of a fire as well as normal everyday opening and closing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Peep through Office and Steel Columns</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This reminds me of my former working manufacturing company regarding the factory hall with office just walked up the staircase when I came down from my office building to look for my colleagues at factory office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After two hours guiding tour, the group managed to have a photoshoot at Turbine Hall of former Pasir Panjang 'A' Power Station. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he Singapore Navy, ship enthusiasts and the public are excited to welcome ARM (Armada República Mexicana) Cuauhtémoc from Acapulco Guerrero, Mexico to Vivocity on the morning 19th July on their arrival. The navy cadets from far away hometown to sail the regions, to experience the countries' culture. Yes, I had visited Mexico in 1996 on holiday with my hubby and of course I had seen different ships. She (Cuauhtémoc) is the only survivor from a quartet of sister ships built by the Naval Shipyards of Bilbao, Spain, in 1982.<br />For 35 years, cadets of the Mexican Navy have set sail, aboard her, around the world in their last year of training. She has made 34 instructional trips to 59 countries, clocking over 7,05,012 nautical miles, which is equivalent to going around the world 33 times, making much-requested and celebrated appearances at top-notch marine events like the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, ASTA Tall Ships Challenges, Sail Osaka among others. She departed from India last month,26th Jun and it took 3 weeks to reach Singapore port at Vivocity Promenade on 19th Jul 2017 in the morning.<br />The relatively young 234-strong Cuauhtémoc crew, which has an average age of 24, will also be playing host to cadets and crew members from the Singapore Navy for cocktails and meals, and will later visit a naval base and navy vessel here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Armada Republic Mexicana (ARM) Cuauhtémoc - which began its journey from its home port, Acapulco Guerrero on 6th Feb 2017 – is on a nine month long goodwill voyage around the region. Captain Rafael Antonio Lagunes Arteaga, who assumed the position on October 16, 2016, is commandeering the ship, which has a crew strength of 234, 43 of whom are cadets of the Heroic Naval Military School of Mexico. There are four national and eight international guests from assorted institutions and friendly navies on the ship, which has a total of 217 men and 17 women on it on this trip.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we went to visit the Mexican Navy training tall ship today in the afternoon after late lunch at foodcourt. Upon reaching at the Vivocity Promenade, I looked in awe and was surprised to see such a huge majestic tall sailing ship that reminds me of pirate ship or a replica of the Indiana lookalike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was not many people around and the queue is relatively short. We walked in and passed by the security point to proceed to the front where the aluminium gangway located.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon reaching the aluminium gangway, we walked up to the ship where cadets greeted us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While on-board the ship, we noticed the inscription: "Por La Exaltacion Del Espiritu Marinero" which means "By the Exaltation of Seafaring Spirit".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mexico's coat of arms - An eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a round plaque (it actually perched on a cactus that is seen on flag of Mexico hang on the tall ship), a inscription shown: ARMADA DE MEXICO BUQUE ESCUELA "CUAUHTEMOC" means NAVY OF MEXICO SHIP SCHOOL "CUAUHTEMOC". The coat of arms is derived from a legend that the wandering Aztec people were to settle at a location where they would see an eagle on a cactus eating a snake; the city they founded, Tenochtitlan, is now Mexico City.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is huge banner which indicated the codes - CODGIO INTERNACIONAL DE SENALES means INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS. The International Code of Signals (ICS) is an international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages regarding safety of navigation and other related matters. The other signal in the banner indicated "CODGIO NACIONAL DE SENALES" means "NATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ARM Cuauhtémoc named after the last Aztec emperor, is a Mexican Naval training sailing ship. The name of <b>"</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cuauhtémoc"</b> m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eans</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "one who has descended like an eagle" or "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">falling eagle" in Nahuatl. This was the name of the last Aztec emperor (ruler), ruling until he was captured and executed by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in year 1525.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Descending Eagle leading a tall ship</span></b><br />
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The figurehead of ARM Cuauhtémoc, a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, one of the participants in Tall Ships Races 2013.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Closeup: Metal figure of </b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cuauhtémoc</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A glistening metal figure of Cuauhtémoc with his Aztec weapon looks straight ahead into the path of the Mexican Naval Academy's training vessel bearing his name. She carries the proud tradition of the Mexican seafarers to a port that once belonged to Mexico.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are ropes, ropes everywhere we saw everything from thick halyards (used to raise heavy yards) to thin, smooth, flexible sheets (used to control the orientation of a sail). We even saw rope tied around steel cable. The rigging looked incredibly complicated and intricately woven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The deck itself is gorgeous, most of the pulleys we saw to help hoist that rope were made of teakwood, but also the stairways of the ship, the lifeboats, seating areas and doors were made of teakwood. There are even brass plates on the deck where heavy equipment is serviced, so that it doesn’t scratch the wood decking.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ARM Cuauhtémoc sports a unique innovation: tercudos, or handwoven yellow “fluffy things” that cushion the rigging to protect the sails from damage. One of the cadets told me that when they are punished for misbehaviour, they are often ordered to make tercudos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where the assigned lookout stays near the top of the ship's mast, binoculars or telescopes are required items while working as the lookout. It usually advised that one brings a jacket or raincoat for the chillier winds or incoming storms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cadet on the ship's mast </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cadets balance on the masts and yards of Mexican Navy Sail Training Ship during their instruction cruise.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>E.g. Boatswains Whistle/Call</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The use of the Boatswains Call (the Call) in English ships can be traced back with certainty to the days of the Crusades, AD 1248. In its former days it was worn in English ships as an honoured badge of rank, as it had always been used of passing orders. A long ago in 1485 it was worn as the badge of the Lord High Admiral of England and was worn by his successor in office up to 1562. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cadet 'sailor' his name is Roman who is the only one, armed with a long cutlass on his left posed a photoshot with me! It was interesting to note that the sentry at the gangway, a sailor is armed with a cutlass – a nice touch on a sailing ship! When I looked at him that reminds me of the cartoon character - Popeye the Sailor Man in his uniform. Giggles.</span></div>
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As we walked and saw them selling souvenirs range of items - caps, pens, mugs, shirts, badges and so on. It seems that no one buys souvenirs from them and then we approached them for the photoshot then later the public joined in for the photoshot! What a sight! In the end, I bought a cap from them and paid in Sing-dollars . Well, souvenir items are not so expensive anyway. People thought the items paid in currency but they arrived in Singapore and therefore the gift items sold here are converted in Singapore dollar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ship's Kitchen</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we walked passed to the kitchen where the crews cook their meals while at sea or docks at their destination ports in 12 countries including Singapore. They also have their meeting room located nearby and of course inside the cabins are air-conditioning.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The slain warrior's name on a ship's bell</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the mid-deck of the ship, there is a bell located that rings. By looking at it, it looks like a nautical bell in the past. In olden days, e</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very half hour, the watch on duty rings a bell to announce the time of day. The bell is rung in such a way that it represents the number of half-hour intervals that have elapsed since the watch came on duty. The bells that were rung onboard ship for a numerous reasons. For e.g. mealtime, time of the day, announcing a fire or danger of sorts and so on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Huge Red Steering Ship Wheel</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Steering wheel of old could be seen on the ship dashboard from the back and mid-deck of the ship. Oh yeah, I remember I keep authentic brass and teakwood boat steering ship wheel at home that was given by someone whom I know, when I attended an "nostalgic" event 3 or 4 years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are SEVEN stars mounted on the walls of the Mexican Sail Training Ship which indicated "M</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enciones Honorificas" means "Honorable Mentions".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Four Hawse Holes</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Closeup of Hawse Hole</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we walked further up to the mid-ship, there are four Hawse holes (also known as cat hole) mounted on the starboard of the ship.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Brass guides for the lines to run through when the ship is under sail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We moved towards to the front of the ship, there are two cannons mounted on the shipboard on both side, very </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">impressive saluting cannons on board – something that will be used later after her visits. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the front of the ship, there is a bowsprit is located. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Bowsprit of Mexican Navy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow. It provides an anchor point for the forestay, allowing the foremast to be stepped farther forward on the hull. The bowsprit on a tall ship may be of considerable length and carry several forestays supporting the foremast. The headsails are stowed by tying onto the bowsprit when not in use. To minimise the risk of bowsprit and crew handling sail on it being buried in large waves while at high seas, it is normally angled upwards from the horizontal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Bowsprit on Safety Netting</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bowsprit (also known as boltsprit) of Mexican Navy carries a trapeze of safety netting, preventing cadets from falling into the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ARM Cuauhtémoc will be open to the public from July 20 to 23, between 10 am and 6pm at the Vivocity Promenade, before it leaves for Manila (Philippines) on 24th July</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on the next leg of her voyage and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> then to Shanghai (China), Busan (South Korea), Kobe (Japan), Honolulu (LA) and finally back to Acapulco (Mexico) in the next few months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Ship at a Glance</u></b><br />The Mexican Navy Sailing Ship Cuauhtémoc at a glance.<br /><b>Length</b>:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 220 ft 4 in (67.16 m) waterline</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Launched</b>: 9 January 1982<br /><b>Beam</b>:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 39 ft 4 in (11.99 m)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Weigh</b>t: 1,800</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> tons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sail plan</b>: Barque; Sparred length: 90.5 m; Sail area: 2,368 sq m</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cadets folding flag of Mexico</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At 6pm plus, I saw two cadets and an officer folding the flag of Mexico in a respectful approach after one cadet lowered the flag pole with a rope, to keep secure till the next morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A quiet night </b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is the ship look like when night falls...seeing all cadets relax listening music or talking to his family back home on their mobile phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Beautiful Tall Ship by night</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would be best if Singapore's 200th founding anniversary which will be in two years later in 2019, would invite</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a flotilla of tall ships, such as Mexico Navy’s Cuauhtemoc, for a grand celebration.</span>Catcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201210678501172664noreply@blogger.com1