Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple

Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple (ஶ்ரீ செண்பக விநாயகர் ஆலயம்) is a Hindu temple with Ganesha the presiding deity and can be found along Ceylon Road bound by  East Coast Road and Joo Chiat Area.It had been there for a long long time since early 19th century and had many facvilities within the temple such as classrooms, hall, kitchen, library and a 3 storey extention was added with air conditoned Wedding and Dining Hall was completed and was offically opened by the late then Senior Minister S Rajaratnam on 8th November 1989.

Sion Church

Koon Seng Road is famous for its Peranakan House which also house some old school such as Ghoon Guan School, Presbertian Boys School, Kuo Chuan Girl School its all in the past the present site is coccupy bu Haig Girls' School. One such building reminds me of my first foray into my early education at this particular church along Koon Seng Road now its all gone and the church conducts their services in the former Choon Guan School premises.

Lee Kuan Yew

Born Harry Lee Kuan Yew on the (16th September 1923 - 23rd March 2015) often referred to as LKY who serve as our 1st Prime Minister from 1959 - 1990. He is a Singapore Politician and a lawyer and one of the old guards and founding member of People's Action Party (PAP) and is recognised as the founding father credited for taking Singapore from developed 3rd world to a developed 1st world. Looked at Singapore today it is the vision of one person and his cabinets to gave Singaporean the  Singapore we enjoyed the fruit of their labours which is recognisable throughout the world. Thank you LKY and a Happy Belated Birthday...RIP.  Met the Great Man when he was invited for the Dining In courtesy of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) at Senior Police Officer Mess (SPOM) in November 2012

Maxwell Market

Maxwell Market had a very colourful past as it begins from a burial ground to today's famous for its food even Lonely Planets recommend for tourist who visits Singapore a must to go place for savouring the local food. In its early years, the street hawkers plying around Tanjong Pagar, Kreta Ayer and Telok Ayer prefer to take up to avoid paying rent. Today Maxwell Hawker Centre is famous for many of the local food Chicken Rice, Oyster Cake, Fried fritters and so on. For me, I prefer the China Street Hainanese Curry Rice my favourite and occasionally go for Chicken Rice but opt for the no queue stall. Today we wait for the completion of the MRT Line of the Maxwell Station on the Thomson East Coast Line.

Telok Ayer Market

Lau Pa Sat or Telok Ayer Market is one of the oldest Victorian structure in South East Asia with its prefabricated cast iron in Asia and the only remaining market serving the residents in the central district in early Singapore. it was built-in 1824 as a fish market along the waterfront and started in 1824 and had it rebuilt in 1838 and finally, relocated and rebuilt at the present location 1894 till present day and currently a food court with stalls selling a variety of local cuisine. Today it serves the office workers and tourist around the Central Business District. Due to the present pandemic, a number of stalls are not in operation hope the situation will be back as per normal.

Cable Radio

Founded in 1949, Rediffusion (丽的呼声) is a London based company made into Singapore as a cable radio company and currently into digital services and touted itself as Singapore's only subscription radio services. During the 60 and 70, it is a common sight in every coffeeshop over the island there are the Golden Channel which broadcasts in Chinese including dialects such as storytellers Lee Dai Sor in Cantonese, Ng Chia Kheng in Teochew, Chong Soon Fatt in Hakka and the famous of all is Ong Toh in Hokkien for its martial art kungfu series. At his heydays, there are around 9600 subscribers and at a cost of   $5.00 per month and slowly the fans based grows around 100,000 the end came when the government stop all dialects speaking program with its Speak Mandarin Campaign it changes hand in 2003 than in 2012 they announced that they will stop broadcasting by end April then former DJ Eva Chang Mei Hsiang bought over the Rediffusion Brand.

South Beach

On 18th February 2000 Beach Road Camp was officially closed for good, it was built in early in 1930 and home to the Singapore Volunteer Corps (SVC) and later doubled as the Singapore Military Forces (SMF). After Singapore gained independence in 1965 (SVC) was the People's Defence Force (PDF) while the infantry regiment which consists of 2 battalions at that time was placed under the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Beach Road Camp being the Headquarters of the PDF which also housed several units of the SAF the SAF Provost Company and the SAF Court Martial Centre was set up in 1967. The site was sold by public tender to a consortium led by local developer City Development for the Beach Road Camp and the NCO Club into today's South Beach Development consist of Hotels, office and retail spaces and residential accommodation.