Wrecking ball attraction

M-Park at Club Street is an automated car park in the Central Business District, very soon the wrecking balls will roll in and it will be gone forever. What will rise from here is yet to be seen, before the construction of the M park at Club Street it is an open-air car park and we could come to a flea market every Saturday and Sunday to scout for cheap antique and all sorts of goods of different categories...sad sad sad rice bowl broken now can see one or two along the side lane which I saw while taking this shot

Ringing into 2014

Spending the last day of 2013 together with my two shaking shooters, Mr Bernard Mah and Mr William Chua camping at Garden by the Bay East for the shooting of fireworks during the 2014 Countdown at the Float at Marina Bay. Then suddenly the boom-boom sound ringing into the sky and the year of 2014 has arrived together with the Golden Horse galloping into Singapore.  Let me wish all a very Happy New Year and Gong Xi Fai Cai

Geylang Serai - Malay Village

The curtain will fall after this Hari Raya for the Malay Village along Geylang Serai/Haig Road.

New development by the government to be named as Wisma Geylang Serai which will be completed in 2015.  Another building will be making way for new development will be the Lion City Hotel, I held my wedding banquet at Happy Restaurant in September 1975

Post before they are gone

Yesterday I did post a pre-war landed like bungalow which its faith is still in the balance. Today I post another one but this is a post-war landed house on silts also face the same faith if developer got their hand on them, although there are conservation house along Koon Seng Road and Joo Chiat I don't think the conservation board will be interested in these two units which I have mentioned. This is to document what is left for future generation to see

CNY Custom

During the eight-day of the Chinese Lunar New Year the Hokkien dialect group pray to the Jade Emperor (Tian Kong) A altar consisting of 2 stock of Sugar Cane, fruits, pineapple, longevity bun (Sui Toh) Mee Suah. A pair of long red candles, joss sticks and joss paper is offered. When my mum was around everything was handle by her but since she left us 8 years ago the tradition had been taken over by us, I hope that my children will keep on following this tradition hopefully.

Not much left

1955 when I first moved into this neighbourhood, there was about a handful of this type of houses. Slowly many of these houses are torn down and rebuilt and this unit sits directly opposite my house. I think only time will tell when and how long will they survive

My life story

77A Onan Road had a place in my heart and that is where my journey begins.  I was a very very young boy whom my parents had adopted me since I was born.  There are up and downs in my life and I am very grateful to my parents.  My father was well to do businessman and my mother a housewife, then somethings happen and we are forced to move out of our house.  As I was too young, I did not know what causes that and up till today I still don't really know and I also don't want to know. Now it's an empty plot of land behind a budget hotel along Joo Chiat Road.