My career started from Albert Street during the late '60s once bustling with trucks, lorries, mobile-crane line along the street from the junction of Queens Street to Bencoolen Street junction, that was before Albert Centre, Albert Complex and Fu Lu Shou, Sim Lim Square etc. Soon after the URA acquired the land for redevelopment slowly everyone soon moved out from the location. We went to Telok Blangah Road and later on moved back to Rochor Centre in 1986 back then the building like any other HDB flats with no life until colours were added to the facade of the building.
Sadly thing had to come to an end, I was retrenched in 2003 after 33 years for service to the company that I had joined after I left school and also bring me to treasure all friends and family members more because that year my mum pass on after one month of my retrenchment that goes to the Rochor Centre too finally have to give way for the construction of the North-South Expressway. So with a tinge of sadness, I have to bid goodbye to once-beloved Rochor Centre and I hope that something will rise from the ashes of Rochor Centre.
