The Jurong Lake Garden District makes up part of the Chinese and Japanese Garden a sprawling parks around a lake and forest with a boardwalk a dog run and water sport. It is a new national garden in the heartlands and people's garden where spaces will be landscaped and created for families and the community to come together. It was opened for visitors from April 2019 while the other two gardens are closed for redevelopment in tandem to rejuvenate the Jurong Lake District, but now the plan had been put on hold because the High-Speed Train project between out neighbours had been shelved not letting our nation to have a stake in it.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Rediscover Singapore - The Day Heaven Weeps
In 2015, our nation will be celebrating 50 years of Independence come 9th August but a tragic event happens on 23rd March 2015, our founding father Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away, age 91 there was a week of national mourning many Singaporean and world leaders paid tributes to him at a lying-in-state at Singapore Parliament House and also at community site all across the nation. On 29th March the funeral of the late Lee Kuan Yew was held and crowds brave the heavy rain along the funeral route taking him from Parliament House through City Hall, Central Business District, Housing Estate and onward to the Mandai Crematorium. It was a sombre National Day on the 9th of August to celebrate SG50 without Lee Kuan Yew for the first time.
Monday, December 21, 2020
Rediscover Singapore - Our Olympic Quest
During 1960 as a young boy who knew nothing about world and sporting events which our nation had a hand in it. That year in Rome our nation won out first Olympic Silver Medal which was won by Mr Tan Howe Liang our strongman who participate in weight lifting than a group man took a bold step to try for an Olympic Medal which pushes Singapore to achieve to score a medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympic or 2012 London Olympic or better yet both. On August 17th 2008 our women table tennis won a Silver Olympic Medal with a lapse of 48 long years. In Rio 2016, Singaporean Joseph Isaac Schooling won Singapore only Olympic Gold Medal in the 100-metre butterfly with a live stream for the final and had everybody back home cheering on for his success and what a moment for all Singaporean it delivers. The Olympic champion was given a rousing welcome with the meet and greet there was a huge crowd gather at Raffle City to catch glimpse of him form the young to the old.
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Rediscover Singapore - Old Woodland Town Center (Demolished)
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Rediscover Singapore - Hougang New Town
Hougang (Au Kang) literally meant "the end of the river" it is located in the northeastern part of Singapore where Yio Chu Kang, Upper Serangoon and Tampines intersection where at one time it is a forested area with pig farms and was largely populated by the Teochew resident. Tua Jia Ka which means foot of the big well, the village was known as Sompah Serangoon Village and also Kangkar Fish Market. In 1979 the HDB announced a plan to built a new town to house 120,000 resident and was originally called Hou Gang and finally renamed Hougang to support the Speak Mandarin Campaign. Today Hougang is the stronghold of the opposition Workers Party which they wrestle from the incumbent of the People Action Party in 1991 by Mr Low Thia Kiang.
Friday, December 18, 2020
Rediscover Singapore - Heartland Mall (Boon Lay)
Boon Lay Shopping Centre is a suburban mall situated at Boon Lay Place mainly for retail and F&B where it is famous for its Power Nasi Lemak and is strategically located in the Jurong Hub within the Jurong Lake District master plan. It has many amenities including the Boon Lay Swimming complex and major expressways and also the East-West Line MRT and seamlessly connected to the rest of Singapore.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Rediscover Singapore - Haji Lane
Haji Lane is a narrow lane within the Kampong Glam area, the business got its name because of the stuff are mostly cater to the young and trendy with independent fashion boutique and Middle Eastern Cafes along the old shophouses which are under conservation and no vehicular access after dark.
