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In those crazy days, all appointments had to be according to TV programmes. This was Singapore's favourite couple in 1979/80. How we hoped they would become a couple in real life..... Chow Yun Fatt later married a Singapore girl.... "Man in the net" featured all the big names: Chow Yun...

In 1979, a Hong Kong Drama took Singapore by storm. Even English educated types fell for the charms of the female lead. See the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5yGic0wiXw "Man in the Net" - Were you part of the craze?

Once upon a time, all our Primary schools looked like this one! Yes? The school above can't be identified as all looked the same..... any idea which school is featured above?

Singapore's Shameful Past..Operation Thunderstorm.. the pushing of Refugees back into the sea In 1975, North Vietnam invaded the south and captured Saigon, reuniting the country under communist rule. It spelt the end of the Vietnam War, but it also meant hundreds of thousands of South...

We had cops directing traffic.... and I was always impressed when they traveled free on buses.... waving away the bus conductor, if he was not in uniform.... You don't argue with cops in those days..... you run if the Ang Chia types show up.....

We relied on Green Bus No 175 to get to SAFTI..... This pic was taken along Bukit Timah Road, outside ChunTin Road, next to the Beauty World and Chung Khiaw Bank across the canal. Bus stops at Rex theatre and 7th mile village were always full of NS men ....

We relied on STC bus No 17B to travel from Queenstown to "town".....

Food next to Capitol was not so great.... but we had MPH next door to kill time while waiting for the show.... or go to National Library for the noodles.... or go to the stalls next to the SJI field where the Indian Rojak was shoik...

View from Bras Basah Road next to CHIJ... Then there was Odeon..... I remember there were great Char Kway Teow stalls next to both Theatres....... yummy...

I am back with more stories : SKYSCRAPPERS OF SINGAPORE in 1939, our first very tall building, The Cathay, was only eight floors high. In 2006, it was sexed up into a modern glass-and-metal beast but retained its original art-deco façade. Our oldest un-renovated skyscraper is technically the...

PE: Vote not a tough choice, says President S R Nathan Posted: 27 August 2011 1057 hrs SINGAPORE: President S R Nathan said it was not a tough choice for him to know who to vote for. He said he knows Singaporeans are sensible people and will do what is best for Singapore...

Seems we will have to ask the Malaysians if Tan Cheng Bok would be President ...hahaha After all, they were privy to everything thanks to our very own Kim Philby....... And oh good heavens, an orbituary actually titled him as "James"... as in James Bond...... if anyone had noticed....

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cmiSmYGytd0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> WHERE WERE YOU WHEN IT HAPPENED? I remembered the "Malaysia-As sure as the sun will rise" photo album given to all students...... where you get to paste pics of...

Many people were taken onto boats by Japs and then shot and thrown into the sea off Pulau Blakang Mati, now called Sentosa, in Feb 1942. Some bodies were washed to shore and buried by British soldiers still hiding on the island. (near the golf course) A few years ago, more than 20...

From Feb 20 till Feb 28, 1942, several hundred Chinese civilians, bound hand and foot, and tied back-to-back in groups of three or four, were transported by the boat-loads from the docks at Tanjong Pagar to the surrounding waters. There, in the open sea, they were hurled into the waters and...

Dont have to worry Mr Goh, we are capable of taking care of ourselves. You are too conceited to think that we will die without the PAP. 7 VOTES from my family to NSP...... (1 for PAP, but being senile, he will not be voting.)

Re: Meet our former SAF Army Chief - the quality, the talent, the mannerism, conduct Aiyo.....See the poor aunty trying to protect her packet food from the General.... Aiyo.... General going to be a Minister? Ai...yo yo :mad:

James Minchin's "NO MAN IS AN ISLAND" is woth a read. James made the following revelations: LKY's dad and mom were on bad terms. LKY's mom converted to Christianity and on her deathbed, she wanted LKY to turn to JESUS.... James Minchin was a Priest in Singapore......

The New Singapore Army :D

Re: Do u like the forum new look? As long as the new place keeps my Binturong thread, i will be happy: :rolleyes: