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i was the chink with the china hat pulling the trishaw. :o
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It's Raffles Place or technically Raffles Square as it was in those days.
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You must be really young.
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I prefers this old Raffles . Fuck pappy for changing sinkieland to a hell place today :oIo:
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The train still works. It's a Marklin.
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Even at that time, the train set must cost some dough.
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John Little at Raffles meh? I thought at Somerset there.
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Your parents must be really well off....I could only salivate at the train set at Robinson's toy Department, I could still see the place in my mind. Spent a lot of time there..while the adults shop. There was not that many departmental stores back then, Robinson would be one, & John Little all at Raffles Place. In Orchard Road it was Tang's, Metro was just starting up, as a small shop along High Street. Later years, they expanded, & then Tay Ban Guan in Katong opens. The first Chinese Departmental store was Oriental Emporium, I think it was at Gian Singh Building, Raffles Place & it was crowded for it was novelty back then. Later the first Taiwanese Departmental store opened at People's Park Complex..Taichung Emporium. Talking about Emporium's, was giving a metal construction set from Oriental Emporium for Christmas....but I Could still remember Robinson & John Little at Raffle's Place & still salivating over that train set... "you lucky devil"..
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Yeah I had to wait till I was old enough to earn my own money before I bought it. I dreamt about electric trains from about 9 onwards. Thanks to LKY, my dreams became reality about a decade later.
Long before old fart takes over Singapore, no need COE for horse and horse carts.
And the government no lies to the people. British government in Singapore no need PA and give government contracts only to PA dogs members.
And the government no lies to the people. British government in Singapore no need PA and give government contracts only to PA dogs members.
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It has nothing to do with LKY...I bought my matchbox, airfix, revell etc... from being what you call these days a "recycler", in other words rag & bone man. I collected all sorts of bottles around my neighborhood, including empty tins plus mow the lawns, do errands for the 'lady of the house'....to earn that extra pocket money.. I worked hard for them...nothing to do with LKY unfortunately...through sweat!
sounds like you come from a well to do family?
Parent must be working for British, the masters of invasions, lootings and colonization. They know they cannot sell their stupid hardware technology to the Far East Asians, to solve that problems invasion and colonized them. In China sell them opium and go to war if the Chinese want them to stop
The First Opium War (1839–42), also known as the Opium War and as the Anglo-Chinese War, was fought between Great Britain and China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice for foreign nationals.[3]
Prior to the conflict Chinese officials wished to end the spread of opium, and confiscated around 20,000 chests of opium (approximately 1.21 million kilograms or 2.66 million lb)[4] from British traders. The British government, although not officially denying China's right to control imports of the drug, objected to this seizure and used its military power to enforce violent redress.[3]
In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking—the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties—granted an indemnity to Britain, the opening of five treaty ports, and the cession of Hong Kong Island, thereby ending the trade monopoly of the Canton System. The failure of the treaty to satisfy British goals of improved trade and diplomatic relations led to the Second Opium War (1856–60).[5] The war is now considered in China as the beginning of modern Chinese history.[6][7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
Parent must be working for British, the masters of invasions, lootings and colonization. They know they cannot sell their stupid hardware technology to the Far East Asians, to solve that problems invasion and colonized them. In China sell them opium and go to war if the Chinese want them to stop
The First Opium War (1839–42), also known as the Opium War and as the Anglo-Chinese War, was fought between Great Britain and China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice for foreign nationals.[3]
Prior to the conflict Chinese officials wished to end the spread of opium, and confiscated around 20,000 chests of opium (approximately 1.21 million kilograms or 2.66 million lb)[4] from British traders. The British government, although not officially denying China's right to control imports of the drug, objected to this seizure and used its military power to enforce violent redress.[3]
In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking—the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties—granted an indemnity to Britain, the opening of five treaty ports, and the cession of Hong Kong Island, thereby ending the trade monopoly of the Canton System. The failure of the treaty to satisfy British goals of improved trade and diplomatic relations led to the Second Opium War (1856–60).[5] The war is now considered in China as the beginning of modern Chinese history.[6][7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
Your parents must be really well off....I could only salivate at the train set at Robinson's toy Department, I could still see the place in my mind. Spent a lot of time there..while the adults shop. There was not that many departmental stores back then, Robinson would be one, & John Little all at Raffles Place. In Orchard Road it was Tang's, Metro was just starting up, as a small shop along High Street. Later years, they expanded, & then Tay Ban Guan in Katong opens. The first Chinese Departmental store was Oriental Emporium, I think it was at Gian Singh Building, Raffles Place & it was crowded for it was novelty back then. Later the first Taiwanese Departmental store opened at People's Park Complex..Taichung Emporium. Talking about Emporium's, was giving a metal construction set from Oriental Emporium for Christmas....but I Could still remember Robinson & John Little at Raffle's Place & still salivating over that train set... "you lucky devil"..
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I hope yours don't break down as often.
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but I Could still remember Robinson & John Little at Raffle's Place & still salivating over that train set... "you lucky devil"..
When I saw my first train set, it was in the display window at Robinsons. We were dead poor at the time. All we could do was window shop. My dad didn't even bother taking me inside. He said the store was for the rich and the white not for us.
However, I saved up enough money while I was in secondary school and pre-U giving tuition to the sons of rich kids and I bought a simple oval layout and one engine when I was 19.
As the money grew in quantity thanks to LKY, so too did my track layout and by the time I had it to the way I wanted it, it had grown threefold.
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