Singapore's hidden history

[Harry Lee]

Wang Sa's hair was ok by Singapore's standard .....

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The Banana peel.....

 

[Harry Lee]

This silly super-scale school principal Philip Liau checked our hair as if we were subversive elements. Lost all respect for him after that....... :oIo:

 

[Windsor]

History Of Old Chinese Business Names

The word “Chop” was commonly used in those days to refer to a company/business, e.g, Chop Leong Seng. Some companies still retained the practice of having the word "Chop" as part of their business names, whilst most has dropped it's use.

 

[Debonerman]

This silly super-scale school principal Philip Liau checked our hair as if we were subversive elements. Lost all respect for him after that....... :oIo:

If it is any consolation to you RI boy, your super scale dead dude had one hell of a fucked up son named Alvin! I lost respect for him too!:p

 

[Harry Lee]

Hidden History : Millie Small in Singapore

This girl took Singapore by storm with her hit song "My Boy Lollipop".
She migrated and lived in Singapore from 1971 to 1973.
If I am not wrong, I think she was not given PR and had to leave.....

So sad..... ( today they give citizenship to Gong Li and Jet Li when they do not even live here..... :oIo

Listen to Millie Small once more here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCUcbRTB6Rs

Were you around when she graced our black and white TVs?

 

[hairylee]

If it is any consolation to you RI boy, your super scale dead dude had one hell of a fucked up son named Alvin! I lost respect for him too!:p

How fuck up is the son? If he is in a position to command your disrespect that means this Alvin is in some top position.

 

[Harry Lee]

One day, a schoolgirl from Pulau Brani joined a competition to see who could sing like Millie Small. This schoolgirl won handsdown....her name was Veronica Soon, and she went on to perform professionally as Veronica Young

Veronica with her backup the Silver Strings at the competition held in Sky Cinema.

Cute lah..... this Kampung girl

 

[HTOLAS]

These images bring back the sad memory of how the extremist implementation of the Speak Mandarin Campaign diminished the impact of Wang Sa and Ye Fung. It also seriously undermined the career of Lei Dai Sor (not to be mistaken for a contributor to this forum) who ended his days doing recordings for Australian networks broadcasting to Cantonese speakers in Australia.

All three gentlemen are cultural icons of Singapore.

Wang Sa's hair was ok by Singapore's standard .....

The Banana peel.....

 

[Harry Lee]

Hidden History : Wei Ling Scores!!

Dont play play.... this girl is top student of the 1972 HSC batch.

The other girl is Pamela Loke.... I wonder where she is now?

 

[Harry Lee]

chey...... all my postings on the Binturong and the Black Panther scare disappeared in this new forum ....... boo hoo hoo....

 

[KuanTi01]

This silly super-scale school principal Philip Liau checked our hair as if we were subversive elements. Lost all respect for him after that....... :oIo:

Aka Jack Benny?

 

[po2wq]

... Dont play play.... this girl is top student of the 1972 HSC batch.

The other girl is Pamela Loke.... I wonder where she is now?

seems like ah hean oso a top student dat same yr ... but his name oni in, errr, fine print ... :o

 

[Harry Lee]

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 old block of the Bank of China Building, built in 1954 with a whopping 18 floors

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

Good to see you back, Harry!

 

[Harry Lee]

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...

 

[Harry Lee]

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...

 

[Harry Lee]

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

 

[Harry Lee]

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 ....

 

[Harry Lee]

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.....

 

[jiakhongleow]

Chop was used to replace Shop. It is follwoing the malay style putting kedai first before name. becos S look like 5 and in cantonese 5 sounds like 'umm' which sound like 'no no no' and since then Chop was used.

History Of Old Chinese Business Names

The word “Chop” was commonly used in those days to refer to a company/business, e.g, Chop Leong Seng. Some companies still retained the practice of having the word "Chop" as part of their business names, whilst most has dropped it's use.