.Thursday, July 23, 2009 ' 1:56 AM Y
recapturing the lost memoriesa few days back on monday, me and dear dear decided to go for a hunt, a hunt to recapture back all our childhood memories! and tada! we went back to our "hometown" toa payoh lorong 7! thats where we grew up. i stayed there, had my kindergarten and pri sch there, while dear dear had his pri sch beside my pri sch! we hanged out around the same area (for eg, toa payoh central, taking the 50cents motor ride around the round-about, which we refused to return the motors after the timing and end up the old uncle got to chase us everytime, (those who played before shd noe wad i mean).. going to the same market with our mothers etc) maybe when we were very very young, we even played at the same playground before, walked passed each other before and caught each other's attention! haha! wad a perfect drama script!
so we went back to our primary school first! i was from poi ching school while he was from the ever-famous peichun republic (why is it call republic?) anw i climbed on same railings and risks my life to take some photos of my beloved pri sch! how adventurous am i. haha
this is our school canteen. there used to be benches and long tables. anw it is now a malay school =(
the small little door on the left was our music room and the small gate on the right is the gate to our computer lab! the windows at the 2nd storey are the hall's windows! there was this big portrait of the founder, which was rumored that at night, the eyes in the portrait will blink at you! haha you know, old time haunted school ghost story!
this is somewhere near our small pathetic science garden, which i as the monistress got to do my weekly duty to clear the dirty algae-filled pond with barely surviving turtles inside. the pond is now gone.
this is the assembly area where we always sing our national anthem before we dismiss. my parents will be always outside the gate waiting for me and my elder bro, carrying our bags after school while me and bro always run to get compete to get home first.
after which, we sneaked into a part of peichun, which is now a real estate company, and took the view of my pri sch from his pri sch. can u see thats how near we are to each other everyday when we were young! we were just separated by one fence! the top upper right hand classroom on the highest floor was my p6 classroom.
after all the school visitantions, we walked back to my old house!!!!! the surroundings are pretty much the same, but all the stalls are changed, except that clinic and the reli old coffee shop. as i walked through the void deck, the letter box which i could never reach at my height then were gone. it was replaced by some benches. and the lifts now serve every storey! i stil rem everytime whenever the whole fam went out and came back home, me and my elder bro (if you are wondering wheres keekai, seriously, he doesnt relli exist in my childhood memories! haha) would fight to jump off my dad's lorry at the back, run to the lift while my dad parked his lorry downstairs. so as i walked through all these places, i was narrating my childhood stories to dear dear. and we went to take the lift, and went up to the exact unit which i used to stay!
this is the pathetic narrow corridor. everytime during duan wu jie, u can see that the corridor is filled with big pots with charcoal, cause my mum and neighbors will be boiling their ba zhang! the whities gate u see on the foreground of the pic is my old house! u cant believe how small is it. it is a 2room flat (1living room and 1 bedroom), and the living room is even smaller than my room now! and all of us squeeze into 1 bedroom everynight! as i walked pass the corridor, i peaked into every unit and all the neighbors have shifted out =( i was hoping to see some reli old neighbors there.
and we walked our way to toa payoh central passing by the hawker center which my dad would always buy our daily fried carrot cake supper from, the playground beside the hawker center which some girl from my pri school was kidnapped and murdered there (it frightened me quite a while as a kid and nver dare to play there anymore).. as we walk and walk, i narrate and narrate, he listen and listen. haha.. so huai nian! dear dear concluded that my hometown is now officially a "retirees village", which i can totally agree.
from what i learn from my changing landscape of singapore module in NUS, landscape really speaks alot and they bring back nostalgia in us. hence, its always good to preserve some familar and vernacular landscape so that we still can relate to the development of the nation and feel a sense of belonging. but with the land scarcity, i think all those surviving HDB around this area is going to be demolished and rebuild, just like what has happened to those nearer to toa payoh central. sad.
i wana stay in toa payoh when i get married!!!!! while, i dun mind orchard rd or bukit timah though. haha. im a true toa payoh-ian! hello! any toa payoh-ians reading this now? tag me!
oh and 2 weeks ago, we went back to TJC as well! but sadly, the gate was locked and we cant sneak in. we took a few photos from outside.
the school name outside the gate. i used to stepped on these letters to help me climb over the gate to get into the school. one of the letters fall off i stil rem. haha.
this is the side gate leading to the canteen. our discipline master always stand here to catch the late comers. i was his usual customer. sooner, the customers figured out a way to escape, all of us when opposite to have breakfast and only enter the school after 8am when the discipline master got to teach in lesson during that time. haha! students always outwit the teachers! yeah!
it used to PPD only. since when they add in I and C?
arghhh.... i so so missed my childhood days and my JC school life! hello any tjcian heere reading this? tag me!
dear! lets do something unique and special again next week! =)
this is our school canteen. there used to be benches and long tables. anw it is now a malay school =(
the small little door on the left was our music room and the small gate on the right is the gate to our computer lab! the windows at the 2nd storey are the hall's windows! there was this big portrait of the founder, which was rumored that at night, the eyes in the portrait will blink at you! haha you know, old time haunted school ghost story!
this is somewhere near our small pathetic science garden, which i as the monistress got to do my weekly duty to clear the dirty algae-filled pond with barely surviving turtles inside. the pond is now gone.
after which, we sneaked into a part of peichun, which is now a real estate company, and took the view of my pri sch from his pri sch. can u see thats how near we are to each other everyday when we were young! we were just separated by one fence! the top upper right hand classroom on the highest floor was my p6 classroom.
this is the pathetic narrow corridor. everytime during duan wu jie, u can see that the corridor is filled with big pots with charcoal, cause my mum and neighbors will be boiling their ba zhang! the whities gate u see on the foreground of the pic is my old house! u cant believe how small is it. it is a 2room flat (1living room and 1 bedroom), and the living room is even smaller than my room now! and all of us squeeze into 1 bedroom everynight! as i walked pass the corridor, i peaked into every unit and all the neighbors have shifted out =( i was hoping to see some reli old neighbors there.
it used to PPD only. since when they add in I and C?