Hi all,
just to relive my memories,
is Seletar Camp still open for anybody to walk in? is the old airfield and old Youth flying club still around?
U may not believe it, but I used to stay in 50 Regent street which was part of the residential houses in the Camp grounds, but not for NS time. I stayed there from Primary 1 all the way to primary 4 or 5.
I remembered the landscape was completely changed since a few years ago....Gone was the old Orchid garden stretch and If i remmeber correctly, the Roti Prata shop outside the camp next to the Church was also gone. Unknown to most of the younger generations, that WAS the real Jalan Kayu Roti Prata store......(i can still distinctively remember its taste and aroma)
I used to wake up at 4-5am and walk out of my house, past the "exit" guard house and there used to be a bus depot there where i waited for #163 which then took me from the depot all the way to St. Michael's Primary school, which was at Essex Road, Thomson.
i had to pass by this particular wet market that was also very famous for fishballs and some fresh yong tau foo (or at that time i had the impression lah..) and i remembered then, the OLD SBS bus with the LONG angled Gearbox and the super loud "Pffssst" as the bus driver clutched in as well as OMO buses (which i always avoid coz my mum told me it was more expensive or it was chartered....)
The bus conductor also issued 5ct, 10ct, 15ct, 20ct panel of bus tickets and carried this pouch which contained lotsa shillings.
AHHHHHH! Those old fond memories!!!!! I used to have 2 of such "punched" bus tickets between a book which now i have trouble locating
I'd like to return to actually take a look and try to relive my memories. I understood from a long time neighbour that now all the houses had a wirefence around their compounds.....(we did not have that anytime and often walked over to our neighbour's front porch to let them sample some of our home cooked stuff and vice versa!)
so wondering if the old camp parade ground is still around and can we go in?
Incidentally, i went to the WetGap to have some training as well as went back to the camp for the beach assault training during my NS years
just to relive my memories,
is Seletar Camp still open for anybody to walk in? is the old airfield and old Youth flying club still around?
U may not believe it, but I used to stay in 50 Regent street which was part of the residential houses in the Camp grounds, but not for NS time. I stayed there from Primary 1 all the way to primary 4 or 5.
I remembered the landscape was completely changed since a few years ago....Gone was the old Orchid garden stretch and If i remmeber correctly, the Roti Prata shop outside the camp next to the Church was also gone. Unknown to most of the younger generations, that WAS the real Jalan Kayu Roti Prata store......(i can still distinctively remember its taste and aroma)
I used to wake up at 4-5am and walk out of my house, past the "exit" guard house and there used to be a bus depot there where i waited for #163 which then took me from the depot all the way to St. Michael's Primary school, which was at Essex Road, Thomson.
i had to pass by this particular wet market that was also very famous for fishballs and some fresh yong tau foo (or at that time i had the impression lah..) and i remembered then, the OLD SBS bus with the LONG angled Gearbox and the super loud "Pffssst" as the bus driver clutched in as well as OMO buses (which i always avoid coz my mum told me it was more expensive or it was chartered....)
The bus conductor also issued 5ct, 10ct, 15ct, 20ct panel of bus tickets and carried this pouch which contained lotsa shillings.
AHHHHHH! Those old fond memories!!!!! I used to have 2 of such "punched" bus tickets between a book which now i have trouble locating
I'd like to return to actually take a look and try to relive my memories. I understood from a long time neighbour that now all the houses had a wirefence around their compounds.....(we did not have that anytime and often walked over to our neighbour's front porch to let them sample some of our home cooked stuff and vice versa!)
so wondering if the old camp parade ground is still around and can we go in?
Incidentally, i went to the WetGap to have some training as well as went back to the camp for the beach assault training during my NS years
