tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post2542972043467577110..comments2024-03-26T13:52:37.542+08:00Comments on Blog To Express: "Readjust Our Time Zone"Thimbuktuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-45946383824218162952010-04-29T11:32:34.664+08:002010-04-29T11:32:34.664+08:00covent garden was terrible condition and fire haza...covent garden was terrible condition and fire hazard bcos ppl shit into the river (this is true), dispose waste water into the river. Somehow you can catch fish here bcos fish like to hang below the shit-hut. If u been to Batam for seaf00d, you can understand.professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00809618698123403356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-38769355955981738422010-04-29T08:12:06.156+08:002010-04-29T08:12:06.156+08:00Thank you for your GMY blog link of your kampong a...Thank you for your GMY blog link of your kampong and neighbouring Potong Pasir and Kampong San Teng, Chun See.<br /><br />The attap colony in the early days at Covent Garden near the tongkang shipyard was unsanitary as described by "professor"...different time zone at the same place in Singapore.Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-40151830215526529682010-04-28T20:55:52.430+08:002010-04-28T20:55:52.430+08:00Wah unker ... how come suddenly get so philosophic...Wah unker ... how come suddenly get so philosophical so philosphical. Must be the IR's fault.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-6053426404319163412010-04-28T20:53:26.776+08:002010-04-28T20:53:26.776+08:00Thanks for sharing these photos James. Frankly I a...Thanks for sharing these photos James. Frankly I am quite surprised to see the conditions of these attap huts. Those in <a href="http://goodmorningyesterday.blogspot.com/2005/10/our-kampong.html" rel="nofollow">my kampong</a> or the neighbouring Potong Pasir and Kampong San Teng didn't look quite so run down as far as I could remember. In 1971 when I started my NS, we passed through many kampongs in places like Marsiling, Bt Panjang, Hong Kah etc. They too did not look so bad as those in your photos.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-3462739062805377392010-04-28T20:47:50.904+08:002010-04-28T20:47:50.904+08:00Thank you "professor" aka Uncle Dicko. W...Thank you "professor" aka Uncle Dicko. Welcome Professor "Wise Old Owl" ; )<br /><br />Like Ivan's romantic notion, but it should be "Better Days Tomorrow" - "明天会更好"!<br /><br />I am getting old, so still confused with "reality and myth":<br /><br />Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.<br /><br />[Quote]<br />He didn't know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi. <br /><br />But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi. Between Zhuangzi and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things. (2, tr. Burton Watson 1968:49) - Wikipedia.<br /><br />[Unquote]<br /><br />Have fun ;) I am the butterfly!Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-7657629507713214002010-04-28T17:10:10.266+08:002010-04-28T17:10:10.266+08:00Heh, if I ever entertained any romantic notion of ...Heh, if I ever entertained any romantic notion of "better days gone by" -- esp. the Tongkang boat yard-- the above comment from Dick, aka professor, has brought me back to realities :)Ivan Chewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02727226573817276108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-36859520497419181682010-04-28T14:13:31.837+08:002010-04-28T14:13:31.837+08:00first pic of the rotten tongkang, i see Great Worl...first pic of the rotten tongkang, i see Great World in the background. Yes i remember this place because i saw as achild in the 1960s - boat building. The smell at low tide terrible like stibk bomb or shit. The colour of the Singapore so black. Boat builders burnt their boats here also.professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00809618698123403356noreply@blogger.com