Friday, January 16, 2009

2004 | Reel suicide mistaken as real

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2004 While Chew Chor Meng was filming a suicide scene, a Telok Blangah resident thought it was for real, and called the police. (Read Kwok K...

2006 | Free stream water for good luck

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2006 Wash your car with water flowing from a stream at the foot of Telok Blangah Hill Park, and improve your luck. A car owner struck lotter...

2000 | Blks 110 & 111 Depot Rd slated for demolition

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2000 Leads Construction & Development Pte Ltd awarded tender for the demolition of Blocks 110 and 111 Depot Rd. (Read HDB Tender Award, ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Midwife business in Telok Blangah

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1987 Tang Maun Lee (1909-c.1988) ran a midwife business in Telok Blangah. (Read pages from Ak Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Most number of demolished houses

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1936 Telok Blangah Road and Alexandra Road together clocked 952 demolished houses , 40.9% of all houses demolished in Singapore between 1931...

Alfian Sa'at wins Young Artist Award

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1992 Poet Alfian Sa'at, who lived and studied in Keppel Road in his first schooling years, wins Young Artist Award (Literature). (Read A...

Actor fined for drunk-driving

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1997 Actor Li Nanxing was caught for drunk-driving along Telok Blangah Road. (read Business Times, 11 May 2007 ).
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Ong Kim Seng wins Cultural Medallion

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1990 Ong Kim Seng wins Cultural Medallion. (Read artists' list of awards )
Friday, December 26, 2008

Celebrities shifted out

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c. 2005 Celebrity couple Edmund Chen and Xiang Yun shifted from Telok Blangah to Marina Parade in order to get their son into Tong Nan. (Rea...

Last surviving movie mural painter

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1965 NEO Chon Teck, at 16, began training to be a copy artist under a master from Yang Guang Studios, which later closed down in 1985; he co...

Housebreaker caught

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2005 Serial housebreaking suspect arrested. (Read Singapore Police Force news release, 31 Aug 2005 )

Semi-Expressway opened

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2002 Semi-Expressway at Telok Blangah Road opened. (Read LTA press release, 25 Apr 2002 )

People's Association Youth Movement established

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1971 People's Association Youth Movement established at 450 Telok Blangah Street 31. (See PAYM Wesbite )

Cheng Yap won tender for demolition

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2001 Cheng Yap Construction awarded tender for the demolition of Blk 78 Telok Blangah Drive. (Read  Housing Development Board Award Statemen...

Leong Hin Seng won tender for demolition

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2005 Leong Hin Seng Civil Engineering Pte Ltd won tender for demolition of Blks 80 and 81 Telok Blangah Drive. (Read  Housing Development Bo...

Hwa Aik won tender for demolition

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2002 Hwa Aik Demolition Works awarded tender for the demolition of Blks 70 and 71 Telok Blangah Heights. (Read Housing Development Board Awa...

SERS for Telok Blangah blocks

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1998 & 2000 SERS (Selective En-Bloc Redevelopment Scheme) Announcement for Blks 78, 80 and 81 Telok Blangah Drive (13 Feb 1998), and for...

Telok Blangah Heights flats to be demolished

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2006 Old blocks at Telok Blangah Heights slated for demolition. (Read Cut Waste entry, 30 Oct 2006 )

Lollipop Tree

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2008 Lollipop tree was found along Telok Blangah Drive. (Read Singapore Seen, 16 Jul 2008 )

10 Most Amazing Bridges

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2008 Henderson Waves named 1 of 10 Most Amazing Bridges by Oddee. (Read Oddee: A Blog on the Oddities of Our World, 18 Oct 2008 )

Hainanese Taoist temple built

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1880 Ban Siew San, a Hainanese Taoist temple, was built on Telok Blangah Drive. (Read Historic Chinese Architecture in Singapore post )

Two Telok Blangah rats acted in a short film

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2003 Michael Lee and Edric Hsu acted in Tania Sng's short film, The Slipper Frame . (See Director's Filmography )

Edric Hsu was born

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1972 Actor Edric Hsu was born, and has been staying in Telok Blangah Crescent all his life. (See Edric Hsu's Portfolio )

Geomancy reading: dragon, ox and crab

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2008 Geomancy master Tan Khoon Yong gave his analysis of the "Western Dragon" lying on the western part of Singapore, including on...

Fengshui master cured speechlessness of a child whose past life as dog continued to haunt

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2007 Fengshui master used chanting to successfully get Harry, a 6-year-old boy, whom he diagnosed as being haunted by his past life as a dog...

Graves shifted

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1970s Graves in Hiap Guan San Cemetery excavated and moved to Choa Chu Kang; some were not disposed but scattered across the hill. (Read API...

Tan Chwee Heng was born

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1948 TAN Chwee Heng (Prof) was born and stayed in Telok Blangah; eventually became Chairman of Biology Society. (See National Archives, Sing...

Fire destroyed Signalman's house

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1876 Fire broke out and destroyed house of Signalman of Signal Station at Mount Faber. (See Infopedia: Mount Faber, 29 Sep 1997 ).

Sun Yat Sen stayed at Golden Bell Mansion

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1911 Upon arrival from Europe, Chinese revolutionary leader Dr Sun Yat Sen stayed a night at Golden Bell Mansion (b. 1909) on Pender Road (R...

Cemetery at Telok Blangah Hill

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1882 Hiap Guan San Cemetery, a cemetery complex built for the Hokkien Yeo Clan, opened at Telok Blangah Hill; the graves were excavated in t...

Death of car thief

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2007 Man found dead half an hour after stealing taxi at Telok Blangah. (Read The Straits Times, 8 Aug 2007 )

Rohan Bin Kamis won 1980 elections

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1980 Rohan Bin Kamis defeated Joshua Benjamin Jeyaratnam by 1,046 (6%) votes in the 1980 General Elections in Telok Blangah.

Book homage to Mount Faber

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c. 1975 Writer TOH Chew Seng @ Du Cheng published essays in his book 《花葩山随笔》(The Travelling Pen at Mount Faber). (Read National Archives, Si...

Month-old flagstaff struck by lightning

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1851 New flagstaff erected a month earlier on Telok Blangah Hill struck and destroyed by lightning. (See Street Directory: Mount Faber )

Merlion escaped flying

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2005 Merlion (named Mike) was spared a terrifying experience of flying to Venice, where it was proposed by artist Lim Tzay Chuen to be exhib...

Fishing village

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c.1299 When Utama arrived, Singapore was a fishing village.

Book out by Telok Blangah publisher

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2008 The Great Singapore Quiz published by Monsoon Books located at Telok Blangah Road (See book PDF )

Telok Blangah named

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c. 1299 Telok Blangah (Telok is Malay for "bay," and Blangah for "cooking pot") named, as the shape of the area is simil...

Telok Blangah Hill renamed

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1845 Telok Blangah Hill renamed Mount Faber, after Captain Charles Edward Faber, of Madras Engineer, after he constructed the road and signa...

Telok Blangah Road named

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1907 Telok Blangah Road officially named.

First urban resettlement

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1823 (1826?) The first urban resettlement: Founder Sir Stamford Raffles relocated the governor Temenggong Abdul Rahman from Singapore River ...

First Malay vernacular girls' school

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1884 The first Malay Vernacular Girls' School in Singapore and the Straits Settlement at Telok Blangah Hill (Read  Journal Article by LI...

First coal-fired power plant

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1927 The first coal-fired power plant in Singapore supplying electricity to nearby shipyards, industry and residences, St James Power Statio...

First and only restaurant on top of wheat silos

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1977  The only restaurant in the world located on top of wheat silos, Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant, opens for business (Read  The Prima ...

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Most successful landscaping

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2001 "The most successful residential development conceived during the first decade of the HDB," Edmund WALKER ( Landscape Plannin...

Largest shopping mall

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2006 The largest shopping mall in Singapore: Vivocity opens at Telok Blangah Road (Read:  Wikimapia: Vivocity Singapore )

Highest pedestrian bridge

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2008 The highest pedestrian bridge (at 36m above ground) in Singapore: Henderson Waves and Alexandra Arch (Read Infopedia, 4 Dec 2008 )

Horror stories at the heights

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c. 1988-2008  Telok Blangah Heights Horror (Read  Singapore's Freakiest Online Ghost Stories, 2008 )

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Man haunted by ghost for 7 years

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2000-2007  Riandi, a man haunted by the ghost of a long dead Chinese lady for the past 7 years. (Read  The Shin Min Daily, 8 Mar 2007 ).

Psychic source to discovery of body

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2004 Psychic vision led to discovery of the body of Huang Na at Telok Blangah Hill. (Read The Straits Times, 13 Oct 2008, Wikipedia entry on...

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Earliest natives of Singapore settled at Telok Blangah

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1600s Orang Selat, one of the groups that make up the Orang Laut, traversed the waters of Keppel Harbour, making them one of the earliest se...

Early painting of Telok Blangah

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1849 Painting entitled  Telloh Blangah , completed by John Turnbull Thomson from Pula Brani, portraying the area of the Temenggong's vil...

Telok Blangah costume becomes royal fashion of Johor

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1862 Baju Kurung Telok Belanga: Costume whose origin was in Telok Blangah was created and worn in Johor during the reign of Tememnggong Abu ...

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Lee Dai Sor was born

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1913 The birth of Lee Dai Sor (born Lee Fook Hung, 1913-1989, Singapore?), Singapore's renowned Cantonese storyteller, in Telok Blangah....

Ong Kim Seng was born

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1945 Watercolourist Ong Kim Seng born in an attap house off Silat Road. Father worked at the Bata Factory. Studied at Radin Mas Primary Scho...

Merlion designed

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1966 Merlion, national icon of Singapore, was designed by Fraser Brunner. (Read  Wikipedia: Merlion )

Michael Lee moves into Depot Road

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1978 Michael Lee (born Lee Hong Hwee, 1972) moves into unit 939K (later #11-939) of Blk 110, Depot Road with his family.

Magic Mountain

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2000 Magic Mountain? Injecting fun into Mount Faber (Read  The Straits Times, 29 Oct 2000 ).

Mount Faber on Amazing Race 3

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2002 Mount Faber was pit-stop for Leg 10 of Amazing Race 3. (Read  Wikipedia: The Amazing Race 3 )

'Lion' spotted by Sang Nila Utama

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c. 1299 'Lion' spotted by Sang Nila Utama (though it was probably a Tiger, a Malayan Tiger instead) (Read  Wikipedia: Sang Nila Utam...

Tiger spotted by Sang Nila Utama

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c. 1299 Tiger spotted by Sang Nila Utama (though his chief minister advised that it was a Lion) (Read  Wikipedia: Sang Nila Utama ).

Tembusus tree on $5 note

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c. 1900s/2000s Tembusus (Fagraea fragrans) tree indigenous to Telok Blangah featured on $5 note. (Read  The Straits Times, 9 Jun 2007 ,  ima...

Merlion on Mont Faber

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1998 Merlion (2nd replica, 30m tall polymarble statue) placed on Mount Faber's Faber Point (Read  Wikipedia: Merlion )

Python gets into flat

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2002 Python slithers into 10th-foor flat in Depot Road...twice (Read  The Straits Times, 5 July 2002 ).

Tembusus tree on $1 stamp

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2002 Tembusus (Fagraea fragrans) tree indigenous to Telok Blangah featured on $1 stamp (Heritage Trees series) (Read  image of the tree on t...

Mount Faber converted into fort

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1857 After the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Straits government converted Mount Faber into a fort for fear of revolt among local Indian sepoys ...

WWII punishments and air-raids

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1942-1945 Trying times of a wartime shipyard:  Punishments and air raids at Keppel Harbour during WWII (read  The Straits Times, 30 Oct 2000...

Floods

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1964 Floods in Telok Blangah (See  NHB Blog, 7 Nov 2006 )

Cable car accident

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1983 Accident on the Singapore Cable Car system between Mount Faber and Sentosa, killing 7 people. (Read  Wikipedia: Singapore Cable Car dis...

Arson attack

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2000 Arson attack at Depot Road (Read  The Straits Times, 24 Jan 2000 ).

Block on fire

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2000 Senior Citizens flee from burning block (Read  The Straits Times, 7 Sep 2000 ).

Girl thrown from block

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2004 4-year-old girl thrown down from Telok Blangah housing block dies (Read KeepTouch forum )

Box containing body of murdered girl found

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2004, Oct 31 Box containing the body of Huang Na, an 8-year-old Chinese National, found at Telok Blangah Hill Park (Read  Wikipedia: Huang N...

Tree fell on house

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2008 20-m tree fell onto a black-and-white house, with the family escaping unscathed. (Read  The Straits Times, 6 Nov 2008 )

Bata Building demolished

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1979 Bata Building (estd. 1964) at 66 Telok Blangah Road, demolished. (Read  Infopedia: Bata Shoe (Singapore) Private Limited, 22 Jul 1999 )

Blocks in Depot Road demolished

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c. 1990 Blks 103, 104, 106, 110 & 111, Depot Road, demolished. (See  Emporis )

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Hua Yi Secondary School shifted

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2001 Hua Yi Secondary School (est. 1959) shifted from Depot Road to Jurong West Street 42. (Read  Hua Yi NCC blog )

Lost Chihuahua

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2007, May 11 Dog (Chihuahua), named Dede (Didi), reported lost at Blk 47 Telok Blangah Drive, by owner Rachel / Valentina (Read  Action for ...

The Museum of Cooking Pots

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2028 The Museum of Cooking Pots, the first constituency museum in Singapore, opens in Telok Blangah (See  Research Blog )
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Maltese found

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2006, Jan 8 Dog (Maltese) found at Blk 37, Telok Blangah Way, by Lily CHUA (Read Action for Singapore Dogs post ).

Greying face of Singapore

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2020 For greying face of Singapore in 2020, see Radin Mas now (Read The Straits Times, 20 Aug 2007 and 24 Aug 2007 ).

Market and Food Centre demolished

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2009, Feb Market and Food Centre at Blk 11, Telok Blangah Crescent (est. c. 1970), demolished (from Edric Hsu )

Teen sleepwalked out of window

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2008 Ho Ming Mao, student of Gan Eng Seng Secondary School, sleepwalked out of his Telok Blangah flat's window but escaped death from th...

Escaped Hornbill spotted

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2005 Escaped Hornbill spotted in Telok Blangah District (Read ClubSNAP entry, 7 Oct 2005 )

Mount Faber on Amazing Race Asia 2

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2007 Mount Faber was featured as a route-marker for Leg 1 of Amazing Race Asia 2. (Read Wikipedia: The Amazing Race Asia 2 )

World Trade Centre renamed

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2003 World Trade Centre renamed HarbourFront Centre, situated on Telok Blangah Road (Read Wikipedia: HarbourFront Centre )

First residence by Daniel Libeskind

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2011  The first residential project in Asia by architect Daniel Libeskind: Reflections at Keppel Bay (Read Keppel Corporation Press Release,...

Haunted places

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2007  Online discussions on haunted places in Telok Blangah Hill Park and Mount Faber (Read Kyochiro's Ghostly Tales )