早期的牛车水

早前为了做雨季的资料研究，我来到了新加坡‘原貌馆’做功课。要不是因为这份研究，我根本没有兴趣到原貌馆去。不过当我去了后，我开始咒骂我自己。我怎么从没发现，原来早期的新加坡可以那么美丽，那么吸引人，那么有趣呢？我除了做资料搜集，还当了一天的旅客，参观了一遍。以下是我所拍下有趣的照片。 Last week I dropped by one of the local attraction of Chinatown Singapore, the Heritage centre, to do information research on my project presentation for December Rains. I seriously wouldn't have been interested in this run down corner of Chinatown if not for this project. Never had I realise the beauty of the early days of Chinatown here. Eventually, I spent a day there touring the place after getting the information I needed for the project. Sharing some pictures I took.当年的娱乐之一，来自中国大陆和香港的书籍与杂志One of the very few choices of entertainments back then, Books and Magazines imported from Mainland China and HongKong当然少不了大戏      And of course, Chinese Operas怡红院就是这个样子的   How Brothels looked back then.赌博桌。似乎..打起来了    Gambling tables. Looks like there was a fight?百家姓。找到我的了！I think we can still find Kopitiams like this in Singapore today占卜佬？当年牛车水的地图   Map of Chinatown back then以下的所有照片，看起来真像我爷爷奶奶乡下的房屋。The pictures taken below really reminds me of the rundown households in my Grandparent's hometown.I think this is one of the omitted tourist attraction nowadays as most tourist wouldn't be interested about histories. But if you are interested, you may visit  http://www.chinatownheritagecentre.sg/ for more information :)Just in case you wanted to know what was I researching on for the December Rain project presentation, it was 'What are the procedures for Singaporeans who wished to return to China in 1955? Through what means and traffic?' Bloody tough topic. The presentation went fine but I wasn't quite satisfied with the amount of information I delivered.