Singapore awakening in 1983

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Ronni Pinsler filmed Singapore when it awakens and its hard working people get out of their beds for their daily tasks. In this case it is the well-known Goh Seng Lai firm employees that start constructing a platform at North Boat Quay for a forthcoming celebration. The lorry's journey starts at Duxton Hill where the restaurant Broth is, turns right to Duxton Road where there's an open air carpark on the right & a Chinese hostess/KTV bar on the left. It continues down Duxton where there are tons of pubs, a 7-11 on the left & Berjaya Hotel on the right before exiting Duxton at its intersection with Craig Road where you can see the bottom of a block of flats where Toof dental clinic is now. In further clips I'll show which festivities are held. I have made a similar film of Hong Kong awakening in 1953.
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The name of the initial song is 彩雲追月 (Colorful clouds chasing the moon) according to one of the viewers.
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@shannamae 9 лет назад

Dear Michael, I just want to say a sincere 'Thank you' to you for sharing all of these videos of old Singapore! They are treasures!

@ibrahimbm1742 5 лет назад

Thank You Mr Cameraman and RU-vid for allowing us (and our future generation) to watch this 36 years later in 2019.

@kelvingoh6587 12 лет назад

@ MichaelRogge : The late Goh Seng Lai is my grandfather !! This is such a emotional video for us to watch it together as a FAMILY !! I saw my Dad in the video and they are really touch to see this video !! Really appreaciate it !! Thanks so much !!

@rhapsodf 6 лет назад

Wat a story!

@NC000C 5 лет назад

😁

@gimhwee75 4 года назад

Kelvin, my dad knows your Grandfather and Grandmother from Goh Seng Lai. He was a truck driver in the 1970s then. My older brother went to the same school as your Uncle Ah Kiat in Manjusri in Geylang East. Those were the times.. Very nostalgic..

@raghavgupta2399 4 года назад

@@gimhwee75 wow this seems like a reunion. But where is Mr Goh?

@cheetatteo1415 10 месяцев назад

Hi, may i know where is the area of shophouses the truck was travelling in? And the 2 HDB point blocks?

@MrRicky4309 9 лет назад

I stayed at this part of Singapore when I was little. Could still remember to squeeze into a front yard room with my parents... Thank you for sharing

@zo3478 5 лет назад

5:29 I never realised those parking signs are that old.

@exiliar4093 5 лет назад

Zachary Osman Same

@starorcarina8525 3 года назад

Same lol

@perseuswong6864 5 лет назад

Grew up in 70s and early 80s Singapore. Love this clip! We took nothing for granted back then. Even the 'Long Kangs' (public ditches) had character. Yes, I used to play in them.

@bigsmallapple 5 лет назад

I miss those days. So much spirit being Singaporean in a progressive and developing nation. Singaporeans were friendly, had more family time, and always community minded. The true kampong spirit! With migrants today, most of that spirit is lost. Singaporeans in their 40s and older will resonate with what I am sharing. I truly miss those days.

@suziek888 5 лет назад

Most Singaporeans are depressed now

@heung1gong2yan4 5 лет назад

As a Hongkonger, i’m rather surprised to know that even Singaporean missed the good old days, while the rest of the world praise about the effectiveness of government policy and high-tech of this small nation state, which rank number one in many aspect...

@singinrain1688 5 лет назад

I am in my early forties, and as a kid as portrayed in the video, and I agree completely with wat u said in your comments.

@Amidat 5 лет назад

the more "developed" a country gets - it's usually the less personable and cohesive it is. and then most humans long for "the old days" -- even if they weren't that "good". our memory system works that way

@dulapeepsinmybedroom5611 5 лет назад

@@Amidat yaaasss, that's what I was always thinking

@teacherkiat 4 года назад

Thanx for helping us capture memories of simpler but good times in Singapore, Mr Rogge! Really appreciate it!

@Redsunns 9 лет назад

the flats are in Tanjong Pagar Plaza. That time i was 7 yrs old already living there. Now im still living there!! Time flies. The extension stairs shown in the video 7:03 from the Toof outlet is gone, and replaced by an orchid garden.

@kevintww4038 3 года назад

And there recent accident there :(

@Underlinedinblood1 11 лет назад

I lived there '78 thru '82. I moved there when I was 11 from California, then back to California. I went to Dover Court Prepatory School. I miss the food most of all, and it was a fun place to be a kid. My Father who was an American stayed in Singapore and that's where he died a few years ago. He spent more than half his life in Asia.

@mike04574 4 года назад

Did he work for the army?

@mike04574 3 года назад

@sharonkoh2604 11 лет назад

Thank you for capturing this. Makes me miss home more now. I grew up in the 70s, only a little girl then. Am grateful for the forefathers who built our country with their bare hands.

@cindylee8381 4 года назад

Good luck 👍

@sfc9511x 3 года назад

Thanks Michael for walking me down memory lane. I was in Calgary in 1983 but can well remember helping someone who lived nearby at Keong Saik Road. I used to walk from Keong Saik Road to North Boat Quay from 1980 to 1982. Still remember the pigeons on those bumboats and the salty smell of the river. Nostalgic!

@michaelijsbrand 11 лет назад

So sad to hear of your father's demise. He would have liked my clips of old Singapore.

@bayampesumkathaigal 4 года назад

Do u have any videos of Calcutta please , my father would like to see

@rosihantu1 5 лет назад

1983: SGD 1.00= MYR 0.93 2018: SGD 1.00 = MYR 3.00

@faifai4 5 лет назад

rosihantu1 Malaysia exports lots of natural resources compared to Singapore. Exchange rate needs to be like this to be competitive.

@rosihantu1 5 лет назад

@grape juice pretty much. It used to be malaysian going to Singapore to shop, it's the other way round now

@yrboyten352 5 лет назад

2030: SGD1.00 =MYR 100

@ck260594 5 лет назад

Royal Gamer yes we know water supply from y’all. We treat it and sell u clean water. It works both ways. Y’all can’t treat dirty water, we treat it for y’all. And don’t say we sell y’all expensive. Is the msia Govt sell to y’all expensively.

@chiewwl1 5 лет назад

f**k najib n his cronnies

@michaelijsbrand 11 лет назад

I hope she views the clip and writes to you to revive old memories. Hope that you will not be disappointed after all the years. Usually it is better to hold on to the memory.

@james3381 11 лет назад

thankyou Michael of your kindness to show US . million thanks

@sese75kenneth12 4 года назад

The walking down of old club street, Craig road till Tanjong Pagar road really bring back old memory of the past Singapore in 1983. I am just 8 year old at that time.

@ericlie145 4 года назад

U know wow singaporeee... even in 1983 they ald did a very neat pavements for pedestrians... seriously bravooo

@SingSnags 11 лет назад

When this film was made, I was 10 years old. We weren't well to do but this is a sight of Singapore I'd never seen. I grew up in one of those tall buildings shown at 6:09. We may have driven by Chinatown but I had no idea what live was like in one of those shop houses. Thanks very much for posting this!

@stewartlinden7111 5 лет назад

Great nostalgic footage, I was four years old and in Singapore at the time this movie was made; can still remember the old days back then! Fantastic!

@kertsang2053 5 лет назад

I wish our country would place less emphasis on building new shopping malls that go out of business in a few years and more on preserving and celebrating the old historical structures that still remain, such as the colonial houses and shop houses you see in this video.

@krollpeter 4 года назад

Nothing much left anymore. One shopping mall the same as the other. And then they wonder nobody really cares anymore.

@p6h14 4 года назад

I totally agree.. i love jalan besar cos still many shophouses and old biz there

@clarencea3498 4 года назад

Agreed on this bro

@kengtzewei1 4 года назад

I guess we can’t go back to those era. And millennial gens won’t be getting used to 80s

@xxxdieselyyy2 2 года назад

@@kengtzewei1 u can try to live that era by trying and makin it out in an Indian city today . That is like 1950s Singapore. Singapore became "generic" and got rid of those old historical homes cos they were cramped uncomfortable hellholes for the most parts for residents. Any 1950s Singaporean grandpa would hack u with a machete if u chose for him a house like this video vs a modern HDB.

@dollayx8 3 года назад

My dad was doing shipping business from malay indo and singpore since 80s, this video will make him happy for sure

@humanshieldz 5 лет назад

It's funny how just walking through the old streets and suddenly it's so developed on the other side lol

@parasatc8183 5 лет назад

That describes most major Southeast Asian cities in a nutshell.

@Edible_Kittens Месяц назад

It’s a hallmark of rapidly developing countries. Even in Mexico, you’ll see this.

@bienkee5278 3 года назад

Thank you Mr.Michael for sharing this precious history. Our forefathers came here with only tardy coolie clothes & pockets of dream for a better life.God Bless them all.

@shyamkapadia3752 5 лет назад

Thank You for posting all these rare and awesome videos on RU-vid.

@rsashimi7810 7 лет назад

Damn! I was enlisted into the army in that year. Just cannot believe time flew so fast.

@theamflitebowler 5 лет назад

Yes true!!

@silverchairsg Год назад

My father also did his NS that year.

@kenlaws1291 Год назад

Awesome film I lived in Singapore in 84 and fell in love with the place, so many memories

@nizaru100 Год назад

This Warmness felt in the video tend to disappear even in Singapore , Hong Kong , Japan as they were a Family Society like Middle East for example , Not individualists as West; I feel Sorry of course for People living in bad conditions, but Singapore Today feels very Lonely , AAAHH , the Era when Tigers still existed in Singapore ! I read that in 70's some Latex workers in the jungle in singapore have been attacked by tigers ! By the Way, We know Sri Lanka is close to India, Right ; but Why There is No Tigers in Sri Lanka ( And even in Borneo Island ( Sumatra in the same country does have tigers) ??

@shirleychua 10 лет назад

I was only two then! Didn't know Singapore was like that.

@Richard-fm9vv 6 лет назад

Singapore is singapura. Lion city Please remember. Founder by sang lela utama. Prince of sumatra.

@arseniykucherenko4960 6 лет назад

Same for me also 2 by this and not in Singapore I came here only in 2007

@xirensixseo 5 лет назад

i wasnt born for another almost two decades. i wish i could have seen what that simple life was like.

@keesingcheong 5 лет назад

I born in 1982 at JB, I only have a little memory of that.Singapore and Johor Bahru almost the same.

@keesingcheong 5 лет назад

Shirley Chua you born in 1981?Ha!Ha! we’re both kids in that moment.

@atlantisoasis3597 4 года назад

But really thanks for good old memories. I was 7 yrs old in 1983 and certainly too young to witness the street scenes that time. It's 2020 and I'm 44 yrs old this year and I never failed to think back the past and realised how far we have came till today.

@ekalayac6 5 лет назад

Thanks soo much for uploading this, I landed first time in Singapore in 1978 and still keeping a bus ticket I collected that time until now...Back again several times in , 20s and I always had a great memories on this land.

@michaelijsbrand 5 лет назад

Thanks, hope that my clips keep you reviving those wonderful memories.

@byteme9718 2 года назад

Unbelievable how quickly Singapore progressed. I began working there in 1995 and were it not for the vehicles shown it would have been difficult to believe this was from 1983.

@irenesim6781 11 лет назад

Thank you very much Michael. I do appreciate it. This was the year I went to work in this area. I miss the spirit of the past.

@666Nasky 5 лет назад

Wow this was just 8years before I was born! The change is so rapid, so is our lifestyle now. Thank you for documenting this.

@larrytan3822 5 лет назад

Lovely video of Singapore back then. Thanks Micheal for sharing this. Gosh I was only 4years young back then . 💜😃

@PraneetCastelino 5 лет назад

I am not Sigaporean or even live in Singapore but this feels nostalgic. I suppose life was simpler three plus decades ago.

@patriciabailey1937 2 года назад

I believe all life was. Complications come with advancement, unfortunately. It is a case of either or or. 🇬🇧🥲

@dimratti 11 лет назад

This is when i got to know and love Singapore as a teenager..

@LPS-ww4wl Год назад

Beautiful memories .lived there 1981 .

@Cyrus980 5 лет назад

This is amazing footage

@darkenpin 11 лет назад

This was 30 years ago when I was just 9 years old..... A young boy thinking of what he wants to be when he grows up..... Now I have kids of my own and this footage brought back loads of memories.... Times were simpler then... Thanks for the memories Michael!!

@robertb4000 Год назад

Well I was born in 2010, when I watch this video I can fell what my life was for my parent, uncle aunt and grandparent. My father was the youngest of 5 children of my grandmother have and I'm the youngest cousin

@driftlaboratoires2465 5 лет назад

Thank you for sharing this video. To me 1980'-90's is the best Singapore ever be.

@meekhinglim4829 9 лет назад

1983 I was posted to the Malaysian Navy Base in Singapore . I was stationed there for a year . That was the last time I visited Singapore

@TKLau1990 4 года назад

Wow,when is the base close?

@meekhinglim4829 4 года назад

@@TKLau1990 The base was decommissioned in 1983 and was then returned to Singapore Government .

@perlazywicz4684 7 месяцев назад

Singapore is really Beautiful.

@Richelalpante 10 месяцев назад

I love singapore and how thier life evolve❤ much love from philippines

@cobytan6722 10 лет назад

So much memories. I stayed somewhere near that area.

@Entertainment123 10 лет назад

Tears in my eyes

@khairakhaira8288 5 лет назад

I am also crying and having so much tears in my eyes. Really miss 1983 i was 14years old that time today i am 50 years old

@lukaslee8759 Год назад

Thank you for your sharing and contribution.

@geoklianfeser-chua6808 4 года назад

Hey I left Singapore in late 1981 and how great is it that i stumbled upon this old footage now just by chance when just a few days ago I was feeling so nostalgic that I went online to look up in the records of National Archives of photographs of my birthplace some 60 years ago and saw the name of Ronni Pinsler who was mentioned as the person who took some amazing photographs of that area I was looking for! Unfortunately I could not find the house I grew up in! Nevertheless these footage brought back lots of good memories while I was a young adult living and working in Singapore!

@michaelijsbrand 11 лет назад

Thanks for your reminiscences. These images should evoke special memories for you.

@ericulric223 5 лет назад

Old but beautiful for the perspective.

@kelvingoh212 4 года назад

Thank you for posting this memories footage ! Goh Seng Lai Company leave a legacy on the cultural of the building the Wayang Stage from the 60's to 90's . Sadly , this culture of wayang show is fading toward the new generations. Hope this will video will be shown to the younger generation of this living of the 80's.

@sifu2u_now 4 года назад

Fantastic video captured...so glad the family allowed you to capture their daily routine.

@ilain 11 лет назад

Thanks for uploading such a nostalgic piece of historic film. I was born in 1983. I'm at a loss for words as I look at the world I was born into.

@felix121984 3 года назад

Yeah your a kid ! I was born a few years before and remember 1980-1983 well.

@travelling_potato 4 года назад

Such precious footage 💖

@lulindearlove8902 Год назад

Isn’t it just. Wonderful footage

@Indieloverr 5 лет назад

Born in the 90s, I never experienced the life of shophouses and it was an interesting video. From the narrow, unorganised roads to the modern HDB and new roads. Now theses shophouses have turned into restaurants, cafes and offices. Also to watch Singaporeans working hard labour cause spotting singaporean working in construction nowadays is rare.

@Pemma200 11 лет назад

Thanks for posting our yesteryears.

@stuartplant1408 Год назад

My father worked at the IE in1983.I came out to visit him that year.He lived in Wessex Estate.I think the apartment was named Khartoum.Wonderful days.

@evae.374 4 года назад

wow.. thank you for posting this. From a local Singaporean :)

@LovedDoxology68 6 лет назад

That was the year i left for Canada...beautiful memories!

@NC000C 5 лет назад

So you are a quitter back then!!

@LovedDoxology68 5 лет назад

@@NC000C hello..I went to further my studies and have come back and in civil service right now. So never a quitter! Just saying I am an 80s teenager. Memories of my grandma and a more innocent age!

@nhy123123 5 лет назад

@@NC000C And even if he was a quitter does that mean you lead a happier and more fulfilling life than him in SG? lol

@NC000C 5 лет назад

@@nhy123123 mind your own business.. Nosey Parker

@nhy123123 5 лет назад

@@NC000C haha resorting to ad hominem attacks now

@mohddil7669 Год назад

Thank you michael.all singaporeans happy last times now rojak singapore

@ResidentNotEvil5 11 лет назад

Wow so beautiful even through im born 1979 u sir bring me back to 80,s

@jackdon6926 5 лет назад

I love to watch anything on Singapore tirelessly, very fascinating

@michaelijsbrand 5 лет назад

See my other dozens of clips of this great city !

@lulindearlove8902 Год назад

So do I. An ex Singaporean

@jjgal92 11 лет назад

thank you for showing me what i missed of the old Singapura (am a 90s kid). Appreciate this video a lot!

@veeshoe 4 года назад

My grandfather stayed in one of these old shophouses at North Bridge Road. I was already residing in a new HDB flat at Bedok then and would take bus no. 12 every Saturday to visit him. These post-war shophouses were really dirty with pests running amok and the indoor plumbing was horrific as well, so I don't miss these aspects!, but it was so fun and exotic for a kid to visit from a boring HDB flat. Street vendors would be hawking snacks/foods in the evening and we would lower a basket down with money from the 2nd story window to the vendor and buy the snacks. I forgot a lot of these until I watched your video, thanks for all the returned memories! My grandfather's house is still standing and it's been restored into a restaurant, the district has become a bit of a hipster area, lol. And at 8:31, that's the old High Street Center building in the background, my dad used to work there! It's gone now, a bygone relic of the 70s/80s.

@inspirationeasy 4 года назад

great footage. It gives us a glimpse of what life was like in a surreal way

@cowinhumansclothing 12 лет назад

Simply love the opening shot and the soundtrack

@javewu 12 лет назад

This is the Video that I watched with Mr Ronni, love it alot.

@afiatanang2970 5 лет назад

The great Lee Kuan Yew, Can you imagine how Singapore would be without LKY, his leadership was just WOWW

@lulindearlove8902 Год назад

I agree. LKY was a visionary. Such a capable man.

@ongchoonbeng5105 Год назад

But only for one generation.look at this people next generation,they become platforms worker

@yyy60 11 месяцев назад

The name of the initial song is 彩雲追月 (Colorful clouds chasing the moon)

@michaelijsbrand 11 месяцев назад

Thanks, a beautiful song alas hardly known in the West.

@onglielie Год назад

I specially like this video, truely reflect Spore life in 80s

@erichalim 5 лет назад

Whoa what a transformation. Now it's one of the best in the world. Good job! Hard work pays!

@ragingbull8024 2 года назад

Cant believe this is Singapore 40 years ago!

@farhanahmash963 4 года назад

Thank you for sharing this video. I always wonder what it was like in the past.

@hallowedfountain5215 4 года назад

damn this film quality is really good for 1983!!!

@john9076 Год назад

Thanks for sharing !

@Malangsufi 5 лет назад

Singapore is now one of my most favourite places to travel, the people, the food, the night life. I just wish I could afford travelling more often.

@andrewseed7184 5 лет назад

I want to run away from Singapore

@kalinomia 2 года назад

@@andrewseed7184 Why so?

@michaelijsbrand 12 лет назад

Glad that you recognize your family in this movie. I wonder who took it? I bought it all as an unedited 16mm film without soundtrack and had it digitalized.

@dextertay461 2 года назад

My aunt still lives in the HDB point block (the one on the right) today, from the time it was built, which I believe was before 1983. Those were probably my earliest memories that I recall as a child, when visiting her place for dinner every weekend.

@cheetatteo1415 10 месяцев назад

Hi, where is that point block?

@dc5375 4 месяца назад

@@cheetatteo1415 8 Tanjong Pagar Plaza

@michaelijsbrand 12 лет назад

@filthiestfish . The film was silent. I have added sound and effects.

@12347873 29 дней назад

Michael ,do u have the past 1970s red light district video at Petain road and jalan besar?

@tayship 12 лет назад

Thanks for uploading the video. Very precious footages. Nice choice of accompanying music.

@Xindilini 12 лет назад

Wow! The older buildings passed during the drive through remind me of buildings in Guangzhou.

@WonderingTree 4 года назад

I’d love to see a 2020 version with a similar family doing the same thing (waking up and washing and eating together and going to work in their car in the morning by the river - maybe as a businessman or a Chef)

@raizalrahim 6 лет назад

Many of these shop-houses now have become offices or food establishments. Most people live in HDB blocks now.

@exs1803 5 лет назад

Yes, this is the exact same place today like here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pkPs1tWnkJo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qJPfFoV0728.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zL8hnqYaSw8.html

@lok6665 6 лет назад

respect from China

@davysihn2633 5 лет назад

Your video is excellent. Thank you. And always be healthy.

@imranhamid6300 6 лет назад

Memories brought me here....was a teenager ..MacPherson Sec.Schhol

@miyathequeenant6679 Год назад

Born in 1988, i wished i can go back to the 90s..... where everything is super cheap.... Followed my mom to the ntuc full of items in trolley only cost her around $50plus... Today? Hahaha.... Thanks for this video

@stawelor 11 лет назад

The year I was born :) thanks for the vidz

@JGreen-ec9uo 4 года назад

Good work, thank you for visual. Our Gov Should have left some more history for the Future generations of travellers and residents to appreciate.

@xxxdieselyyy2 2 года назад

I just cried as I realised this looks 20 years futuristic of New Delhi 2021

@rhommelsipin6094 5 лет назад

very similar to manila right now but we're going the same direction as singapore maybe 10-15 years in the future

@infinitetransit2899 4 года назад

Rhommel Sipin Manila is slum

@joycezzhuang753 10 лет назад

Its Chinatown in Singapore, that's why. The Indians are normally in Little India & Malays in Kampong Klam.

@vincentyap2589 9 лет назад

Joycez Zhuang you born in 1981 now you should be 30 plus

@vincentyap2589 9 лет назад

Joycez Zhuang you born in 1981 now you should be 30 plus

@joycezzhuang753 9 лет назад

Nope! Earlier...........

@j3pro570 5 лет назад

Now no more Malay kampong..just a sad memories..I was in Spore from 1963 to 1965..when my father was post from KL to Queenstown..he is a policeman..sorry my english..he he

@jelicalim7736 9 лет назад

I like the melody of this song.

@msm2217 Год назад

Wow, I didnt expect that Singapore looked like this 20 years after independence. The buildings remind me of Johor.

@wks2291 Год назад

No iphone No overcrowding No internet....life so simple. miss the good old days.

@nizaru100 Год назад

YES SIR, This Warmness felt in the video tend to disappear even in Singapore , Hong Kong , Japan as they were a Family Society like Middle East for example , Not individualists as West; I feel Sorry of course for People living in bad conditions, but Singapore Today feels very Lonely , AAAHH , the Era when Tigers still existed in Singapore ! By the Way, We know Sri Lanka is close to India, Right ; but Why There is No Tigers in Sri Lanka ( And even in Borneo Island ( Sumatra in the same country does have tigers) ??

@RGRGJKK Год назад

Pura vida Don Roger great videos

@diemutha666 12 лет назад

Miss this era.A mix of the old and the new world.

@palamirtammarimuthu17 6 лет назад

Hey!l remember this lovely tune!!😍😍😍😍thanks!!!

@zannteo 11 лет назад

Beautiful.

@annecorey607 5 лет назад

Beautiful Singapore I miss it this place I did not know so many homeless people's sleeping in the street is sad to see this , thank you for. sharing Bless you all, 2--12--18--.