i am inspired enough that i will use my phone going forward to archive street scenes. it’s a pity i hadn’t thought to do so during the surreal days of the Circuit Breaker last year when weekdays traffic was absolutely quiet and the shopping malls were eerily closed except for the supermarkets.
Maybe he just happened to have a camera and filmed crap.... It's like accidentally buying bitcoin or Amazon 7,10 years ago and forgetting about it u know.and then all of a sudden one day u realise ur a millionaire.
This is really interesting. Good to know the heritage and make a comparison of SG 30 years ago and now. But i notice he only filmed certain areas (mainly Kallang and Bugis in the first few minutes) and not sure about the rest
Not late to reverse the tide, and with what we have built, choose leaders that attend to the needs of the people, and not to the pompous desires to built and hold on to sole political authority.
@@walkercc7199 When our Ancestors first came over from China, India, Malaysia and Europe when Singapore was still a fishing village with mostly Malay fishermen, SG also filled with 'foreigners'. Make it a place they like and they will become part of Singapore just like us.
Who would have thought when filming this on the early 90s and he/she like: "I think the people in the future will like it and mesmerize the moment that we have now"
Back then in the 90s mrt ends at Yishun then later on Woodlands . Cabs from Amk to Tpy only $4 - $6 . To central orchard only $10 - $12 . Most food are priced $1.50 - $2 . Foodcourt $2.50 - $3.50 . With no iphones . Ppl connect with pagers where usually will received in certain emergency ( eg . Where r u ? Buying things ) One seldom gets distracted in daily life and able to admire sceneries around them and actually talk to people . ( becos thats how time can be passed as well ) no social media etc . No one will disturb you when you are out and about . Like dating , watching movies etc . Also watching sunrise from the beach is what many do . And then hold Bbq at East coast park + chalet . Pay phones are everywhere . And we are Really great at remembering numbers . ( house nos . and pager numbers of who and who ) . And if you want to talk to someone need to get the house number and can talk for hours . Actually talking . ( there is a personal touch to it ) Not to mentioned many food are suoer delicious and Authentic . You have all the wok-hei you want + throw in the authenticity + making the food ingredients from scratch etc . And most food stalls are manned by locals or the actual boss . ( now ? You can take a look around and see the difference ) - those who never had that before will Never know what they missing out . And disco yeah we do have Canto / Sparks / Fire etc . Back then way more happening than now . Only in the 2000s does the clubbing culture actual expand ( Also better than now ) . With the likes of Mdm Wong . Double 0 . Orange . Sultan of Swing . Thats stretch of clubbing road n area . Games were Nintendo and super nintendo and Sega . Very engaging . Every gamers hope to complete levels complete the games . And it takes skills . With only a few chances you have to complete the game with that . Dont have save point where you can save the game . Retail job that time is $1600 - $1800 . Not much have change . Now also same . Probably 2k now ? Fast food joint is around $1200 . Now is $1600 . See . Not much diff . But lots of things gotten ex . Trains are smoother and less crowded . Air is fresher . Even the hdb units are bigger and more airy and allowing more natural lights esp the corridors . Nowadays corridors are dark even at the lift landing . Not to mention tiny area to air the clothes where there's no sun ... blocked by the various columns . In the past hdb blocks is airy and can be easily accessed from all corners . Now only one of 2 path opened up .. the rest are blocked by bushes or grass patches . You want to cross to the other building you have to walk one big round . 90s life . Idylic . Stress free . Less crowded . Great food . Fresh air .
A lot more space for kids to roam around and play football. I rem as a kid, my friends and I would get off a random mrt station after school and look for a new spot to play football and get a cheap quality meal after. 90s singapore was a more live-able time I think, a lot more charming in my opinion.
Back when Singapore wasn't so sterile... And I much preferred it. The country felt like it had more character than the Asian-Dubai feeling it has today.
@MS 92 But most of the Malaysian Malay did not like PAP and DAP government, because all of them like to take advantage of doing corruption including the PM and political leadership which have already ruin the economic and development growth of the country recently happens since 2020 until now.
Its true, i like it more when i wasn't this setrile. Why can't we be a rich, strong city but without being sterile? I mean, look at KL, so much character.
I was born in Singapore in July 92. My parents moved back to the UK shortly after having lived there for 3 years. This is almost like seeing what my childhood could have been like in a parallel universe.
1992 was the year i completed my NS in the combat engineers, putting behind those dark years and entering NUS as a student again. Life was so refreshing and full of zeal. We were all so full of hope and aspiration for the future. i wonder young people today still feel this way.
Actually come to think about it, during that time, people who does videography as their hobby and not for social media, it kinda of ‘respect’. It different. Can imagine, they have to carry that kind of equipment and not phones kind of technology....
I only visited Singapore about 5 times. Watching this somehow made me shed a tear, because while Singapore thrived, and it was undeniably for the better, something about the essence of the video, I felt like was lost forever.
@@kingstonshawn2595 I did. I felt like my chest was heavy, like you feel nostalgic from something old, experiencing memories that you weren't even part of it. I can only see Singapore as this bustling, powerhouse of a city-state today, but this video just caught me off-guard with how it had its humble beginnings too.
Yes before all foreign import and the pipe dreams of 6.9 million . It was the time other than tourist or Malaysian. Everywhere you turn to is a true blue born and breed local.
similar yet different.. that trip on the east west line brought back so many memories!! a lot of the open spaces are now condominiums and flat. thanks for capturing all this.. in Singapore what Ferris Bueller said really is true: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
I been there. A lousy tampines ave 5 interchange. Only bus number 10 and 31. And 23 is available. Raining time have to be wet. The HDB beside not even build. Illegal sell fruits there.
Correct..10 dollar is still meaningful then..Cuppage and other hawker place still sells decent meals for 3 bucks or so..greed has overcome the good life.
Thank you, for giving us the memory trip down, I am so happy seeing the former design of Changi Airport T1! That area brought me fond memories of my teenager years :) Bedok has been still my home ever since then (missed the old Bedok Interchange and Hawker Center!). Life there was so carefree then.
I loved that city as it was back then. Everywhere had such positive energy and the motto seemed to be "We're the best but how can we make it even better?"
I was born in this era, 2 years prior. So nice to see what life was back then. Glad to be able to reminisce the past via these videos. Long live 🇸🇬 From your neighbour across the Causeway.
@@tankman20064not the same. Stress back then was not as monumental as it is right now. Take a look at the suicide statistics, will tell you that mental health was much better then. Better work family life balance and things cost a lot less. Yes, inflation is a bitch but per capita, things were much more affordable back then. Don't even start on housing and cars. Slso public transport, despite being cheaper were so much more reliable. No delays, no crowds, plenty of seats all around. No breakdowns
Back then life was so simple and everyone is communicating with each other cos back then there was no smartphone 😄. If can travel back time to the past I would like to go back to the 90s.
Some childhood stories to share: You guys recognised the old Kallang Gas building at 1:30? There was always black smoke coming out from it. So one day while passing the area on the bus with my grandma, I asked her what the building was. She went ‘Oh that one? Its where they cook naughty children. Next time, if you are naughty I’ll ask them come and catch you.’ Sure enough, I was an angel the next 1 week lah. 😁
I was born in 1998. I'm 23 now. Watching this made me realize how was Singapore realy like back then in the coming modern days. Should appreciate what our grandparents and great grandparents has been through don't u think guys?
God bless your heart for this. 2 weeks away from Tekong NS then. I'm 48 now and already this feels like a different lifetime. It truly breaks the heart. I read the other comments and I had to edit. I feel like I met long lost friends here. Reading what you all wrote brought tears to my eyes. God bless you all. Please take care of yourselves. Hand on heart, I love you all.
Thanks for this video. Though i was only born in the 1990s. I really miss living back in this era compared to the 2020s when life was so much more happier and peaceful.
I was 18 years old then lol everything seemed so new then. but looking at the videos now i find it surreal that i was part of that hahahah . thanks for this mate
Thanks for uploading! It brings back memories. Life was very simple. Trains and buses not crowded like now. Note that it was middle of the day, train was spacious! Today, seats are a bonus!
And quality trains . Either No or very rarely breakdown . And its so quiet in the train . Nowadays the trains are so noisy travelling on the rails and also in itself . In the past , the trains are very solid .
To think I wasn't even alive when this was taken. Many things have changed, for better or for worse. But things will always change. I look forward to seeing the changes Singapore will go through in the next few decades. Also, awesome quality for a camera in 1992, that thing must've been a pain in the ass to carry.
I am glad that this gets recommended to me.... Singapore was more beautiful back then, however Singapore is still beautiful right now.... I think that people should start appreciating more of what they have and so that they will not take what they have for granted
Its kind a mad ya know. How much we've progressed. Although I wasn't born back then.. I only was born like 14 years after haha. It truly shows how much life has gotten better. Looking through the comments gave me shivers cos reading all the experiences the people have gone through really puts a smile on my face. "Life was so much easier back then" "it was less crowded". Ahh the things I would do to feel those things. But hey life goes on and we move on with the world. I can see myself in 10 years coming back to this very year and reminisce how unbelievably hard these 2 years were. And I would beat myself up for not being born in the 90's 😂. Thank u for sharing this video homie
Wow! 1992! I love this view of Singapore! At 2:53, you have captured my high school! I was probably in this building when you were filming it! Geylang Methodist Secondary School! Wow!
I always frequent this stretch of mrt. Really amazing to see how it has transformed, especially the Bedok and Tampines hubs... still remember the old Bedok cinema building before it became Dijitsu mall and the Tampines Sports Complex before it became Our Tampines Hub. We might have lost the large swathes of unadulterated greenery but imo we exchanged it for modern day conveniences and amenities which i cant imagine living without now :)
This really brings back memory.. So much space.. Playing monkey bar in the mrt.. Running around.. Left right centre u know its a local ur looking at.. We are more tolerant towards each other.. We make noise together, we stay quiet together.. These days We are overpopulated .. I missed the times when there are not many foreigner on our soil.. I dnt hate em.. Its just globalisation and we change or be left out.. But given a choice, I would rather do without.
Thank you so much for filming these and posting them! 1992 I was 5 and these are my childhood memories. I remember every single station and the surrounding buildings! I’m so glad someone filmed it because most of it are completely gone. Bedok doesn’t look like this anymore.
7:57 and 8:07 :Was looking for these: if you look carefully, you can see viaduct stub ends on the viaducts leading to/from Changi Depot; those would later be used for the Changi Airport branch, which at that time hasn’t been constructed yet but have already been planned for.
Those who were the times when you cld freely video with vhs camcorder without people accusing you of being suspicuous or sneaky. Life was so carefree careless. No snitching, no stomping on one another. Ironically, we didnt have everything but we were sufficed and contented.
@@paulphyo there is no absolute right or wrong to be a boomer , you may not had the opportunity to live a simpler time . You would never imagined how things are if you are never there . In engineering , when you gain something , you have to sacrifice something else . Sometimes things are not worth it , and that's life .
@@MarkzOng well, according to stats from my quick google search, 1.64 million people living here are foreigners. If you do a little bit of division with the total population of 5.8 million, less than 30% of people here are foreigners. Okay, to be fair, 30% is quite high. But more often than not, you'd come across locals rather than foreigners :|
This is treasure. Brings back so many memories of my childhood days when I had to commute from Serangoon Garden to St Anthonys Primary School in Bukit Batok in the 90s. Any Anthonians watching? Thank you so much for sharing this video.
Looks so familiar yet so strange, 2003 kid here, so i never seen all these before, but all the older ppl probably remember what sg looked like back then
I like the 1992 Singapore. I don’t like the 2021 Singapore. It is so unrecognizable now. What’s left behind stay only in our memories. Thank u so much to this video. It was happy days back then.
and now, 6 years after this video. You have the TEL line, soon to be completed to changi airport! I love the future of singapore's MRT, the plans for 2035+ look awsome!
Singapore is most beautiful in the 90s . Idylic peaceful not crowded . Lots of actual greenery around . Not as many high buildings or flats . Definitely Way much lesser Ft or whatevera . Cabs are way cheaper . Lots of things are much much cheaper . Everyone just seems happier . A place that we can actually call home and feel proud of .😊
So god damn nostalgic. Thank you for rolling back the memories. I love Sg as it is today, but I will never forget how much simpler life was back then. I was barely four when this video was taken, and much of my memory of a time gone by is now very very hazy. This is amazing.
@Mob Master life now with new technology is so much easier. even public transport so power now. all bus aircon. maybe you mean now global warming more hot for you is it? what job is hard to get? jobs are plenty now. people just got too competitive and set too high expectations for their job because they want to outshine their friends on social media. so many jobs unapplied coz "work hour too long, pay too low, location not atas enough"
I’m born in the year 2000. Didn’t really have much memory of what it looked like in the early 2000s. But I must say it feels weird... looking at videos taken when I wasn’t even born. At the real green city where there aren’t any concrete blocks everywhere. A large area of green, natural coconut trees just here and there. God I wish I was born earlier to enjoy such a beautiful SG instead of what we live in now...
i miss those times , you would watch the latest episode of PCK ,UOR, FRIENDS and the next day at school will talk about it. the way we made plans for the weekend and how we would meet up in orchard , all without HP
I'm quite familiar with many of the places in this video and yes big changes but not as much as I expected, to my surprise. I guess it's because we were already pretty advanced in the 90s to come to think of it.
6:41 I still remember I was a small kid, me and my sister playing catching together then we shout so loudly suddenly the SMRT staff scolded we both then my mom also scolded we both too hahahahahahaha
if the same thing happen today, the parents will do nothing and stare at their phones. When the staff try to tell them to behave, the parents will record on their phones, spam online to seek public sympathy and an apology from SMRT. ;)
First part of the video...the old Katong laksa store before it gets commercialised like now....sigh the good old days when my late Dad drove me and my family there for Laksa and Nasi lemak.... the quality and standard has dropped since then...
