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Soh Weelian – A Boy from Kampong Potong Pasir Part 1 | Chronicles of Old Singapore
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Soh Weelian spent five short years in Kampong Potong Pasir as a young boy in the 1970s but this was enough to etch rural life in his mind. He talks about his parents and their wooden house with an attap roof by a drain near the Kallang River and the Woodleigh Waterworks, before they were resettled in a HDB flat in Ang Mo Kio New Town.
Part 1 | https://youtu.be/Ds6fcU4k_BI
Part 2 | https://youtu.be/mAfSUvwSj2c
00:00 Introduction
02:03 My Family in Potong Pasir
09:08 House by the Kallang River
21:45 Parents’ Wedding
28:58 The Drain by Our House
33:02 Ghost Stories
42:45 My Neighbours
46:31 Leaving Potong Pasir
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. This is Dr Loh KS, the people’s historian, and I speak to people on their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.
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