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AD Expected launch: Q4, 2024 Developer: UOL- Singland and CapitaLand No of Units: 1,195 Residential Units * Direct connectivity to the upcoming Tampines North MRT station. * One of the largest integrated developments comprising of a bus interchange, a community club, and a hawker centre * Includes lush greenery and pockets of open spaces Expected Bookings on 1st Quarter 2025
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Parkwood Collection is a vacant plot of land Sold to the developer by Government Land Sales. Although the site has been fenced up. At the time of writing, this development will be launching soon (2nd Quarter 2019)
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The House of Tan Yeok Nee was built in 1882-85 as a family home by Tan Yeok Nee, a gambier merchant from Chaozhou, China. When he first arrived in Singapore, he made a living as a cloth pedler. However. he later established hamsell as a successful gambler and pepper planter in Johor. Malaya. and began trading in these commodltles. The house is one of the two surviving examples of traditional Chinese mansions in Singapore. the other being River House in Clarke Quay. The House of Tan Yeok Nee is a Teochew-style residential buuilding wlth two main courtyard. lts intricate roof is decorated with wooden carvings, painted plaster relief and colourful porcelain pieces. …
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These are Plaques 1 to 6; As some of my earlier photos of each of the 24 Filial Piety plaques were often missing parts of the wordings; I took the opportunity to re-take the entire photos of each of the plaques. The wordings can now be easily read.
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These pictures are of the views of the temple
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This was once a dying art in Singapore. But today, the belief of burning offerings of bamboo/paper: homes, cars, boats, handphones is striving! This is the belief that when one dies, such offerings would ensure that the dead lives a comfortable life with a home, car and many other material things that the person was used to prior to their death. Location: Joo Chiat Road.... Below: This most likely is exoskeleton for a paper mansion made by binding lots of bamboo strips:- Apologies for the blurred photo:
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Sorry for the poor quality "stitching of the two photos". But you should be able to read the entire History (amid) some rough joints at the middle portion. Again, apologies...
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Central courtyard:-
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Belief that the after-life needs these items. Still common also in Taiwan...
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More exterior photos of Fo Guan Shan
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One of the rooms turned into an office The last tenant was a Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall:- This is a close-up of the dispensing hall. Notice the large amounts of storage chests. Each chest was suppose to contain a specific medicine. Won't be surprise if one of them contains medical cockroaches and even seahorse etc... Another view of the open courtyard from the dispensing hall:-
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These plaques from 19 to the last plaque 24
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More photos From the photos one can see that the size of the boat is pretty big... Sorry, I took the photo of the Mansion hidden behind a Power Box.... The roof of the mansion has a typical Two dragons chasing after a pearl at the centre.. however.. the centre looks more like a flaming .... Below..can you imagine the skeleton frame of an uncompleted mansion hung up at the ceiling? Apologies for the poor photo.... in the year 2010 phone cameras are not that advanced, yet....
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The former tenant was a Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall. Thus no surprise with these medicine making machines... Iconic raised slab.... Teochew styled design house... More photos of the first courtyard:-
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Part 7: Fo Guang Shan, Singapore More photos...
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