While researching for my singapore studies module essay I found some very ancient photographs of Singapore. Infact those lonesome eerie looking bungalows beside PGP even popped up as well. One really never can imagine how much the landscape of Singapore has changed, for better or for worse. Its really sad that the beachfront bungalows off Pasir Panjang Rd used to be literally at the waters edge but are now dotted with macabre iron hunched back cranes and the idiosyncratic shipping container, carriers of today's materialistic and consumerist culture. Though I was born into an age where we never experienced all that, tears really welled up in my eyes when I see these archive photos and compare them to the wretched and rudimentary looking house boxes.

This is best summed up by the personal experience of an angmoh expat who lived through the late 80s (though you could say that the change in landscape was already fiercely underway by then). She made this comment on a facebook page commemorating Singapore historical culture:

Alaina Whitley Zepeda
I lived in Singapore 1980-84, and am back living here. For all you who, like me, have such good memories...it's not the same Singapore!!! I was vastly disappointed upon arriving. It's now nothing short of an Asian version of Manhattan. Very disappointing and very little left from the place we knew.

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honestly did you ever know that the name Pasir Panjang literally meant long sandy beach in malay? I'm not sure how much of that beach is still sandy white or if it even has sand now at all..