that area is the bit of forest left, the area from Kent Ridge to Alexandra, and the few black and white housesuscate wrote:I'm just amazed that on such a small island someone can "lose" a reservoir! Especially one that is basically right at the Harborfront MRT (or at least close to)….
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/nh ... ber?page=1
ok, this gives a better idea of the 'reservoir', supposedly the size of three badminton courts ..uscate wrote:Yes, and it seems to be buried in some overgrown area….but the fact that it is only 400 meters from the road, that this "reservoir" has been mapped before, and most obviously that this is SUCH A SMALL FREAKIN' ISLAND!!! just makes me roll my eyes a bit….
you have to be here for a while, on a slow news day, even a man spitting is top news, and on another day, well, a satellite being sent to space is a small newsrajagainstthemachine wrote:Singapore sends up an experimental satellite into space and nobody bats an eyelid, someone finds an old reservoir and everyone loses their mind.
Mothership.sg sort of summed it upbeppi wrote:I believe I have been at this little pond approx. 15 years ago.
There are (or rather, were?) a number of colonial bungalows on that slope, some abandoned and some apparently inhabitated by bigwigs, and lots of overgrown, "jungle" woodland. I like to explore such areas off the beaten track and have been in the area a few times.
And I suspect that most locals don't do the exploring thing. Might accidently end up on government land. In days gone by that was probably quite an offense. Might go some way to explaining why, on such a small island, hidden gems still exist.beppi wrote:I believe I have been at this little pond approx. 15 years ago.
There are (or rather, were?) a number of colonial bungalows on that slope, some abandoned and some apparently inhabitated by bigwigs, and lots of overgrown, "jungle" woodland. I like to explore such areas off the beaten track and have been in the area a few times.
The guy I worked for here in the 90s (a young Aussie guy) lived in a B+W up there on the hillside. He rented it off the Port Authority for peanuts maybe $1.5-$2k back then. But the leases don't seem to be advertised, he 'took it over' from an expat he knew who was leaving.beppi wrote:I believe I have been at this little pond approx. 15 years ago.
There are (or rather, were?) a number of colonial bungalows on that slope, some abandoned and some apparently inhabitated by bigwigs, and lots of overgrown, "jungle" woodland. I like to explore such areas off the beaten track and have been in the area a few times.
along that road, I had to attend to a reseller of ours, A british guy, who had two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, pretty large dogs, didn't know they were so ferocious until the chap was in the news for his dogs having bitten a neighbor ..JR8 wrote:....
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