Our Bedok Kampong House Singapore

A fitting way to start the new year is to honour new beginnings when a man and woman come together in holy matrimony. Here is a tribute to the beautiful wedding studio photographs from the late 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s celebrating the union of 18 of our relatives - from both maternal and paternal sides of the family - our parents, aunts, uncles, cousins. Several are no longer with us, but the love and commitment on display is everlasting and lasts for all time, and the remaining partner carries on emboldened by the love of their marriage that strongly endures still to this very day. Enjoy this gallery of 18 couples celebrating their blissful day captured in time, originally in black and white, and now brought to life in colour

Just sharing this memory of one of our house treasures with you. This was the first known vocal LP (33 1/3 rpm) that our father owned. He bought it not long after its release in 1956 and our mother just loved “I’m In The Mood For Love” as she sang it. We kept this LP with us until now.. In case you are interested, the back sleeve copy reads: Arthur Godfrey has an eye and ear for unusual talent, and his latest discovery—Miyoshi Umeki—is probably the most bewitching “bird of paradox” he has ever presented on TV. Visually, the tiny Oriental nightingale possesses the fragile beauty and delicate grace of a Japanese print, while vocally, she displays all the modern technique and polished phrasing of a really hep Occidental canary. Godfrey first introduced Miyoshi to American audiences on his CBS-TV show “Talent Scouts” at the beginning of 1956. The doll-like performer—attired in a quaint kimona—astonished both the famous red-head and his audience by singing a sultry version of “How Dee...

Not long after we moved out of our Bedok kampong house to the Marine Terrace HDB flats in October 1974, we passed by ‘Jodhi Book Store’ at Block 58 and saw a familiar face inside. How nice to have met this vendor once again then. Oh yes, he reminded us he came from Bedok kampong like us and had a mama stand along the wall of the terrace shophouses where the smaller road turns into our kampong from the Bedok corner turn-around. How nice to see his business expand like this. Oh yes, we loved to visit him back at Bedok (everyone had to walk by on route to their house) and amidst the usual sales of sweets, snacks, drinks and the usual offerings, he also sells and rents books, magazines etc – and we bought this second-hand Disneyland magazine there.. We read lately of the closure of this bookstore in 2019 after operating for 42 years.. but then it was time for him to retire and enjoy life! Thank you for those memories indeed Sir…  this colourised photo (by Copilot) indicating where the ...

This is a 28-year table top calendar that began for the year 1948, (and ended in 1975) most likely belonging to our grandfather which found its way onto the display cabinets at our Bedok kampong house but somehow still kept till today with us. It was a year-end corporate gift from the “Holland-Indonesia Shipping Agency”, non-existent today. We took some time to remove the grime from over 77 years, got it polished somewhat and now sharing it with you! The month on display is set to November 1954, the month the family moved into that old house of ours. Imagine the pairs of eyes gazing on its dial all those years ago to check the dates… Polished somewhat, and set to November 1954, the year the family moved into the house How it was, after 77+ years

It’s the start of the new school year! And in 1957, that was what our paternal cousin did when she enrolled into Primary 1 at Bedok Girls’ School along Bedok Road (opposite Jalan Nipah) and walked there daily from our house. She was the first child to move into our Bedok kampong house in 1954 at age 4 (we boys only came later when our father got married in 1960). Alas, the school is no more and the land it sat on is currently occupied by Bedok South Secondary School. According to the MOE Heritage Centre ( https://moehc.moe.edu.sg/school-histories/bedok-girls-sch/ ) the school was established in 1952. In 1986, Bedok Girls’ School merged with Bedok Primary School and Bedok Boys’ School to form the new Bedok Primary School. In 1998, Bedok Primary School was closed, and its remaining students were transferred to Bedok View Primary School. In 2002, Bedok View Primary School merged with Bedok South Primary School to form Bedok Green Primary School. But thanks to her, who kept her old re...

This end December 2025 finds us reviewing our Facebook page’s top 5 posts for the year – with the highest views of 12, 714 featuring our parents during their 1960 honeymoon trip, We are also grateful to Tony Holt, Michael Hall, and Daniel Koh for contributing to these best seller posts! We also wish to express our gratitude to our followers who viewed and liked our posts, helping in the interaction process. You make this page and our blog come alive as if our memories were just made yesterday! Even though these posts are about the past, we want to wish you all well for our collective future in 2026 and beyond to be especially bright with good health and lucid recollections always!