i am inspired enough that i will use my phone going forward to archive street scenes. it’s a pity i hadn’t thought to do so during the surreal days of the Circuit Breaker last year when weekdays traffic was absolutely quiet and the shopping malls were eerily closed except for the supermarkets.
Maybe he just happened to have a camera and filmed crap.... It's like accidentally buying bitcoin or Amazon 7,10 years ago and forgetting about it u know.and then all of a sudden one day u realise ur a millionaire.
This is really interesting. Good to know the heritage and make a comparison of SG 30 years ago and now. But i notice he only filmed certain areas (mainly Kallang and Bugis in the first few minutes) and not sure about the rest
Not late to reverse the tide, and with what we have built, choose leaders that attend to the needs of the people, and not to the pompous desires to built and hold on to sole political authority.
Who would have thought when filming this on the early 90s and he/she like: "I think the people in the future will like it and mesmerize the moment that we have now"
@@walkercc7199 When our Ancestors first came over from China, India, Malaysia and Europe when Singapore was still a fishing village with mostly Malay fishermen, SG also filled with 'foreigners'. Make it a place they like and they will become part of Singapore just like us.
Back then in the 90s mrt ends at Yishun then later on Woodlands . Cabs from Amk to Tpy only $4 - $6 . To central orchard only $10 - $12 . Most food are priced $1.50 - $2 . Foodcourt $2.50 - $3.50 . With no iphones . Ppl connect with pagers where usually will received in certain emergency ( eg . Where r u ? Buying things ) One seldom gets distracted in daily life and able to admire sceneries around them and actually talk to people . ( becos thats how time can be passed as well ) no social media etc . No one will disturb you when you are out and about . Like dating , watching movies etc . Also watching sunrise from the beach is what many do . And then hold Bbq at East coast park + chalet . Pay phones are everywhere . And we are Really great at remembering numbers . ( house nos . and pager numbers of who and who ) . And if you want to talk to someone need to get the house number and can talk for hours . Actually talking . ( there is a personal touch to it ) Not to mentioned many food are suoer delicious and Authentic . You have all the wok-hei you want + throw in the authenticity + making the food ingredients from scratch etc . And most food stalls are manned by locals or the actual boss . ( now ? You can take a look around and see the difference ) - those who never had that before will Never know what they missing out . And disco yeah we do have Canto / Sparks / Fire etc . Back then way more happening than now . Only in the 2000s does the clubbing culture actual expand ( Also better than now ) . With the likes of Mdm Wong . Double 0 . Orange . Sultan of Swing . Thats stretch of clubbing road n area . Games were Nintendo and super nintendo and Sega . Very engaging . Every gamers hope to complete levels complete the games . And it takes skills . With only a few chances you have to complete the game with that . Dont have save point where you can save the game . Retail job that time is $1600 - $1800 . Not much have change . Now also same . Probably 2k now ? Fast food joint is around $1200 . Now is $1600 . See . Not much diff . But lots of things gotten ex . Trains are smoother and less crowded . Air is fresher . Even the hdb units are bigger and more airy and allowing more natural lights esp the corridors . Nowadays corridors are dark even at the lift landing . Not to mention tiny area to air the clothes where there's no sun ... blocked by the various columns . In the past hdb blocks is airy and can be easily accessed from all corners . Now only one of 2 path opened up .. the rest are blocked by bushes or grass patches . You want to cross to the other building you have to walk one big round . 90s life . Idylic . Stress free . Less crowded . Great food . Fresh air .
A lot more space for kids to roam around and play football. I rem as a kid, my friends and I would get off a random mrt station after school and look for a new spot to play football and get a cheap quality meal after. 90s singapore was a more live-able time I think, a lot more charming in my opinion.
1992 was the year i completed my NS in the combat engineers, putting behind those dark years and entering NUS as a student again. Life was so refreshing and full of zeal. We were all so full of hope and aspiration for the future. i wonder young people today still feel this way.
I only visited Singapore about 5 times. Watching this somehow made me shed a tear, because while Singapore thrived, and it was undeniably for the better, something about the essence of the video, I felt like was lost forever.
@@kingstonshawn2595 I did. I felt like my chest was heavy, like you feel nostalgic from something old, experiencing memories that you weren't even part of it. I can only see Singapore as this bustling, powerhouse of a city-state today, but this video just caught me off-guard with how it had its humble beginnings too.
Back when Singapore wasn't so sterile... And I much preferred it. The country felt like it had more character than the Asian-Dubai feeling it has today.
@MS 92 But most of the Malaysian Malay did not like PAP and DAP government, because all of them like to take advantage of doing corruption including the PM and political leadership which have already ruin the economic and development growth of the country recently happens since 2020 until now.
Its true, i like it more when i wasn't this setrile. Why can't we be a rich, strong city but without being sterile? I mean, look at KL, so much character.
I was born in Singapore in July 92. My parents moved back to the UK shortly after having lived there for 3 years. This is almost like seeing what my childhood could have been like in a parallel universe.
I been there. A lousy tampines ave 5 interchange. Only bus number 10 and 31. And 23 is available. Raining time have to be wet. The HDB beside not even build. Illegal sell fruits there.
Yes before all foreign import and the pipe dreams of 6.9 million . It was the time other than tourist or Malaysian. Everywhere you turn to is a true blue born and breed local.
similar yet different.. that trip on the east west line brought back so many memories!! a lot of the open spaces are now condominiums and flat. thanks for capturing all this.. in Singapore what Ferris Bueller said really is true: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Actually come to think about it, during that time, people who does videography as their hobby and not for social media, it kinda of ‘respect’. It different. Can imagine, they have to carry that kind of equipment and not phones kind of technology....
I loved that city as it was back then. Everywhere had such positive energy and the motto seemed to be "We're the best but how can we make it even better?"
Correct..10 dollar is still meaningful then..Cuppage and other hawker place still sells decent meals for 3 bucks or so..greed has overcome the good life.
Thanks for uploading! It brings back memories. Life was very simple. Trains and buses not crowded like now. Note that it was middle of the day, train was spacious! Today, seats are a bonus!
And quality trains . Either No or very rarely breakdown . And its so quiet in the train . Nowadays the trains are so noisy travelling on the rails and also in itself . In the past , the trains are very solid .
I was 18 years old then lol everything seemed so new then. but looking at the videos now i find it surreal that i was part of that hahahah . thanks for this mate
Thanks for this video. Though i was only born in the 1990s. I really miss living back in this era compared to the 2020s when life was so much more happier and peaceful.
I was born in this era, 2 years prior. So nice to see what life was back then. Glad to be able to reminisce the past via these videos. Long live 🇸🇬 From your neighbour across the Causeway.
Back then life was so simple and everyone is communicating with each other cos back then there was no smartphone 😄. If can travel back time to the past I would like to go back to the 90s.
God bless your heart for this. 2 weeks away from Tekong NS then. I'm 48 now and already this feels like a different lifetime. It truly breaks the heart. I read the other comments and I had to edit. I feel like I met long lost friends here. Reading what you all wrote brought tears to my eyes. God bless you all. Please take care of yourselves. Hand on heart, I love you all.
To think I wasn't even alive when this was taken. Many things have changed, for better or for worse. But things will always change. I look forward to seeing the changes Singapore will go through in the next few decades. Also, awesome quality for a camera in 1992, that thing must've been a pain in the ass to carry.
Some childhood stories to share: You guys recognised the old Kallang Gas building at 1:30? There was always black smoke coming out from it. So one day while passing the area on the bus with my grandma, I asked her what the building was. She went ‘Oh that one? Its where they cook naughty children. Next time, if you are naughty I’ll ask them come and catch you.’ Sure enough, I was an angel the next 1 week lah. 😁
I was born in 1998. I'm 23 now. Watching this made me realize how was Singapore realy like back then in the coming modern days. Should appreciate what our grandparents and great grandparents has been through don't u think guys?
Thank you so much for filming these and posting them! 1992 I was 5 and these are my childhood memories. I remember every single station and the surrounding buildings! I’m so glad someone filmed it because most of it are completely gone. Bedok doesn’t look like this anymore.
I am glad that this gets recommended to me.... Singapore was more beautiful back then, however Singapore is still beautiful right now.... I think that people should start appreciating more of what they have and so that they will not take what they have for granted
Its kind a mad ya know. How much we've progressed. Although I wasn't born back then.. I only was born like 14 years after haha. It truly shows how much life has gotten better. Looking through the comments gave me shivers cos reading all the experiences the people have gone through really puts a smile on my face. "Life was so much easier back then" "it was less crowded". Ahh the things I would do to feel those things. But hey life goes on and we move on with the world. I can see myself in 10 years coming back to this very year and reminisce how unbelievably hard these 2 years were. And I would beat myself up for not being born in the 90's 😂. Thank u for sharing this video homie
@Mob Master life now with new technology is so much easier. even public transport so power now. all bus aircon. maybe you mean now global warming more hot for you is it? what job is hard to get? jobs are plenty now. people just got too competitive and set too high expectations for their job because they want to outshine their friends on social media. so many jobs unapplied coz "work hour too long, pay too low, location not atas enough"
This is treasure. Brings back so many memories of my childhood days when I had to commute from Serangoon Garden to St Anthonys Primary School in Bukit Batok in the 90s. Any Anthonians watching? Thank you so much for sharing this video.
7:57 and 8:07 :Was looking for these: if you look carefully, you can see viaduct stub ends on the viaducts leading to/from Changi Depot; those would later be used for the Changi Airport branch, which at that time hasn’t been constructed yet but have already been planned for.
Wow! 1992! I love this view of Singapore! At 2:53, you have captured my high school! I was probably in this building when you were filming it! Geylang Methodist Secondary School! Wow!
Those who were the times when you cld freely video with vhs camcorder without people accusing you of being suspicuous or sneaky. Life was so carefree careless. No snitching, no stomping on one another. Ironically, we didnt have everything but we were sufficed and contented.
@@paulphyo there is no absolute right or wrong to be a boomer , you may not had the opportunity to live a simpler time . You would never imagined how things are if you are never there . In engineering , when you gain something , you have to sacrifice something else . Sometimes things are not worth it , and that's life .
@@MarkzOng well, according to stats from my quick google search, 1.64 million people living here are foreigners. If you do a little bit of division with the total population of 5.8 million, less than 30% of people here are foreigners. Okay, to be fair, 30% is quite high. But more often than not, you'd come across locals rather than foreigners :|
I always frequent this stretch of mrt. Really amazing to see how it has transformed, especially the Bedok and Tampines hubs... still remember the old Bedok cinema building before it became Dijitsu mall and the Tampines Sports Complex before it became Our Tampines Hub. We might have lost the large swathes of unadulterated greenery but imo we exchanged it for modern day conveniences and amenities which i cant imagine living without now :)
I like the 1992 Singapore. I don’t like the 2021 Singapore. It is so unrecognizable now. What’s left behind stay only in our memories. Thank u so much to this video. It was happy days back then.
and now, 6 years after this video. You have the TEL line, soon to be completed to changi airport! I love the future of singapore's MRT, the plans for 2035+ look awsome!
Looks so familiar yet so strange, 2003 kid here, so i never seen all these before, but all the older ppl probably remember what sg looked like back then
6:41 I still remember I was a small kid, me and my sister playing catching together then we shout so loudly suddenly the SMRT staff scolded we both then my mom also scolded we both too hahahahahahaha
if the same thing happen today, the parents will do nothing and stare at their phones. When the staff try to tell them to behave, the parents will record on their phones, spam online to seek public sympathy and an apology from SMRT. ;)
So god damn nostalgic. Thank you for rolling back the memories. I love Sg as it is today, but I will never forget how much simpler life was back then. I was barely four when this video was taken, and much of my memory of a time gone by is now very very hazy. This is amazing.
Thank you for posting this especially for ones like me who are born in the 99s that are too young to remember the retro vibes back then. It’s really nostalgic & beautiful, life was really simple back then :)
I’m born in the year 2000. Didn’t really have much memory of what it looked like in the early 2000s. But I must say it feels weird... looking at videos taken when I wasn’t even born. At the real green city where there aren’t any concrete blocks everywhere. A large area of green, natural coconut trees just here and there. God I wish I was born earlier to enjoy such a beautiful SG instead of what we live in now...
Singapore is most beautiful in the 90s . Idylic peaceful not crowded . Lots of actual greenery around . Not as many high buildings or flats . Definitely Way much lesser Ft or whatevera . Cabs are way cheaper . Lots of things are much much cheaper . Everyone just seems happier . A place that we can actually call home and feel proud of .😊
First part of the video...the old Katong laksa store before it gets commercialised like now....sigh the good old days when my late Dad drove me and my family there for Laksa and Nasi lemak.... the quality and standard has dropped since then...
This really brings back memory.. So much space.. Playing monkey bar in the mrt.. Running around.. Left right centre u know its a local ur looking at.. We are more tolerant towards each other.. We make noise together, we stay quiet together.. These days We are overpopulated .. I missed the times when there are not many foreigner on our soil.. I dnt hate em.. Its just globalisation and we change or be left out.. But given a choice, I would rather do without.
i miss those times , you would watch the latest episode of PCK ,UOR, FRIENDS and the next day at school will talk about it. the way we made plans for the weekend and how we would meet up in orchard , all without HP
I'm quite familiar with many of the places in this video and yes big changes but not as much as I expected, to my surprise. I guess it's because we were already pretty advanced in the 90s to come to think of it.
Last time when i was a kid taking mrt was really gai gai. So happy. Now everyday take train to work...sianzzz
Switching seat to seat, climbing over the seat trying to take glimpse at the sceneries.
Same
OMG I CAN RELATE HAHA
Good old days man
Hahaha.
this one guy with a cam realised the potential of old footage in 30 years time and started filming random stuff
i am inspired enough that i will use my phone going forward to archive street scenes. it’s a pity i hadn’t thought to do so during the surreal days of the Circuit Breaker last year when weekdays traffic was absolutely quiet and the shopping malls were eerily closed except for the supermarkets.
Maybe he just happened to have a camera and filmed crap....
It's like accidentally buying bitcoin or Amazon 7,10 years ago and forgetting about it u know.and then all of a sudden one day u realise ur a millionaire.
This is really interesting. Good to know the heritage and make a comparison of SG 30 years ago and now. But i notice he only filmed certain areas (mainly Kallang and Bugis in the first few minutes) and not sure about the rest
Nice.
When life was simpler and slower. Singapore still had plenty of space and not as crowded.
Indeed!!
Not much foreign talents.. 😁
Not late to reverse the tide, and with what we have built, choose leaders that attend to the needs of the people, and not to the pompous desires to built and hold on to sole political authority.
vote PAP out!
@@hanifmanap3332 foreign talents are what made your country though 🤡
Who would have thought when filming this on the early 90s and he/she like: "I think the people in the future will like it and mesmerize the moment that we have now"
We can go out there and do the same and people will think this guy siao is it. Covid 19 come out take vid around singapore
Yeah, and film wasnt exactly cheap either. Getting it developed was quite a hassle too
Feels weird watching a video of a point in time when nobody was looking down at a phone where ever you looked.
And kids spent time in the playgrounds, playing football in any space they could find, and not stuck in front of a screen.
Because there were no phones to look at? No games to play & no TH-cam videos to stream?
@@wifestealer yea its completely different decades where technology was completely different back then. U really can't compare the two
ok boomer
@@nootnoot4244 boomer? nope. millennial Lol
An era when our society was less toxic.
with more gangsters roaming the streets too..
The population's literacy rate was much lower back then too, I'm not complaining.
Agreed..people are kinder then and less likely to create a fuss over small issues..even taking a crowded bus is no hassle..now it becomes a drag.
20th century singapore and 21st century singapore are really different,.a sense of belonging... now a lot of foreigners.
@@walkercc7199 When our Ancestors first came over from China, India, Malaysia and Europe when Singapore was still a fishing village with mostly Malay fishermen, SG also filled with 'foreigners'. Make it a place they like and they will become part of Singapore just like us.
Back then in the 90s mrt ends at Yishun then later on Woodlands . Cabs from Amk to Tpy only $4 - $6 . To central orchard only $10 - $12 .
Most food are priced $1.50 - $2 . Foodcourt $2.50 - $3.50 .
With no iphones . Ppl connect with pagers where usually will received in certain emergency ( eg . Where r u ? Buying things ) One seldom gets distracted in daily life and able to admire sceneries around them and actually talk to people . ( becos thats how time can be passed as well ) no social media etc . No one will disturb you when you are out and about . Like dating , watching movies etc . Also watching sunrise from the beach is what many do . And then hold Bbq at East coast park + chalet . Pay phones are everywhere . And we are Really great at remembering numbers . ( house nos . and pager numbers of who and who ) . And if you want to talk to someone need to get the house number and can talk for hours . Actually talking . ( there is a personal touch to it )
Not to mentioned many food are suoer delicious and Authentic . You have all the wok-hei you want + throw in the authenticity + making the food ingredients from scratch etc . And most food stalls are manned by locals or the actual boss . ( now ? You can take a look around and see the difference ) - those who never had that before will Never know what they missing out .
And disco yeah we do have Canto / Sparks / Fire etc . Back then way more happening than now . Only in the 2000s does the clubbing culture actual expand ( Also better than now ) . With the likes of Mdm Wong . Double 0 . Orange . Sultan of Swing . Thats stretch of clubbing road n area .
Games were Nintendo and super nintendo and Sega . Very engaging . Every gamers hope to complete levels complete the games . And it takes skills . With only a few chances you have to complete the game with that . Dont have save point where you can save the game .
Retail job that time is $1600 - $1800 . Not much have change . Now also same . Probably 2k now ? Fast food joint is around $1200 . Now is $1600 . See . Not much diff . But lots of things gotten ex .
Trains are smoother and less crowded . Air is fresher . Even the hdb units are bigger and more airy and allowing more natural lights esp the corridors . Nowadays corridors are dark even at the lift landing . Not to mention tiny area to air the clothes where there's no sun ... blocked by the various columns . In the past hdb blocks is airy and can be easily accessed from all corners . Now only one of 2 path opened up .. the rest are blocked by bushes or grass patches . You want to cross to the other building you have to walk one big round .
90s life . Idylic . Stress free . Less crowded . Great food . Fresh air .
A lot more space for kids to roam around and play football. I rem as a kid, my friends and I would get off a random mrt station after school and look for a new spot to play football and get a cheap quality meal after. 90s singapore was a more live-able time I think, a lot more charming in my opinion.
Toa payoh to YCK was the first stretch. then yishun, and later woodland. Cant remember the down town part.
Kinda sucks that I wasn’t born in the 90s, would’ve loved to experience Singapore back then
Pagers. Lol.
Only legends will know 1 177155 4 haha. 512. And many more Lol 😂
Back then people are more happy, nowadays more and more people crazy
1992 was the year i completed my NS in the combat engineers, putting behind those dark years and entering NUS as a student again. Life was so refreshing and full of zeal. We were all so full of hope and aspiration for the future. i wonder young people today still feel this way.
Welcome to army. SAF
I only visited Singapore about 5 times. Watching this somehow made me shed a tear, because while Singapore thrived, and it was undeniably for the better, something about the essence of the video, I felt like was lost forever.
Did you really literally shed a tear?
Where are you from?
@@kingstonshawn2595 I did.
I felt like my chest was heavy, like you feel nostalgic from something old, experiencing memories that you weren't even part of it.
I can only see Singapore as this bustling, powerhouse of a city-state today, but this video just caught me off-guard with how it had its humble beginnings too.
@@deltacreamYou literally did not answer his question, good job.
@@deltacreamSingapore was already fairly developed in the 1990s.You should see Singapore during the 1970s to 1980s period
It must have been the depressing music that made you teary.
Back when Singapore wasn't so sterile... And I much preferred it. The country felt like it had more character than the Asian-Dubai feeling it has today.
Like you, I much prefer the Singapore back then. It was more organic sans HDB.
@MS 92 But most of the Malaysian Malay did not like PAP and DAP government, because all of them like to take advantage of doing corruption including the PM and political leadership which have already ruin the economic and development growth of the country recently happens since 2020 until now.
Its true, i like it more when i wasn't this setrile. Why can't we be a rich, strong city but without being sterile? I mean, look at KL, so much character.
I would give up 20 years of my life, just to get back to the 90s. No joke. Nothing can compare to the 90s once you been thru it.
I was born in Singapore in July 92. My parents moved back to the UK shortly after having lived there for 3 years. This is almost like seeing what my childhood could have been like in a parallel universe.
Even though I was born in the 1988s, I still miss the old Singapore.
Wow, I've always wondered what Tampines looked like before the malls were built.
I been there. A lousy tampines ave 5 interchange. Only bus number 10 and 31. And 23 is available. Raining time have to be wet. The HDB beside not even build. Illegal sell fruits there.
There’s tons of space back then
NOON GAMER and MBS was only built in 2009.
NOON GAMER in 2001 the middle track at Tanah Merah MRT station became part of the Airport Branxh Line.
Bay Sean what was it used as before ‘01?
Yes before all foreign import and the pipe dreams of 6.9 million . It was the time other than tourist or Malaysian. Everywhere you turn to is a true blue born and breed local.
@@MarkzOng there were already many malaysian in SG la. Dun anyhow throw smoke can.
I was not born back then but happy to see this footage. Singapore has changed quite a lot.
similar yet different.. that trip on the east west line brought back so many memories!! a lot of the open spaces are now condominiums and flat. thanks for capturing all this.. in Singapore what Ferris Bueller said really is true:
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Actually come to think about it, during that time, people who does videography as their hobby and not for social media, it kinda of ‘respect’. It different. Can imagine, they have to carry that kind of equipment and not phones kind of technology....
I loved that city as it was back then. Everywhere had such positive energy and the motto seemed to be "We're the best but how can we make it even better?"
Singapore was a better place then. life was so much more bearable.
Correct..10 dollar is still meaningful then..Cuppage and other hawker place still sells decent meals for 3 bucks or so..greed has overcome the good life.
Oh I really appreciate the simplicity of life back then
And the world too!
Noise pollution was much lower, People were more relaxed. I miss the 80s to 90s
Everything was simpler back then. These days everything gets exposed. They say ignorance is bliss. Well, it's the effing truth!
Thanks for uploading! It brings back memories. Life was very simple. Trains and buses not crowded like now. Note that it was middle of the day, train was spacious! Today, seats are a bonus!
And quality trains . Either No or very rarely breakdown . And its so quiet in the train . Nowadays the trains are so noisy travelling on the rails and also in itself . In the past , the trains are very solid .
@@chocolatococo657the majority of the trains on nsewl same what....
@@ProHyperXD .. that means you didnt take the first batch of trains when Mrt just launch . ( 80s - 90s )
@chocolatococo657 those first batch were refurbished and painted in black, now in 2024 some of them are decommissioned
@@ProHyperXD .. Aint wasting time if You dont get the drift ..
( not replying any longer )
I was 18 years old then lol everything seemed so new then. but looking at the videos now i find it surreal that i was part of that hahahah . thanks for this mate
Thanks for this video. Though i was only born in the 1990s. I really miss living back in this era compared to the 2020s when life was so much more happier and peaceful.
I was born in this era, 2 years prior. So nice to see what life was back then. Glad to be able to reminisce the past via these videos. Long live 🇸🇬 From your neighbour across the Causeway.
I love to see older days like this! Brings back the nostalgic memories even though I was only 1 year old in 1992! People are happier and not stressing
Same lah. Stress
@@tankman20064 But dont have to repeatadly take vaccines and boosters back then and NO vds measure then.
I was 3yrs that time
as a new Singapore citizen, I enjoyed seeing how was my nation looks like back in time, thank you
I miss the 90s in general, but Singapore in the 90s was something else that I really miss!
What year were you born
me who was born in 2007 that can't experience it
I was born on 30th April 1995.I have experienced a few instances of the 80s and 90s features of Singapore
at that time singapore was so beautiful
the earth as a whole was beautiful so as our lifes.
Now it is so hot outside.
Singapore is BETTER NOW
So sad 😔, that 1992 has already gone
@@brendannotfound Sadly, Not the people
Back then life was so simple and everyone is communicating with each other cos back then there was no smartphone 😄.
If can travel back time to the past I would like to go back to the 90s.
So true! Great comment
fking boomer. u go back in time without ur phone see if u can survive
Those were the best days.
@@tamny9963 STFU. You ignorant Fk.
@@tamny9963 Jee chill. Also obviously you can survive without a phone, you just need to do things differently.
God bless your heart for this. 2 weeks away from Tekong NS then. I'm 48 now and already this feels like a different lifetime. It truly breaks the heart.
I read the other comments and I had to edit.
I feel like I met long lost friends here. Reading what you all wrote brought tears to my eyes. God bless you all. Please take care of yourselves. Hand on heart, I love you all.
Only ? 48 ? 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪. This is nothing. It just yesterday.
To think I wasn't even alive when this was taken. Many things have changed, for better or for worse. But things will always change. I look forward to seeing the changes Singapore will go through in the next few decades.
Also, awesome quality for a camera in 1992, that thing must've been a pain in the ass to carry.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful clip. Brings back so many memories. It's sad to see that so much greenery was lost in the name of development.
Thank you for uploading Mr Hicks!
thank you for uploading you video recordings. they bring back fond memories 🙏🏻
thanks a lot for the video. brought me back to when I was in Spore for studies. a lot of sweet memories from back then.
Some of the scenes, especially the underground MRT and some of the neighbourhoods, pretty much remain unchanged.
Even Changi airport looks the same but very modernized in today's times. Otherwise the layout is the same
Some childhood stories to share: You guys recognised the old Kallang Gas building at 1:30? There was always black smoke coming out from it. So one day while passing the area on the bus with my grandma, I asked her what the building was.
She went ‘Oh that one? Its where they cook naughty children. Next time, if you are naughty I’ll ask them come and catch you.’
Sure enough, I was an angel the next 1 week lah. 😁
o.o
火城
😂
Yes, I was always worried that the gas building would explode whenever the bus stopped next to it, haha
Lol. Kampung Bugis.
I literally lived there behind the gas building. It was a small Kampung.
This was the Singapore I fondly remember. Rushing home after school on non-air-conditioned SBS bus to watch SBC series at 7pm
I was born in 1998. I'm 23 now.
Watching this made me realize how was Singapore realy like back then in the coming modern days. Should appreciate what our grandparents and great grandparents has been through don't u think guys?
i saw my old secondary school building ! Manjusri! I am so touched!!! Beautiful music Saint-Saens Swan. Thank u so much!
Singapore is trying to really hard to fill up this island with so many things, even the wild boars and cobras are expressing unhappiness!
Thank you so much for filming these and posting them! 1992 I was 5 and these are my childhood memories. I remember every single station and the surrounding buildings! I’m so glad someone filmed it because most of it are completely gone. Bedok doesn’t look like this anymore.
Came back here after about a year, and suffice to say, a wondrous 30 exact years have passed by since the recording of this video.
A lot has changed.
Thank you for this. That was the last time I saw SG before I went abroad to uni.
and never came back ever since?
Thank you for this… i was born a year later from the date. Everything seems so nostalgic…
Salute to the guy who take this video. Thank you sir, this is definitely something I'll save and show to my kids
I am glad that this gets recommended to me.... Singapore was more beautiful back then, however Singapore is still beautiful right now.... I think that people should start appreciating more of what they have and so that they will not take what they have for granted
So technically what you are saying things are going to get more shitty? LOL. 80-90s was the best time of my life.
My time was stayed there from 1990~1999 very nice place indeed.back my memories. Thanks
Its kind a mad ya know. How much we've progressed. Although I wasn't born back then.. I only was born like 14 years after haha. It truly shows how much life has gotten better. Looking through the comments gave me shivers cos reading all the experiences the people have gone through really puts a smile on my face. "Life was so much easier back then" "it was less crowded". Ahh the things I would do to feel those things. But hey life goes on and we move on with the world. I can see myself in 10 years coming back to this very year and reminisce how unbelievably hard these 2 years were. And I would beat myself up for not being born in the 90's 😂. Thank u for sharing this video homie
Simple life back then.
because most of us were likely kids or young adults back then with no financial stress
@Mob Master life now with new technology is so much easier. even public transport so power now. all bus aircon. maybe you mean now global warming more hot for you is it?
what job is hard to get? jobs are plenty now. people just got too competitive and set too high expectations for their job because they want to outshine their friends on social media. so many jobs unapplied coz "work hour too long, pay too low, location not atas enough"
Thanks for the video. I love this. I was a 13yrs old boy in 1992.
This is treasure. Brings back so many memories of my childhood days when I had to commute from Serangoon Garden to St Anthonys Primary School in Bukit Batok in the 90s. Any Anthonians watching? Thank you so much for sharing this video.
Oh my, bring back good memories man. Kudos for having a good camera back then. Cool. Taken on 28/11/1992, when I was 5 years one day old. 😂
7:57 and 8:07 :Was looking for these: if you look carefully, you can see viaduct stub ends on the viaducts leading to/from Changi Depot; those would later be used for the Changi Airport branch, which at that time hasn’t been constructed yet but have already been planned for.
Looking back from 2021 brings back memories
Wow! 1992! I love this view of Singapore! At 2:53, you have captured my high school! I was probably in this building when you were filming it! Geylang Methodist Secondary School! Wow!
I had teary eyes watching this
Me too
I feel sad, don't know why. 😔
Those who were the times when you cld freely video with vhs camcorder without people accusing you of being suspicuous or sneaky. Life was so carefree careless. No snitching, no stomping on one another. Ironically, we didnt have everything but we were sufficed and contented.
A time where you could see more locals than foreigners.
you still do
@@davidliu2243 just head down to a populated area close your eyes and listen. You be surprised you feel you are in a foreign land .
things u say that make u realise u r a boomer
@@paulphyo there is no absolute right or wrong to be a boomer , you may not had the opportunity to live a simpler time . You would never imagined how things are if you are never there . In engineering , when you gain something , you have to sacrifice something else . Sometimes things are not worth it , and that's life .
@@MarkzOng well, according to stats from my quick google search, 1.64 million people living here are foreigners. If you do a little bit of division with the total population of 5.8 million, less than 30% of people here are foreigners. Okay, to be fair, 30% is quite high. But more often than not, you'd come across locals rather than foreigners :|
thank you for capturing this glimpse of time in Singapore
Lost my mom in 1992. Those were the years.
I always frequent this stretch of mrt. Really amazing to see how it has transformed, especially the Bedok and Tampines hubs... still remember the old Bedok cinema building before it became Dijitsu mall and the Tampines Sports Complex before it became Our Tampines Hub. We might have lost the large swathes of unadulterated greenery but imo we exchanged it for modern day conveniences and amenities which i cant imagine living without now :)
I am born 3 years before that video was taken!
Good to see olden days of singapore
I like the 1992 Singapore. I don’t like the 2021 Singapore. It is so unrecognizable now. What’s left behind stay only in our memories. Thank u so much to this video. It was happy days back then.
Don't you mean 2021?
Theres something so surreal about looking into a time before you existed yet everything seems so familiar
and now, 6 years after this video. You have the TEL line, soon to be completed to changi airport!
I love the future of singapore's MRT, the plans for 2035+ look awsome!
thanks for the video! finally got to see how my neighbourhood was like back in the 90s
3:36 Chai Chee road ., my old neighbourhood.,, sweet memories.
Man the easy side is just full of construction now and no empty space, this is amazing footage
omg 1992 i was only in primary 2 then. such carefree childhood that i missed so much.
I guess TH-cam is feeling nostalgic this week
If have time machine i want comeback to this year people live happyly no social media and viral
Thanks for this...brings back memories of my teenage years.
Thanks,,I really interested about long" ago's Singapore..I Indonesian but I really loved country of Singapore..
Looks so familiar yet so strange, 2003 kid here, so i never seen all these before, but all the older ppl probably remember what sg looked like back then
6:41 I still remember I was a small kid, me and my sister playing catching together then we shout so loudly suddenly the SMRT staff scolded we both then my mom also scolded we both too hahahahahahaha
if the same thing happen today, the parents will do nothing and stare at their phones. When the staff try to tell them to behave, the parents will record on their phones, spam online to seek public sympathy and an apology from SMRT. ;)
So god damn nostalgic. Thank you for rolling back the memories. I love Sg as it is today, but I will never forget how much simpler life was back then. I was barely four when this video was taken, and much of my memory of a time gone by is now very very hazy. This is amazing.
7:48 Upper Changi Road East where the Expo should be? Also could you link me to the uncut video please? Thank you.
I remember there was a road called Siak Kuan Rd somewhere in the area. My class monitress used to live there.💐
I’m over here thinking about that cat 😩 It’s probably gone by now..
Definitely because 29 years is a long time for a cat 😞
Probably on its 4th life now
and probably for the other people they probably all uncles and aunties or dead
I was actually thinking that same thing too at that part of the video! I guess we cat people are like that. Bless your heart friend.
thank you youtube for recommending me this :>
Thank you for posting this especially for ones like me who are born in the 99s that are too young to remember the retro vibes back then. It’s really nostalgic & beautiful, life was really simple back then :)
Its like we are travelling back time❤
Singapore has gone a long way proud of where weve come
10 years old only then, how time flies
I lived in singapore from 2011 to 2013 ..Love to singapore
I’m born in the year 2000. Didn’t really have much memory of what it looked like in the early 2000s.
But I must say it feels weird... looking at videos taken when I wasn’t even born. At the real green city where there aren’t any concrete blocks everywhere. A large area of green, natural coconut trees just here and there. God I wish I was born earlier to enjoy such a beautiful SG instead of what we live in now...
Singapore is most beautiful in the 90s . Idylic peaceful not crowded . Lots of actual greenery around . Not as many high buildings or flats . Definitely Way much lesser Ft or whatevera . Cabs are way cheaper . Lots of things are much much cheaper . Everyone just seems happier . A place that we can actually call home and feel proud of .😊
treasure those day, i was taking the same train line to city hall daily working at Marina Mandarin hotel during 88 to 93
First part of the video...the old Katong laksa store before it gets commercialised like now....sigh the good old days when my late Dad drove me and my family there for Laksa and Nasi lemak.... the quality and standard has dropped since then...
so many wide landscapes of greenery in this video, you barely see that nowadays when you're in the train. kinda sad if you think about it.
Wow there seems to be more landed houses back then and less HDBs.
Thank you for the video.. i caught a glimpse of my childhood home at Upper Boon Keng Road..
2:43 near Kallang MRT and the flats on the right is now demolished and replaced with kallang trivista replacement flats for rochor centre
I was only 3 during that time and the world felt so mucb green than at our present time
miss the 90s ... simple and happy (ier)
This really brings back memory.. So much space.. Playing monkey bar in the mrt.. Running around.. Left right centre u know its a local ur looking at.. We are more tolerant towards each other.. We make noise together, we stay quiet together.. These days We are overpopulated .. I missed the times when there are not many foreigner on our soil.. I dnt hate em.. Its just globalisation and we change or be left out.. But given a choice, I would rather do without.
there was so much greenery 😍
i miss those times , you would watch the latest episode of PCK ,UOR, FRIENDS and the next day at school will talk about it.
the way we made plans for the weekend and how we would meet up in orchard , all without HP
I'm quite familiar with many of the places in this video and yes big changes but not as much as I expected, to my surprise. I guess it's because we were already pretty advanced in the 90s to come to think of it.
Wow, thank you.