pAst.

come to think of it, there is a "blogger problem saga" which matched with my inactiveness of blogging.
been thru alot lately,
late sleeping, presentations and all.

kinda came to school alittle too early today.
and again, we were stucked ._. me and frank.
the other 3 of them overslept thou,

anyways, actually, didn't had anything much on my mind to blog
was doing on URA about development when bugis came into my mind.
do you know...

Bugis Street lies in an extensive area which was commonly referred to in the past, by the Chinese-educated community, as Xiao Po (小坡; little slope). The latter stretched all the way from Tanjong Pagar, through Singapore's Chinatown, to Jalan Sultan. The whole vicinity was thriving and crammed with merchants and traders, making it one of the most vibrant economic zones of old Singapore.

According to knowledgeable long-term residents of the area, before the arrival of the British, there used to be a large canal which ran through the area where the Bugis, a seafaring people from South Sulawesi province in Indonesia, could sail up, moor their boats and trade with Singaporean merchants.

It was these people after whom the thoroughfare was named. The Bugis, or Buginese, also put their sailing skills to less benign uses and gained a reputation in the region as being a race of bloodthirsty pirates.

During the early colonial era, there also used to be low mounds of whitish sand in the area, earning the street the familiar Hokkien moniker of Peh Soa Pu or Bai Sha Fu in Mandarin (白沙浮; white sand mounds). The Cantonese, however, referred to the street as Hak Gaai or Hei Jie in Mandarin (黑街; black street) as there were many clubs catering to the Japanese invaders in the 1940s. During the first half of the 20th century, commuters could conveniently travel from Bugis Street to anywhere else in Xiao Po via a tram service which ran along North Bridge Road, which was referred to by the Chinese-educated as Xiao Po Da Ma Lu (小坡大马路; little slope main road).

After World War II, hawkers gathered there to sell food and goods. There was initially also a small number of outdoor bars set up beside rat-infested drains.




kinda looked like Malaysia isn't it?

After the world war, going back to the Bugis in the 1950s to the 1980s, and surprisingly it was well known for it gathering of transwomen, which indeed made Singapore one of the top tourist destinations during that period.


Meanwhile Bras Basah being called Beras Basah in the 1836 as in the early days, wet rice was left to dry on the area where there is a “fresh water stream”

yea, kinda done with my individual assignment, and
oh well, hope everything goes well for me *fingers crossed*