20211225 _Nostalgia at Lucky Saigon & Charlie LIM Heritage Museum!

Hey! Look At Me! Guess what I am?

25/12/21.Stumbled into a very nostalgic place

at 356 Tanglin Road!

I am a Tam Pui (Spitoon/ Urinal Pot!)

i AM a PONG TENG! ( kampong Kerosene lamp)

I am a old time TICK TOCK CLOCK! That chimes "Dang Dang Dang..."

I am the old radio...

I am the old time poster!

I am an ANT staller trapper!

Hey! I am back to Old SINGAPORE RIVER!

Oh what a Christmas Day! 25th Dec 2021!

Decided to pop by this Lucky Saigon Cafe at Tanglin for a vietnamese food!

Did not expect to walk into a different TIMEZONE that went into the 1950s and 60s and 70s!

It was nostalgic find!

CHARLIE LIM HERITAGE MUSEUM!

 Here's the walk through back to days of kampong! WOO HOO!

Oh met Mr Charlie Lim himself at this studio!

He is in his 60s or 70s? His journey of collecting vintage items started in the 1970s. Upon becoming a commercial photographer in the early 1990s, he began collecting vintage items to be used as props in his shoots.

We have apps that that transform your photo into painting like pictures or even your cute caricature.  But Charlie lim still using an interesting way of freezing his photography exposure by 30sec using a torchlight that goes up and down your body! LOL. Amazing photography work he does besides all the carvings of seeds etc.  

Influenced by his mother. He asked himself "What is the value of money in 20years' time?" and to him, the value of money never stays the same with inflation.  

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REFLECTION

How true.  Today in little Red Dot, we have lost many of our old history as places gave way for redevelopment.  Flats were built higher. But alas our built up area decreases.  Past old HDB flats perhaps cost less than $10,000 in the 1960s has escalated to more than $1,000,000! 

The number of zeros increased!

But how about our lifestyle?

We may perhaps have gained lots of convenience. Doing things "cheaper, betterer and fasterer".  But how is our body, heart and soul and spirit?

We seemed to have gained more. But yet lost physical health to the other C. (Not cash, credit card, clubs, condo) but Cancer.

We seemed to have the electronic wire up convenience. 4G to 5G. But yet we lose our younger generation to the addiction of e-gaming and bad social media influence.

The Face Time we had in kampong days had disappeared. Many prefer to face time with others despite the humans sitting at the dining table.  Many just now cannot live without it! Not the AMEX card. But that silly MOBILE.

The mobiles - yes great mobility for many now whose fingers never seek to rest a  minute.

IT IS A TAP TAP TAP- SLIDE SLIDE SLIDE WORLD!

Would you prefer to give up the modern tech world to back to kampong days?

There is a big coup outside this Saigon cafe! There are black and white chickens in the coop! YES!YES YES!

Back to the future!