Where Can You See This Mountain From Singapore?

Mountain in zoomed-in view

Mountain in normal view

Or if you prefer the mountain in a romantic sunset setting:

Mountain in normal view and romantic sunset setting

Mountain in zoomed-in view and romantic sunset setting

I have been very busy lately so I could hardly find the time to update this blog. Therefore, I think I will just choose the fast and easy way out and simply "plagiarize" an idea from Icemoon's blog. It is from one of his posts with the same title. But mine has an additional question about something else tall as well:

Questions:

1. What is the name of this mountain?

2. From which location in Singapore are the photos taken from?

3. Do you know how technicians change light bulbs for the tall light structure shown in 2 of the photos?

I must confess that I do not know the answer to Question 1. (I just hope that it is not Gunung Pulai which Icemoon blogged about. Perhaps he can use his excellent Google Earth skills to find out the answer for me.)

Old Singapore Quiz (7) - Answers

Thanks for your guesses. All of you who attempted Old Singapore Quiz (7) got the answers correct. It must have been an easy one, eh?

Answers to Old Singapore Quiz (7):

1. What is the name of this place in Singapore?

A: Toa Payoh Town Park


2. What was its old name?

A: Toa Payoh Town Garden


3. What was it popularly used for in the 1970s?

A: Outdoor wedding photography


4. What is the name of the eatery located there?

A: The Oasis


5. Where was the eatery formerly located?

A: Kallang Basin


The following paragraph was extracted from Wikipedia:

"Toa Payoh Town Garden was partially closed in 1999 to make way for a temporary bus interchange. After the new Toa Payoh Bus Interchange at the HDB Hub was completed in June 2002, the temporary bus interchange was converted to a landscaped park. Toa Payoh Town Garden was subsequently renamed as Toa Payoh Town Park."

So it looks like the garden had been rebuilt.

Toa Payoh Town Garden was one of the earliest public parks to be built in an HDB new town. According to this blog, the beautifully landscaped Toa Payoh Town Garden was completed in September 1973 for the SEAP Games. (In comparison, the Chinese Garden was completed in 1975.)

Toa Payoh Town Garden was a very popular venue for outdoor photography shoots with wedding couples at that time. My brother did just that in 1976:


The photos are a bit faded. My brother's suit was maroon, a favourite colour of choice for bridegrooms at that time. (The masks are not part of the wedding attire though. They are something I made my brother and sister-in-law wear to protect their identities. But frankly, I doubt anyone can recognise them 33 years later even if they are unmasked. :p)

Note: You can see the restaurant building in the background in the right photo above. The building has been renovated and it is now occupied by The Oasis restaurant which serves Taiwanese porridge:


Previously (before May 2008), the restaurant was at Kallang Basin (in the round structures in the photo below). As correctly pointed out by Polestar, the left portion of the restaurant in the photo below was also a popular place to hold Chinese wedding dinners in the 1970/80s:


Here are more photos of Toa Payoh Town Park:

The distinctive hexagonal guardrails

The 27-m viewing tower

The 3 arch bridges

Each watching you like an unblinking eye

You can read more about Toa Payoh here and here.

Old Singapore Quiz (7)

Questions:

1. What is the name of this place in Singapore?

2. What was its old name?

3. What was it popularly used for in the 1970s?

4. What is the name of the eatery located there?

5. Where was the eatery formerly located?

Clues:

1. The place is more than 30 years' old; and

2. As is obvious from the photo, there are water, greenery, and sunlight (or rain in inclement weather).

For the answers, check out Victor's blog in a week's time.