Bukit Timah Market and Food Centre

Snapshot on 1 October 2024.

This boring place has been around since 1975. 

Will be greatly missed by:
- the boring students of Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School that will eat here before and after school.
- the boring church members who eat here every Sunday and other days when they have church activities.
- the boring weekend warrior hikers who will rest here after their boring hikes nearby.
- the boring residents of Toh Yi Drive and the surrounding private housing who don't have maids, so the hawkers here are their personal chefs who will most of the time cook things to your pref because boring people eat at the same boring stalls daily.
- the boring househusbands and housewives that buy their meat and veggies and provisions for the uncle and aunties here.

 

What we won't miss:
- the grimy ceiling of the hawker centre.
- the birds that join in the fun, wow, there are even boring birds.
- the snatching of parking spaces from each other.

The Mural about Bukit Timah

The Teacher at Pei Hwa Presbyterian took time to draw this.
It shows the icons of Bukit Timah.





Painted on the wall of the Bukit Timah Market and Food Centre.
I love how they included a tap to integrate the yellow gas pipe!

More cloudy day.

After the rain. When it rains, and the rain stops just before evening, we are guaranteed a very colourful sunset.



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No edits. This was what it was.

Sunrise

More sunrise photos. Since Singapore is on perpetual day light saving mode, many people especially students and teachers go out of their house way before Sunrise. Today's sunrise is officially at 6:56 AM.


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This was taken today at 6:44AM. What a magnificent glow there was in sky!

What do people do when they are bored? They go to the hill and climb it! Then proceed to have a huge breakfast.

The rain in Spain, no.. I mean the rain in Bukit Timah...

Another super humid Sunday. It just rained a while and stopped.
The skies are still dark and am contemplating should I go up to the hill for a hike.


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It will be super super humid at Bukit Timah Hill. It would be nice and sticky for those who yearn to sweat it out without doing much!

Bukit Timah (Hill)

The view (again, and this time with better resolution) of Bukit Timah. Bukit Timah already means Timah Hill when it's translated from Malay to English, but everyone calls it Bukit Timah Hill. Why? Coz most people do not understand what Bukit means.



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It's also because the whole area is called Bukit Timah, so as to distinguish it the area and the hill itself, people call it Bukit Timah Hill.

This is the highest natural peak in Singapore and nature reserve around it is also home to many rare plants. Bukit Timah (Hill) is 163.63 metres tall. The nature reserve is around 163 hectares. (Source)

The tallest buildings in Singapore are 280 metres tall. (That's the currently allowed maximum heights for buildings in Singapore and there are 3 buildings with that height. That easily dwarfs the hill.

Bukit Timah (Hill) and the transmission towers.

One of those blue skies days yet with bits of clouds.



Nice view isn't it? How much would you pay for this view if your house faces this view daily?

Bukit Timah (Hill) and the colourful houses below.
It isn't as near as you think it is.

Botanic Gardens Bukit Timah Gate

A new gate opens!

The Singapore Botanic Gardens have a new gate called the "Bukit Timah Gate" that's ride beside the Botanic Gardens MRT.



I am wondering, why are all the "big gates" at all the different entrances / gates always closed?
Visitors all have to enter by the side gates to get in.

A closed gate is good for photography though. ;-)

I like the design of this gate. Big and small squares.
How many squares can you spot?

Was the railway, no more tracks...

The railway tracks near Rifle Range are gone!
Only the stones are left.

This was taken this morning and there's someone walking along it.



Wondering how it will end up eventually. Will the stones be removed?
The next photo shows the stones section further away has been sort of scraped off.



Around 10 mins walk from where this photo is taken is the Bukit Timah Railway Station.

Bukit Timah Railway Station and the area around it will be opened to the public tomorrow - 16 Sept 2011.

Enjoy the walks!

Last train out of Singapore.

I was on the last train into Singapore tonight and when we arrived, we realised they were preparing for the same train to leave Singapore.

We saw a huge mob of people coming towards all the passengers who just got off the train. We knew why later. The Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Ismail was the VIP in our midst. He was to drive the last train out of Singapore at 11 PM.



The Sultan earlier passed right in front of me and shoke the hands of the person beside me!
He then signed the t-shirt in front of us.




We left Tanjong Pagar KTM Station and rushed to the Bukit Timah Station on the way home after a long day.  We made it just in time and caught the train driven by the Sultan of Johor. Can you spot him?

There was a huge crowd waving good bye at the Bukit Timah Station!

At the stroke of midnight, Tanjong Pagar Station and Bukit Timah Station will be returned to Singapore.