Many memories of Sembawang

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Three memories of Sembawang to point you towards this morning: the first is Jerome’s memory of crab fishing from the jetty of Sembawang Park, the second is a memory by Terry sharing on Chun See’s Good Morning Yesterday also about Sembawang in the 70s, and finally, Chun See’s more recent memory of Sembawang that go back to the early 90s.

I remember Sembawang most for the numerous nights spent crabbing from the jetty, which is still standing in what is now Sembawang Park. In those days, a typical night’s yield from a few square crabbing nets weighed with lead weights, tied to the jetty with nylon rope, each with a piece of rotting fish as bait, was two five gallon pails full of large crabs. This memory together with the smell of the sea, mixed with rotting fish, camphor and kerosene lamps, and the mee goreng bought from the Indian hawker stalls in Chong Pang Village is the most vivid I have of Sembawang.

Jerome’s post on Sembawang can be read here. Terry’s memories as a member of the ANZUK forces stationed in Singapore can be read here, while Chun See’s post can be read here. For those keeping score, the 1990s are now almost 20 years ago, so perhaps it’s not so recent after all!

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