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SOHAM GHOSH IS STUDYING IN THIS SCHOOL

Tung + Mai + Phuc + Luan (12/2007).

I have just moved to this blk at level 4. Its in the process of upgrading now, from the lift, to the letterboxes, paintings, i would like to find out the history of this block. Thank you.

This is where ate Shawie works, the prettiest lady in all of Singapore.

Now, Bharat Bahl also lives here!

Blk 155 Mei Ling Street

erm. the outline is like very out of shape?

Founder's day @ 3 March

I love the place and like to be here again ana again.

I stayed here between 22-02-09 & 28-02-09 with CESC team to visit Singapore Power Utility,good and convinient place specially for shopping at Mustapa. Photo uploaded by Tapash Roy (01-03-09)

During our stay at Singapore between 21-02-09 & 28-02-09 we had dinner here for two days. Photo uploaded by Tapash Roy (Kolkata)

jayyu kaka is here today

Right now I am at Changi T-2,to board a flight to Kolkata,Singapore is a great nation with great people. - Tapash Roy (28-02-2009 and 07-20 p.m.Sin-time)

Pulau Ubin is a small island (10.19 km²) situated in the north east of Singapore, to the west of Pulau Tekong. Granite quarrying supported a few thousand settlers on Pulau Ubin in the 1960s, but only about a hundred villagers live there today. It is one of the last rural areas to be found in Singapore.

Today, Pulau Tekong is used exclusively as a training base for various Singapore Army Units. Home to the Basic Military Training Centre (BMTC), this is also where young Singaporean males are conscripted into National Service. The School of Infantry Specialists (SISPEC), which was situated two kilometres from BMTC, relocated to a new campus at Pasir Laba Camp in December 2005. A new training area, called San Yong Kong Field Camp, has been completed on the reclaimed land south of Dogra Bridge. Built by the Combat Engineers, this field camp will be used to train Infantry and Guards battalions. It also provides habitat to some wild animals that are rarely seen in mainland Singapore such as the Leopard Cat, Sunda Slow Loris and Sunda Pangolin.

Pulau Tekong is the largest of Singapore's outlying islands with an area of 24.43 km², and the island is still expanding due to land reclamation works on its southern and northwestern coasts which will eventually subsume many of its surrounding small islets, including Pulau Tekong Kechil. Pulau Tekong is found off Singapore's northeastern coast, east of Pulau Ubin. Geographically, it is nearer to Johor, Malaysia than the Singapore mainland itself. The Pulau Tekong Reservoir is also on the island.

Pulau Brani means "Island of the Brave" in Malay (berani means "brave") or "Home of the Warriors". In an 1828 sketch of the island of Singapore, the island is referred to as Po. Ayer Brani. There are at least three Malay legends and stories pertaining to the island's name. One story propounds that the island got its name because it was the burial ground of old warrior pirates. Another view refers to the island as Pulau Ayer Brani, as recorded in John Turnbull Thomson's 1949 chart, because a stream of fresh water was said to come up from the coastal sea bed or beach, which persisted despite the flow of sea water. The third story has it that there is a well on top of the island, with water of potent qualities. A tank formed of natural rock on the Tanjong Pagar side of the island contained the overflow of water from this well and was used by people for bathing. Pulau Brani is known as san chu shek tui min in Cantonese, meaning "opposite the new tin smelting" due to a tin smelting plant located on the island in the first half of the twentieth century. The Cantonese also refer to it as cha tin ma thau tui min, meaning "opposite Jardine's jetty".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/sets/72157594587552457/ this link provides u with the beauti of the island.. i dun know why do people give bad comment on this island. maybe he is just jealous of how well singapore is now?

Saint John's Island, previously known as Pulau Sakijang Bendera, is one of the Southern Islands in Singapore. It is located approximately 6.5 km to the south of the main island of Singapore, off the Straits of Singapore. Saint John's Island formerly housed a quarantine station for leprosy cases detected among immigrants until the 1950s, a penal settlement and a drug rehabilitation centre. The 40.5-hectare hilly island was transformed in 1975 into a tranquil getaway with swimming lagoons, beaches, picnic grounds, trekking routes and soccer fields. The island is also a haven for a host of flora and fauna, and is popular for weekend visits. The island, reputedly haunted according to some local traditions, was the site of Sir Raffles's anchorage before meeting the Malay chief of Singapore in 1819. The Northern Beach on Saint John's Island. Also located on the island is the Tropical Marine Science Institute, Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore's Marine Aquaculture Centre. A detention centre for illegal immigrants still remains. Holiday-makers yearning for an island stay on Saint John's Island can book the Holiday Bungalow, which can accommodate up to 10 persons and comes furnished with a kitchen. Organised groups can stay over in the dormitories at the Holiday Camps which can take up to 60 persons. The dormitories are equipped with basic cooking facilities. Overnight stays are only allowed for occupants at the Holiday Bungalow and Holiday Camps.