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The house where I lived imme­di­ately after I was born (it’s not as roman­tic as say­ing “the house where I was born in”, but oh well…) still stands, albeit ren­o­vated extensively.

I wrote about grow­ing up there a few years ago, but thanks to Google Street View, I was able to check it out recently with­out dri­ving there for a closer look. The gran­ite gate pil­lars are the same as the ones from 1969–1976, though with­out the let­ter­ing “Lee’s Lodge”. I am going to go through my fam­ily photo albums for pictures.

I know not many peo­ple my age who grew up in Sin­ga­pore would be able to find the places they grew up in still intact.

A few weeks ago, I thought it’d be a good idea to use Google Maps to iden­tify the things about Sin­ga­pore we’d fight to pro­tect. Many peo­ple iden­ti­fied food items — and it becomes all the same, espe­cially since your Katong Laksa’s sprouted branches on every cor­ner of the island.

So I think it’d be really inter­est­ing if we were instead able to pin down on Google Maps the places we lived in when we were born — see if they’re still standing.

Give it a whirl — though I know Google Maps isn’t the eas­i­est thing to edit. So if you’re stuck, leave me a mes­sage and I’ll see if I can help.

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