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    Quote Originally Posted by Regulators
    my agent told me an executive flat along mei ling street valued at 780k to 800k
    Keke... so I should be happy with my purchase then... Can't imagine paying the same amount for a HDB!!!

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    my mother's top floor HDB in dover close already valued at more than 650k and it is about 30 years old. she could make a pile from the sale but chose to stay there for the nice surroundings....


    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    Keke... so I should be happy with my purchase then... Can't imagine paying the same amount for a HDB!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jhokc
    Just want to point out Bishan is chinese cemetry and the one in Potong Pasir is a "Ang Mo" cemetry.

    Chinese Cemetry look at feng shui, not the ang mo. so you cannot compare Bishan to Potong Pasir.
    I believe Bidadari has christian, muslim and chinese graves. They are split into different sections. Well, cemetries are cemetries - it's a place where the dead rest (in peace). Doesn't matter which race and religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Regulators
    my mother's top floor HDB in dover close already valued at more than 650k and it is about 30 years old. she could make a pile from the sale but chose to stay there for the nice surroundings....
    Yah... I can understand. Old people dun like to move. They are comfortable where they are and they have their friends and memories of the place they live in. These are probably worth more to them than the $$$ from the sale.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jhokc
    Just want to point out Bishan is chinese cemetry and the one in Potong Pasir is a "Ang Mo" cemetry.

    Chinese Cemetry look at feng shui, not the ang mo. so you cannot compare Bishan to Potong Pasir.
    Bidadari is believed to be derived from the Sanskrit widyadari meaning "nymph of Indra's heaven" or houri, a similar meaning in Persian mythology. One of Johore Sultan Abubakar's wives had set up her Istana residence on Bidadari Estate. When she left the place, the government bought the 45-acre land and a cemetery was opened in 1904, which became Bidadari Cemetery, Singapore's third cemetery with sections for Muslims, Hindus, Singhalese, and a large section for Christians of different denominations.

    At the entrance of the Christian - Catholic section, D. M. Craik built a simple well-designed chapel with simple brickwork and exposed roof members, and which became a landmark at the location. Later, it was leased to the Japanese who built moats with typical Japanese wooden bridges and tea houses. The Youngberg Hospital, built by the Seventh Day Adventist Mission was set up there. The cemetery closed for burials in 1972 and only cremations are conducted at Mount Vernon. The 50 ha. of the Bidadari area, is one of 12 subzones in the Toa Payoh area today. By November 2001, the cemetery was cleared to make way for a new MRT Station which is part of the North-East Line. At least 58, 000 graves were located in Bidadari with 45, 000 attributed to burials before 1951.


    http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_840_2004-12-20.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    I believe Bidadari has christian, muslim and chinese graves. They are split into different sections. Well, cemetries are cemetries - it's a place where the dead rest (in peace). Doesn't matter which race and religion.
    All this talk about Bidadari makes you google and find out more, and actually it has a very interesting history. Part of it is above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    All this talk about Bidadari makes you google and find out more, and actually it has a very interesting history. Part of it is above.
    Haha... rather than feeling and eerie about living near a cemetry, one can also look from a different point of view - that it is a land of peace with different races and religion 'living' in harmony!

    And what does peace and harmony bring - wealth! So be open minded!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    Haha... rather than feeling and eerie about living near a cemetry, one can also look from a different point of view - that it is a land of peace with different races and religion 'living' in harmony!

    And what does peace and harmony bring - wealth! So be open minded!
    Yeah!

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    hi 5577 .. PGE a couple of mths still got .. now no more liao lah.

    wahh so much talk & theories about cemetery land ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    Yeah!
    Cheers, neighbour!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cheerful
    hi 5577 .. PGE a couple of mths still got .. now no more liao lah.

    wahh so much talk & theories about cemetery land ...

    Yah.. I know... Quite amazing how they sell-out during this period!

    Keke... I guess many are intrigue and concern about cemetry land because of our asian upbringing and belief. Most of us grow up fearing the unknown and supernatural. But not many has thought of them as people who were once alive. For those who still roam this earth, I tend to think that most are really pitiful and are lost.

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    5577, can it be that near cemetry gd fengshui?

    Lately i also have a lot of friends buying potong pasir, look like this area will be happening soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wkang1970
    5577, can it be that near cemetry gd fengshui?

    Lately i also have a lot of friends buying potong pasir, look like this area will be happening soon.
    Haha... i really dunno about that one... never really look into feng shui....

    Actually, if you think about it, it is inevitable that more and more residential projects has to be built on cemetry land... Singapore is so small and every inch of land is precious. With a second influx of immigrant coming from china, india and other countries since the time of our ancestors, there is no choice but to exhume graves and turn it into a living space for the living instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    Haha... i really dunno about that one... never really look into feng shui....

    Actually, if you think about it, it is inevitable that more and more residential projects has to be built on cemetry land... Singapore is so small and every inch of land is precious. With a second influx of immigrant coming from china, india and other countries since the time of our ancestors, there is no choice but to exhume graves and turn it into a living space for the living instead.
    Yup, very soon it will be Bukit Brown Cemetery near Caldecott, which is very prime GCB area and don't think any of the buyers there will be too concern of its past.

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    wah...some serious research going on...


    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    Bidadari is believed to be derived from the Sanskrit widyadari meaning "nymph of Indra's heaven" or houri, a similar meaning in Persian mythology. One of Johore Sultan Abubakar's wives had set up her Istana residence on Bidadari Estate. When she left the place, the government bought the 45-acre land and a cemetery was opened in 1904, which became Bidadari Cemetery, Singapore's third cemetery with sections for Muslims, Hindus, Singhalese, and a large section for Christians of different denominations.

    At the entrance of the Christian - Catholic section, D. M. Craik built a simple well-designed chapel with simple brickwork and exposed roof members, and which became a landmark at the location. Later, it was leased to the Japanese who built moats with typical Japanese wooden bridges and tea houses. The Youngberg Hospital, built by the Seventh Day Adventist Mission was set up there. The cemetery closed for burials in 1972 and only cremations are conducted at Mount Vernon. The 50 ha. of the Bidadari area, is one of 12 subzones in the Toa Payoh area today. By November 2001, the cemetery was cleared to make way for a new MRT Station which is part of the North-East Line. At least 58, 000 graves were located in Bidadari with 45, 000 attributed to burials before 1951.


    http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_840_2004-12-20.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    Yup, very soon it will be Bukit Brown Cemetery near Caldecott, which is very prime GCB area and don't think any of the buyers there will be too concern of its past.
    Hmmm... talking about that... I've noticed that there were grave yards along Lornie road. They are just next to some private semi-ds and Bungalows. If I remember correctly, some of these residential properties were built on cemetries as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    Hmmm... talking about that... I've noticed that there were grave yards along Lornie road. They are just next to some private semi-ds and Bungalows. If I remember correctly, some of these residential properties were built on cemetries as well.
    Bukit Brown Cemetery, also known to the local community as Kopi Sua or Coffee Hill, was a public Chinese cemetery that had been established in the early 20th Century. It is located between Lornie Road and Mount Pleasant Road, and off Sime Road and Kheam Hock Road, and is still in existence today, despite being abandoned. The cemetery was named after its first owner, George Henry Brown. Brown had been a ship owner who had arrived in Singapore from Calcutta in the 1840s, and had bought the area and named it Mount Pleasant. The land was then later bought by Ong Kew Ho and the Hokkien Huay Kuan, who gave it to the She Ong Kongsi.
    The 213-acre (0.86 km2) site at Bukit Brown had been acquired and passed into municipal hands by the municipal authorities in 1919 after pressure had been put on it to provide a municipal cemetery for the Chinese communities in Singapore.[11] The cemetery was opened on 1 January 1922 and was managed as a public burial ground by a committee led by committee leaders Tan Kheam Hock and See Tiong Wah–who was at that time comprador of the Hong Kong Bank.
    By 1929, Bukit Brown Cemetery accounted for about 40 per cent of all officially registered Chinese burials within municipal limits. The cemetery was eventually closed. In the 1970s, the cemetery faced the threat of being cleared for redevelopment, but it was eventually granted reprieve. Now, the cemetery is home to many bird species and wild life, and has as such become popular again–this time, with nature lovers.[12]
    It is the only structure that near to the Bukit Brown MRT Station which is part of the Circle MRT Line and this fact is the reason why the MRT station will remain unoperational.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_...s_in_Singapore

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    im sure if the price is right, pple dun care abt whether it used to be a cemetery anot. If someone sell me dirt cheap for Flamingo Valley at siglap, I buy too, even though just next to it is a cemetery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shespawn
    im sure if the price is right, pple dun care abt whether it used to be a cemetery anot. If someone sell me dirt cheap for Flamingo Valley at siglap, I buy too, even though just next to it is a cemetery.
    thought flamingo valley already en bloc ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by proud owner
    thought flamingo valley already en bloc ?
    yes has been enbloc already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shespawn
    yes has been enbloc already.
    used to visit a friend there ..i didnt like it at all ..somehow the layout of the buidling didnt allow and kind of wind flow thru the unit .. always damn warm indoor

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    Quote Originally Posted by wkang1970
    5577, can it be that near cemetry gd fengshui?

    Lately i also have a lot of friends buying potong pasir, look like this area will be happening soon.
    like that ah... potong pasir will be PAP in no time at all. the govt very cleber one. they will re-draw the boundaries of woodleigh and leicester to be included in potong pasir for the incoming condo richies to fight the HDB-dwelling anti-PAP people. simple logic: condo property buyers DO NOT want a bad economy in any way, so the PAP is the lesser evil.

    next up, HOUGANG!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    I'm facing the pool...towards the direction of Woodleigh station.
    No visible progress on site this week as I'd drove by in the morning.

    Btw, think we are both on the same block No. 2, just facing opposites direction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    No visible progress on site this week as I'd drove by in the morning.

    Btw, think we are both on the same block No. 2, just facing opposites direction.
    Haha!!! Yah... I checked and I'm at blk 2! Hehe.... Check yr PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    Haha!!! Yah... I checked and I'm at blk 2! Hehe.... Check yr PM.
    Yups, mine is Unit 03 and yours should be Unit 08.

    Btw, didn't get your PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    Yups, mine is Unit 03 and yours should be Unit 08.

    Btw, didn't get your PM.
    Haha... just sent to you.

    TOP is supposed to be Aug 2013 but since it's sold out at pre-launch, dunno if developer will speed up the construction......

    You think it's possible for them to TOP in beginning 2012?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    Haha... just sent to you.

    TOP is supposed to be Aug 2013 but since it's sold out at pre-launch, dunno if developer will speed up the construction......

    You think it's possible for them to TOP in beginning 2012?
    May be possible for TOP end-2012. Think most buyers are on NPS so it will benefit them if the construction is completed early, and so will the CSC too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    May be possible for TOP end-2012. Think most buyers are on NPS so it will benefit them if the construction is completed early, and so will the CSC too.
    The earlier they finish, the earlier they get paid lo.... For 330 units, it should be possible to finish in 2.5 year, i suppose?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5577
    The earlier they finish, the earlier they get paid lo.... For 330 units, it should be possible to finish in 2.5 year, i suppose?
    Yup, as if you look at Centris with 610 units, took less than 3 years for TOP.

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    Centris' workmanship looks so cheap n plain not surprising it took a short time, moreover, Centris has no foundations, just stacking concrete n cement to come up wth that piece of crap. I think 8@woodleigh wud be a lot better than that.
    Quote Originally Posted by sleek
    Yup, as if you look at Centris with 610 units, took less than 3 years for TOP.

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