Last time when i was a kid taking mrt was really gai gai. So happy. Now everyday take train to work...sianzzz

this one guy with a cam realised the potential of old footage in 30 years time and started filming random stuff

Feels weird watching a video of a point in time when nobody was looking down at a phone where ever you looked.

Who would have thought when filming this on the early 90s and he/she like: "I think the people in the future will like it and mesmerize the moment that we have now"

When life was simpler and slower. Singapore still had plenty of space and not as crowded.

An era when our society was less toxic.

Back when Singapore wasn't so sterile... And I much preferred it. The country felt like it had more character than the Asian-Dubai feeling it has today.

similar yet different.. that trip on the east west line brought back so many memories!! a lot of the open spaces are now condominiums and flat. thanks for capturing all this.. in Singapore what Ferris Bueller said really is true: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

Back then in the 90s mrt ends at Yishun then later on Woodlands . Cabs from Amk to Tpy only $4 - $6 . To central orchard only $10 - $12 . Most food are priced $1.50 - $2 . Foodcourt $2.50 - $3.50 . With no iphones . Ppl connect with pagers where usually will received in certain emergency ( eg . Where r u ? Buying things ) One seldom gets distracted in daily life and able to admire sceneries around them and actually talk to people . ( becos thats how time can be passed as well ) no social media etc . No one will disturb you when you are out and about . Like dating , watching movies etc . Also watching sunrise from the beach is what many do . And then hold Bbq at East coast park + chalet . Pay phones are everywhere . And we are Really great at remembering numbers . ( house nos . and pager numbers of who and who ) . And if you want to talk to someone need to get the house number and can talk for hours . Actually talking . ( there is a personal touch to it ) Not to mentioned many food are suoer delicious and Authentic . You have all the wok-hei you want + throw in the authenticity + making the food ingredients from scratch etc . And most food stalls are manned by locals or the actual boss . ( now ? You can take a look around and see the difference ) - those who never had that before will Never know what they missing out . And disco yeah we do have Canto / Sparks / Fire etc . Back then way more happening than now . Only in the 2000s does the clubbing culture actual expand ( Also better than now ) . With the likes of Mdm Wong . Double 0 . Orange . Sultan of Swing . Thats stretch of clubbing road n area . Games were Nintendo and super nintendo and Sega . Very engaging . Every gamers hope to complete levels complete the games . And it takes skills . With only a few chances you have to complete the game with that . Dont have save point where you can save the game . Retail job that time is $1600 - $1800 . Not much have change . Now also same . Probably 2k now ? Fast food joint is around $1200 . Now is $1600 . See . Not much diff . But lots of things gotten ex . Trains are smoother and less crowded . Air is fresher . Even the hdb units are bigger and more airy and allowing more natural lights esp the corridors . Nowadays corridors are dark even at the lift landing . Not to mention tiny area to air the clothes where there's no sun ... blocked by the various columns . In the past hdb blocks is airy and can be easily accessed from all corners . Now only one of 2 path opened up .. the rest are blocked by bushes or grass patches . You want to cross to the other building you have to walk one big round . 90s life . Idylic . Stress free . Less crowded . Great food . Fresh air .

I only visited Singapore about 5 times. Watching this somehow made me shed a tear, because while Singapore thrived, and it was undeniably for the better, something about the essence of the video, I felt like was lost forever.

There’s tons of space back then

I was born in Singapore in July 92. My parents moved back to the UK shortly after having lived there for 3 years. This is almost like seeing what my childhood could have been like in a parallel universe.

I would give up 20 years of my life, just to get back to the 90s. No joke. Nothing can compare to the 90s once you been thru it.

Actually come to think about it, during that time, people who does videography as their hobby and not for social media, it kinda of ‘respect’. It different. Can imagine, they have to carry that kind of equipment and not phones kind of technology....

1992 was the year i completed my NS in the combat engineers, putting behind those dark years and entering NUS as a student again. Life was so refreshing and full of zeal. We were all so full of hope and aspiration for the future. i wonder young people today still feel this way.

Wow, I've always wondered what Tampines looked like before the malls were built.

Even though I was born in the 1988s, I still miss the old Singapore.

I was not born back then but happy to see this footage. Singapore has changed quite a lot.

Singapore was a better place then. life was so much more bearable.

I love to see older days like this! Brings back the nostalgic memories even though I was only 1 year old in 1992! People are happier and not stressing

at that time singapore was so beautiful

I loved that city as it was back then. Everywhere had such positive energy and the motto seemed to be "We're the best but how can we make it even better?"

Thanks for uploading! It brings back memories. Life was very simple. Trains and buses not crowded like now. Note that it was middle of the day, train was spacious! Today, seats are a bonus!

I was 18 years old then lol everything seemed so new then. but looking at the videos now i find it surreal that i was part of that hahahah . thanks for this mate

Thanks for this video. Though i was only born in the 1990s. I really miss living back in this era compared to the 2020s when life was so much more happier and peaceful.

I miss the 90s in general, but Singapore in the 90s was something else that I really miss!

Back then life was so simple and everyone is communicating with each other cos back then there was no smartphone 😄. If can travel back time to the past I would like to go back to the 90s.

Some childhood stories to share: You guys recognised the old Kallang Gas building at 1:30? There was always black smoke coming out from it. So one day while passing the area on the bus with my grandma, I asked her what the building was. She went ‘Oh that one? Its where they cook naughty children. Next time, if you are naughty I’ll ask them come and catch you.’ Sure enough, I was an angel the next 1 week lah. 😁

God bless your heart for this. 2 weeks away from Tekong NS then. I'm 48 now and already this feels like a different lifetime. It truly breaks the heart. I read the other comments and I had to edit. I feel like I met long lost friends here. Reading what you all wrote brought tears to my eyes. God bless you all. Please take care of yourselves. Hand on heart, I love you all.

I was born in this era, 2 years prior. So nice to see what life was back then. Glad to be able to reminisce the past via these videos. Long live 🇸🇬 From your neighbour across the Causeway.

To think I wasn't even alive when this was taken. Many things have changed, for better or for worse. But things will always change. I look forward to seeing the changes Singapore will go through in the next few decades. Also, awesome quality for a camera in 1992, that thing must've been a pain in the ass to carry.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful clip. Brings back so many memories. It's sad to see that so much greenery was lost in the name of development.

I was born in 1998. I'm 23 now. Watching this made me realize how was Singapore realy like back then in the coming modern days. Should appreciate what our grandparents and great grandparents has been through don't u think guys?

Came back here after about a year, and suffice to say, a wondrous 30 exact years have passed by since the recording of this video. A lot has changed.

Singapore is trying to really hard to fill up this island with so many things, even the wild boars and cobras are expressing unhappiness!

Lost my mom in 1992. Those were the years.

Thank you so much for filming these and posting them! 1992 I was 5 and these are my childhood memories. I remember every single station and the surrounding buildings! I’m so glad someone filmed it because most of it are completely gone. Bedok doesn’t look like this anymore.

Thank you for uploading Mr Hicks!

Its like we are travelling back time❤

i saw my old secondary school building ! Manjusri! I am so touched!!! Beautiful music Saint-Saens Swan. Thank u so much!

This was the Singapore I fondly remember. Rushing home after school on non-air-conditioned SBS bus to watch SBC series at 7pm

I had teary eyes watching this

Some of the scenes, especially the underground MRT and some of the neighbourhoods, pretty much remain unchanged.

This is treasure. Brings back so many memories of my childhood days when I had to commute from Serangoon Garden to St Anthonys Primary School in Bukit Batok in the 90s. Any Anthonians watching? Thank you so much for sharing this video.

thank you for uploading you video recordings. they bring back fond memories 🙏🏻

I like the 1992 Singapore. I don’t like the 2012 Singapore. It is so unrecognizable now. What’s left behind stay only in our memories. Thank u so much to this video. It was happy days back then.

I am glad that this gets recommended to me.... Singapore was more beautiful back then, however Singapore is still beautiful right now.... I think that people should start appreciating more of what they have and so that they will not take what they have for granted

and now, 6 years after this video. You have the TEL line, soon to be completed to changi airport! I love the future of singapore's MRT, the plans for 2035+ look awsome!

Salute to the guy who take this video. Thank you sir, this is definitely something I'll save and show to my kids

Those who were the times when you cld freely video with vhs camcorder without people accusing you of being suspicuous or sneaky. Life was so carefree careless. No snitching, no stomping on one another. Ironically, we didnt have everything but we were sufficed and contented.

I guess KZfaq is feeling nostalgic this week

A time where you could see more locals than foreigners.

Simple life back then.

thanks a lot for the video. brought me back to when I was in Spore for studies. a lot of sweet memories from back then.

I’m over here thinking about that cat 😩 It’s probably gone by now..

7:57 and 8:07 :Was looking for these: if you look carefully, you can see viaduct stub ends on the viaducts leading to/from Changi Depot; those would later be used for the Changi Airport branch, which at that time hasn’t been constructed yet but have already been planned for.

Oh my, bring back good memories man. Kudos for having a good camera back then. Cool. Taken on 28/11/1992, when I was 5 years one day old. 😂

This really brings back memory.. So much space.. Playing monkey bar in the mrt.. Running around.. Left right centre u know its a local ur looking at.. We are more tolerant towards each other.. We make noise together, we stay quiet together.. These days We are overpopulated .. I missed the times when there are not many foreigner on our soil.. I dnt hate em.. Its just globalisation and we change or be left out.. But given a choice, I would rather do without.

3:36 Chai Chee road ., my old neighbourhood.,, sweet memories.

If have time machine i want comeback to this year people live happyly no social media and viral

Wow! 1992! I love this view of Singapore! At 2:53, you have captured my high school! I was probably in this building when you were filming it! Geylang Methodist Secondary School! Wow!

Thanks for the video. I love this. I was a 13yrs old boy in 1992.

My time was stayed there from 1990~1999 very nice place indeed.back my memories. Thanks

Wow there seems to be more landed houses back then and less HDBs.

Thank you for this. That was the last time I saw SG before I went abroad to uni.

Its kind a mad ya know. How much we've progressed. Although I wasn't born back then.. I only was born like 14 years after haha. It truly shows how much life has gotten better. Looking through the comments gave me shivers cos reading all the experiences the people have gone through really puts a smile on my face. "Life was so much easier back then" "it was less crowded". Ahh the things I would do to feel those things. But hey life goes on and we move on with the world. I can see myself in 10 years coming back to this very year and reminisce how unbelievably hard these 2 years were. And I would beat myself up for not being born in the 90's 😂. Thank u for sharing this video homie

Looking back from 2021 brings back memories

6:41 I still remember I was a small kid, me and my sister playing catching together then we shout so loudly suddenly the SMRT staff scolded we both then my mom also scolded we both too hahahahahahaha

Looks so familiar yet so strange, 2003 kid here, so i never seen all these before, but all the older ppl probably remember what sg looked like back then

I always frequent this stretch of mrt. Really amazing to see how it has transformed, especially the Bedok and Tampines hubs... still remember the old Bedok cinema building before it became Dijitsu mall and the Tampines Sports Complex before it became Our Tampines Hub. We might have lost the large swathes of unadulterated greenery but imo we exchanged it for modern day conveniences and amenities which i cant imagine living without now :)

First part of the video...the old Katong laksa store before it gets commercialised like now....sigh the good old days when my late Dad drove me and my family there for Laksa and Nasi lemak.... the quality and standard has dropped since then...

Thanks,,I really interested about long" ago's Singapore..I Indonesian but I really loved country of Singapore..

I am born 3 years before that video was taken! Good to see olden days of singapore

I was only 3 during that time and the world felt so mucb green than at our present time

The time when people brought newspapers and magazines around

Singapore is most beautiful in the 90s . Idylic peaceful not crowded . Lots of actual greenery around . Not as many high buildings or flats . Definitely Way much lesser Ft or whatevera . Cabs are way cheaper . Lots of things are much much cheaper . Everyone just seems happier . A place that we can actually call home and feel proud of .😊

thank you for capturing this glimpse of time in Singapore

i like how everyones still active here

Theres something so surreal about looking into a time before you existed yet everything seems so familiar

omg 1992 i was only in primary 2 then. such carefree childhood that i missed so much.

thank you youtube for recommending me this :>

I’m born in the year 2000. Didn’t really have much memory of what it looked like in the early 2000s. But I must say it feels weird... looking at videos taken when I wasn’t even born. At the real green city where there aren’t any concrete blocks everywhere. A large area of green, natural coconut trees just here and there. God I wish I was born earlier to enjoy such a beautiful SG instead of what we live in now...

Man the easy side is just full of construction now and no empty space, this is amazing footage

7:48 Upper Changi Road East where the Expo should be? Also could you link me to the uncut video please? Thank you.

Future proofing to the next level. Nearly 30 years and most of the MRT stations did not change much

The good old days, no android and iphone, but we still chill

So god damn nostalgic. Thank you for rolling back the memories. I love Sg as it is today, but I will never forget how much simpler life was back then. I was barely four when this video was taken, and much of my memory of a time gone by is now very very hazy. This is amazing.

Thanks for this...brings back memories of my teenage years.

10 years old only then, how time flies

I lived in singapore from 2011 to 2013 ..Love to singapore

Singapore has gone a long way proud of where weve come

there was so much greenery 😍

10:21 the old national stadium

Thank you for posting this especially for ones like me who are born in the 99s that are too young to remember the retro vibes back then. It’s really nostalgic & beautiful, life was really simple back then :)

i miss those times , you would watch the latest episode of PCK ,UOR, FRIENDS and the next day at school will talk about it. the way we made plans for the weekend and how we would meet up in orchard , all without HP

12:00 kfc at bugis village is still at this very same spot. 12:57 stamford primary school

Wow I really like the 80s and 90s of singapore but sad to say I was born in 2004

thanks for the video! finally got to see how my neighbourhood was like back in the 90s

Beautiful

Amazing