Last Updated on 2016-09-25 , 9:45 am
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We all should more or less agree that Clementi Central is now a relatively lively place, with three shopping centres, an air-conditioned bus interchange and great food. What you might not know is that more than ten years ago, Clementi was far from what it is now—and if you’ve lived through that period, you’ll understand these eight memories that seemed so far, yet so near!
It has the smallest bus interchange ever
Just imagine this: the queue for a bus is so damn long that it goes all the way out of the bus interchange, into the HDB shops around it. Yeah, that was how small it used to be then. Of course, a temporary interchange was then built, but…
It has the farthest temporary bus interchange from the MRT station ever
Okay, maybe not the farthest, but the walk from the MRT station to the temporary bus interchange is at least five minutes. But that’s not the worst: the worst is that it’s not sheltered. How did we survive that period?
The MRT station is crowded AF
Without Dover MRT Station then, people had to alight at Clementi MRT Station to take a bus to Singapore Polytechnic. And with NP, NUS and SIM students all having to alight there, it’s almost impossible to walk in the station during peak hours.
The buildings then looked old
Whether it’s Clementi Theatre or Empress Cinema, some of the buildings looked like they were sheltered from the rain. Even without looking at any images, I can already visualize the black stains on the buildings, like they had come out from a horror movie.
The walk to any places would make you sweat like crazy
Want to makan in A&W? Walk ten minutes under the sun. Want to buy something in Big Bookshop? Walk five minutes under the sun, and take the shaky lift. While you still have to walk the same distance now, you’ll at least cut through shopping centres and have the air-conditioned air cooled you down before you continue your journey.
There was no shopping mall
If you consider Empress Cinema and Clementi Theatre as shopping malls, then yes, there were. If not, no, my friend: it’s a town filled merely with shops that might not even have air-conditioner.
There was only one supermarket there…
…and it was crowded AF. Now, at least there’re two, with one inside Clementi Mall.
There were pasar malams that make the bus interchange even smaller
There was this love-hate thingy about pasar malan in Clementi then: on one hand, we liked everything about pasar malams. On the other hand, it was usually just beside the bus interchange, making it even more cramped. We can’t have the best of both worlds, eh?
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