www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

No matter how busy we are, it is always good to come together for a meal especially with family, extended family and friends. This is something that seems simple enough to organise but if you have been around organising things you know that there will be often times where folks could not make it. Getting together is one thing but finding a good or unique location and good food is another. Human enterprise can be mind-boggling and our search for a "never been there" place led us to the end of the earth. If Singapore is the earth, then Sembawang is the end of the earth. Like the gospel that will reach the ends of the earth, we got to Sembawang. There is an open space where you can park your cars and if you are a biker then there is no better place as you can ride straight into the place and showcase your bikes.  There is a reason why this place is called the "Handle Bar". Several Harley Davidson were already parked there for us to og...

Sembawang is the northernmost point of Singapore and is actually the nearest point to Malaysia. It has a rich history and colonial architecture still remain there today. Although it has a suburban residential area, there are military, industrial and recreational facilities there. It once hosted a major British naval base (sine 1938) and still has port facilities handling regular shipping traffic there today. It was previously where all our vehicles came through from car carriers. It was once the site of Nee Soon rubber estate. In 1968, the naval base was handed over to the Singapore Government who converted it into a commercial dockyard as Sembawang Shipyard. There was a time where nobody wanted to live there when allocation for HDB flats were given  but today it is bustling with activities - as good as if not better than many elsewhere since all highways were connected. There are many interesting things to discover at Sembawang and the peripheral area...