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to the Toa Payoh residents, their favourite place to hang out is mostly where their memory was made. when they are at their favourite place in their neighbourhood, they would always remember that that particular place is special to them since memories were made. not only that, when they are there, they would smile from the memory of the old times they had back then. they would regret moving out of that neighbourhood as they would feel like they are leaving their favourite place and they may not have the oppurtunity to re-visit their favourite place and smile to themselves.

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Feels like home... in the heartlands. By 1971, the swampland had become a self-sufficient town, where no housewife or child had to leave the neighbourhood for daily needs (Toa Payoh 1968) Once a swampland that squatters called home, Toa Payoh was the Housing Board’s (HDB) second new town, after Queenstown. Photographed in 1968, the lone temple, Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery, was the only piece of architecture that stood untouched during the massive construction of high-rise flats around IT. 1,5690 houses was done by den but it look like a slum-like appearance. ST PHOTO: ALI YUSOFF

During 1972, Queen Elizabeth took a tour there and was welcome by the residents who is who is proud of their new house.
And Toa Payoh is the first HDB town to have MRT station.

In 2014, the icpnic dragon at Toa Payoh Lorong 6 were demolished.
ST PHOTO: ALAN LIM

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what was your group's best takeaway from GI?
-> ⁠⁠⁠best take away is that we get to know how it is like for other people to be under the hot sun asking the residents to do the surveys while they would get rejected many times

what were the strengths and/or areas for improvement for your group?
-> our group members have to be more brave to approach strangers (haha)

what could groups do to ensure a better GI experience in the future?
-> different groups would have to go different areas as when various groups are interviewing strangers in the same area, the strangers would have answered the surveys by others groups by the time my group approaches them for an interview.