Singapore Places

Many roads in Singapore are  also named after various items, cities or simply one reason or another.

Even Singaporeans are unaware of the existence of some of the roads!

Do you know while there is a Sunset Way at Clementi, there is also a Sunrise Way off Yio Chu Kang Road? 

Road of Fruits

Somewhere off Upper Serangoon Road, there are two minor roads which are interestingly named after fruits: Lorong Lew Lian (罗弄榴莲) and Lorong Ong Lye (罗弄黄梨). The reason is unknown, perhaps in the past there were durian and pineapple plantations around the area. Jalan Durian can be found on Pulau Ubin. There was once a Lorong Koo Chye (罗弄韮菜) at Upper Paya Lebar, but it became defunct when Tai Seng-Ubi was developed into an industrial estate.

Elsewhere at Katong, there is a Lorong Nangka (Jackfruit in Malay), Mangis Road(Manggis is Mangosteen in Malay), Rambai Road, Duku Road, Chiku Road, Langsat Roadand Rambutan Road (all tropical fruits).

At MacPherson, there is a network of “fruit-tree” roads which include Lichi Avenue (Lichi is a variant spelling of litchi, or lychee), Cedar Avenue (Cedar trees, native in Southeast Asia and Australia, produce bluish fruits that are poisonous to humans), Mulberry Avenue(Mulberry is native in subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and Americas), Angsana Avenue(common tree found in Singapore with a flat disc-shaped fruit), Kenanga Avenue(Kenanga is the Indonesian name for Ylang
-Ylang, a perfume tree with black fruits) andBelimbing Avenue (Belimbing is the Indonesian name for starfruit).

Road of  Bananas

A set of connected roads near Beauty World, Upper Bukit Timah, used banana (pisang in Malay) as names. They are called Lorong Pisang Asam (sour in Malay), Lorong Pisang Batu (stone), Lorong Pisang Emas (gold), Lorong Pisang Hijau (green), Lorong Pisang Raja (king) and Lorong Pisang Udang (prawn). Jalan Pisang is located at Kampong Glam.

Roads of Poets

The roads at Teacher’s Estate, Yio Chu Kang Road, are all named after famous poets and philosophers. There are three roads named after Chinese poets, namely Li Po (李白)Avenue, Tu Fu (杜甫) Avenue, Tung Po (苏东坡) Avenue. Iqbal Avenue is named after Muhammad Iqbal, a Muslim poet and philosopher who lived in British India from 1877 to 1938.

Li Po Avenue

Roads of Nuts

At Bukit Panjang neighbourhood, a series of minor roads, drives and crescents are named after nuts, namely Almond, Cashew, Chestnut and Hazel.

Family Structure in China: One Child Policy

China has a One Child Policy in the society to limit its rapid population growth. However, there are many effects on the Chinese society because of this policy. One of the effects is the unbalanced sex ratio. China has a tradition of preferring boys over girls because boys can carry down the family line, unlike girls, once married and will forever belong to her husband's family. This will lead to discrimination against girls and they may be aborted so they will not be born. If girls are borned, the families cannot give birth to another child because of the One Child Policy. Generally, the Chinese are biased towards boys, just because they want their family name to be brought down. Another effect is families will abandon or send their unwanted child for adoption. Most of the unwanted children are girls because the Chinese prefer boys to girls. Overmore, they believe that their unwanted child would have better life in an orphanage than staying with their biological parents. However, this resulted in orphanages being overcrowded and thus, the orphanages have difficulty meeting the children's basic needs. Some couples desire boys but gave birth to a girl instead so they did not report to the authority and secretly abandon or send their unwanted child to an orphanage. Because of the One Child Policy, the rate of abandonment and adoption increase. From these two effects, we can see that the One Child Policy has negative effects on the Chinese society.

-Kah Ghee (15)

Family Structure in China

Right now because of a very large population, China has implemented a One Child Policy. This policy allows each couple to have only one child. I feel that this will unbalance the Chinese society in the long run. Because that one child has to not only provide for his parents, but also for his grandparents and maybe even great-grandparents. Also, he would have to support his own family and maybe even his wife's parents. Imagine supporting so many people by yourself! It will be very tough for the child to survive while supporting so many people. If this goes on, people will be struggling to survive and future leaders of China would not be able to cope with the stress of trying to support their family.

- Jessie (2)

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