Airport Rd/ PLAB area

• sbst275

  20 Oct 05, 20:04

  Anyone knows what happened to all the kampong and payoh?
• redstone

  29 Oct 05, 22:43

  All cleared?
• sbst275

  29 Oct 05, 22:45

  Originally posted by redstone:

  All cleared?

  Now all wharehouses and Ind Est liao
  
  Kaki Bt and Tai Seng
• redstone

  30 Oct 05, 17:40

  Then you still ask?
• monkeybusiness

  30 Oct 05, 17:44

  Originally posted by redstone:

  Then you still ask?

  
• sbst275

  30 Oct 05, 21:06

  Originally posted by redstone:

  Then you still ask?

  I wanna ask, who knows where the heck is that payoh kah?
• redstone

  30 Oct 05, 23:22

  Paya Lebar means 'big swamp' in Malay.
  Same as 'toa payoh'.
  
  Paya is the original word.
  Payoh is the 'corrupted' version. Like Chinese Dialect pronounciation.
• sbst275

  31 Oct 05, 21:58

  Originally posted by redstone:

  Paya Lebar means 'big swamp' in Malay.
  Same as 'toa payoh'.
  
  Paya is the original word.
  Payoh is the 'corrupted' version. Like Chinese Dialect pronounciation.

  There used to be a swampy area, ppl used to call the area Bata ka