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The FOO FAMILY 
OF ROBIN ROAD

80 Years of Memories for this and our future generations

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Welcome to our new
Foo Family Website!

Hello Everyone! 

This project has been a long time coming and is one that draws inspiration from Siang Ngee's Foo Family Directory 2021. I am very sure that we can all agree that his booklet is a well thumbed one. Thank You Siang Ngee! 

A special shoutout to Tuat Yien, for gently nudging me to start this (and patiently reminding me ever so often), and to Siang Tien, who has generously agreed to fund the first two years of our online existence. We will reach out once we approach the end of our 'free trial period' and at a later date also, to sort out the issue of legacy planning, so that this site remains available for our future generations, to know our history and to share in our past. 

In the past, and especially in our Robin Road days, we never had to have a reason to gather. We just did. Whether it was to have regular weekday night dinners (during the 373 Bukit Timah era), or to play a round of badminton in the carpark (in the 2 Robin Road days) with the fence as our net, or to run out all at once with joy, whenever we woke up to a morning of floods all around us. (which seemed to happen very often!) We always gathered. There was always laughter, and there was always joy. Although technology can never replace all that, it is our hope that this website will provide a venue, if you will, for us to meet up, to chat, to share wonderful stories from our past, and at the very least, to pool together our photos and memories of those Good 'Ol Days. This will be a private website, with entry to its pages being password protected. 

How can you contribute and be a part of our online meeting space? Simply Whatsapp or email me your photos (with captions if possible), or stories or any news that you would like to share, and I will upload them as soon as I can. A short story or a long one, I am very sure it will be read with great enthusiasm. As our focus is purely on connecting and sharing, the quality of photos don't have to be of the best quality. A quick photo of the photo using your handphone will suffice. I have also turned on the comments function so that we can interact on any photo or news or story directly on the website.

 

So let's get started shall we? I look forward to receiving your contributions! Here are our contact details :

Whatsapp us on : 9638-0852 (Min Shu)

Email to : foofamilyofrobinroad@gmail.com

See everyone soon!

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PHOTO : NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SINGAPORE

THE BEGINNING, THE ACS CONNECTION AND MORE...
by
Foo Siang Ngee

THE BEGINNING

The first FOO pioneer, as far as our family  was concerned, was my Great Grandfather Foo Wah Hou, or Grandfather for some of you. He was a Chinese physician...

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A friend shared this with me sometime back. Dad and his father were classmates and he discovered this in the ACS School Magazine of 1950. It was a little surreal to read the words of my then 18 year old father. Reading this made me realise why my writing style is the way it is. Here are his two contributions to the school magazine - the first titled "COOKING YOUR OWN MEALS" by Foo Chee San Standard VII C and the second THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BANANA NOTE

Just in ....

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photos from Foo Chee Yong

Our very first contribution!

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