today went great! except for the fact that i woke up at 6.40am which ruined my mood for hari raya prayers and the day ahead. tsk. finished prayers around 8.45am and straight drove atok home and went home for my undisturbed sleep. which i failed to coz mother blast the radio to malaysia's radio station which played disgusting all malay songs. whatapheck? there goes my half an hour on my bed twisting and turning. headed to atok house at 12pm and had a feast!
sorry, no pictures. since everyone (including me) was so lazy to snap some pics. tsk
i'll be heading to school tmrw to purchase school books and head to arab street to get the wolf's mask for cip performance. and guess what?! i still havent got my pay __ actually i could get it last friday. but since there was a $60 shortage of cash i called the boss and he said he'll get to it soon. funny thing is that, he is in Vietnam now. again, whatapheck -.-
ANYW, i did a search on flickr on Singapore when i came across this abondoned house picture. its at botanical garden. the name of the abandoned house is Tyersall Road House. that was the house me and my friends were trying to find but to no avail. infos about the house are below!
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The history of Istana Tyersall After moving to Johor from Singapore, the Maharaja wanted to maintain a presence in Singapore and had Wong Ah Fook build him a palace on an extensive property next to the Botanical Gardens.When it was completed, it was officially opened with a grand ball, which gave him the opportunity to hold another extravaganza. While others Malay rulers might look down their noses at him,he nevertheless impressed them with the display of his wealth and influence and his access to European society. The new Istana Tyersall actually replaced an older palace by the same name that had been burnt down some years before. It was declared opened by Governor Sir Cecil Clementi at a ball attended by the leading lights of Singapore and Johor society. The architect was Dato Yahya, who drew up the plans according to the wishes of the late Sultanah Fatimah.
Newspapers reports tell us that the contractor was Wong Ah Fook Messrs. Howarth Erskine executed most of the ironwork and Messrs John Little & Co carried out the upholstering.
The place is presumably still standing, sheltered behind a much overgrown part on Tyersall Road. The Singapore Free Press 5 Dec 1892: The New Palace at Tyersall, for Palace it is, stands in a commanding position on the summit of a hill.... The building is rectangular in shape, being 210 ft by 174 ft deep, with a central courtyard. It is in the Corinthian style of architecture, freely treated, with a red-tiled roof and a tower nearly seventy feet high in the centre... The large portico is seventy feet long and there is ample accomodation for carriages on the Grand Terrace. The Entrance Hall is well proportioned, a broad flight of steps leading to the first floor. To the right of the Entrance Hall are waiting rooms and offices, and to the left the spacious Dining Hall seventy by twenty eight, but looking perhaps by reason of its size, rather out of proportion as regards the height. Extracted from Wong Ah Fook, Immigrant, Builder and Entrepreneur.

Sultan Abu Bakar - Owner of Istana Tyersall(1833 - 1895)
Unfortunately New Tyersall was destroyed by a fire reported at 2:45 am on September 10th,
1905. The cause of the fire was faulty electrical wiring.




1958 Tyersall House
OK! im getting freaked out. check this site if u wna know more:
http://www.api.sg/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=1