-PRITAM SINGH- Eunos Vista Friends —————————— In my first ter | The Workers’ Party
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Eunos Vista Friends
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In my first term as an Aljunied GRC MP about 10 years ago, I used to carry out my estate walks in the Eunos Vista precinct on weekday nights. In doing so, I got to know some of the residents who frequently congregated at the void decks of the blocks in the precinct. Blk 104 was one such block, which had a senior corner and TV console at the void deck. Back then, Stephen and his friends would often be drinking Chinese tea there in the evenings, and they would never hesitate to invite me to join them - which I almost always did, unless I was transiting by to keep to an appointment with another resident elsewhere etc.
As the years went by, I saw less of some of the senior citizens who gathered at the void decks as they got older and moved on. So it was a special night of housevisits today when I renewed acquaintances with Stephen and other seniors who I first got to know those years back. They helped me out a lot in my early days as an MP giving me useful feedback about the precinct including little pointers about pestilence, safety hazards etc. These tips, and other things to look out for have stayed with me ever since. So when an ill-fitting IC (inspection chamber) cover was spotted by a housevisit volunteer, it reminded me that this was exactly the sort of safety hazard that would have been pointed out by the seniors like Stephen who had the lay of the land in Eunos. I do miss those Chinese tea drinking sessions, and recall them with much fondness.
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