Shunfu Estate - Part 3 - Recreation for residents

There's a community club for residents in Shunfu Estate and around Thomson Area. Community Club is a centre in the heartlands where residents can learn some courses like foreign languages, flower arrangements, cooking classes, self improvement skills, etc.


I learn some flower arrangements and gifts wrapping in the community club near where I stay. There's also facilities for sports.

This is a resident corner where it is normally located at the ground floor of some HDB Apartment Bocks. The corner serves as a learning centre for arts for children, karoke for residents, etc. It is different from the community club in size and facilities.

A small amphitheatre is always located near the resident corner where residents can watch performance or perform there.

In every other estate, there are same facilities as the above.

Community Club

This area used to be a sleepy small village with many attap houses. Attap houses are houses with attap leaves as their roof and the name attap is named after the tree.


I remember seeing cows and goats in here when I was a very young child. Now flats are spotted here. I used to stay around this area but shifted out when my brother bought a flat and my other sisters and myself got married and got our own home too. This area is very old at least more than 30 to 40 years old. The flat that I used to stay are all demolished, I will talk about it at later post. I will post a photo of my old home in later post.

This area is known as Whampoa named after a well known Chinese named Hoo Ah Kay, Whampoa (1816-1880). You can view his history from here.

This is Whampoa Community Club where residents can come here to meet up or join any activities that the CC organises. Noticed the name of the CC are in four different languages, Malay, Chinese Tamil and English. We are a multi racial country and the CC is for all races.



Some of the activities organised by the CC.

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