haunted staircases

let me tell you about this place. it is the corner shop at the two-storey block along kim tian road, on the side nearer to tiong bahru road.

my first memory of this shop was that it was the angie cake shop, and very long ago every saturday/sunday i would buy the bar-like cake from the shop.

then it became four leaves, at a time when the logo for four leaves was still pointed leaves, and not the circular ones as it is now. we would always buy the fruit cake from four leaves for every occasion thinkable.

both of these cake shops moved to tiong bahru plaza in the end, and four leaves went on to become even more high-class.

back to this shop - it's a sichuan/shanghai eatery now. i can no longer remember clearly what happened between four leaves and this eatery. i think somewhere along the line it became a shoe shop that i never visited. but anyway, the shop just kept changing from owner to owner.

right now, it's an eatery that no one visits. and this photo isn't the signboard of the eatery. it's actually the very first and original signboard of the very first owner of the shop i guess. that's even before angie, before my earliest memory of the place. the renovation of this eatery wasn't complete, and so i happened to see this signboard and capture a glimpse of the beginnings of this shop space.

no one patronises this eatery because two shops down the block it's a cheaper economic rice eatery; three shops down it's 7-eleven; five shops down it's another economic rice eatery; about 400m down tiong bahru road it's the market's hawker centre; and another 10m away from the market it's a nicer-looking shanghai eatery.

oh and just around the corner of this shop is a very dark place with trees and an altar deep inside that glows red at night. and there're always some black cats lurking around.