BRAS BASAH COMPLEX

Gems shine has been around for 20 over years. The boss told me that she first started out as an owner of a candy shop. After taking over a shop that was selling crystals, she started reading up on them and fortune telling and eventually started running the crystals business. The shop provides services such as fengshui reading, auspicious date selection and also baby names recommendations. Their services are based on the study of metaphysics, specifically the Chinese 5 element

1980年，百胜楼正式启业，四五层楼面的商场以书店云集为号召，容纳了约二十来间中英文书局。商业生态改变了，逛书店，今后就集中在一栋大楼里，不再穿街过巷。 自从百胜樓落成，书城音乐书局就开始营业了。 书局希望以音乐为灵魂，让音符传达思想、感情，因为音乐是无国界，无种族之分的一种共同的沟通符号。 除了中英文考级教材，辅助材料，还有各种中英文流行音乐、怀旧歌曲，艺术歌曲等。 我们也售卖各种音乐及歌曲的CD ,气功及武术、保健及健身的光盤，还有练习华文的字貼等等…… 种类繁多的囗琴，陶笛等小型乐器。以及一些精緻的小礼品。 也有不同款式的象棋、国际象棋、黑白𣗍、𣗍盘等。 同时提供一站式的打印服务，包括装钉，过膠。 经过三十年岁月淘洗，而今这栋大楼的业务内容更多元了。但书城音乐书局三十多年如一日，除了农历新年休暇，天天营业。书香散发的诱惑，古典的现代的，在书城音乐的书架上各花入各眼，也希望由这些勾引顾客的求知欲望，再掀起新时代的阅读风气。

Mr Hou Sou Ping has an aerospace engineering degree. He always had an interest for arts and painting ever since his secondary school days. In 2009, he decided to pursue this interest, leaving his job and opening a small gallery at Chinatown Point. Initially selling some of his own works, now Mr Hou mainly sells paintings by local artists. He told me that money making was not the main goal of Artcommune Gallery, but rather it is about building the nation identity. He also ment