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Tampines Central Community Complex, 866 Tampines St 83

Came back home late in a cab and so beautiful street light-ups once the cab turned into Tampines Avenue 5.

So busy with everyday stuff that I did notice the efforts the Town Council put in to welcome our Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong to inaugarate the opening of the Tampines Central Community Complex that was completed months ago.

Situated off Street 83 and Avenue 5, the richly blue facade of the complex was brightly decorated with tinkering lights, just like, if not better than the Orchard Road Christmas Light-up.

The grand opening was on Saturday, 1 October 2005 at 7:00pm, complete with pyrotechnics and fireworks that was seen and heard all the way from Hougang, as one cab driver told me.

His daughter alerted him and the whole family watched it from their 12th storey HDB apartment.

Not bad for Tampines as it scored another first with this opening of a community centre housed within a complex, with complete shopping and other facilities, from an under the void deck community centre to a sprawling complex.

About 2,000m2, the club is the first to have an inline hockey court and a skate sports cafe, food court, Cold Storage supermarket and childcare centre.

The centre cost a cool S$5 million to build with the grassroots organisation raising S$1.5 million by themselves.

Also, instead of a minister, was proud and excited to have our Prime Minister to be one to come all the way to Tampines to do the honour of officially opening the complex.

As quoted by CNA news, Mr Lee said, "I envy you a little bit because your CC is much than the older ones like in Ang Mo Kio and other parts of Singapore. But slowly we will upgrade and we will build, and we will make all parts of Singapore special, and we will have a home which we can all be really proud of, which will belong to all of us."

The night celebration continued outside with people shopping at white tents Pasar Malam or night market stalls, lined with food and household items.

With the colourful lights lined the long road from either directions, the whole place was so lively and cheerful.

We have made a good decision to choose Tampines as our home.