Sounds Of Music

LONG-TIME TIONG BAHRU RESIDENTS and bird hobbyists would know of the corner where birds in cages were hung up on a tree next to the coffee shop at Block 53, filling the space with their melodic chirping.

The housing block no lSounds Of Musicnger exists, as it has since been converted to the Link Hotel. The bird-singing corner, which started in the 1960s, went silent as bird lovers stopped visiting when the area was being redeveloped.

The bird corner was first made popular by Dutch journalist and bird lover Guus van Bladel in the late-1980s. His articles about the bird arena soon drew reporters from other countries including the United States and Japan.