History
Bukit Batok had started the earthworks since 1979 with the first HDB estate comes up at Blk 2xx in 1983, followed by 1xx and 6xx in 1985. The blocks at Bukit Gombak were only completed in 1987, followed by Block 3xx in 1989.
Read more about this topic: Bukit Batok New Town
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,—for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)