What's This Place About?Located at 12 Tai Gin Road is the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall.
This building was initially a double-storey bungalow named Bin Chan House and belonged to a wealthy businessman Boey Chuan Poh. It was later bought by a rubber magnate Teo Eng Hock and named it Wan Qing Yuan (晚晴园).
This was for his aged mother, Mdm Tan Poh Neo so that she could have peace and happiness in her twilight years living in this house.
Dr Sun Yat Sen was later given this bungalow by Teo Eng Hock as the latter was a supporter for the Chinese revolutionary cause. The building was used for revolutionary activities, meetings and even as a refuge for revolutionaries when revolutionary uprisings failed.What's Interesting?
You should drop by this place when you are at Balestier as this memorial hall collates all the history of Dr. Sun’s involvement with Singapore when he was rooting for his revolutionary cause.
We wanted to be the proud descendents of Dr Sun.
Us trying to include ourselves as members of the Revolution Alliance for the Singapore Branch in the picture.In this villa, Dr Sun drafted the constitution of the Alliance, planned uprisings against the Qing Dynasty with other revolutionaries such as Huang Gang uprising, Guangxi Zheng Nan uprising, Yunnan He Kou uprising etc. This building was the headquarters of revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia.
Zheng Han and Rezal joining in the discussions about uprisings.Dr Sun also described Southeast Asia countries as the ‘mother of the Revolution’ to acknowledge overseas Chinese’s contributions.
Through this memorial hall, we have also learnt a lot of China's history. Some major events such as the Boxer rebellion, the Opium war was also recorded on the walls of this place.
This building is like a time capsule, capturing all the events in chronological order during Dr Sun’s lifetime. We were totally immersed in the history as we were led by the stories being told in each room. I think many parts of this building is wonderfully preserved. I especially like the tree that has lived past ages together with the bungalow. 
Most Singaporeans today might not know of such a part of history that we had a part to play in China’s revolutions. However, I felt that this building might serve a political agenda to depict Singapore’s mutual history with China. China today has a huge economy and it would do Singapore good for Chinese investments to flow into our country.
We could also see how life was like during Dr Sun's time. We could infer from the pictures that he made life better for the Chinese, sufficient food and development. 
Mavis wanting to eat the pau.
People were largely happy with their lives. (like how happy Ban Hock and Zheng Han is smiling)
Mavis wanting to eat the pau.
People were largely happy with their lives. (like how happy Ban Hock and Zheng Han is smiling)
there was a sugar cane juice maker, showing us some jobs that hawkers probably undertook- as sellers of sugar cane juice drink.
This building is now gazetted a national historical monument as a memorial hall, as it plays an important role to tell of Singapore’s culture and history about Dr Sun’s revolutionaries.
Author's Thoughts
When I first entered the building, i felt that the place has a lot of historical value and tells a lot of some of Singapore’s history with the presentation of pictures and involvement of Singapore in the Chinese uprising.
This building is now gazetted a national historical monument as a memorial hall, as it plays an important role to tell of Singapore’s culture and history about Dr Sun’s revolutionaries.Author's Thoughts
When I first entered the building, i felt that the place has a lot of historical value and tells a lot of some of Singapore’s history with the presentation of pictures and involvement of Singapore in the Chinese uprising.
This building is like a time capsule, capturing all the events in chronological order during Dr Sun’s lifetime. We were totally immersed in the history as we were led by the stories being told in each room. I think many parts of this building is wonderfully preserved. I especially like the tree that has lived past ages together with the bungalow. 
Most Singaporeans today might not know of such a part of history that we had a part to play in China’s revolutions. However, I felt that this building might serve a political agenda to depict Singapore’s mutual history with China. China today has a huge economy and it would do Singapore good for Chinese investments to flow into our country.We had a great time at this place, not only because it is air-conditioned, but due to the overwhelming of China history information. =D
