From Bugis to Civic District 4

CHJIMES, formerly Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ Victoria St). I'd been inside once on World Red Cross Day when I was in Primary School. Besides being a convent, it was also a girls'school (primary and secondary). According to older folks, some poor who couldn't afford to keep their infant daughters either due to social-economic reasons or superstitions would leave their children at the door step of the Convent. The girls would be brought up by the Catholic nuns in the convent.

Sometime in the nineties, the school was moved out and the building now houses eateries, shops and bars. Is has become a tourist attraction.

C.H.J.I.M.E.S. along victoria st