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The ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu 2012 Award

August 22, 2012, 8:59 am
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The Martell Cordon Bleu Heritage exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the celebrated name in Cognac and the ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu 2012 Photography exhibition drew to a close this evening. The closing of the exhibition at the Timeless Capsule , a temporary art gallery outside ION Orchard, also saw an awards ceremony [...]
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A memory of a forgotten time

August 23, 2012, 8:00 pm
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In the silence of a world that lies momentarily abandoned and forgotten, it is the glow of the breaking morn off the gentle undulations that is the surface of the sea that calls to me. The sea’s surface once broken by wooden structures of a village by the sea, is only broken by the silhouette [...]
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The spirit of ’68

August 26, 2012, 8:59 am
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1968 was a year that was of special significance for me, being one during which my sister and companion through most of my childhood arrived in the world and when a very special visitor, Mr John Gorton, the then Prime Minister of Australia visited my home in Toa Payoh. It was also the year when [...]
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Calm in the face of danger

August 26, 2012, 10:09 pm
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A Sunda Woodpecker in the fading light

August 27, 2012, 8:04 pm
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Reblogged from The Birds and the Bees: A sunda woodpecker seen in the fading light in the Ang Mo Kio Avenue 2 area just behind St. Nicholas Girls’ School. Filed under: Ang Mo Kio, Nature, Singapore
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The last time ever I saw your face

August 28, 2012, 7:40 pm
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In a Singapore that is changing too fast, it is not only places from the distant past, but also places that we have become acquainted with in more recent times to in more recent times, that are disappearing all to quickly. One such place is a little corner of the new Sembawang, a mostly residential [...]
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They only come at night!

August 30, 2012, 5:57 pm
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The second installment of the Night Festival which will be on this evening and tomorrow evening will be an exhilarating one on the basis of what was on show during a media preview of it on Wednesday. The highlight of it would most certainly be La Argentina for which Armenian Street will be closed to [...]
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A dying tradition lives under the light of the silvery moon

September 2, 2012, 8:30 pm
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The seventh month in the Chinese calendar is a month that is held with much superstition in a predominantly Chinese Singapore. It is a month when, as beliefs would have it, the gates of hell are opened and it’s residents return to the earthly world. It is a time when the air fills with the [...]
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Kids at the Conservatories

September 4, 2012, 3:30 am
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With the September school holidays upon us in Singapore, the Gardens by the Bay which has not seen any let up in the flow of visitors since it opened at the end of June, has been running what is the first of their school holiday programmes which they hope to extend to the future school [...]
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First Journeys, Last Goodbyes at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station

September 4, 2012, 9:59 pm
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For anyone interested in visiting Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, you will be glad to know that it will be opened for a motoring heritage exhibition this weekend (8 / 9 September 2012). Beside the vintage car display that will be put up by the Malaysia Singapore Vintage Car Register (MSVCR), there will also be a [...]
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The royal couple visits the new world

September 12, 2012, 1:14 am
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Photographs from the visit of the royal couple, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton to the Gardens by the Bay this morning. Many Singaporeans and members of the British community braved the blazing sun for a chance to catch a glimpse the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on a 3 [...]
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Looking sexy at 40

September 12, 2012, 9:30 pm
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A Singapore icon that has for much of its life been an instantly recognisable one is the Merlion, a creature which, much like Singapore, combines the best of two worlds. Conceptualised in the early 1970s for use in the promotion of tourism in what was a Singapore that was beginning to find its feet as [...]
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The other side of the moon

September 15, 2012, 12:29 am
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In a fast changing world in which there often are just little reminders of the past to cling on to, it is always good to come across old world traditions that have not been displaced by the new. One area in which we are able to see this is in the making of mooncakes by [...]
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The Merlion at 40

September 17, 2012, 5:05 pm
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A few more photographs of the Merlion during its 40th birthday celebrations, taken on the last evening of the light, sound and pyrotechnic display, Merlion & I: An Inspiring Journey on 16 September 2012. More information on the event can be found on my previous post ‘Looking sexy at 40‘. Filed under: Civic District, Events, [...]
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A secret hideaway

September 27, 2012, 3:00 am
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Lying in a quiet corner of Katong, is an old bungalow, a secret hideaway it may seem, that even with a very modern looking extension that it has recently gained, still exudes a charm it must have had when it was first built. Built at the turn of the last century, the house raised on [...]
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An invasion of pumpkins

October 3, 2012, 1:00 am
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Step into the Flower Dome, one of the two cooled conservatories at the Gardens by the Bay, this October and November and what will greet you is the surprise of the orange glow of 1,500 pumpkins, on show as part of the Autumn Harvest seasonal display at the Flower Field. The 850 square metre Flower [...]
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The Russians have landed

October 3, 2012, 9:30 pm
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It is always nice to discover a rare gem. One that I had the great pleasure of finding just last week is certainly a rarity – a group of dedicated musicians who produce strains that would seem more at home in the jazz clubs of New York City, than in Russia where they ply their [...]
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Marina Bay in the pink

October 6, 2012, 9:30 am
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Three landmarks, the ArtScience Museum, the Helix Bridge, and Marina Bay Sands Hotel, in the Marina Bay area, turned bright pink on Friday evening, coloured in a global effort that has seen some 200 well-known landmarks and monuments across the world such as the Taj Mahal, the Empire State Building and Harrods take on the [...]
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A dancer, an iron bed, and a war heroine

October 8, 2012, 10:30 pm
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And what has a dancer, an iron bed and a war heroine have to do with each other? Come Friday 12 October 2012, the dancer, award-winning dance choreographer, Tammy L Wong will give a ten minute self-choreographed performance which is an interpretation of a war heroine’s personal struggle and faith as she faced repeated acts [...]
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Patterns of a once familiar world

October 11, 2012, 5:45 pm
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The stretch of River Valley Road that starts at its junction with Tank Road and leads you to that grand edifice that is the MICA Building at its junction with Hill Street is one that I am familiar with through many encounters I have had with it in my younger days. It is one that [...]
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