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Barefoot in the park
There was a time when there seemed to be little need for fancy footwear in playing the beautiful game. As kids, many of us ran around the field, kicking a ball with nothing but our bare feet. It was...
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The last rubber tree
It is in a part of Singapore struggling to hold on to times the modern world has discarded that we find a remnant of forgotten days – a tree, said to be the last of the rubber trees, which is one of...
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Annie Leibovitz at the ArtScience Museum
On now at the ArtScience Museum is Annie Leibovitz – A Photographer’s Life, 1990 – 2005, a retrospective showcase featuring some 200 works of celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz. The exhibition,...
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The flicker of tradition
It is in the flicker of the sea of candlelight that illuminates the compound of the Church of St. Joseph in Victoria Street, that we see a side of Singapore that seems lost to us, one that lies buried...
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Fields of gold and more
The Gardens by the Bay’s tulips are right at this moment, in full bloom and there will be just a few days to catch them before the next round of replanting commences. The tulips, at the Flower Dome,...
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Singapore Landscapes: the tortoise in the early light of day
It was in the soft light of a storm washed morning on the first of May that I found myself taking in the quiet beauty of less visited part of Singapore, an island, Kusu Island, just 15 minutes away by...
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A window into a Singapore we have discarded
It may well be on the island from which the early building blocks of modern Singapore was obtained that we will find the last reminders of a way of life the new world it built has rendered irrelevant....
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Early light
6.29 am, 10 May 2014, Kampong Wak Hassan. Filed under: Forgotten Places, Nature, Photography Series, Sembawang, Singapore, Sunrises
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The final mile
A last reminder perhaps that’s left of an age when distance markers played an important role in Singapore is a milestone marker that was uncovered quite recently, having long been hidden behind a tree....
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美In: Work, Play, Love from Korea
One of the things maintaining a blog in Singapore does do is the opportunities it does provide to broaden one’s experiences, such as having an opportunity to mingle with a very fashionable crowd at...
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The festive face of Ubin
It is during two Taoist festivals celebrated in a big way by the Pulau Ubin Fo Shan Teng Tua Pek Kong Temple (乌敏岛佛山亭大伯公庙), the Tua Pek Kong festival celebrated around Vesak Day in May, and the Hungry...
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Wet and wild along the Rail Corridor
Photographs taken at yesterday’s rain-soaked run along the Rail Corridor. Known as the Green Corridor Run, what is turning out to be an annual event sees thousands descend on the former rail corridor...
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Windows into Singapore: finding light in the darkness
7.06 am under the Esplanade Bridge. A sight that greets the eyes every morning under the Esplanade Bridge: a group of Falun Gong practitioners who seek spiritual enlightenment in the darkness of the...
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Dawn by the strait
The colours of the dawn, at 6.35 am on 25 May 2014, seen painting the lightening sky over the Johor Strait (or Tebrau Strait). The area by the sea where the former Kampong Wak Hassan had once been,...
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Strange Horizons: reflections on the alien invasion at the bay
Maybe now not such a strange horizon – the view of the alien structures that have invaded the new world at Marina Bay’s Garden’s by the Bay, reflected off the Dragonfly Lake. The structures are...
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Strange Horizons: seeing the future
The future world does seem to have arrived in Singapore. Rising out of what used to be the old harbour is a new world, the seeds of which were really sown at the end of the 1960s. It was in 1967 that...
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Light in the darkness
Light in the darkness after the storm, 6.41 am, Lower Seletar Reservoir, 28 May 2014. Filed under: Nature, Nee Soon, Photography, Photography Series, Seletar, Singapore, Sunrises, Yishun
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What’s cooking on the museum’s front lawn
The front lawn of the National Museum of Singapore seems to be a staging ground for some rather unusual and un-museum like happenings of late. It was just last year that Malaysian artist Sharon Chin...
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Colours of dawn 31 May 2014
Colours of dawn, 6.31 am, 31 May 2014, as seen at the unmanicured beach of Kampong Wak Hassan. Filed under: Nature, Photography Series, Quiet Moments, Sembawang, Singapore, Sunrises
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Thread bare at Hermès
Threads are being laid bare at Hermès Liat Towers. Fortunately, it is not on items on boutique’s racks but on the Third Floor - an art space Hermès has had since 2006, for a rather interesting...
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