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Strange Horizons: Snake Island at dawn through the darkness of the storm
The eastward view from a location off Terumbu Pempang Laut, a patch reef between Pulau Bukom and Pulau Sudong in the Straits of Singapore, at 6.45 am on the first of June. The view sees the silhouettes...
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A view from a sandbar
It was against the backdrop of the drama of a passing storm playing out in the rapidly changing light of the morning, that I found myself standing on a sandbar four nautical miles out into the...
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Light after dark, Lower Peirce Reservoir
7.50 pm 7 June 2014, a long exposure at twilight, taken at Lower Peirce Reservoir. Filed under: Light after Dark, Photography Series, Quiet Moments, Singapore
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Early light over the strait
Another long exposure. This time to capture the early light over the Straits of Johor through another rain coloured morning, at 6.22 am on 7 June 2014. Filed under: Forgotten Places, Nature,...
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Dawn of the new Kallang
A view of the soon to be opened new National Stadium from across the Kallang River at dawn – the dawn perhaps of a new “Kallang Roar”. The stadium, part of the newly redeveloped Singapore Sports Hub,...
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Conversations of the lonely
That sense of loneliness often creeps out on most of us whenever we find ourselves alone in a strange and foreign city, a sense that award winning Korean artist Jieun Park does quite cleverly capture...
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Northern lights
This evening’s spectacular show of colours over Johor Bahru at 7.19 pm, as seen from the north of Singapore at Woodlands Waterfront - a stretch of the northern coastline running from the former Royal...
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At the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky …
7.01 am, 18 June 2014. The new National Stadium at Kallang, set to host its first event this weekend, is seen against the colours of the new day breaking through on a storm tossed morning. Filed under:...
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Beting Bronok: that bit of Singapore beyond the northern shores of Tekong
I have made a habit of getting up at ungodly hours of late. While I may not be alone on that in Singapore since the excitement of Brazil began last week, my motivation has little to do with the...
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Worshiping the sun in a place on which the sun has set
The view across the Tebrau Strait at 7 am on 21 June 2014, as seen from the seawall at Kampong Wak Hassan, an area that hosted a village by the sea , on which the sun has long set. Filed under:...
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Now, a theatrical culinary journey through Tanjong Pagar
A new and rather unique journey awaits participants this weekend at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, close to three years following the departure of the last train when the currently unused National...
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A return to our islands in the sun
Balik Pulau: Stories from Singapore’s Islands, as the name of the exhibition currently on at the National Museum of Singapore does suggest, takes us back to the islands of Singapore. Many of more than...
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Another new journey along the Rail Corridor
It was three years ago on 30 June 2011 that we waved goodbye to the Malayan Railway and its 79 years of trains running through to Tanjong Pagar Railway Station. The cessation of train services freed up...
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Behind that fast, furious, sky-high NDP salute
It is in a very brief but spectacular moment that five of Singapore’s most advanced fighter jets the F-15SG, with their afterburners on, will, from some 300 to 400 metres above Marina Bay, will wow the...
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Toa Payoh and a gunman called Hun Cher
It probably is hard to imagine Toa Payoh holding a reputation for being a hotbed of criminal activity – so much so that it was labelled as the “Chicago of Singapore” – a reference to the US city’s...
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An oasis recreated?
It is good to see that the long overdue Singapore Sports Hub has finally been completed. However, having been built over a part of Singapore that does hold many of my most memorable childhood...
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Get a sneak peek at the refurbished Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall
Event Listing Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall Open House Weekend For one weekend only, the curtain is up for a sneak peek at the refurbished Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall! On 19 and 20 July, be...
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A sneak peek at NDP 2014
I got an opportunity to have a sneak peek at what this year’s National Day Parade (NDP) had to offer at a rehearsal held on Saturday, taking a few photographs that accompany this post. The rehearsal...
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The forgotten stars of Singapore
It is good to be reading about Dr Siti Maryam Yaakub’s work on Singapore’s unseen and unheard of seagrass meadows in Saturday’s edition of The Straits Times. We did, as Dr Siti points out in the...
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Finding romance on Terumbu Semakau
At 4.30 am, less than 24 hours after the adventure or what perhaps was more of a near misadventure on Cyrene, on Sunday, I found myself once again on a boat headed south. The destination this time was...
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