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The Royal Singapore Flying Club at Kallang
It isn’t only a playable surface, the tolerance that both players and spectators had for the rain, and the roar that has been lost with the building of the new National Stadium at Kallang. The Royal...
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A glance at Art Stage Singapore 2015
I love it when Art Stage Singapore comes around every January. Not only does the fair provide the opportunity to get in touch with the contemporary art scene, but it also provides hours of visual...
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Saving our bees
I was recently alerted to an initiative by a group of busybodies, perhaps more aptly bee-zy bodies, the aim of which is to have us in Singapore, who feel safe from bees only when their flight paths...
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Where once there were trees …
Where trees once spoke to me, and birds rejoiced in the colours of the new day, there will now be no tomorrows, for the songs of yesterday … The magic of the new day, 18 February 2012, corner of Gambas...
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Sand and a sargassum sea
The landscape of our southern seas, once of tiny islands, reefs and sandbars within which sea nomads and pirates took refuge, is one that has drastically been altered. Totems of the new-age now mark...
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What colours the full moon of Thai
Colouring the full moon during the Tamil month of Thai, which fell yesterday, is the Hindu festival of Thaipusam. The festival is celebrated with much fervour by the southern Indian communities of...
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The magazine under Talbot’s Hill
An area of Singapore that still has much history buried under it is the area where the former British Naval Base was. Under parts of the former base, which covered an area stretching from the Causeway...
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Still in the dark, where the darkness began this Sunday, 73 years ago
In the darkness of a Sunday night, 73 years ago today, the end was to begin for Singapore. Just after 8 pm on 8 February 1942, the first wave of landings were made by Japanese troops along the poorly...
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When the lights go out
Last evening wasn’t what I would call a typical Monday evening. In some rather untypical company, after the lights went off, I stood waiting for a box containing a 15th century lady to be opened,...
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All aboard the RSS Endurance
There is no better way of getting acquainted with some of what goes on on a naval ship than to have a first hand view of its operations. I got a chance to do just that on Monday, when at the invitation...
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Digging the Empress up in search of Singapura
Just six months or so after the dust seemed to have settled on Empress Place with completion of a four-year long refurbishment of the now almost too clean looking Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, the...
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Mount Washington, an old world restored
It will probably come as no surprise the elevated and lush green surroundings provided by the south facing slopes of Singapore’s southern ridges, with the magnificent views of the coastline it offers,...
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Stumbling upon a Tiger’s lair …
The last tiger in Singapore may have roamed the island some eight decades ago. It does however appear that the island’s secondary forests still conceal a few tigers from a less distant past. I stumbled...
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A new journey through Tanjong Pagar begins
Close to four years since the close of the railway that ran through Singapore, the much anticipated Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Rail Corridor is finally out – announced at 11 am today. Key...
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The beautiful campus at Hyderabad Road
A good reason to visit the S P Jain School of Global Management’s campus at 10 Hyderabad Road, I am told, is the great naan and curries that the canteen there serves. Set in generous and lusciously...
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The very grand house that Brewer built
Perched on a small hill just south of hills given to the those who have passed on at Bukit Brown, is a place built as a dwelling for the living, so grand, that it has had members of royalty, a...
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Panguni Uthiram 2015 in photos
Panguni Uthiram, a Hindu festival similar in the way it is celebrated to the better known Thaipusam, is celebrated during the full moon in the Tamil month of Panguni (which falls in March or April). In...
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The oldest public library building, conservation, and a hornbill
One of the few reminders of the old Queenstown town centre still left standing, the Queenstown Public Library commemorated a milestone on Saturday when it celebrated it 45th birthday. The library,...
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Signs of the times: the final Halt
What perhaps is the final “Halt” in Singapore is to be found in the area where the former Loewen Camp, part of the former British Tanglin Barracks, was located. The former military camp, used in the...
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The last of the grand Teochew mansions
Occupying a prominent position at the corner of Penang Road and Clemenceau Avenue, an old temple like structure stands on its own, seemingly out of place in the surroundings of the modern city. The...
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