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Lost in Space
The Bencoolen Street that I am familiar with is the one that I became acquainted with over the many trips on the bus to school at the end of the 1970s. The street today bears little resemblance to that...
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The synagogue at Belle Vue
One of the wonderful things about Singapore is the diverse cultural and religious practices, some modified with time, some influenced by the environment, but many that remain distinct reflecting the...
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288 metres of pure horror
[Warning: Images in this post may shock some readers] It was just last week that I had one of those experiences that I would normally have broken a sprint record trying to get away from. It was one...
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A walk around the Village of Lime
A walk I recently took was around what is one of my favourite places in Singapore and what has to be one of the more colourful districts in Singapore – the area we now refer to as Little India, an area...
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A walk down Neil Road
Tucked away in a rather quiet but no less interesting corner of a district of Singapore that has come to be called Chinatown is an area which is often overlooked. The area, in Chinatown’s south-western...
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The sun sets as dawn breaks
It has been a while since I last took the effort to welcome the new day. The haze filtered sunrises of late have been somewhat subdued and rather uninspiring. One sunrise that I did manage to catch was...
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Happiness comes with Sophie Marceau
The Societe Generale Private Banking 2nd Rendezvous with French Cinema was very happily opened at The Cathay last evening by ever so gorgeous Sophie Marceau who lead a French cinematic delegation here...
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Royston Tan’s Old Romances《老情人》
In a world that is changing too fast, it is often only the memories of places dear to us that we are able to cling on to, memories in which we often discover what we have left behind. As with its...
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The silence of a world forgotten
I recently had a look in and around the former Bukit Timah Railway Station, lying quiet and abandoned while plans have not been made for its future use. The station, the last on the old Malayan Railway...
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Voices from a forgotten past
I was fortunate to have been able to catch Royston Tan’s sequel to Old Places, Old Romances, at its premiere on Saturday morning. Old Romances, described by the director as ‘45 personalised love...
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Two December’s Sunrises
This year’s North-East Monsoons has brought us lots of rain, so much so that the sky at dawn has more often than not been covered in a pall of grey cloud with spectacular shows of colour at sunrise...
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The night before the end of time
A couple of photographs taken of the orangey night sky about half an hour following sunset on the last evening before time was supposed to end. The first was taken at 7.28 pm and the second at 7.35 pm....
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Sunrise on a day some said the sun would not rise
7.04am 21 December 2012. Sunrise over the Straits of Johor. Filed under: Forgotten Places, Nature, Quiet Moments, Sembawang, Singapore
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A memory that is going to the dogs
Long abandoned by its erstwhile companions, the building that served as the former Nee Soon Post Office had stood for many years alone and almost forgotten. The bustling villages that once occupied an...
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The largest dock east of the Suez in the midst of a world that is to change
Tucked in the far north of the island of Singapore is a huge 86 hectare shipyard which seems far out of place. Its location is far from the large concentration of shipyards and related industries which...
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Colours after Sunset
Colours after sunset, 7.50 pm, 5 January 2013. Filed under: Nature, Parks and Gardens, Quiet Moments, Singapore
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The search for love and happiness in Marina Bay’s secret spaces
It was around midday on the first Sunday of 2013 that I found myself on an exploration of what can be said to be secret spaces around Marina Bay, an exploration which was to lead me and the group I...
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Finding the old in the new – a walk down part of Thomson Road
The stretch of Thomson Road between Balestier Road and Moulmein Road is one that I am well acquainted with. It is a stretch that was an invariable part of the twelve years of almost daily bus journeys...
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More than just fishy business
The wet markets we find in Singapore today are much more orderly versions of the wet markets in that Singapore I that grew up in. Yesterday’s markets were always lively, serving not only as places to...
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Play!
An old playground and an old memory … Filed under: Forgotten Places, Reminders of Yesterday, Singapore
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