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Monkeys, monkeys everywhere
Monkeys, lots of them, promise to set Chinatown alight come Saturday. For 53 days, some 406 of them, in the form of lanterns, will add to the crowd of monkeys that is already very evident on the...
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Colours of the harvest
The Tamil month of Thai brings much celebration to Singapore where a large majority of its Indian population is of Tamil ancestry. One festival that brings colour to the streets of Little India is...
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Steve McCurry : The Iconic Photographs
The “world’s most famous photograph” the Afghan Girl, is just one in photographer Steve McCurry’s amazing portfolio of work, all of which have the quality of being immediately recognisable. Fifty-three...
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Colours of Singapore: Chinatown Celebrates Chinese New Year
Photographs from yesterday’s launch of Chinatown Celebrates Chinese New Year 2016 and Light-up at New Bridge Road. The especially colourful event, which was graced by President Tony Tan Keng Yam,...
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Art Stage Singapore 2016
Southeast Asia’s flagship art fair, Art Stage Singapore, is back for its sixth edition. The four day event, with an intended focus placed on contemporary Southeast Asian art, is being held at Marina...
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The full moon of Thai
Yesterday, the day of the full moon of the Tamil month of Thai, saw the most lively and colourful of festivals, Thaipusam, being celebrated by the Hindu community. A very visible part of the festival...
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Don’t under-ESTIE-mate this 8-year old
All eyes will surely be on eight-year old Estie Kung when Man vs Child: Chef Showdown premiers this evening (26 January) on A+E Networks’ Lifetime channel (StarHub TV Channel 514). The cooking...
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Pole dancing at Hong Lim Park
Dressed in bright eye-catching costumes, thirteen pairs of pole dancers sent hearts racing at Hong Lim Park over the weekend. The dancers, all of whom demonstrated great skill, strength and...
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The 16th century sailor seen wandering at the National Museum
With all that’s been rumoured about the National Museum, the curious sight of a lost soul dressed in the manner of a 16th century Portuguese sailor wandering around one of its galleries would not be...
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Moulmein Road journeys
Moulmein Road, a road that has come to be associated with Tan Tock Seng Hospital, has for me, been a road of many journeys. It was in the area where my journey in education began, as well as one which...
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Spring is in the air
Every eve of the Lunar New Year, we are reminded of the old Chinatown when the now sanitised streets and the annual festive bazaar that comes up in the lead up to the New Year, comes alive. Chinatown...
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Chinese New Year at Eng Hoon Street
The best lion dance, dragon dance and giant flag performance on the streets of Singapore during the Chinese New Year takes place every year on the morning of the second day in front of Bao Sheng...
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Lost in the rising sea at Telok Ayer
It is hard now to imagine the sea coming right up to Telok Ayer Street where the original shoreline had once been. The Telok Ayer Reclamation scheme of the 1880s moved the shoreline to where Shenton...
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The show at the Airshow
Photographs from yesterdays aerial display at the Singapore Airshow. The aerial display, featuring both military and commercial jets, is undoubtedly the main draw for many during the biennial Singapore...
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The fight for freedom from where freedom had once been curtailed
I miss the Bras Basah Road of my schooldays. Wet rice road as “bras (or beras) basah” translates into, and the area around it, had a life about it and a charm that now seems lost. A Bras Basah still...
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Rail Corridor Roving Exhibitions & Community Workshops
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will holding a series of roving exhibitions in March and April 2016 to bring the Rail Corridor concept master plan proposals to the communities around the...
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Launch of the Ubin Living Lab at the former Celestial Resort
The first phase of the transformation of the former Celestial Resort into the Ubin Living Lab (ULL), an initiative announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as part of The Ubin Project on November...
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Carless in the city
It wasn’t a typical Sunday morning in Singapore’s Civic District. Freed of cars and the normal motorised traffic, claim to the streets was laid instead by hundreds of cyclists, joggers, walkers and...
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The eighth night
Chinese New Year, celebrated over a fifteen day period that culminates with Chap Goh Mei or Yuanxiao Jie (元宵节), is an occasion for much joy and feasting for the Chinese community here in Singapore. It...
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In the pipeline – a partial closure of the Rail Corridor
Information received from PUB: The PUB will be commencing work for the laying of Murnane Pipeline Project (see also : The Rail Corridor that will be forgotten) in the 2nd quarter of 2016. Half of the...
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