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Go LionsXII!
Perhaps because it was a day the skies opened, the Jalan Besar Stadium wasn’t as packed as it might have been for the Malaysian Super League match between the LionsXII and Terengganu. Despite the...
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A world I would love to be trapped in
One current exhibition that is certainly well worth a visit to is one that is devoted entirely to building bricks most of us would have been familiar with from our childhoods. ‘The Art of The Brick’ at...
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A annual walk of faith
Thaipusam is perhaps the most colourful of the religious and cultural traditions brought in by the early immigrants to modern Singapore that is today celebrated on the streets of Singapore. Celebrated...
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A sunrise over the rail corridor
It was around the time of Sunday’s sunrise under the red lightening sky that a long train snaked its way out of Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, a little more than a year and a half after the last train...
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Mornings far from the madding crowds
A place I am glad is there – at least for now, in which I find an escape from the unbearably overcrowded world Singapore has become, is a quiet and somewhat forgotten corner of northern Singapore where...
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Another Wak Hassan sunrise
This morning’s sunrise taken at 6.57 am and 7.22 am: Filed under: Forgotten Places, Nature, Quiet Moments, Sembawang, Singapore
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Sacks of rice, a hooded heroine and blond brooms on a Sunday afternoon
Sunday begun in a pretty hectic way for me. I had what seemed like a full day by the time I welcomed the sunrise. I had woken up at 3.30 in the morning – so that I could make my way down to the Sri...
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Solitude
It is in a world we have forgotten, that I have come to enjoy a peaceful moment in. It is a world which in being seemingly far removed from the cold, grey and unfamiliar world that has grown around me;...
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Fire in snow lights up the Lunar New Year
While many in Singapore feel that the annual Chingay parade, now in its 41st year, has moved away from its original purpose of a street parade for the masses first celebrated in 1973 to make up for a...
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Staring into the abyss
Sharing a scene seen along our northern shoreline one that may soon be changed in a way many of us don’t want it to be. Filed under: Observations, Singapore
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The transformation of Chingay over the years
The Chingay Parade in Singapore as we know it today had its beginnings in the wake of the total ban on firecrackers which once were a must-have at any Chinese New Year celebration. That was back in...
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Bukit Timah Railway Station revisited
It was in the final days of the Malayan Railway’s operations through Singapore just over a year and a half ago that the former Bukit Timah Railway Station drew crowds it that had not previously seen...
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A sunrise over the new Singapore
Singapore has, in close to half a century of its existence as an independent nation, seen a dramatic transformation not just as a nation but in the development of the city. There is nowhere, perhaps,...
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The shortlived French invasion of Singapore
I was looking through some of my old (and rather badly taken) photographs of Chingay when I stumbled upon a sign which brought to mind events of the 1980s. The decade was a time when the world around...
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Singapore’s gods of fortune, old and new …
Filed under: Marina Bay, New Singapore, Observations, Singapore
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Sunrise over a world the sun may soon set on
A photograph taken at 7.14 am of this morning’s sunrise at Kampong Wak Hassan, the last of the year of the dragon, using the Canon 5D MkIII camera’s HDR mode, the results of which did surprise me....
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Celebrating the Lunar New Year at Marina Bay
In celebration of the Lunar New Year, The Float @ Marina Bay once again plays host to River Hongbao. The annual event, now in its 27th year, is organised by Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan...
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A final frontier
One of the few places in present day Singapore that I am able to find myself at home in is the Sembawang area along the northern coast. It is an area which has in the last two and a half decades, as...
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Spreading happiness at Serangoon Gardens
Tucked away in a somewhat obscure area of Serangoon Gardens is a delightful little café that as its name, Sun Ray Café, suggests, brings sun rays over the area. Describing itself as a joyful and...
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Perhaps tradition needs a smartphone app
Filed under: Observations, Random Observations, Singapore, Traditions
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