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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets: Visit to Old Changi Hospital
Update 26 August 2017 8.20 am A 2nd tour has been added at 1pm on 9 September 2017. Details on registration will be posted at 1 pm today. Update 25 August 2017 9.07 am Registration for the event has...
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Registration for Old Changi Hospital Visit (2nd Run)
Update 26 August 2017 1.15 pm Registration for the 2nd run of the event has been closed as of 1312 hours, 26 August 2017. All slots have been taken up. Do look out for the next visit in the series,...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets: The house on Admiral’s Hill
Update 1 September 2017 4.25 pm Registration for the event has been closed as of 1621 hours, 1 September 2017. All slots have been taken up. Do look out for the next visit in the series, which will be...
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The real story behind Old Changi Hospital
The real story behind Old Changi Hospital, isn’t about what the place seems to have got an unfortunate reputation more recently for. The former hospital, which has its roots in the RAF Hospital set up...
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Just when did the kelong come to Singapore?
I am reminded of the kelong from the numerous Facebook posts I have been seeing in the last half a day in which the word is used. What comes to mind is not what the word has more recently to describe –...
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Novena Church to open on 29 September 2017
Based on an announcement on the Novena Church Facebook page last night, the new Novena Church – after a little delay, will open on 29 July 2017 – when its first mass will be celebrated. The first...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets: Beach Road Police Station and...
Update 22 September 2017 Registrations have close as all available slots have been taken up as of 10.05 am. Do look out for the next visit in the series (location to be advised) on 21 October 2017....
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The dark days of 1942 revisted
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the fall of Singapore, which the National Museum of Singapore is commemorating with an international exhibition Witness to War: Remembering 1942. The exhibition,...
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Normal service resumes at Novena
The long awaited reopening of Novena Church, after a three-year closure for the its impressive new church building, was greeted by a crowd of several thousands worshippers at its first mass celebrated...
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A short history of public Swimming Pools in Singapore
With Singapore’s tropical climate and balmy waters, an affinity for swimming as a recreational activity would be expected. It wasn’t however until the arrival of the first swimming pool, a century into...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets : Visit to View Road Lodge
Please note that registration for the event is closed as all spaces made available have been taken up. The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has kindly granted permission for a series of guided State...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets: A chance to take a peek into Adam...
Registration is closed as all spaces have been taken up as of 3.15 pm, 21 October 2017. Visit #8 – the last of the Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets series of State Property Visits, which the...
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Yay! The former National Aerated Water Co. plant is being conserved!
Notices in the back pages of the press can sometimes bring joy. An notice that gave me a sense of happiness appeared in today’s edition of the Straits Times, which contained a list of proposed...
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Finding joy in a space in which Joy was bottled
The photographs of the site of the former National Aerated Water Co. used in this post were taken during a private visit organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) for invited guests and have...
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Christmas came early
An early Christmas present – the wonderful combination of colours that painted this morning’s sky, taken at 6.47 am from the Beaulieu Jetty at Sembawang Park. The view is of the Tebrau Strait towards...
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The Silver Chariot through the streets of Chinatown
The eve of the Hindu festival of Thaipusam sees the Chetty Pusam Silver Chariot procession take place. The procession is in two parts. The first leg, which takes place in the early morning, sees Lord...
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Thaipusam 2018 at The Sri Srinivasa Perumal in photographs
Thaipusam at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal in photographs: Posts related to past celebrations of Thaipusam in Singapore: Vel, Vel, Vadivel: Thaipusam in Singapore (2010) Sights Sans Sounds of Thaipusam in...
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Revisiting the Singapore of the Malay film industry’s golden age
The Malay Film Productions (MFP) at Jalan Ampas was one of a pair of production houses that entertained a generation of Singaporeans and Malayans. Established by the Shaw Brothers’, the MFP is...
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Kavadis on Keong Saik
In photographs: the start of the colourful procession of Chettiar kavidis from the Sri Layan Sithi Vinayagar Temple on Keong Saik Road to the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple at Tank Road. The procession,...
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The new star rising at MacTaggart Road
What’s become of the “conserved” former Khong Guan Biscuit Factory at MacTaggart Road since my last post on it (see: The fallen star of MacTaggart Road) in September 2016: The former factory – which...
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