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Wish me luck!
A guest post by Edmund Arozoo, once of Jalan Hock Chye, Singapore and now of Adelaide. WISH ME LUCK! Would a non-Chinese Mandarin illiterate person in Singapore buy a Chinese Newspaper? Well during the...
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Postcards from the South
Introducing Postcards from the South. The 394 page book, a work of love by its author Mahen Bala, offers a wonderful collection of stories of stations and interactions with them, previously...
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Night Lights at the Singapore Night Festival 2018
A sneak peek at some of the Night Lights installations for the Singapore Night Festival, the 11th edition of which starts properly on Friday 17 August. Running until 25 August, the festival features...
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Discovering Keys’ Dutch-gabled houses
Next in the Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets series of guided State Property visits brings us to two delightful houses (one of which will be opened) designed by Major P. H. Keys. Major Keys...
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Expect an electrifying finale to the Singapore Night Festival this weekend
The Singapore Night Festival draws to a close this weekend with several not-to-be-missed performances, including one that is quite literally electrifying. That, The Duel by the Lords of Lightning,...
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The best views of the western Singapore Strait
From its perch by the sea, the block of flats that sits on an elevation next to the former Pasir Panjang ‘A’ Power Station provides what has to be the best views of the western Singapore Strait....
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Lighting the Mid-Autumn up
Lighting this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival is the story of Chinatown, as is interpreted by the Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng Citizens’ Consultative Committee – the organisers of the annual Chinatown Mid-Autumn...
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(Re)Discovering Old Changi Hospital
Please note As this is a repeat of last year’s visit, it would be appreciated if only those who did not participate in that register. Do also note that a unique registration (with a unique name and...
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Parting glances: the “mini cantonment” with a view
The time has come to bid farewell to Normanton Park, a housing estate with a military past in more ways than one. Built on part of the site of the Admiralty’s former Normanton Oil Depot, the estate...
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Dark clouds on the northern horizon
I have long thought of the Sembawang area as a final frontier, and a last part of modern Singapore in which much of yesterday remains to be discovered. Progress is however eating away at these remnants...
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Pilgrimage to an isle of legends
The southern isles of Singapore are steeped in myths, legends and traditions. While most seem to lie buried in the sands that have expanded them, one that lives on is the pilgrimage to Pulau Tembakul –...
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Journeys of faith and devotion from Kampong Gelam
An insightful exhibition featuring the journeys of faith that Hajj pilgrims take in both body and in spirit, ‘Undangan ke Baitullah: Pilgrims Stories from the Malay World to Makkah’, was launched...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets : Healing in the Garrison
November’s #SLASecretSpaces guided visit takes participants to the former Tanglin Barracks. There an introduction would be made to two of the barracks’ institutions of healing: physical healing in the...
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A glimpse of Seletar’s past – the Ralph Charles Saunders Collection
The generous donation of more than 1,400 images on photographic slides from the Ralph Charles Saunders Collection – of Singapore and Malaya (and maybe a few of Lima) taken in the late 1950s – made the...
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Serendipity in the garrison church
Places take on a greater meaning when we are made aware of the associations they have had; with people who have passed through them, or with their connection with significant events of our past....
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Remembering the volunteers on Remembrance Day
Among the thousands whose names are inscribed on headstones and memorial walls at Kranji, are several hundred volunteers who gave their lives during the Second World War. Members of the Straits...
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Discovering a “not quite central” Chinese bank headquarters
Designed by an architect who can be said to have left his mark in Singapore, the Art Deco building that we know today as The Quadrant was originally built as a headquarters for a Chinese bank. The main...
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Finding a lost Singapore in the images of Paul Piollet
Such is the pace at which change takes place that little exists of the Singapore those of my generation grew up with. It was one whose city streets and rural spaces, filled with life and colour, were...
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The “attractive” 1940 built public-housing block in Little India
I have long admired the building that houses The Great Madras, a boutique hotel on Madras Street. The edifice in its incarnations as a hotel has brought a touch of Miami to the shophouse lined streets...
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Inside the new star of MacTaggart
Uniquely shaped, the former Khong Guan factory stands out at the corner of MacTaggart and Burn Roads – especially so with a recent 8-storey extension that certainly added to the presence that its...
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