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A sneak peek at Maxwell Chambers Suites
I had the opportunity to pay the soon to be opened Maxwell Chambers Suites a visit, thanks to a Ministry of Law (MinLaw) organised guided visit. I must say that the former Traffic Police Headquarters...
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The Jacksons of Sembawang
Sembawang is one of just a few places in Singapore in which still holds the charm of a bygone era. The modern world, dominated by the sea of concrete is however, knocking increasing at its door; its...
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By popular demand, a second opportunity to discover the former CDC
Update: Registration is now closed as the event is over-subscribed. Note: This visit is a repeat of the one held on 3 Aug 2019 and as such, opened only to those who were not provided with a place for...
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Discovering the former Kallang Airport
A Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets visit organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). Update : The event is fully subscribed. More information on the series of State...
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By Brute Force
Photographs, from last evening’s action packed media preview of Fuerza Bruta. The Argentinian performing group has made a return to the Singapore Night Festival – as its headline act. The troupe’s...
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37 Emerald Hill Road to be conserved
It seems that three buildings of the former Singapore Chinese Girls’ School (SCGS) campus at 37 Emerald Hill Road is to be conserved. The campus, used in the interim by Chatsworth International School,...
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Discovering the former Kallang Airport (a repeat visit on 21 Sep 2019)
A Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets visit organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). Update : Registration is now closed as all spaces have been taken up. More...
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Gone-block: discarding Eunosville
A look back at Eunosville, seen in its final days about a year ago … The cranes and earth movers taking over Eunosville, a former HUDC estate built in the 1980s. The almost empty estate seen in August...
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The tall white lady with a rather colourful past
Photographs from a visit to the Chilean Navy’s tallship, B.E. Esmeralda, which made another return to our shores this week. Singapore is the 5th port of call in the training ship’s 2019/20 round the...
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The formal surrender of Japanese forces in Southeast Asia in photographs
The end of the Second World War came with the announcement made by Emperor Hirohito of Japan on 15 August 1945, it would take a few weeks for Japan’s formal surrender – first on 2 September 1945 on the...
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Parting Glances: Losing a Pearl
A look back at Pearls Centre, which was demolished back in 2016 due to the construction of the Thomson-East Coast Line. The site for the mixed-use development was sold as part of the second wave of the...
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A new garden of Silly Fun
Set in a 50-hectare area that once contained Han Wai Toon’s Silly Fun Garden – or “The Garden of Foolish Indulgences” as coined by Dr. Lai Chee Kien in an essay published in Global History, NParks’...
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Deporting the port
Change often seems the only constant in Singapore. Its relentless pace has altered its face, so much so that many in my generation feel that home is foreign place. Nothing seems sacred, places that we...
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A floating city calls at Changi
I had an opportunity to go onboard the Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan. The huge flagship of the US Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 5 (CSG 5), with its array of...
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Lost places: Woodlands Town Centre
The old Woodlands Town Centre, with its proximity to the checkpoint and the causeway, could have been thought of as a border post. It certainly felt like it, with scores of folks crossing the causeway...
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The Class VIII Government quarters at Haig Road
Built as government housing by the Public Works Department (PWD) in 1951, the cluster of 42 simple two-storey houses off Haig Road in the news this week, are representative of the period of austerity...
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Lost Places: the park at the new cemetery
In a Singapore where spaces for the dead are often repurposed to meet the needs to the living, it will come as no surprise to find new life being welcomed on a site once devoted to eternal rest at KK...
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Orchard Road’s last shophouses
Built close to a century ago, the last of Orchard Road’s shophouses stand as a reminder of a time before Singapore’s shopping mile was mall-ed. Comprising four delightful structures at numbers 14 to...
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Celebrating France in Singapore
The contributions of the French to Singapore cannot be understated. Their connections go back to Raffles’ arrival in 1819. With him on the Indiana were two French nationals, Pierre-Médard Diard and...
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Powering Pasir Panjang with the raw power of music via The Alex Blake Charlie...
It is wonderful that the former Pasir Panjang ‘A’ Power Station, with its voluminous turbine and boiler halls that offer immense possibilities, is getting the attention it deserves. Come 7 December,...
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