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Come walk with me …
I started this blog back in January 2008, intending it as a means for me to take a walk back through my life’s journey. That was some two months into a working stint in Penang which in reminding me of...
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Scaling the heights of construction
A sight that greeted me on a walk around Maxwell Road on a Sunday, was one I had not seen in Singapore for quite a while – that of wooden scaffolding being erected at the Airview Building just across...
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Light through the darkness
A sunrise seen through the darkness of a storm blowing in on to the northern coast of Singapore on 9 June 2013. 7.02 am 7.09 am Filed under: Forgotten Places, Nature, Quiet Moments, Sembawang, Singapore
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The land beyond the tenth mile
An area of the former rail corridor I did have some interaction with back in 1986 was the area just north of the level crossing that goes across Choa Chu Kang Road, up to Stagmont Ring. That was during...
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The road immediately after marriage
One reason why it may not be a very good idea to get married at the Registry of Marriages at Fort Canning Hill in Singapore … the path we take goes immediately downhill and the signs at the start of...
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The changing landscape at the ninth mile
One part of Singapore where the landscape has seemed to be in a state of constant flux – at least in more recent times, is the area from the 9th to the 1oth milestone of Bukit Timah. The area is one...
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The Gardens by the Bay turns one
The Gardens by the Bay turned one yesterday. To celebrate the anniversary, a huge party, the Gardens Party One, was thrown, with the thousands of visitors and guests who attended, treated to a live...
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The star of Chong Pang Village
A landmark that would have been hard to miss on a northern journey to the end of Sembawang Road or to Sembawang Shipyard was the Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, which occupied a corner of Chong...
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The sun sets on the first half of 2013
Colours after the sunset, 7.16 pm, 30 June 2013, taken from the former Royal Malaysian Navy jetty at Woodlands Waterfront looking across towards Johor Bahru. Filed under: Nature, Photography Series,...
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Exposing the Convent
Work has begun on a facelift which will see another significant change occur to a place I will always see as the convent, a lifestyle complex we now know as CHIJMES. The convent was one which dates...
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Light after dark (Upper Seletar Reservoir)
Light after dark at 7.44 and 7.50 pm on 7 July 2013 taken at Upper Seletar Reservoir. Filed under: Light after Dark, Nature, Parks and Gardens, Photography Series, Quiet Moments, Seletar, Singapore
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A view down the Strait
The view northwestwards down the Straits of Johor from Kampong Wak Hassan is one which would have once looked across to the part of the strait where the huge naval base which was completed in 1938 by...
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The swastika at the tenth mile
One very distinct memory from a childhood of many wonderful moments to remember is of the red swastika at Somapah Village. The village was one I had many encounters with in the late 1960s and very...
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Light through the darkness
While a storm sweeping in at dawn does usually bring with it a muted celebration of the new day, the effort to catch the break of day is sometimes rewarded with a surprise as it was today when the...
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Devotion II
A photograph of a single person kneeling in prayer before the closed doors of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in South Bridge Road, Singapore, at 7.50 pm on 13 June 2013. The temple is a fairly new...
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The Bench through the rain
A view of The Bench through the rain with the colours of the rising of the sun in the backdrop at 7.06 am on 9 July 2013. The Bench is very much a part of the scene along the top of an old seawall that...
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A dance of clouds
Clouds in the sky over Singapore, illuminated by the rising of the sun at 7.04 am on 11 July 2013. Filed under: Observations, Random Observations, Singapore
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The ‘Tombs of Malayan Princes’
Lying somewhat obscurely and hidden at Jalan Kubor off Victoria Street is the Old Malay Cemetery. The cemetery, which is across Jalan Kubor from the Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah Cemetery, another old...
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Rebirth
The demolition of the former National Stadium in 2010 and the construction of a new National Stadium within the Singapore Sports Hub does bring to mind an art installation I stumbled upon at Sculpture...
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Monoscapes: Dawn of a new world
Seen against the light of dawn by the Tebrau or Johor Strait is a fence at the beach in Sembawang. More recently erected, it marked, for some reason, a long discarded boundary between what used to be a...
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