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Playing with fire
Photographs taken at last evening’s media preview of the Singapore Night Festival of a performance, Redux, by Starlight Alchemy – one of the highlights of the annual festival which be held over two...
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The ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu 2013
This year’s edition of ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu, an award to recognize the most outstanding photographer in Singapore, was launched at a gala premiere at the Asian Civilisations Museum on Thursday....
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Sunset over the strait
The setting sun over Johor Bahru, seen across the Tebrau Strait or Straits of Johor from Woodlands at 7.04 pm on 25 Aug 2013. Filed under: Parks and Gardens, Photography Series, Quiet Moments,...
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Light after dark (The West End)
A view along the Straits of Johor, in the area where the Malaysian Navy had once maintained a base which served as their main base until 1979, some 15 years following the separation of Singapore from...
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Critically endangered
With the recent death of the neglected but beautiful dove in the island’s west, there is only one that’s left to remember one of several terrazzo and mosaic creations that many who grew up in the 1980s...
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A magical final weekend at the Singapore Night Festival
To look out for on this, the second weekend of this year’s edition of the Singapore Night Festival, has to be two death-defying mega stunts that will be attempted by “the sexiest woman in magic” –...
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Pink-haired woman escapes from chains and shackles
A pink-haired woman escaped from chains and shackles last evening in front of the huge crowd that had gathered in front of the National Museum of Singapore last night. It wasn’t any ordinary pink-hair...
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A huge escape!
The World’s First tandem upside-down double strait jacket escape … A world’s first was accomplished some 75 feet over the National Museum of Singapore on Saturday. The last night of the Singapore Night...
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Kampong Wak Hassan: Memories of Times Past
“It is sad to see that all that remains of it is just a road sign”, sighs Yunos Osman about the village of his birth, where he lived for the first three decades of his life. The sign bears the name...
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Motoring Heritage Day at Tanjong Pagar
Motoring Heritage Day is back once again at the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station. This year’s event will be held on Sunday 15 September 2013 from 10 am to 5 pm. Besides a rare display of some 50...
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And when it did spill over in the good old days …
Yesterday’s big flood was quite a major talking point. Floods have actually been a regular occurrence through much of Singapore’s history, two massive floods that did occur in my childhood were the big...
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60 years of the Procession
Those familiar with what has come to be referred to as the Novena area of Singapore would probably know of an event, the Novena Procession in honour of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, once a year which...
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Work resumes at St. Joseph’s Church
Great news delivered over the weekend – the much delayed work on the stained glass restoration at St. Joseph’s Church will be resuming today. The work will restart at the south (or west) transept where...
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Don’t miss the boat
A bumboat sits high and dry, resting on a bed of sand in Pasir Ris, seemingly out of place in a sea not of water, but one of the concrete structures which now dominate much of Singapore’s suburban...
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Cognac and photography at its best
The annual ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu season brings with it not just great photography by some of the best practitioners of the art but also opportunities to indulge in some of the cognacs the oldest...
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And the winner of the ICON Martell de Cordon Bleu 2013 is …
The winner of the coveted ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu 2013 was announced at an award ceremony at the Chan Hampe Galleries last evening. The evening belonged to the young but highly regarded Sarah Choo...
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50 years ago on 16 September 1963
50 years ago on 16 September 1963, Singapore together with the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, became a part of Malaysia. For Singapore, it was a union which lasted less than two years – with...
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The glow in the park
The Mid-Autumn festival is one which always provides a burst of colour to light the evening up. The glow from a burst of colour which is definitely worth being bathed in is the sea of lights found at...
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The ‘sunken temple’ of Toa Payoh
A curious sight that greeted anyone travelling down Lorong 6 close to the Temple / Kim Keat Estate area of Toa Payoh in its early days and one I well remember was a temple that at road level, appeared...
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A big stink (but a welcome one) hits the Gardens
The very first successful hybrid of the so-called ‘Corpse Flower’, the Amorphophallus titanum and the Amorphophallus variabilis, the Amorphophallus ‘John Tan’ – being seen for the first time in...
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