The National Heritage Board’s (NHB) Racial Harmony Day Open House 2023 is taking place this weekend on the 22nd and 23rd July 2023. The theme for this year’s Racial Harmony Day is “Let’s Walk – Celebrating Harmony”. Let’s all put on a different lens, let’s learn to see, learn andContinue Reading
Do you know there is a festival grander than Chinese New Year? What is it? Why haven’t I heard of this festival before? What’s the name of this festival? The Qixi Festival is traditionally celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. It’s coming back again, reviving aContinue Reading
One of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall (SYSNMH) popular festivals/events, the SYSNMH Wan Qing Dragon Boat Festival Open House 2023 is back, taking place on the weekend of 17th and 18th June 2023! Time for bring your family and children for a weekend of fun, enjoyment, interactive and learningContinue Reading
Local non-profit educational and cultural organisation Alliance Française De Singapour invites you on a journey AROUND THE WORLD! This highly immersive, interesting, enriching and engaging exhibition showcases the best of French transportation across the ages. This exhibition is inspired by French author Jules Verne and his world famous Extraordinary VoyagesContinue Reading
This public housing neighbourhood in Singapore is a pioneering “showpiece” that has seen many innovative “firsts”, a blueprint and model that serves as the development of future public housing residential towns all over Singapore. This is Toa Payoh, she also hosts an iconic playground, a town park that paved theContinue Reading
Today is Wednesday 22/02/2023, it’s Founder’s Day for those in the world scouting movement. Wishing all fellow (former and current) scouts and guides a Happy Founder’s Day 2023! Today is World Thinking Day as well. Celebrating Founder’s Day is a reminder to myself on how joining the Scouting movement backContinue Reading
A green belt that I am familiar with, passing by regularly by bus or on the East West line MRT train ride from Clementi station for a few decades when I am heading into school in the Tanjong Pagar/Downtown area, this journey continues into my professional working career. I didn’tContinue Reading
Year 2023 marks the 81st Anniversary of the Fall of Singapore in 1942, it marks a dark and tumultuous chapter in Singapore’s history. During this period, stories of our forefathers’ strength and resilience emerged from the remnants of World War II (WWII). The National Heritage Board (NHB) is marking theContinue Reading
Celebrating 30 years of Lomography – Celebrating freedom of photography. Analogue/film photographers rejoice, especially Lomographers around the world, the time is now to celebrate the freedom of photography with limited edition Lomo LC-A+, Lomo LC-Wide and Lomo LC-A 120 cameras from Lomography! Exposing 30 Years of Lomography History and Heritage!Continue Reading
Have you watched “Secrets of the Raknus Selu Trail” on AXN? If you haven’t done so, wait no further! You have to watch it if you are a big fan of Taiwan travel, or into heritage, history, culture and food, especially Hakka culture. In my earlier article, Trek into “SecretsContinue Reading