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
The past few months had been a roller coaster ride, from reaching a milestone, followed a pretty turbulent journey down into the bottom before getting out and back on track again. Here’s a quick and lengthy summary of my photography, travel and updates dated 17th August 2021. Do keep aContinue Reading
Take a walk down Singapore’s memory lane through nostalgia and beautiful stories from Yesteryear by Yip Yew Chong. With an amazing collection of 30 canvas paintings/sketches of Yew Chong’s imagination of old Singapore, walking through this Stories from Yesteryear exhibition is going to bring you lots of nostalgia and memoriesContinue Reading
At the start of February 2021, I was approached with a request for permission to use my photographs in a documentary about Tanglin Halt. The photographs they were looking at were the Tanglin Halt block party for blocks 74 to 80 in 2015 that I published inside my article “CommonwealthContinue Reading
Trekking up the small road uphill, we saw a dirt track to the left of the small road. I said to Isaac, “That’s the entry point, we need to turn in and continue trekking, this would soon lead us to Keppel Hill Reservoir”. As we continued trekking, there was aContinue Reading
Knife sharpening as an art form, a form of professional service provision. Have you heard of them before in Singapore ? Do you know of their presence here in Singapore ? Personally, I didn’t know about knife sharpening professional service although I can relate to the art of knife sharpeningContinue Reading
In the quest and journey to seek, search, document and photograph 2 significant Old Places in Singapore, of history and heritage that is part of the growth of Singapore, something that is possibly tied to the hearts of Singaporeans. This is the tale of 2 Dragons … it forms partContinue Reading
Do you remember my recent abandoned Old Railway Track Part 1? A photography walkabout from Teban Gardens to Sunset Way Railway Bridge? It was a fun, exciting and challenging photography walkabout, searching, documenting and photographing the abandoned Old Railway Tracks of Singapore. In my Part 2 series of Abandoned OldContinue Reading
The KTM Malaysian Railway Lines in Singapore, goes back quite a long way in history in time and it’s an important and integral part of the history of Singapore and Malaysia. In the early days, there were railway lines from the western part of Singapore, from the industrial estate inContinue Reading