photography series

4 min read 2022-03-03 07:33:35

The first overseas Royal Sailors’ Rest House

Perched on an elevation right across from the dockyard gates, the attractive building that housed Aggie Weston’s Royal Sailors’ Rest stood as out

5 min read 2022-02-22 09:01:15

Betel Box Tours must be applauded for its most recent effort at bringing out the wonderful tales that are connect with the especially colourful

3 min read 2021-12-15 19:34:46

I have always enjoyed a visit to one of the few remaining standalone post offices of old, and make it a point to use one whenever I am able to. Quite

1 min read 2021-11-24 22:32:49

The old Police Academy (OPA) off Thomson Road has a place in the hearts of many. This will include those from the police force who trained on its

1 min read 2021-10-23 09:58:49

Like it or loathe it, Golden Mile Complex (GMC) will remain a fixture in Singapore’s urban landscape, with its main building having been gazetted

1 min read 2021-08-16 12:30:00

It had been a while since I’d headed into Taman Jurong and I decided to drop by the area on National Day this year, having found myself in the

1 min read 2021-07-25 10:07:39

One of the places in Singapore in which the memories of old are still alive is Pulau Ubin. It is where many in Singapore now find an escape from the

1 min read 2021-07-23 17:30:00

One of the fascinating things about the streets of Singapore is the stories that are attached to how they were named, either colloquially or

1 min read 2021-07-21 21:00:00

Initially set aside for the resettlement of villagers displaced by the industrialisation of Singapore’s south-western coastline and its islands,

1 min read 2021-07-18 17:20:12

Among my favourite Public Works Department or PWD built houses is one at Ridley Park that I was able to photograph a couple of times (seen in the

1 min read 2021-07-16 18:58:00

Right by the old gates of the former Kallang Airport, is a crumbling set of structures that pre-date the construction of Singapore’s first civil

1 min read 2021-07-13 09:48:54

Once commonly found across Singapore, permanently erected free-standing Chinese opera (also commonly referred to in Singapore as “wayang”) stages

1 min read 2021-07-12 10:40:39

For years, the central stained-glass panel above the sanctuary of the Portuguese Church, depicting the Sacred Heart, spotted a piece of green

1 min read 2021-07-10 08:23:31

Influenced by the many tales that were told of lighthouses and their keepers, any mention of the word “lighthouse” through much of my younger

1 min read 2021-07-06 05:11:39

Two beautiful conservation houses, Atbara and Inverturret at No 5 and No 7 Gallop Road, grace the newly opened Singapore Botanic Gardens Gallop