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Lee Hoon Leong - Grandfather of Lee Kuan Yew
A couple of weekends ago I took my husband on a his second visit to Bukit Brown as we joined the ever knowledgeable 'Brownies' on one of their popular tours, so popular that we split the group and...
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Japanese Cemetery Park
Towards the top of my favourite places here in Singapore has to be this place and yet how many people on the island even know of it's existence? Maybe because of painful memories, but this post isn't...
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Braddell Heights SG50 Mural Project
So another area celebrates Singapore's 50th anniversary. This time it's Braddell Heights, Serangoon. Nanyang Junior College, in 2007, decorated the void decks of the local HDBs with 30 murals in...
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Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall.
After being closed throughout my time here in Singapore, when this monolith of Victorian grandeur finally opened in July 2014, following its S$180 million restoration, I really couldn't give up the...
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Toa Payoh Town Park
What a charming little park! Visiting here as I waited to meet a friend I was delightfully surprised with this park, situated just by the busy road, opposite the enormous bus station and next to the...
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Shuang Lim Monastery
Shuang Lim or Siong Lim in Hokkien is a temple and monastery visible along the PIE and situated in Toa Payoh, close by the iconic dragon playground...
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Ridley Park - Black & Whites
It's been a little while since I last added a post in the series of the iconic Black and White Colonial homes here in Singapore, but I shall rectify that with this post!Sitting in the trendy upmarket...
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Sembawang - Black & Whites
In 1919 Viscount Jellicoe (what a great name) first muted his concerns about the need to secure the shores of Singapore and to have a military base in this part of the world, following the...
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Street Art of George Town, Penang (2) - Sculptures
Well you've looked at the previous post (hopefully!!) showcasing the murals of George Town, well this post is all about the sculptures which are a newer addition to the artwork in the UNESCO World...
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Street Art of George Town, Penang (1) - Murals
Ok so George town and Penang may be a UNESCO world heritage town with its famous history of the Peranakans but one of the many many reasons I was keen to visit was also for its famous street art. In...
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Bukit Browns secret temple
Sin Heng San Teng Temple or Lao Sua Temple.I had heard rumblings about this temple for awhile, hidden in the jungle of the Bukit Brown Cemetery and from reading and wandering I had deduced where I...
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A walk amongst the Black & Whites. Mount Pleasant and onwards......
Mount Pleasant, Malcolm Rd, Mount Rosie to Swiss CottageHidden behind the impressive Singapore Polo club and surrounded by Bukit Brown Cemetery on one side and the PIE (Pan Island Expressway) I hadn't...
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Bright Hill monastery and temple complex
Kong Meng San Phor Kark SooSitting on a large flat expanse of ground on what was once a Chinese cemetery, whose graves had long been exhumed, can be found the largest Buddhist monastery in Singapore,...
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Adam Park - Black & Whites
This has to be one of the most modern archaeologically treasure troves in Singapore. This and the surrounding area saw some of the most ferocious fighting between the Japanese and allied forces in...
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Changi - Black & Whites
OK, so after months writing about visiting the Black and White colonial bungalows here this is, the final in the series I intend to cover. However they are many more Black and Whites that you can...
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Syonan Jinja
This visit has got to rate pretty much top of all the places I have visited and explored here, what an experience! it has to sit right up there with Istana Woodneuk and the Jin Dong Fu festivities, for...
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Our Hawker Centres - A Heritage & Art Project (Part 1)
40 Hawker Centres across Singapore are getting super art murals on their walls by July this year in celebration of SG50. More than 70 schools and organizations have taken part in painting them with...
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Brontosaur Park - Sculptures
It never ceases to surprise me what little gems you can spot in the most obscure of places here in Singapore. Whilst taking a walk around Pasir Ris in the East of Singapore, on another project,  I...
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Goodwood Hill - Black & Whites
Just minutes from the bustling, hectic, modern, consumer age world that is Orchard Road and just a 5 minute walk from Newton MRT, sitting on a small hill, is a tiny piece of 'Singapore past', Goodwood...
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Holland Close sculpture
Just a photo post this time as I can't find anything about this.Its strange I can't find anything out about this, nothing at all. Why was it built? Why chose this location? Who was the artist? The...
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Old Changi hospital (OCH)
This substantial, classic colonial style building on top of Barrack Hill, alongside Netheravon Road and Halton Road, sits among the old forces buildings that once made up Fortress Changi. Built by the...
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Colouring Banda Street 2015
Carrying on with the theme of SG50 and the artworks decorating Singapore HDB areas, another community to get involved has been Kreta Ayer 'Chinatown'. Here the Kreta Ayer Residents committee got...
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4 Weeks back in Blighty!
Well it's been 4 weeks now since we arrived back in the UK. Our life is still on a container sailing from one small red dot towards this island and is due to dock on the 20th. In the past weeks our...
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Moving to Mars...
Well it's final, after months and months, and after a trip to look n feel... and to smell... A couple of weeks ago the contract was signed for our move to Delhi for 3 years and now the fun begins!!!...
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SEPTEMBER 2015A really naff title but I really can't think of another!Ok so we've now packed up our life into hundreds of boxes, that have sailed smoothly across the globe, and we have somehow squeezed...
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