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Yin Fo Fui Kun - Hakka cemetery
The same day we visited Istana Woodneuk ( http://www.singaporetales.co.uk/2014/08/istana-woodneuk.html ) we had all met at Commonwealth MRT station and took a quick 5 minute walk to the threatened Yin...
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Pulau Ubin, Tua Pek Kong, Chinese Opera and wildlife!
I finally managed to reach this island without the gods sending thunder and lightning raining down on me. Myself and friend chose this day to visit as from the 12th - 17th May the islanders were...
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A fairy Cemetery - Bidadari
Bidadari Memorial GardenBidadari meaning fairy according to Wikipedia, coming from the Sanskrit word widyadari. These fairies are reported to be kind, an angel, a nymph. In another record its also...
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Dragon kiln - Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle
Travel over to the west of Singapore and one place you must visit is Thow Kwang Pottery jungle, better known as the Dragon Kilns. You will find this at 85 Lorong Tawas, Jalan Bahar. Here if you are...
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Kwong Wai Shui Hospital
I took a different bus today, something I really should do more often. I was en route to Serangoon Rd to visit a temple I had missed, don't ask me how I missed it, I thought I'd been up and down that...
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Project World Colours - May 2014
PINKMay 2014Ok so this months colour is pink. I love pink, its one of my favorite colours, so this month should be easy, right?  Wrong!  As I've discovered it may be a colour I wear often and would...
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Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman Temple
Now I've explored Little India many a time, I've been up and down Serangoon Rd more times that I can remember, but looking at Hindu temple images on the Internet I realised I'd missed one! It visually...
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2014 Mid Autumn Festival
The Chinese festival falls on the 8th month of the Chinese calendar and is also known as the Mooncake or Lantern Festival.I'm not going to write a long post explaining all about this bright festival as...
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Gardens by the Bay. Mid Autumn Festival
Following on from yesterday's post I couldn't really mention the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival without mentioning and indeed visiting the giant lanterns that have been out in The Gardens by the Bay for...
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The Southern Ridges. WALK
I remember when I first heard we were moving to Singapore, we read many of the travel books, trying to see what was here, what to fill our spare time with. Having grown up with our holidays involving...
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F1 and Robbie Williams come to town!
Images of a fabulous weekend OK its Monday afternoon on the 22 September 2014 and I am just about recovered from my manic weekend. I'm getting too old for 3 late nights in a row, but what a fantastic...
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Yixing Xuan Teahouse
Along with a group of friends I visited one of just 10 tea houses still operating in Singapore. Situated at 30 Tanjong Pagar rd, close to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, in Singapore's Chinatown....
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Hobbnobbing with the famous!!
Mad about SingaporeTo celebrate Singapore's 49th birthday @instaSG (instagrammers Singapore) asked instagrammers to post a shot to sum up Singapore through a picture.11,000 pictures were hashtagged and...
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Pretty in Pink
Last Saturday Singapores Gardens by the Bay East was awash in a sea of pink. Pink t-shirts, pink umbrellas, wigs, super fantastic pink tutus - more about them later, pink everything, even a pink...
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TICK TOCK .......
18 months down and the clock is ticking I can hear it getting louder and louder  tickticktick tick... racing towards the midnight hour... But what will happen when it finally strikes THAT hour? a...
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Indie Tours of Singapore
Yesterday saw our meetup group trying something different. Instead of myself and friend taking the ladies around ourselves, we tried out a newly set up tour company Indie Singapore. These tours are...
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Two weeks Down Under
Well I been quiet on here for a short while, those that follow the blog via its Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SingaporeTales?ref=hl will know that this is because hubby and I have just spent 2...
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RAF Seletar and its "black and whites"
The day after I arrived back from Australia, a friend invited myself and other ladies to join her as we visited the first home she ever lived in, having been born in Singapore and to explore the houses...
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Joss Stick Man and Funeral houses
Tay Guan Heng (Joss sticks manufacturer)Have you ever visited a Chinese Temple here in Singapore? Â a Buddhist or Taoist celebration? Have you seen those large 4-5 feet coloured joss sticks burning...
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Dinosaurs in Singapore. Sungei Buloh
Covering 130 hectares in the North West of Singapore, the wetland reserve of Sungei Buloh is a magical haven for wildlife and a place so removed from the norm of the modern, urban, concrete metropolis...
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