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Talking to Dad
For too many a year now I am only able to talk to you in my head or, often to the faded photo that sits in the mottled silver frame on my sideboard. We still have some great conversations however....
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A.E.I.O.U - cafe
Thanks to friends I seemed to be visiting some excellent coffee shops at the moment. I'm not sure 'lady that lunches' could ever be a tag you could call me, but certainly at the moment, once a week or...
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Panguni Uthiram
The Hindu festival of Panguni Uthiram falls on the the last month in the Tamil solar calendar called Panguni. It falls on the full moon when the stars Uthiram and Pournami are seen together, this will...
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Japanese landings and Lim Chu Kang Jetty. Exploring the Wild Wild(north) West...
It's a long time since I ventured along Lim Chu Kang Rd in the NW of Singapore. To be honest I didn't think there was much to see apart from military camps, farms and cemeteries as the majority of the...
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Rochester Park - Black & Whites
It's sad but when you search Rochester Park on the internet all the information is on restaurants, no real history on the buildings themselves. Yes, the restaurants are in renovated Black & Whites,...
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Woodleigh Park - Black & Whites
Sitting just a short walk from Woodleigh mrt are the black and white bungalows with the same name - Woodleigh Park. To be honest there seems no information on these homes on the Internet and after...
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Ernest Zacharevic - Street art of Singapore
Ernest Zacharevic is a Lithuanina street artis who has become known world wide, most predominantly in Penang, Malaysia for transforming the streets with his take on modern street art and using props...
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Wessex Estate - Black & Whites
Leaving behind the black and whites of Rochester Park  http://www.singaporetales.co.uk/2015/04/rochester-park-black-whites.html A short distance SE you will come across another estate of colonial homes...
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Alexandra Park - Black & Whites
OK so we have now walked south east through Rochester and Wessex Estates and we have crossed over the expressway of the AYE to the shadow of the Southern Ridges and have come to the simply stunning,...
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Project Paint - Pasir Ris HDBs celebrate SG50
Well you can't miss that it is Singapore's 50th jubilee this year. 50 years since its independence and across the country celebrations are in full swing, building up to National Day in August. In...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thieves market
Thieves market is located just off Sungei Rd between Pitt St, Larut Rd and Pasar Lane (meaning "market" in Malay) Â Last week when visiting the Thai Buddhist temple, Wat Kancanarama, I then hopped on a...
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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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