List of the last 10 blogposts
- The Legacies Queen Elizabeth II Left in Singapore
- Nantah’s Sundial, a Time-Telling Relic Lost in Time
- Singapore’s Heritage Tree Series – Terap
- Mata.Mata: History of The Singapore Police
- 100 Years of the Causeway
- Wordless Thursday
- Wordless Friday – Sunrise – 29 March 2022
- Cloud Forest – GBTB – Video
- Flower Dome – GBTB – Video Series
- Wordless Wednesday – The Lost World
The Legacies Queen Elizabeth II Left in Singapore
The Legacies Queen Elizabeth II Left in Singapore
Nantah’s Sundial, a Time-Telling Relic Lost in Time
At Nanyang Technological University (NTU), one can find remnants of the former Nanyang University, or Nantah, from the fifties and sixties, such as the Chinese Heritage Centre (former Nanyang University Administrative Building), Memorial Pagoda and Nanyang University Arch (the current one at Yunnan Garden is a replica whereas the original arch is at Jurong WestContinue reading “Nantah’s Sundial, a Time-Telling Relic Lost in Time”
Singapore’s Heritage Tree Series – Terap
Till date, there are 17 trees at the Fort Canning Park granted the heritage tree status. Four of them are the terap tree (artocarpus elasticus), with three located along the park’s 14th Century Walk of History (along the Fort Canning Service Reservoir) and the fourth one along Canning Rise, opposite the National Museum of Singapore. […]
Mata.Mata: History of The Singapore Police
The much-advertised English drama Mata.Mata has finally made its debut on Channel 5 last night. Mata refers to eye in Malay, but mata-mata generally means policeman (or watchman), where a patrolling policeman of the olden days was the “one on all eyes”. The local Chinese “borrowed” the word and instead used the shortened version toContinue reading “Mata.Mata: History of The Singapore Police”
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