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The Heritage Bridges – Singapore River’s Grand Old Dames
For over 150 years, the 3.2km-long Singapore River has played an important role in the economical growth of Singapore as a free port. Started from the mouth of the river, development gradually spread...
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Coney Island and the Forgotten Haw Par Beach Villa
When Coney Island, also known as Pulau Serangoon, was opened to the public on 10 October 2015, most are more interested and eager to spot the lonely Brahman bull that has roamed the tiny island for...
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Singapore Trivia: The Tembusu Tree and 5-Dollar Note
If you visit the Botanic Gardens via the Tanglin gates, you may have notice the iconic Tembusu tree and find it familiar. That is because the tree, with its signature low stretching branch, is used as...
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Bidding Farewell to Siglap’s Last Standing Flats
The days have come to bid farewell to the last standing flats at Siglap. Also known as the Siglap Fire Site Housing Estate in its early days, the four blocks stood out in Siglap, where it is almost...
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From Hock Lam’s Beef Noodles to Funan’s Computers
The older generation of Singaporeans would remember Hock Lam Street and its delicious beef noodles, fried kway teow and char siew rice. To the current generation, the name Funan is more associated with...
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The Cambridge Estate – An “English” Estate in Singapore
Located in the central part of Singapore, and largely bounded by Bukit Timah Road, Serangoon Road, Thomson Road and Moulmein Road, the Cambridge Estate, of Farrer Park district, is an old housing...
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A Singapura Mystery – The Queenstown Shooting 1972
It was a sunny Sunday noon, like any other normal weekends in Singapore. Yet a tragic case happened and shocked the Singapore society; an unsolved case that still baffles many till this day, even after...
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The Last of Singapore’s Rural Centres
The low-rise flats of the former Jalan Kayu Rural Centre are now undergoing demolition as the latest development of Sengkang New Town expands into the vicinity between Jalan Kayu and the newly built...
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Pachitan – A Vanished Javanese Name in Singapore
Pachitan was a name that has largely forgotten and vanished in modern Singapore. It began during the pre-war period, when a group of immigrants from the Pacitan City, East Java of Indonesia, came to...
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The Mystery of a Deserted Japanese Tomb at Mount Faber
The “rediscovery” of Keppel Hill Reservoir hit the newspapers’ headlines in 2014, but there was another forgotten relic at the southern slope of Mount Faber not known to many people. Hidden in the...
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There was Once a “Cut Stomach Open” Street off Yio Chu Kang Road
In the early 20th century, there was a dark small road, off Yio Chu Kang Road 6th milestone, that led to an old cemetery with a terrifying name – Phuah Pak Tiong (剖腹冢), which in Hokkien, means “a...
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Changes of Dakota (Part 1) – Demolition of Former Broadrick and Maju...
Dakota Crescent, with its unique Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) flats and the last dove playground in Singapore, has been in the headlines for the past two years, after news of its impending...
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The Old Singapore Polytechnic Campus and New Prince Edward MRT Station
Part of the old campus of Singapore Polytechnic, the first polytechnic in Singapore, will likely be giving way for the construction of the upcoming Prince Edward MRT Station of the Circle Line. The...
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From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses
Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and...
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SIT Apartments, Old Schools and a Famous Hawker Centre at Monk’s Hill
SIT Apartments It is a quiet neighbourhood tucked away in a small district bounded by the Bukit Timah Road, Cavenagh Road and Clemenceau Avenue. Over here, one can find several blocks of Singapore...
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The Red Butterfly – Girl Terrors of the Sixties
The name Red Butterfly may sound harmless and nothing unusual in Singapore today. In fact, in Chinese legend, it is viewed as a bringer of good fortune and happiness. But back in the sixties and...
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The Lost Cause and Forgotten Ruins of Fort Serapong
Built between the 1870s and 1890s, Fort Serapong, together with Fort Siloso, Fort Connaught and the Imbiah Battery, formed an integrated part of the British’s southern coastal defence at Pulau Blakang...
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A Final Farewell to the Good Ol’ Underwater World
Once the largest tropical fish oceanarium in Asia, the Underwater World will be walking into the history books today, after 25 years of operation at Sentosa. It took more than two years, between 1988...
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The Sarimbun Beach Landing and Jalan Bahtera
On 8 February 1942, in a quiet and dark night at Lim Chu Kang, the worst nightmare had arrived at Singapore as the Japanese invaders crossed the Straits of Johore and landed near the Sarimbun Beach....
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Singapore Trivia: A TV World at Tuas
Little known to many, there is a Television (TV) World at the end of Tuas, situated just beside the Tuas Second Link checkpoint. Looking like a rundown theme park from the outside, it was mainly used...
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