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Imagine having to trudge up 100 steps to reach your school and down again everyday. It sure builds up your stamina and leg muscles which many girls have experienced in the course of their studies at Mount Sophia. Not a mountain comparing to the likes of Mount Everest or Bukit Timah Hill. Rather, it was the 100 steps that one has to climb by way of the entrance at Handy Road that was once a building of an all-girls school known as Methodist Girls’ School.
Gather your friends and family and bring them on an exciting and fun journey through historic communities of Little India and Chinatown. For the month of June, we present a new tour of Kampong Gelam, once the historic seat of Malay royalty that’s not just for the history buffs. If you prefer to wander down [...]
Another feature on The Intan, this time by the Urban Sketchers who made a visit earlier this month. Check out the Sketchwalkers’ artwork here. Tweet(function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = ‘https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();
You could call it a rare gem. The Intan - literally, the diamond – is a heritage space in Joo Chiat showcasing all things Peranakan. Admission is usually by appointment with a minimum number of people, and Jerome recently paid this award-winning museum a visit. The house that The Intan is set in, is typical of houses [...]
7 Jun 2011
Dear great-great-great-grandchildren,
Today, I have this urge to write to all of you about my excursions to the Bukit Timah Railway Station and various parts along the KTM railway tracks on 4 Jun 2011. I do not know if you would ever experience these places like I did?
We hear ever so often about the loss of the community spirit when people moved from kampongs into HDB flats, which greatly diminished the space for social interactions. Compared to your parents and grandparents who lived in kampongs, how much about your neighbours do you know? But people also adapt, and with the new surroundings [...]
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These are the steps where i used to walk up to my former school-Suntec.
Posted on January 17th, 2009 at 9:35 am
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