In another railway-inspired post, Jerome meanders through the train route from Tanjong Pagar Station and explores the railway route thrrugh Bukit Timah, including the lesser-known Bukit Timah station.

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Think Sands is just the name of one of Singapore’s casinos? Jerome shows us that was not one, but two ‘Sands’ that stood in Singapore one of them at the back door to Orchard Road.

The section of the CTE where Cavenagh Road meets Clemenceau Avenue, near the location of the former Sands House

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Jerome writes about Raffles Place of the 1960s, including his favourite restaurant, Wonderland at Battery Road.

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If you’re a regular reader of Yesterday.sg, then  Kampong Buangkok needs no introduction – it’s the last remaining village (‘kampong’) in Singapore, an enclave where people live in simple, zinc-roofed houses and everyone knows everyone else. It’s gained popularity in recent times among domestic tourists and shutterbugs seeking to see and document what life was like just 50 years ago.

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Diya Tan explores Void Decks and finds that they are anything but in this lovely film, posted over on Civic Life this week.

downstairs from Helmi Ali on Vimeo.

Read Diya’s account of the making of the film here.

And, while talking about films exploring the places that mean most to Singaporeans, check out some of the beautiful films coming through for the Civic Life 90 second film competition, WHERE THE HEART IS. Closing date is 17th September, with voting for your favourite film taking place from Monday 20th to Friday 25th.

Singapore is home to many expatriate communities, one of the oldest (as in longest-staying in Singapore) being the Japanese community. In a recent copy of J-Plus, the magazine for the expatriate community in Japan, kinkonkid discovers the Little Japan of Pre-war Singapore.

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Can a place truly be called forgotten if there’s someone around to remember it? yb globs about his old kampong, Kampong Chia Heng, which was also known, quite romantically, as the Kampong of Forgotten Souls.

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The Preservation of Monuments Board will be showing Of Monuments & Memories at Vivocity this week!  See some of our treasured historic buildings captured on photographs by 7 photographic talents.  Bring your children to our new interactive zone, where they will be given the chance create their own postcards using stamps and colouring pencils for their loved ones and friends.

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Trishaw races, ladyboys, hawker fare and street urchin scams – here’s a chance to see Bugis Street in its heydey, through the 1967 film Pretty Polly. This British film tells the story of a young woman, Polly, who finds herself engaged in a romance with a tour guide in Singapore while on holiday with her aunt.

As a schoolboy, Peter Chan had a caught the cast and crew filming the movie at Bras Basah Road. He blogs about the movie and posts a clip featuring Bugis Street on Victor’s Taking Up The Challenge.

Sometimes regarded as the “Chinese brunch”, dim sum is a Cantonese term for a Chinese meal involving tea and small servings of food such as steamed buns and savoury snacks. Originally from Southern China, it has migrated down to Southeast Asia and enjoyed especially by peoples in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The practice of Dim Sum has evolved over the years, from being the equivalent of a roadside rest-stop dining tradition to everyday fare and now even a full-blown haute cuisine experience.

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