There’s eggs and toast, and then there’s eggs and toast. In Singapore (and Malaysia), a traditional eggs and toast breakfast comes in the form of charcoal-toasted bread spread with kaya and butter, local coffee and a pair of half-boiled eggs. When it comes to modern franchises for this traditional kopitiam fare, Ya Kun is the name that springs to mind.

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Do you remember a time when the length of your hair could bar you entry into Singapore? It was the 1970s, a more casual and free-er time… that is, if you weren’t a male sporting long hair.

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Chun See throws another challenge with an old piece of technology:

Can you guess what this is? More pictures and a link to the answer in Good Morning Yesterday.

Cusp from Stamps & Such has a question from this set of tourism stamps from 1990:

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This was an impromptu ride which almost never happened….but we said we wanted to do.  Matt had been going to the train station for several days to secure the tickets but was getting no where. Sat evening, I recieved a text from Matt…let’s just go on Sunday early morning and “po”= try our luck.  So we did. 5 turned up at 0630…..bleary eyed at Tanjong Pagar Train station…  There was already a long queue forming and Matt looked worried…. but finally we got the tickets! Heng har!

Street entertainment may or may not be a new concept to you, depending on your age. Back in the day, itinerant street vendors distinguished themselves and the wares they sold using a hook or an entertainment gimmick such as a song or a visual demonstration. At other times, the entertainment was the commodity sold. Today street buskers are back in Singapore, but because of the licensing requirement they may not be as spontaneous or as colourful as they were in the past. Chinatownboy blogs about the reemergence of street buskers in Chinatown, and how different it was in the past.

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Before you start looking through your secondary school textbooks for some revisionist history, I should qualify that the Indo-Dutch invasion of Singapore was not a military invasion, but a pop music one. Andy blogs about Sandra Reemer, an Indonesian-Dutch pop singer who shot to fame in the Netherlands with her repertoire of Indonesian Malay songs, whose fame also spread to Singapore and Malaya in the 1970s.

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Chun See shares with us a little doodad from the past – a digital stopwatch-cum-calculator:

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Catch these family-friendly movies in National Museum of Singapore’s May edition of Under The Banyan Tree.

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This weekend, join in this free talk that observes Chinese language education in the past and highlights the challenges it faces in the present and opportunities in the future.

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