Anyone with a knowledge of Singapore’s roaring soccer scene in the 90s would get this visual joke by Mr Brown:

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Andy of the Singapore 1960s Pop Music blog writes about the passing of a Singapore pop music artist, Ismail Haron, who passed away on Monday at age 66.

He was one of Singapore’s top pop artistes from the mid-60s to the 70s and together with diva Anita Sarawak recorded vinyls that were popular amongst the pop yeah-yeah music followers in the region.
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The late Mr Ismail had also produced records with The Vigilantes and The Guys, two guitar groups that were well received in the same period.

via Singapore 60s: Andy’s Pop Music Influence.

“iremember goes to Toa Payoh” is the first of a series of outreach initiatives to the heartlands island-wide. At this carnival we will be premiering two local short films by Singapore film-makers Tan Pin Pin and Wee Li Lin. They were commissioned as part of the Singapore Memory Singapore’s efforts to showcase memories via a different medium.

Come down and join us! It will be a fun-filled carnival for the whole family with performances, games, candy floss, popcorn, freebies and more!

Bring along your photos, videos and stories of Toa Payoh, deposit them at our memory booths and you will stand a chance to win NTUC vouchers! *

Visit www.iremember.sg for more details.

*Terms and conditions apply.

Mike Robbins shares his experiences playing soccer at the Naval Base in Sembawang. It was a navy custom for ships calling to port to play sports with the local team as part of the goodwill visit. Mike used to work at the naval base and hence saw a good deal of action with visiting ships.

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Mike Robbins, a reader of Chun See’s Good Morning Yesterday, writes in with a collection of memories after reading Chun See’s book of the same name.

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Have you always lived in the same place in Singapore? Or have you already moved from your childhood neighbourhood? Blogger Jerome rediscovers the first neighbourhood that he lived in before spending his childhood in Toa Payoh – the satellite town of Queentstown.

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Most of us would know the names of the first two presidents of Singapore: Yusof bin Ishak and Benjamin Sheares. But do you know where these two presidents are buried?

The answer: At the Kranji War Memorial – or more accurately, the state cemetery grounds near the Singapore War Memorial at Kranji. Eddy visited the memorial last month and he blogs about his visit to the memorial, and the president’s graves here. We are certainly more familiar with the World War II connection to the memorial, which is why it’s surprising to find the state tombs of our first two presidents near there. Does anybody know why they were buried there?

Liz Garcia shares a late 1960s picture of a postman working in Johor Bahru on Derek Tait’s Sampans, Banyans and Rambutans:

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Producing a song is no small feat. Having sold 100,000 copies of the song in Asia in the 1960s is an achievement! Andy shares the story of Su Yin, whose claim to fame was the hit song Yodelling Cowboy (黃昏放牛).

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Derek Tait shares this photo of himself, brother and mother posing with the rhino at Haw Par Villa. The last time Derek checked, the rhino seems to have disappeared. Does anyone know if the rhino has returned to Haw Par Villa?

Read Derek’s post here.