Lim Sa Bee’s award-winning collection of stamps and mail (dating way back from the earliest days of 1911 to the eve of the Japanese Occupation in WWII) is on exhibition at the Singapore Philatelic Museum until 19 June 2011.

It’s a collection of some postcards and airmail that took him almost 25 years to compile, and showcases the many processes and developments that made Singapore one of the most important aviation hubs (as we always are with being some sort of hub for most other things…) during that little period where people used Singapore a lot as a kind of intercontinental connector between the Western and Asian world.

It was cool getting to read some personal handwritten messages on postcards about the weather, where and when some strangers from two or three generations before me were about to travel.

Also, those people had some pretty sweet handwriting back then.