Sign up for Monumental Walking Tours *free for June*

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 [...]

In the mood for Cheongsam… Good Morning Yesterday Edition

Have you caught the Cheongsam exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore yet? In keeping with the theme, Chun See of Good Morning Yesterday posts some pictures of his mother in the cheongsam, taken in the 1940s: See all the pictures in his post here. If you haven’t caught it already, In the Mood for [...]

Sketchwalkers at The Intan

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); })();

A diamond in the neighbourhood

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 [...]

Railway memories

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?