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Somehow, some places bring to mind a certain colour. Like how water is blue and sun is yellow, even though it may not be true.
So what colour is Little India to you?
Little India reminds me of the colour, yellow. Maybe because every turn I make, I see hints of it.
Yellow suggests warmth. cheerfulness and brightness like a sunflower.
It is also the colour of gold, a treasure we should cherish.
Do you have a different colour to share?
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 [...]
Lo! A walking pinecone! This sunda pangolin was spotted recently at the Bukit Brown cemetery by a frequent visitor Konamoto Dominic. You’d be forgiven in thinking that this animal is out of this world – in reality, they are native to Southeast Asia, sightings of them are very rare. Although their scales make them look [...]
Raise up your hand if you knew that the Singapore Art Museum and Peranakan Museum used to house the St Joseph’s Institution and Tao Nan School respectively? Sign up for Where It All Began to find out how these building continue to play a role in educating its visitors today. Or learn about the lives of people [...]
Via UrbanSketchers Singapore. See more here, here, here, here and 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); })();
We know that Bukit Brown is full of graves – by themselves becoming increasingly rare in Singapore – with a variety of designs and styles. Wang Chen Ming writes at the Bukit Brown blog about this unusual tomb, which has an intriguing mirror-like structure, and also a riddle embedded in the tomb. Read about it [...]
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Is this the start of the Colors of Little India meme? This may just inspire me to go back to Little India again. Previous “accidental” trips to that area had made me fall in love with the place.
Posted on July 9th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Here’s my contribution if this is a meme: little-india-in-shades-of-brown.html
Posted on July 10th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Yes, this is meme! Get the ball rolling! =)
Posted on July 11th, 2006 at 3:00 am
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