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Here’s to wishing all our readers a very Merry Christmas and many happy returns for the season! Christmas is traditionally a time for merriment, makan and now… museums! It open house at the NHB museums so pop on by for free entry today!
The picture above is from Derek’s Christmas celebration in Singapore in 1966. You can read about it here. English Christmases are usually cold because of the winter, but in Singapore it’s always sunny!
James reminisces of the heyday of Capitol Theatre in his latest post. “Once it was Singapore’s grande dame of cinemas, a destination for three generations of movie-lovers eager to see the latest Hollywood flicks.” Read James Seah’s post on Capitol Theatre. Tweet(function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = [...]
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 [...]
Sunpage announce the end of their paging services at the end of this month. If you don’t know what a pager is, then perhaps you are not a child of the 90s: Mr Brown finds an old pager while spring cleaning and explains how it works: I found this old pager in my drawer when [...]
We hear ever so often about the loss of the community spirit when people moved from kampongs into HDB flats, which greatly diminished the space for social interactions. Compared to your parents and grandparents who lived in kampongs, how much about your neighbours do you know? But people also adapt, and with the new surroundings [...]
Chun See writes: Browsing through the supermarket shelves recently, I came across a product that had remained practically unchanged since the 1960’s …. this can of Ve-Tsin (msg). In Cantonese, we call it “mei cheng” (See photo 1). As you can see, the “gourmet powder” is nothing but a mixture of salt and msg (monosodium [...]
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Merry christmas for you !!
Posted on January 19th, 2011 at 1:12 am
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