Jan
25
2012
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Here’s a cool project to make over the weekend – a 1960s pinball machine, with instructions courtesy of James Seah.
Board Game at Stanley Street, National Archives of Singapore
James blogs about the games kids used to play when they were younger in this post. Also check out Games We Played, a celebration of childhood in Singapore.
Yesterday Singapore observed Total Defence Day, a day chosen because it was the day Singapore fell to the Japanese invasion in 1942. This year is particularly significant as it is the 70th anniversary. Here are three timely posts from several heritage bloggers about Singapore and World War II: Jerome writes about the events at Bukit [...]
I’m sure I had been told the story before … probably years ago but it was since forgotten. The subject came up purely by chance a few weeks back during one of my long-overdue visits to my mother’s place. “I’m going next week to the Kranji War Memorial,” I announced. Well up to that point [...]
James trawls through images from the National Archives of Singapore to bring us a reflection of photography, portraits and photo studios of the past. He writes: Portrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people (a group portrait), in which the [...]
Thaipusam is a major Hindu festival observed not just in parts of India, but in other places in the world where there is a large ethnic Tamil population – Mauritius, Malaysia and Singapore. Over the past few years, I have been fortunate to observe Thaipusam celebrated at three cities on the Malayan Peninsula: Penang (2009), [...]
Liz Garcia shares a late 1960s picture of a postman working in Johor Bahru on Derek Tait’s Sampans, Banyans and Rambutans: Together, Derek and Liz talk about the people who used to work in the neighbourhood like the postman and the gardener. You can read their post here. Their memories remind me of a song [...]
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