Oct
21
2006
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Wishing all our Hindu readers a Happy Deepavali / Diwali. May light always illuminate your way through life!
Picture of Sri Perumal Temple courtesy of the National Archives of Singapore
Would anyone like to share how Deepavali is celebrated in Singapore? Or about any special observances that are peculiar to this part of the world? Post an entry on yesterday.sg!
“iremember goes to Toa Payoh” is the first of a series of outreach initiatives to the heartlands island-wide. At this carnival we will be premiering two local short films by Singapore film-makers Tan Pin Pin and Wee Li Lin. They were commissioned as part of the Singapore Memory Singapore’s efforts to showcase memories via [...]
Tomorrow, Christians all over the world commemorate Good Friday, or the day when Jesus was unjustly executed, as part of the run-up to Easter, where Christians believe he was resurrected from the dead three days later. In this post from last year, Jerome documents a local tradition observed by Catholics in Singapore on the evening [...]
Image credit: Carolyn Lim Did you know that somewhere in this urban island, lie one of the last two surviving dragon kilns in Singapore? Would this rare surviving dragon kiln survive in a rapidly changing world where at times heritage from the past disappear in the name of progress? I learnt that it was a [...]
During my really quick trip to ION Orchard yesterday, I got deterred from buying shoes by this great exhibition in the middle of Basement 4 – Noise City, the festival showcase of Noise Singapore 2011. For the uninitiated, Noise Singapore is a National Arts Council initiative that encourages the creativity of Singaporean youths through a [...]
Just the other day I heard a sound of Chinese New Year that I never thought I would hear again – the sharp pop-pop-pops that were the unmistakable sound of firecrackers. But that couldn’t be, because firecrackers were banned in the 1970s. What I heard instead was the pop of an electronic firecracker, and I’m [...]
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