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First Name: Noel

Last Name: Tan

Website: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com

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noelbynature's posts:

• Pinoy Pride at the Singapore Art Museum
• Who are the people in your neighbourhood?
• Name those streets: Scenes of old Singapore
• Photography and photo studios in the past
• St Patrick's Day/School/Badge
• Fashioning Modernity (in a techpark)
• these seats are mighty comfy
• the mystery of the Easter church-hoppers
• Reflections at Bukit Chandu
• If you've got nothing better to do on election day
• British Singapore's Last Hours
• Life goes on behind bars
• 161 trees in Singapore designated as Heritage Trees (Channel NewsAsia)
• While we're talking about food heritage...
• Cutting Edge Technology! (of the Kampong Days)
• blinkymummy visits Fiction@Love
• Telling a great Malayan story in Singapore
• youth.sg on IMD
• More Blinkymummy at the SAM
• More artefacts from the Kampong Days
• Katong Walkabouts
• Where is the resting place of Ngah Ibrahim?
• The World According to Stamps
• The resting place of Ngah Ibrahim
• New Army Museum to open
• Saving our Chinese Heritage (SOCH) Initiative
• Invitation to form a Save Our Heritage Society
• Singapore's export fashion styles
• Madness in the tropics
• Five stones and Western Bars
• COLI: Brown
• The Seletar Airbase Project
• The Yellow Mansion
• If you're wondering what to do in the weekend...
• This Week in the Mailbox a.k.a. Can You Help?
• Singapore Airlines Nostalgia
• If you've got nothing to do in Houston, TX...
• This Week in the Mailbox - July 23 Edition
• Lim Kim San: Tributes on the Web
• Public Forum: "Films as Heritage: Film Making in Singapore"
• Free entry to museums on National Day!
• 3 more days to blog about Sue!
• Yamashita's Last Words
• Radio Heatwave Podcasts Dinosaurs!
• Remember the Crescendos?
• Free entry to SAM*! (Check out the 8 shifus)
• Do not climb - Capitol Building
• Singapore war internee's art on show (BBC)
• More BBC War Stories
• Junksale finds
• The World At Home?
• History Relived - Fort Pasir Panjang
• The final, final resting place of Ngah Ibrahim
• Remembering September 11th
• Another stamp blog
• Singapore history extended to 14th century or stay with 1819
• RIP Elizabeth Choy
• Casting Call from the Peranakan Association
• A time for lanterns and mooncakes
• Lat on Fort Canning & Singapura golden era
• Once upon a railway town (link)
• Yes-ka, No-ka @ the bukit timah ford factory (link)
• a very special kind of home delivery
• Wet Markets
• The Feng Shui History of the Hyatt Hotel
• Shen Xiatong works at the Art Retreat
• Another photolog for All The Best
• Wee Ma arrives for a visit to Po Chiak Keng
• Places I Remember (1) – MacRitchie Reservoir
• blinkymummy visits the Singapore Discovery Centre
• Atop mount Sophia overlooking Bencoolen Street
• Save Palmer Road
• Rediscover: Chinatown Heritage Centre
• Have you been to Red Dot?
• Explore Singapore! preview
• Explore Singapore! Behind the scenes at the Raffles Museum
• Adrian Chua Remembers His Childhood Days
• Rained out at Healthzone
• Heritage Sneak Peek
• Remembering Beauty World
• shots@ bonham hill - from daguerreotype to digital
• At the Barber
• New Singapore 60's compilation!
• year 2605, bicycle tax & zero fighter plane
• Day Shoot In Kampong Glam to City
• Traditional Food Packaging
• An Abridged Map of Singapore City Area
• George Yeo blogs about NM
• You Char Kway The traditional way
• An interview with Kwa Chin Swee
• Recollecting Singapore 60s
• The Leaning Tower of Popiah
• Of evolution of the Malaysian coat of arms
• The Legend of Bukit Merah
• Masuk Dalam, Masuk Dalam
• Fun and Entertaiment in the 1960s
• 23 Works of Anthony Poon Donated to Singapore Art Museum
• An architectural resource
• Who says museums are boring?
• Stories of Bukit Ho Swee
• Chinatown Lights up for Chinese New Year of the Pig
• Traditions Never Die Here in Singapore!
• Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress
• Lim Boon Keng and the Straits Chinese
• Photography: 12 Days to Chinese Lunar New Year
• Can You Guess What This Palm Oil Seed Can Be Used For
• Chinese New Year Rush
• Times Of My Life
• Ang Ku Kueh
• We remember the Fall of Singapore
• Sword Dancing ECA?
• Soldier's View of the Fall of Singapore 1941-2
• Some old records
• Name that place!
• History of Chingay
• ACM's Mystery Men publicity exhibit at Jurong Regional Library
• Memories of Cashin Mansion
• 1968 PAP report card
• We Live In Singapura - The Music Video
• An Interview With An Ex-RAF Airman
• 5 CNY Traditions
• Memories of Beatty Road series
• Learning To Drive
• My Primary Education
• Singapore's Football Heritage
• Cars in 1960s Singapore
• TV in the past
• Temples at Race Course Road
• Don’t Fall Off That Mountain
• My First POSB
• Tau Sar Piah: Singapore's very own pastry
• Trip to the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
• My Pri.2 Chinese Textbook
• On The Record: Homegrown Bands from Then and Now
• A Day With My Dad – Lam Chun Chew
• National Theatre - A Different View
• CNY 14th Nite at Wak Hai Cheng Beo
• Museum Grub
• Explore Singapore! with SinGeo Maps
• Photojournalism and the imaging of the Modern Malaysia
• Resources on Samsui Women
• Changi Prison and the Burma Railway
• The Little Cinema of Malaysia
• Those retro bus tickets
• Ticket to the Past
• Citizen Historian
• Toys Were Us
• From Kachang to Popcorn
• St George's Church
• From BMT to ROD
• Can Young People of Today Survive the Kampong Days?
• The Many Places of Singapura
• Joo Chiat Food Tour
• New Buddhist relics at Nei Xue Tang
• IMD 2007: Singaporean Childhood Exhibition
• A day at the Battle Box
• Moving the Merlion
• A War Time Love Story
• Writing Family History: Interviewing Ah Ma
• IMD2007: Kevin-cam
• Aksara: An exhibition of Malay scripts through time
• A secret biological weapons programme in Singapore?
• Singapore Otaku: The First Generation
• Name the photo from Singapore's Past
• Of Tin Toys & Plastic Dolls
• The Kampong Barber
• The Ice Ball Man
• Toys Were Us – Longlong
• The Mystery at Punggol
• Al Taylor's Memories of Jalan Kayu
• What's your story, Morning Glory?
• From ALS to ERP
• The Pretty Village
• Singapore's Oldest and Most Charming Neighbourhood
• Primary School Atlas
• Battle Box and a Singapore Sling
• The NUS Museum
• National Stadium memories
• The Asian Civilisations Museum
• Every item tells a story
• Don't forget to visit the HeritageFest @ Suntec City!
• A visit to the SGH Museum
• A scene from a family outing
• More reports from the HeritageFest 2007
• The New Seven Wonders (of Singapore)
• Big Splash
• National Day Parades, then and now
• The Singapore Kranji Railway
• Kampong Bugis
• Motor Racing in Singapore
• The Singapore Art Museum - Innocently Risque
• What's the oldest girl's school in Singapore?
• Paper Boats at the Old River Vally Swimming Complex
• The Last Wayang
• Museum of Shanghai Toys gets a facelift
• My first National Day... June 3!
• Bukit Timah: A Heritage Trail
• Between the payphone and the handphone
• My Toy Collection Road - Part 1
• Lee Clan Association
• Chinatown prepares for Mid-Autumn Festival
• Memories of Toa Payoh
• Gather Moments While You May
• My Toy Collection Road - Episode 2
• Ghost Month
• Limited time only: Talentime 69
• Pesta Sukan
• The Bukit Timah Heritage Trail Part 2
• My Toy Collection Road - Episode 3
• Cowjuice
• Malayan Borneo 1959 note
• The Red Brick Library
• The Bukit Timah Heritage Trail Part 3
• Changing roles and images of buildings in Singapore
• Mooncakes and more
• Mooncakes And An Old Hotel That Sold Them
• Are you a GLAM person?
• Detour to Sixth Avenue
• Home-Grown Brand
• Inside the Church of St Gregory the Illuminator
• Sculpture installation at the New Majestic Hotel
• A walk through Joo Chiat
• Bukit Timah Heritage Trail - Sixth Avene to Beauty World
• Long Hair Not Allowed!
• Thian Hock Kheng Temple
• Up close and personal (Guess where?)
• Remember that racist toothpaste?
• Bukit Timah Heritage Trail - Beauty World to Bukit Panjang
• Zero fighters
• The gun battery at Chestnut Drive (Bukit Timah Heritage Trail #7)
• Traditional Pastries
• Selamat Hari Raya from yesterday.sg!
• The school that was a courthouse
• The church on a ridge
• Breakfast in Singapore's First New Town
• Boy's Town (Bukit Timah Heritage Trail)
• Memories of Mandai Camp
• Javelins and Bloodhounds at Bukit Gombak
• The Tembusu Tree
• Malaysian Dining in Singapore
• Remembering A&W
• The Nanyang Gateway Arch
• Take the Roundabout Quiz!
• Technical Education
• Memories of NTU
• The German Girl Shrine of Pulau Ubin
• Another round of the Roundabout Quiz!
• National Museum TV Commercial
• Free Entry to NHB Museums on Deepavali tomorrow
• The Little India Light-Up
• Holland Road Roundabout
• On the Nalanda Trail
• The SEAP games?
• Why is Singapore in the wrong time zone?
• Made-in-Singapore movies
• Where did you come from?
• The Pillbox of Pantai Kundor
• Name that Stadium
• Little Red Dot
• A Retro MRT map
• Stamped Separation Anxiety
• Raffles vs. St Andrew's
• Where have all the swimming pools gone?
• Another Old Buildings quiz
• Looking at Bendemeer another way
• For those born in the 70s and 80s
• At your fingertips, over the years
• To everything there is a season
• Stories of Queenstown
• That White Rock
• Invisible City, through the eyes of a history student
• Icons of modern Katong
• Another Old Buildings Quiz
• Banana Money
• Memories of Old Katong 2
• Old Buildings Quiz #5
• Three exhibitions
• More on the last Old Building Quiz
• The National Anthem, the Flag-raising and the Pledge
• A Brit's 1960s school experience
• Other lost landmarks of Katong
• Tiger-striped fish on stamps
• One Scoop of Porridge
• Japanese Occupation Stamps
• Where was the Changi Grammar School?
• Chinatown prepares to welcome the Year of the Rat
• Chek Jawa - our natural heritage
• History of Beef Kway Teow
• Singapore River Stories
• Commemorating the Battle of Pasir Panjang
• Old Buildings Quiz #6
• A tour through Singapore
• Finding Local Stories
• Chinese New Year Shopping
• Metropole Cinema
• Celebrate Chinese New Year with free entry into NHB Museums!
• Visiting the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
• Old Katong sequel: The Entrance to Tay Ban Guan
• A Tale of Connections
• Memories from my Old Ang Pao
• Dining in the 'old days'
• Recommended Reading
• Tributes to Ah Meng
• Abacus Seeds
• Fullerton Building and the Singapore Skyline
• Explore the Civic District
• Who designs these toys?
• Conserve the Singapore Badminton Hall?
• KaalaChakra: The Wheel of Time
• Read about Singapore's transport heritage on ReTRIeVIA!
• Exploring Tiong Bahru's heritage
• NUS Museum Open House and Beyond
• The food that we share
• Childhood Heroes
• Trapping spotted doves
• Old Ford Factory visit
• Samsui Girl
• Buddha Tooth Museum
• Tembusu Tree, part II
• Reminiscing the Singaporean Identity
• Old Singapore Road Maps
• Remembering chap Goh Meh in 1958
• Book Review: Guardians of the South Seas: Thian Hock Keng and Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan
• Meet the Wayang Girl
• Nipah leaves for thatching roofs
• Yellow Bird
• The Sea View Hotel
• A coastal tree with blue fruits
• When hawkers still roved
• More Hawkers from yesterday
• The NUS Museum Club
• Offshore posting - Pulau Semakau
• Night at the Museum
• Visit to the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
• Heat Treatment
• Nominating Heritage Trees
• Trishaw Man
• The Drop Handkerchief game
• Singapore, We Grew Up Here
• Botanical heat transfer
• Paper bags that tell a story
• The Indian Dhoby
• Local legends: Fandi Ahmad
• If you run out of toothpaste...
• Old Buildings Quiz #7
• Enjoying Indian food
• Nanyin Night at the Thian Hock Keng Temple
• For men only - Old Beauties Quiz
• The Chinese Medium
• Honours Academic Exercises
• Mahjong Memories
• Alexandra Bricks
• The Origin of 'Ringgit'
• Changi Theatre and Bedok Cinema no more
• Before Archie
• The Wasted Stove
• May I use your telephone?
• Excuse Me, Do You Sell Tracing Paper?
• The other side of Beano
• The Longest Dragon Kiln in Singapore
• The Many Uses of the Humble Tin Can
• Spot the difference
• The Peranakan Museum opens today!
• A last peek at the Greek Masterpieces
• The Peranakan Museum opens with a bash!
• The Peranakan Museum opens
• By the light of a kerosene lamp
• The Peranakan Museum by Kawan-Kawan Katong
• What's our National Language?
• Peranakan Museum photoset
• The Chinatown Triangle
• Where did Mat Salleh come from?
• Now, two is not enough
• Another old beauties quiz
• A part of Tiong Bahru
• The Ulu Pandan Heritage Trail
• The trusy old raleigh
• The Causeway's rich history
• Shophouse Pillar
• The Ulu Pandan Heritage Trail - Pandan Valley
• A Peranakan Bed
• Old SBC Dramas
• Open House! Enjoy Free Entry on International Museums Day 2008!
• Ovaltine VS Milo
• More Alexandra Bricks
• The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History
• Ulu Pandan Heritage Trail - Mowbray Camp
• Peranakan Pride
• Ulu Pandan Heritage Trail - Old Holland Road
• Contrasting Memories: POSB savings then and now
• A Traditional Peranakan Wedding
• Teaching in the 1960s
• The haunted camp along the Ulu Pandan Heritage Trail
• The Trail of Colorful Treasures
• A walk through the past
• Shut your trap!
• The Colourful Peranakans
• Kwong Hou Sua Teochew Cemetery
• The (in)famous Kota Tinggi incident
• Proud to be Perankan
• The changing faces of Joo Chiat
• Exclusive Parking at Tiong Bahru
• Interview with Eric Lim, director of Remember Chek Jawa
• The Flight of the Night Owl!
• Ulu Pandan Heritage Trail - The Bridge
• Irreversible and permanent damage
• The kids at the National Museum
• Dumpling making in the kampong
• Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelters
• Keeping Pets
• The lost islands of the Singapore River
• Balek Kampong to Bedok Corner
• The four-day fire
• The Dragon Kiln and Pottery Jungle
• Sea Creatures on Stamps
• Balek Kampong to Bedok Corner Part 2
• Marina takes a Flight... of the Night Owl
• NHB15: Dotting the Eye
• Municipal Building plan
• Straits Settlements Cover
• Valerius Sepi’s Wall Mural
• Lim Bo Seng's War Diary
• A fusion of styles
• Doesn't this Buddha look happy?
• We’re Happy, Are You Happy?
• Intaglio Printing Plates
• The kitchen of the mind
• Beadwork Tablecloth
• The portrait of Sir Frank Swettenham
• Claudia visits the Asian Civilisations Museum
• Social Media Breakfast 3 at the ACM
• A connection to a real hero
• Old School, New Wing
• Reasons to pull your pants leg up
• Chinatown dresses up for the Mid-Autumn Festival
• An Alaskan view of the Peranakan Museum
• When did your parents go to school?
• When's the last time you went to Haw Par Villa?
• Cheap food.. back then
• Postcards from the past
• Four good reasons to blog about Heritage
• Collecting water with a flick of the wrist
• Photoset: Building Singapore
• Historical Fiction: Old Tracks, New Trail
• Changi Coastal Defence of Singapore
• Kite Fighting 101
• Name that location
• The real Katong Laksa
• Gwongzhen Tea Manor
• A history of Grand Prix in Singapore
• Remembering C. K. Tang
• The Church of St Alphonsus
• The colours of Little India
• Living with Foreign Talent
• Catching 'em wet and slimy
• Can you figure the code?
• Name the Road that leads to nowhere
• Living in Tiong Bahru back in the day
• Why so blue? Your passport, I mean
• Desirable Mass
• Navarathri at Sri Mariamman Temple
• Public Bus Transport: Before SBS
• Travelling Buskers, I mean Salesmen
• The Tiong Bahru Heritage Club
• Jotting
• Double Vision
• Balestier - Thomson Road Heritage Trail
• Walk-in Movie
• The Battle at Pasir Panjang
• The fashionista of the Straits
• Push-button fishing
• The war machine on two wheels
• Forgotten fishing techniques
• Singapore Street Food Gallery
• Middle Road: What used to be this building?
• Old HDB Logo from the 1960s
• The evolution of Singapore's public swimming pools
• NTU Comics Lover visits the Japanese Media Arts Festival @ SAM
• The other illegal street walkers of Joo Chiat
• Reconnecting quilts at the Changi Chapel Museum
• This school doesn't have a school field
• Now, THAT'S piety
• Have a Merry Christmas at the Museum!
• Steven Lee visits Doubleness
• Why are there banana trees outside Hindu temples?
• Happy New Year from Sisters Island
• The original coffee-to-go
• Meanwhile... preparations for the other New Year
• Your neighbourhood Ghostbuster
• Gone drinking
• The spirit of Thaipusam
• Last weekend's Battle of Pasir Panjang walk
• Virtual Kampong Buangkok
• Exploring the former Scott's Hill
• Things Peranakan
• Back then, it took two weeks to deliver a superpoke
• Understanding the Merlion
• Amoy Street in the 70s
• Not bad for a 50-year-old
• Remember what Punggol Point used to look like?
• My big brother can hit you on the head and knock you out
• Bam! Pow! Zap! And that's how comics are made.
• National Monuments get a repair boost
• History of Joo Chiat Road
• The Peranakan Houses of Emerald Hill
• Vintage children's books
• High tide at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
• Memories of Braddell Rise School
• The French Connection - Christian Lacroix the costumier
• Beaded History
• Singapore Places of Worship series starts next week
• Chocolate monsters invade 8Q Sam
• Army daze redux
• Gay World revisited
• Singapore, Crossroads of the East
• A place to soothe your feet... and boil eggs
• What kind of cubed food is this?
• The Singapore Botanic Gardens is 150 years old
• What does liquid paper have to do with Tiong Bahru pipes?
• More reviews on the Christian Lacroix exhibition
• Same old, different old
• How many old places can you identify?
• Where in Singapore can you find National home appliances?
• A World Heritage Site for Singapore?
• Virtual Peranakan Museum
• Tracing the Old Joo Chiat Railway line
• When having dummies in the car was a good thing
• It's eco-friendly to go back to the 70s
• Worshipping local gods
• Peranakan Museum's first birthday bash
• Sunday edition
• Life goes on at Kampong Buangkok
• Visiting the grave of Chew Joo Chiat
• Qing Ming is about family
• Playing carrom with cue sticks
• Pyramids and Spires: Hindu temples in Singapore
• Beginnings at Telok Ayer
• Lessons in extinction
• Introducing the Singapore 60s Pop Music Website
• St Luke's Church at Lorong Buangkok
• Kampongs Yesterday and Today
• Unsolved mysteries: The Shooting at Queenstown
• Ah-choo! A history of flu
• The morning karaoke
• Haw Par's House of Jade
• Nature's Sweets
• Paying respects at kopi sua
• Showdown 1977
• The oldest Buddhist temple in Singapore?
• 187 years of the Botanic Gardens
• So good, you ate it on its own
• Stories from the Chinese Swimming Club
• Catching longkang fish
• Remembering the 1960s in Pasar Theatre
• A Night at the Markets
• Wayangs and sugar candy
• The Lane of the Dead
• A hidden gem in Chinatown
• The Rex Curry Puffs
• A history of Upper East Coast Road through long-forgotten B-movies
• Local-born durian trees
• The building formerly known as the Queenstown Vocational Training Centre
• How many times can you blog about a visit to the museum?
• They paved the way for Singapore music
• Buildings change, bread endures
• Who is my neighbour?
• Ghosts of stores past
• TV guide? What TV guide?
• 44 Years Of Independence Or 50 Years Of Nation Building?
• Status symbols
• More on the Baharuddin Vocational Institute
• Sentosa Primary School
• Another former school
• Peranakan feast at museum
• Ditch the you-know-hu, make your own glue!
• The Hungry Ghost Festival at Chinatown
• The sand beneath my bum
• I Polunin: Scenes from a vanished Singapore
• Of kiddie curfews
• Urban sketches
• The oldest Malay cemetery in Singapore
• Without a trace
• Cool Cats in the 70s
• When did Pasar Malams go out of fashion?
• Mowbray Camp
• Treats for the departed
• What edition is your dictionary?
• Congrats to Laokokok of Times of My Life for winning in the Singapore Blog Awards
• In the belly of the beast
• Who were these masked musicians?
• Kampong Lorong Buangkok after the rain
• Real Hawkers don't stay at one place
• Behind the Military Machine
• Don't be distracted by the toilet
• Whose food is it anyway?
• The other festival of lights
• A story of two entrepreneurs
• Some of Singapore's lesser-known museums
• AKC
• What comes after the Hungry Ghost?
• Do you remember Nam Sang Hua Yan?
• More mooncake mania at the Hua Song Museum
• Camping tech
• Crabby pastimes and fishy recreations
• More marriage customs
• Singapore's soccer glory days
• Cherries from Chinamerica
• More memories of Pierce Reservoir
• 0 ATMs, 0 Fast Food Restaurants
• Motor racing at the Botanic Gardens
• License plate for bicycles
• When was Singapore's first air show?
• Don't take that tap water for granted!
• Definitely made in Singapore: Chilli Crab
• When blue suede shoes (nearly) walked the Singapore streets
• Break out the bubbly
• The weekend sign poser
• One-and-a-half-storeys
• Explore Siang Lim Park
• Thank goodness for food safety!
• Tonic season
• The school at the end of Club Street
• Wayang Stages then and now
• The 'house' on the hill
• Public Enemies
• Memories of Changi Beach
• Elephants in Sembawang
• The surprising National Museum
• Nanyin Concert at the Thian Hock Keng Temple
• Cross a border, catch a movie
• In the footsteps of the invaders
• The rival of John Little and Robinsons
• From Railway Track to the Centrepoint
• How to make phone calls for free...
• How to use a rotary phone
• The Adrian Lim murders
• Walking the talk at Joo Chiat
• Reconnecting with one's own culture
• Old Building, New Functions
• Most interesting Museums in Singapore?
• King Chulalongkorn's Gift
• A theatre, a church and Nancy Sit
• It's Christmas time! Time to revisit the toy museum?
• Military installations along East Coast Road
• A story worth re-telling
• The durian-less Esplanade
• The politically-incorrect toothpaste
• The first days of school
• The evolution of car park wardens
• Bukit Larangan
• Josel Rizal in Singapore
• Christmas Open House at the Museums
• What do you think about wet markets?
• The tooth, and nothing but the tooth
• Lost professions: Rubber Tapping
• Countdown to 2010 at the ACM!
• Childhood decision-making processes
• Garden poser
• Meet the October Cherries
• Retro playgrounds
• Singapore's "Old Town"
• New Year's at the Chapel
• Two spices for the price of one
• At the barber
• What do/did these lions guard?
• When bags weren't just an environmental risk.
• Two-piece printer and toner
• From 7 to 50
• What goes into a birthday party?
• Seeking stories of Amoy Street
• When all-you-can-ride was on $4
• Check in at the railway station
• Walk down Waterloo Street
• The Buddha Tooth Museum like you've never seen it before
• The other Raffles Hotel
• Kiwi watering holes and love in the service...
• All hail to the kings
• Forgotten villages of Singapore: Chong Pang
• Chinatown lights up!
• A wake, demonstration or musical?
• Why does Tanglin have a Halt?
• The dead do tell tales
• The importance of foresight
• Gunfights always lead to a 'grave' end
• A serviceman's account of Singapore in 1959
• When the sports hub was the shipping hub
• Vel! Vel! Vadivel!
• It's not easy being green
• The day the Queen came home
• Should Tiong Bahru's SIT flats be conserved?
• The tallest building in Singapore!
• The old Ayer Rajah Road
• The colourful streets of Selegie and Mackenzie
• Greeting the Spring
• Who still makes Chinese New Year goodies?
• Chinese New Year at the Chinese Temples
• Singa-2-Pore
• Where in Singapore can you find this postbox?
• The queue to Malaysia started at Goodwood Hill
• Let Polly tell your future
• 1974: The year of football
• School strike
• Uncle Dicko meets Mansor Adabi
• Mughals' Treasury: Like stepping into a bank vault
• Scenes no longer seen: street hawkers
• Our (auto) population growth
• The churches and schools of Queen Street
• Bedok during World War II
• The Robinsons at Raffles Place
• Not too late to step into ancient Egypt!
• Were there snake charmers in Singapore?
• Kampong Pranks
• The other side of forbidden
• Meet Arthur Poskitt
• What do Bananas in Pyjamas have to do with the Changi Museum?
• Memories of Victoria Street from Bras Basah to Middle Road
• Memories of the New Seventh Storey Hotel
• When convenience was just a hole in the wall
• When was this Tiger Time?
• What did schoolkids use before the calculator?
• Why are there no petrol stations in the CBD?
• Bridges and Bogeymen
• The Medicine Hall at Eu Tong Sen Street
• Lady Raffles' Hill
• More on the Maria Hertogh saga
• Many memories of Sembawang
• The other Peppermint Park
• A great place for fishing, not so great for driving off the road
• Knights of the Round Table at Cathay Cinema
• Things we take for granted: bath time
• The place once known as the Mahallah
• Would people snigger if you had to go to the Social Hygiene Hospital?
• The common story in Southeast Asia
• Where retro meets the young: Children Little Museum
• Before Underwater World: The Van Kleef Aquarium
• Advertisements as signs of the times
• The Albert Street SIT flats
• The red rubber building
• Living in fear of numbers
• Do you remember Chuck E Cheese?
• Orchard Road in the 1970s
• The spirit of Kallang
• More of Orchard Road in the 70s
• A bath tub you can carry with you
• The other Istana
• Black is the old black
• What, this old thing?
• The other 62
• The filing card system and other memories of the National Library
• What can be more terrifying than snakes on a plane?
• Lido then and now
• Remembering Dr Goh Keng Swee
• 'shaws and no-aircon buses - Public Transport in the old days
• See the world 85 years ago
• The lighter side of death
• The other Singapore Stone
• Logo of the Straits Settlements Police
• Schools-turned-museums
• Today, taking the bus is a breeze
• Hiding a body on the roof
• 5-1/2 ms Pasir Panjang
• Taking a leisurely walk by the highway
• Grass cutter
• Insert diving board here
• Stepping into a pillbox
• Which polytechnic is older than Singapore?
• Finding the Burmese brothers in Penang
• Where the place is the brand
• The remaking of an Empress
• Raise the red stove
• Memories of a Singapore resident in the 1960s
• Rumah Miskin, or Mangkah-kah
• Sounds phoney to me!
• From street markets to wet markets to supermarkets
• Singapore's boisterous little street
• Curved spaces
• Letting the kids run wild at the museum
• A sneak preview aboard the Jewel of Muscat
• Farewell to a lady
• They call this portable?
• Walk through Singapore a generation ago
• It's like blogging, but private
• Moonshine in Singapore
• Horse riding at the void deck
• Underwater World
• PY's snippets from the Night Festival
• Old-school schools
• The Ocean Buildings
• How much of your family history can you find online?
• Smells as a trigger for memory
• Flights of fancy
• Raffles didn't always stand here
• Old Singapore Quiz, Hotels edition
• The kinds of mischief in the mail
• A Eurasian wedding, 1923
• Dim-summery
• Footage of Bugis Street in the 1960s
• Food for the homesick: Hokkien Mee
• History where you might not expect to find it
• A royal tomb in Singapore
• Yesterday's domestic help: the amah
• In this driving test, you have to push the car
• The Singapore Girl and the Trishaw
• Singapore's past sporting glory - squash
• Hungry Ghost Festival at Chinatown
• Forgotten no more
• Singapore's Little Japan
• After 18 years, Singapore's first multiplex closes for renovations
• Three-ply? What about no-ply?
• It's a strange new world, to be an 18-year-old
• Learning History in Singapore
• Holland Water and the History of Soft Drinks
• A rustic stroll through Singapore's last village
• Gambling for a meal
• PBM and BBM - Do you know what they mean?
• Bet you can't make an xbox from scratch
• Singaporean casualties of the Vietnamese-American war
• The other Wonderland of Singapore
• School Magazines: G.E.S.
• The origins of Changi General Hospital... in Toa Payoh
• Memories of Paya Lebar Airport
• The boy who lived in a convent
• 2 Sep 1945: The Japanese Surrender
• The peacemaker who sleeps in our waters
• From Tanjong Pagar to KL
• RIP: Mdm Kwa Geok Choo 1920-2010
• When tape recorders were this big
• Overseas training, then and now
• The back door of Orchard Road
• An encounter with a Typainter
• The line that time forgot
• Porridge Lane
• As the stadium goes, so does the Oasis
• Sharing photos - without the help of an online account
• From the ashes...
• This ain't Twilight...
• Malay weddings past and present
• The conserved Clifford Pier
• In the halls of history
• Last of the Level Crossings
• Last chance to catch Sumatra: Isle of Gold!
• Singapore, 1957
• Scenes from Singapore's 'countryside'
• From Outram Park to Penang
• Even Shakespeare doesn't have a school named after him
• Landmarks along the Bukit Timah corridor
• Before Outram Park, there was Outram Prison
• Hong San See, sometimes known as Hong San Temple-Temple
• Discover Singapore's Musical Heritage through musicSG
• Driving in Singapore
• A woven bed
• Scenes from Changi Village
• Singapore's first movietown
• Something to do other than biting your nails
• Have you eaten?
• Yamashita's gold: the Singapore Version
• The glass of the Supreme Court
• Singaporean 'fairy' tales
• No. 8 Jalan Ampas, another movietown
• Non-contact dancing and musical repartee
• Once upon a time, there was a castle in Toa Payoh...
• Bringing golf to the masses
• Revisiting the old house
• Geekmatic visits the Mint Museum of Toys
• Tough as nails
• Why do Japanese gather at Bukit Batok Memorial Park?
• From Singapore to Gemas
• Orang Asli in Singapore
• Satay by the Bay
• Singapore River from the 1950s and 1960s
• The Japanese Cemetary Park
• The Penultimate Stand
• RIP Ivan Polunin
• Smoking ads we will never see again
• Merry Christmas!
• Smoking in the old days
• Walking the civic district
• Memories of Somapah Village
• What's Singapore worth?
• Happy New Year!
• Spot the difference
• Spoonerisms
• Tree worship in Singapore
• The Piers of Singapore
• Memories from the last technological revolution
• From Spooner Road in Singapore to Jalan Spooner in Ipoh
• Explore the Congo, in Singapore
• Collyer Quay, 60 years later
• Two more weeks to visit Pompeii in Singapore!
• The spinning ovaltine cups
• Images of the Esplanade / Queen Elizabeth Walk
• The world during the 1960s
• The smell of night markets
• Which is older?
• Thaipusam this morning
• Lessons from Ancient Pompeii
• The Year of the Metal Rabbit
• It's a remake, you know
• Baby strollers
• Library visit to Kampong Lorong Buangkok
• Great World comes alive once again
• More scenes from last week's Thaipusam
• Changing of the altar
• Joo Chiat Then and Now
• Spot the carriers
• Singapore's old industrial heartland
• Gong Xi Fa Cai!
• More Great World Memories
• Grisly tales of the Chinese New Year
• Chinatown Rock!
• New Year Cakes
• Chinese New Year and the Sea of Red
• Three temples for Chinese New Year
• Flatted Factories
• The horror at Pegu Road
• On a little street in Singapore
• Old Chinese time system
• Cap Goh Meh at the Thian Hock Keng Temple
• The Cinemas of Great World
• Make a pillow out of bean sprouts husks
• The sounds of street hawkers
• A Family Tree
• Scenes of Albert Street
• Bukit Panjang Child Welfare Clinic no more
• Was there really a Marina Bay in the 1800s?
• Singapore's Mansion Mountain
• What's a wanchai burberry?
• Groovy, baby!
• 8 Upper Wilkie Road
• A chocolate car
• Now you can eat nostalgia too
• The TB hospital
• From Push-Cart to Hawker Centres
• A night with the Merlion
• The Tang Treasures Exhibition as a symbol of internationalism
• A walk through the old Kallang Aiport
• Into the Heart of Darkness
• Singapore Food Trail - what works and what's missing?
• Black is the new Black
• New Asian Imaginations: (Re)searching the Arts in Southeast Asia
• Stretching from sea to sea
• Kavadis not just once a year
• Biennale linkdump: The Merlion Hotel
• Besides lightning, one thing remains constant
• Kampong items, no longer seen in modern Singapore
• The home of 'two is enough'
• Last chance to catch Congo River: Arts of Central Africa at the ACM
• Local 60s pop icon fashions
• Sembawang beyond the slumber
• The Chinese All Souls Day
• A slice of Singapore's transport history
• Thomson Road Hospital
• A walk in Chinatown
• An old family portrait
• Exporting pop culture in the 1960s
• Where can you find ice balls in Singapore?
• A walk through a proposed 'green corridor'
• Great Moments at City Hall
• Good Friday at the Queen Street Church
• Three takes on Black
• Southernmost Singapore
• First look at the proposed Natural History Museum
• What's that logo?
• Scenes from the Singapore Biennale at the Old Kallang Airport
• Numismatics
• Singapore's old transport hub
• An old digital stopwatch
• Hill Street Pork Noodles
• The Indo-Dutch Invasion of Singapore
• The Buskers of Chinatown
• Best places to catch the last train
• What are the two on top?
• The last level crossing in Singapore
• Another old gadget
• Philippine History in Singapore
• Long Hair not allowed!
• What's so special about morning toast?
• How much do you know about the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station?
• LKY visits the Kampong
• Singapore 60s music remix
• Review of Negotiating Home, History and Nation
• Eu Chooi Yip: Singapore’s unknown communist leader
• Serving the 'same' food for over 50 years
• By the light of a kerosene lamp
• Hotel New World Collapse
• Hawker Centres on Stamps
• Review of Negotiating Home, History and Nation
• Soy sauce making in Singapore
• Singapore's earliest band?
• Review of Video: an art, a history 1965-2010
• To Bukit Brown, in search of great-grandparents
• Faces of the Railway series
• A five-year-old's perspective on Video, An Art, A History
• Singapore Vinyl Cover Art
• A quiet park of statues and monuments
• Cheap eats in Chinatown
• The return of the fried Hakka dumpling
• Singapore HeritageFest Finale at Novena Square
• An expat's visit to Bukit Brown
• Daily Serving review of Video, An Art, a History 1965-2010
• Happy 46th, Singapore!
• Backstage at the Teochew Opera
• Lovers' Lanes of Old
• Review of Abbas, 45 years in photography
• Tracking down old playgrounds
• Surrealism at the ArtScience
• Sun Yat Sen exhibition at the Singapore Philatelic Museum
• Howard Cashin's house
• Which bank?
• Diary of NUS Museum interns
• The dragon that sleeps in the woods
• Department stores of Singapore
• An interview with Malek Awab
• The four heavenly kings and the creation of Yu Sheng
• Selamat Hari Raya!
• Singapore's oldest mosque
• No better time to get out at night
• Voyage Night Festival at the Peranakan Museum
• Bicycle gadgets of old
• The spectacular treasures of the First Emperor
• Convent school girls
• A walk around Geylang Serai during Ramadan
• Where can you still find old bus shelters in Singapore?
• A trip to Chek Jawa
• Coke with salt
• Into the belly of the beast
• Wisma Indonesia
• Do you know where this fountain is?
• The first computer fair in Singapore
• Mid-Autumn Festival 2011
• If you thought we were racy now...
• More diaries of NUS interns
• Tracing the family tree
• The other Hokkien Mee
• A cura-tour of the Liu Kang exhibition
• Singapore's Arabian Garden
• What does this building in Cambridge have to do with Singapore?
• The city of Singapore - 60 years old
• Tanjong Pagar Railway in 1959
• Public Lecture: A Russian in Malaya
• Bukit Brown, up close
• Photoessay: Our Gurkhas
• Try finding this in your kitchen
• Rex Cinema then and Now
• The floating dragon of the Esplanade
• Public Lecture: The Decline and Revival of Chinatown in Havana 1959-2000s
• The Nightlife of Bukit Brown
• Young Photographers Competition - Our Heritage
• Heritage Food: Hougang Muah Chee
• Where was the first food court in Singapore
• Heritage Food: Hock Lam Street Beef Noodles
• SS24 The Last Train
• Itchyfingers at Bukit Brown
• An early British Invasion
• Explore the museum of good taste
• North Bridge Road, then and now
• VR tour of the ArtScience Museum
• The Bukit Brown Peranakan Trail
• A walk through the Jurong Green Corridor
• A Titanic Experience
• The natural history drawings from the 19th century
• Aboard the Titanic exhibition
• Amanda Heng exhibition on the AWARE blog
• National Museum of Singapore logo
• Starry Night in Singapore
• The new Kranji Heritage Trail
• bookjunkie's Titanic experience
• The Last Cannibal Supper and other finalists for the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize
• Queenstown Library
• Irene Yap: Songbird of yesteryear
• Philip Chew visits his great-grandfather's tomb
• Remembering and re-discovering the Singapore National Theatre
• A family reunion after death
• Another Old Buildings Quiz
• Plenty for kids to do at the stamp museum
• Seletar Integrated School
• The Jusdeananas Annual Singapore Art Roundup
• Catch the streetside barber this weekend!
• Another streetside vendor - the cobbler
• What does this writing say?
• Do you still see this game being played?
• Bird watching at Bukit Brown
• Who introduced Anna to the King?
• Titanic, a sensory experience
• Working 364 days a year
• A porridge in celebration of amahs
• 1959 POSB Passbook
• Searching for the matriarchs at Bukit Brown Cemetery
• Seeing the Terracotta warriors in-situ
• More than a couple of Sikh guards at Bukit Brown
• The Singing Teacher
• Merry Christmas!
• More birdwatching at Bukit Brown
• Singapore Institute of Architects Journals from the 1980s
• Memories of St Andrew's School 1961
• Forgotten kampongs of Singapore
• The Adventures of Tintin at the Singapore Philatelic Museum
• Free admission to the museums on New Year's Day
• School excursion in the 1950s
• Christmas day at the stamp museum
• Elephants galore at the ACM
• The immorality of twisting!
• William Willets and the Southeast Asian Art
• The Tomb of Tok Cheng Tuan
• The rhino is an endangered species indeed
• Tim Light on train travel in the 60s
• Singapore is not dull
• The Sundowners: Bengawan Solo in English
• Learning to type
• From artifact to exhibit
• Stories behind Singapore Streets launch
• Lim Nee Soon's family in Bukit Brown
• The evolution of the Sarong Kebaya
• Happy Lunar New Year!
• Keeping the pastry tradition alive
• How to make a pinball machine
• How to use a typewriter
• 100,000 copies sold
• The Village of Lime
• Comparing Bedok from the sky, 50 years apart
• Tan Chor Lam, a revolutionary in Singapore
• Good Morning Yesterday: The Book
• Tim Light remembers his amahs
• Creches through time