Hello, fine snack, please to meet you
We visited a newish mall called The Central, not to be confused with Central Mall, a couple of days ago, because unbeknownst to us, Liang Court was being renovated when we went there to take dinner. It’s absolutely ok if that was the clunkiest sentence you’ve ever read, because at The Central Not To Be […]
The librarian tried his darndest
The Ask The Librarian service emailed me with his team’s findings, and found the most likely site of Tan Seng Poh’s mansion: You might find this useful. Excerpt from: Title: One hundred years’ history of the Chinese in Singapore / Song Ong Siang ; introduction by Edwin Lee. Author: Song, Ong Siang, Sir, 1871-1941. Publisher: […]
Completely useless Christmas gifts: The Back Up
When I was in the Army, someone gave me a gift which was supposed to be the China Army version of the Swiss Army knife. We know the latter to be chock full of useful tools which you might need, like a foldaway magnifying glass to look for the tiny screw which you’ve struggled to […]
An open sandwich to the Prime Minister
If anything the latter half of this year has been remarkable for, it’s been the “open debate” we’ve heard about but rarely experienced. There’s been more “open letters” lately than I care to remember. Even the doyenne of Singapore Lit has set up a website for such a purpose. Sure, prices are going up, and […]
The librarian’s on it
I wrote earlier about the ‘drug lord’ turned philantropist Tan Seng Poh and his mansion near the Armenian Church, and about how I asked the National Library’s “Ask a librarian” librarian to locate the site of Seng Poh’s house. He’s (the librarian, not Tan Seng Poh) emailed to tell me that he and his colleagues […]