Tag: Travel
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Campaign boleh!
Just back from Malaysia, and there are so many things we share in common, you know? Our country and their country? Here, the authorities care about our privacy, and put up posters telling you not to lose your handphone. Over there, on every pillar at every PLUS toll station are posters exhorting you to ‘Say…
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Podcast: wonders of singapore 1, katong
Katong is a much vaunted suburb. The people who live out here and hereabouts are dead proud of the area and are so blase about its many little quirks that they pretend that it’s nothing out of the ordinary when someone from any other, less interesting, part of Singapore say something along the lines of…
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Bungalow by the sea
Pasir Panjang Days: One of the concepts that never made it off the Tourism Board’s drawing board of national symbols? (See Cory Doctorow’s Flickr Set of Haw Par Villa). “412 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 5.” That was how I used to recite my address to anyone who’d ask me where I lived. I must’ve been…
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Keong Saik afternoon
Keong Saik Road in Chinatown’s a collection of nice little eateries and boutique hotels. The URA calls it a conservation area, and in recent years, has stepped up the conservation efforts – by giving out awards – and of course, by letting the last licensed brothels remain in operation in between the new swanky businesses…
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Anything/Everything/Nothing Prohibited
Depending on how you look at it – think of the half-full/half-empty perspective, this signboard I saw in a toilet at Dover Road was too good to pass up. Out came the phone cam (while I stood at the urinal – a little bit of maneuvering required) and so now I give you this photo:…