Tagged: Singapore

Impressions from the Thaipusam procession in Singapore

This past weekend the Hindu festival of Thaipusam was celebrated in Singapore (as a matter of fact, everywhere with a sizable Tamil population). I had missed it last year and wanted to make sure to get a glimpse at it this time. I won’t go into much detail regarding the...

The Night Guard of the Indian Heritage Centre

A few months back, the Indian Heritage Centre opened here in Little India. If you haven’t been, I can highly recommend it. I was passing by it the other night and had to smile at what looked like the night guard at the (beautiful) front door:

Exploring Istana Woodneuk – a haunted mansion in Singapore?

There are plenty of examples of glitzy new buildings in town, as well as colonial houses in (almost) perfect shape. However, there are not many visible ruins. Istana Woodneuk, the former residence of family members of the Sultan of Johor, is just that – an abandoned villa. The fact that...

The Haze is back!

Every year Singapore is affect by haze, caused by slash & burn techniques in Indonesia. 2013 was one of the worst, 2014 was ok. This year has seen some bad days, just look at the view we had on Thursday: For comparison, this is a normal day:

Quite a storm…

Last Saturday I work up to this approaching me at 7am: Needless to say, a few minutes later a massive storm hit. I could have sworn that there was even hail hitting the windows!

The Air Force’s NDP Rehearsal from a different angle

As I mentioned last week, the Singapore Armed Forces participate in the weekly rehearsals for the National Day Parade on Saturdays leading up to August 9th. One highlight is certainly the Air Force’s display which brings together the largest number of aircrafts to ever participate in the National Day Parade...

SEA Games: Opening Ceremony

While the football tournament and some other sports had already started, the official SEA Games Opening Ceremony took place on Friday, June 5th. Again, I was too slow to buy tickets so was left with watching the fireworks from some distance (I really should have researched earlier when those tickets...

SEA Games: the football tournament – Philippines vs. Cambodia

Singapore is currently hosting the 28th South-East-Asian (SEA) Games, kind of like a Mini-Olympics for the 11 participating nations: Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam While some of the sports are rather international (such as football), there are some very SEA specific sports on the...

Singapore: Sungei Road Thieves’ Market & Rochor Canal

I don’t think anybody would deny that Singapore has plenty of shopping opportunities for all budgets. Development for new, glitzy shopping malls is constantly ongoing and regularly a new one pops up somewhere. Probably the most extreme opposite to these shopping malls one can get is a visit to the...