Around Singapore

Tan Quee Lan Street / Heritage Plaza and Holy Crab A restaurant called "Holy Crab":- Photos of Heritage Plaza:-

These two differing methods serve the same purpose: 1. Passive markers: These wafer thin circular cats eyes because of it's reflective properties coupled with yellow warnings, in my opinion is the way forward. 2. Contrast it with these black protruding lights that bulge out. And their placement could cause someone such as a young child running around to fall and hit their face on the floor. 2.1. These lights needs to be turned on. It does not have light sensors so does not turn on in the event that it is pouring or the sky turned dark... in the day-time. …

Chinese New Year is here again (14th February 2010!) The pink apricots represents longevity!

I bet you have never seen such unique chairs in your life! Both chairs bear the resemblance of the two front seats of a luxurious sedan. Don't believe me? Take a look at these photos... Truly designer chairs...

Feng Shui survey .. Chinese Loupan At this stage, I am looking at the Shapes and Forms I.e. Scanning the environment.. this is why I put aside the Luopan.. and catching a view of the surroundings..

Arc shaped bedroom door design.. This is so 1980's trend. To many, it resembles a chapel door. While others consider it a tombstone style outline... The saying goes: One man's meat is another's poison...

HDB Anchor fields and surroundings

Sommverville Grandeur, Sommerville Park, Empress Market, Pollen & Bleu, Gallop Gables & Farrer Gardens

Block 377 Bukit Batok Vista under construction

A visit to Tuas West / Pioneer Road...

Garden Hill Park @ Bedok North is a matured estate. A few years younger than it's sister estate: Marine Terrace... but certainly retain that late 1970's charm...

No matter how; " 88 " is a popular "auspicious" number for the Chinese

Amaryllis Ville, Newton Imperial and Newton 18 & 21 Majority of the photos are that or the 99 leasehold Amaryllis Ville..

A Recent community Event : Our urban sanctuary: Pasir Ris

In 2015, the 4 blocks / 5 storey high HDB flats were slated for re-development. In 1965, these flats were built to house those in a massive fire in Siglap. This is still within the popular district 15. The most iconic was the former Wong Clinic..then at Block 2 #01-878 .. Dr Wong had since passed away.. we stay in Katong... and he was one of our family Doctors... Photos show .. vacated units.. except for the vibrant car park.. Across the road was The former Siglap market....

Coming soon... the latest generation MRT station...at Tuas West Road

1. Characteristics of charms (in this case for protection): Often they are "written" on yellow paper or on yellow coloured cloths. 2. In this photo; the charm is faded so cannot clearly see the yellow background. 3. For this charm, the paper charm is often written in RED colour. Although black wordings may be used. I discovered this charm at a condominiumaround Lorong Sarinaarea.

Would you sent your child ?? to a pretty "toy-land" look kindergarten?

North-South Canberra MRT station finally under-construction...

Uniquely in land scarce Singapore, landed premises are for child cares or child development Centres.. While homes are up their in HDB blocks... Location: Rivervale, Sengkang, Singapore Credit: Streetdirectory.com

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Days gone by.

In Singapore, in many clusters of estates that have landed properities; the most popular ornaments are a pair each of the lions on the gates of many Chinese homes. This estate is in Paya Lebar called Tai Keng Gardens. The most remarkable thing is that there are two homes that have large sized lions. I do mean large ones that can only be placed on the floor: one set is found beside each front gate pillar and there is another set placed behind the main gate (beside the porch pillar..) As usual, there are the white lions and some homes have the ceramic glazed "brownish" type...

A common sight at most HDB Void Decks are different styles of pillar "openings". This one is a diamond shaped square. Some others are octagon and others are round... In one of the photos, Can you tell that it is a Christian owned Coffeeshop?