Category: Places

  • Green Kampong Stall at Watten Playground

    Naomi and I will be at the Watten Estate Playground Sunday 1 Jul 2012 between 3 and 6pm with Green Kampong and we’ve selected a few products which are really cool, really good for you, and good for the Earth. Really good prices on them too! Here’s a sample: Map: View Larger Map

  • Food Made With Love

    The lasting impression I got from Saturday’s Singapore Memory Project Food Trail was the passion of the local food vendors we visited. Stories of craftsmanship being passed down from generation to generation are becoming scarce in this increasingly mall and condo dominated city, and the video clips we shot of the food and their makers…

  • China Rising

    So Changi Airport has slipped a couple of notches. So what? We got Changi Airport Millionaire Game! You got or not? But seriously though, Shanghai Airport in our books is doing pretty well because when we got to immigration, an officer lifted a barricade for us and let us through without having to queue. Priority…

  • The day we lost half an hour

    My first entry into the Singapore Memory site: The year we followed West Malaysia into GMT +8:00 was the year I started secondary school. We had until then been happily existing at GMT +7:30 when the government of Malaysia suddenly decided it would be a really good idea if both West and East Malaysia shared…

  • Walking back from lunch

    There’s a rich seam of heritage around my office that I sometimes overlook and under appreciate:                                                                              …