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A calm that may never again be found
I often find myself by the sea in a place that seems forgotten. It is here that, despite it having lost much of the charm it once exuded, one does still find a semblance of the old and gentler world we...
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A new morning, a new joy
Another morning, another celebration … the sun rising over southern Johor at 7.17am this morning … Filed under: Nature, Observations, Quiet Moments, Sembawang, Singapore
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Colours on a Sunday evening
The colours of the fading of day to night seen at a spot that I consider to be one of the more scenic places in Singapore and a place that I often find an escape in. Filed under: General, Parks and...
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Varying moods of a most beautiful place
The varying moods of a place that in being left behind (at least for now) by the rest of Singapore, that in its imperfection holds a beauty we seem to have forgotten how to appreciate … Filed under:...
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Paradise found in a paradise lost
Very early on a Saturday morning, I found myself boarding a boat headed for Singapore’s offshore landfill at Pulau Semakau. Established in the sea space that once separated two of Singapore’s once...
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The sun rises on independent Singapore’s 47th birthday
Photographs of the spectacular break of day I was very fortunate to have witnessed on the morning of Singapore’s 47th birthday. The first photograph was taken at 6.41 am and the last at 7.15 am and...
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Sailing off into the sunrise
The rising sun, 7.16 am, 14 August 2012. Filed under: Nature, Quiet Moments, Sembawang, Singapore
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A memory of a forgotten time
In the silence of a world that lies momentarily abandoned and forgotten, it is the glow of the breaking morn off the gentle undulations that is the surface of the sea that calls to me. The sea’s...
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The last time ever I saw your face
In a Singapore that is changing too fast, it is not only places from the distant past, but also places that we have become acquainted with in more recent times to in more recent times, that are...
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The view out the window this morning
It is always a wonderful thing to be able to wake up to a magical sunrise as the one I got up to this morning in a world other than one I am familiar with … Filed under: Chonburi, Observations, Quiet...
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Seeing the light
Colours at the break of day at 6.45 am on 4 November 2012 and on 7 November 2012: Filed under: Quiet Moments, Singapore
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A beautiful end to a beautiful day
The wonderful colours of sunset that brought what turned out to be an exceptionally beautiful day to an end … Filed under: Nature, Parks and Gardens, Quiet Moments, Singapore
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The silence of a world forgotten
I recently had a look in and around the former Bukit Timah Railway Station, lying quiet and abandoned while plans have not been made for its future use. The station, the last on the old Malayan Railway...
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Voices from a forgotten past
I was fortunate to have been able to catch Royston Tan’s sequel to Old Places, Old Romances, at its premiere on Saturday morning. Old Romances, described by the director as ‘45 personalised love...
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Two December’s Sunrises
This year’s North-East Monsoons has brought us lots of rain, so much so that the sky at dawn has more often than not been covered in a pall of grey cloud with spectacular shows of colour at sunrise...
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The night before the end of time
A couple of photographs taken of the orangey night sky about half an hour following sunset on the last evening before time was supposed to end. The first was taken at 7.28 pm and the second at 7.35 pm....
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Sunrise on a day some said the sun would not rise
7.04am 21 December 2012. Sunrise over the Straits of Johor. Filed under: Forgotten Places, Nature, Quiet Moments, Sembawang, Singapore
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Colours after Sunset
Colours after sunset, 7.50 pm, 5 January 2013. Filed under: Nature, Parks and Gardens, Quiet Moments, Singapore
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A sunrise from 5 years ago
It was close to the time of when this photograph of the sunrise over the South Channel separating the island of Penang from the mainland was taken that I wrote the first words of this blog. That was...
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Mornings far from the madding crowds
A place I am glad is there – at least for now, in which I find an escape from the unbearably overcrowded world Singapore has become, is a quiet and somewhat forgotten corner of northern Singapore where...
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