To visit Rochor Centre in early 2016 is to visit a mortally wounded kaleidoscope. The end is nigh for the buildings, tenants, and businesses and everyone knows it. It oozes inevitability and sadness. The four beautifully and…
One of the most surprising concert announcements in recent living memory (overly dramatic much?) was Bon Iver’s small list of Asian concerts announced for February 2016. With one of those stops being none other than Singapore.…
Part 1 in this Tasmania Travel Series is here Part 3 here. Part 4 here. So from St. Helen’s you have two choices with driving to Launceston. Google tells you to go back south and cut…
The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum opened its doors last year and has the only permanent display of dinosaur fossils in Singapore. So I wanted to go take a look as I like dinosaurs and…
This is a place I’ve known about for a while but never got around to doing it. Basically The [email protected] is a massive modern HDB (public housing estate) with a huge 50th floor sky bridge…
As always, click on pictures for larger. Behold, the first time “Chinese New Year” and “shenanigans” have appeared in one sentence everybody. Chinese New Year is a big deal in Singapore and surrounding countries in…
Side note: I’ve moved to www.surprisinghorizons.com just in case you’ve bookmarked my previous address. It wasn’t only The Istana that was open to the public on February 9th as the Tanjong Pagar Railway opened its doors…
All snooping was performed in a legal and ethically sound manner I assure you. There are a few days a year that the Singapore President Tony Tan throws open his doors to his home for…
Every so often some people somewhere decide Orchard Road doesn’t have enough pedestrian traffic and not enough people are buying stuff so they decide to give up the actual road of Orchard Road to pedestrians…
Part 2 here. Part 3 here. Part 4 here. Tasmania, land of the Devil, and the other other state of Australia. That’s pretty much what you may come up with when initially thinking of Tasmania.…