Rediscover Singapore - Reminicing about vanished Rochor Center

Works had begun around the site of the famous colourful blocks of HDB flats around the Bugis area. Rochor Center motorists could no longer the eyecatching landmark while driving along Rochor Road and Ophir Road it was built in the seventies. In 1997 was successfully completed comprising with  4 blocks consisting of 481 units of three-room flats and 91 units of four-room flats than in 2011 it was announced that Rochor Center will be making ways for the construction of the upcoming North-South Corridor. The residents had moved out by end 2016 and demolition works begin in 2018 and by  2019 the 40 years old multi-coloured trademark blocks of flats were gone. I spent most of my working life at Rochor Center from 1986 till 2003 when I was retrenched.

Rediscover Singapore - Yusheng and Lo Hei

Talking of the Yusheng it usually happens during the Chinese Lunar New Year, I remember people taking yusheng from the pushcart fish porridge vendor with thin slices of sai toh fish with condiments consist of plum sauce. Today Lo Hei simply mean tossing up in Cantonese for the Yusheng dish with sliced fish, sliced carrots in rainbows colours accompanied by condiments but now many renditions of the Yusheng had emerged using different types of fishes, abalone and even vegetarians. In the past, this dish was only commonly observed on the 7th day of the Lunar New Years known as Renri, today people can enjoy this dish throughout the entire Lunar New Year period.

Rediscover Singapore - CNY let's go shopping

Counting down to the Chinese Lunar New Year just a merely 12 days to go, each year every household will be shopping for new year goodies mainly on the cookie, auspicious couplets, flowers and many others. This year there is no bazaar along the streets of Chinatown due to the pandemic and new sets of rules to observe during the CNY house visiting and the tossing of the yearly Yusheng but the reunion dinner is a must.

Rediscover Singapore - What will this year River Hongbao bring?

For the first time during the pandemic this year, the celebration of the annual River Hongbao series will be moving to Garden by the Bay, the celebration had been brought to the masses from the people at Singapore Federation Chinese Clans Associations, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore Press Holdings, the People's  Association and Singapore Tourism Board since its inception in 1987. Here are some shots from previous held.

Rediscover Singapore - Portraiture

Thursday 28th January went and attended a class for portraiture shooting in monochrome and the models are all the attendees like you shoot me and I shoot you as for lighting used was a simple torchlight to shape the light in a different position like shining from above, side lighting. Thank you, AL Lee, of Ourshutterjourney for giving us the opportunity to learn and that was fun will be looking toward another class offering different things that we might come across in our photography journey.

Rediscover Singapore - Thaipusam 2021

Thursday 28th January Hindu temple celebrate Thaipusam which is a day or prayers and penance dedicated to  Lord Subramaniam also known as Lord Murugan a major South Indian Go, the deity of youth, power and virtue, this festival is a time for repentance for devotees with celebration carried out mainly at the temple,l due to our recent pandemic there is no procession with devotees carrying kavadi along the route from one temple to another.

Rediscover Singapore - Revisited

During the Light to Night Festival, one does not contend enough to have shot these pictures over and over again because there are not much of events held during this period that the reason why photographers tend to go back again and again.