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Singapore ex-pat’s guest post by artist, Jennifer Lim.

Singapore ex-pat’s guest post by artist, Jennifer Lim.

I’d heard of Jennifer before I met her as my friends had been raving about her project to clear and catalogue some of the overgrown graves at Bukit Brown cemetery. We finally met in person in May 2019, when I was lucky enough to win one of her prints at a fund-raiser for the Singapore… Continue reading…

A week of celebrations

A week of celebrations

Well, my resolve to write a fortnightly blog has failed miserably and I apologise for going AWOL. How many times have you heard that?! This week is one of celebrations. On Saturday 12th May, it was William Earl’s 103rd Birthday. In case you have not met William before, he is the hero of Blood and… Continue reading…

Happy Chinese New Year – Gong Xi Fai Cai – from Singapore

Happy Chinese New Year – Gong Xi Fai Cai – from Singapore

Today is the start of the Chinese New Year. Here in Singapore, it is marked with a two day national holiday. It’s being celebrated by the majority of the population as the Chinese account for 76% of the inhabitants in this multicultural city-state. The date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the Chinese calendar… Continue reading…