Pasir Ris Park, beach and children playground
hello folks, Good morning and I just finish organizing some of the photos i took yesterday afternoon. I got an appointment with my clients at Riverina Cres, meet them to discuss some of renovation work for their house. I find that I got time after the meeting so i decided to drive down to Pasir Ris beach and Park to find new subject for some photos shoot. There are 2 part of the Pasir Ris Park you can go to, First if you are bring your kid to the big playground then you must take Elias Road to D. Over there ...
Team building trip at bottle tree park
Over here is a group of students having their enjoyable and fun-filled team-building trip at Bottle Tree Park! it reminded me the time when i was in school and it so fun and i met and make a lots of friends during that time. team building is a good way to build up your confident. Here is the site @ http://www.bottletree.com.sg
Night scenery pictures @ Orchard road ion shopping mall
I've planning for some time wanting to to go down town to Orchard road to do some night scenery shooting. After the night shooting lesson i eager to try shooting Orchard road during the night. I park my car at china town multi carpark and take a train to Orchard, Alight at Orchard station and after coming from the station then i realize that i was outside the ion shopping mall. The building is extreme bright and amazing. I change into a fisheye 10-17 lens. All the pictures you see here are took from this lens. This lens produce a distorted ...
Night trip shooting at fullerton one and merlion
Singapore attraction, Singapore merlion, fullerton hotel Here is few picture from tonight trip. Recently i was attending photography class and it was our first night shoot. i was glad that i took up the the course and it really help me with shooting ; better angle and setting. Since i was free today not much work so i decided to go down early. It was a good effect and fruitful trip and we manage to learn something more. Merlion always has been a tourists attraction since day one and we can see many people include local were there taking picture of ...
Singapore Night scene The Singapore Flyer
Singapore picture, Singapore Attraction, Singapore Flyer, Singapore night picture Take these few pictures taken at Marina Barrage Built across the mouth of the Marina Channel, the Marina Barrage creates Singapore’s 15th reservoir, and the first in the heart of the city. With a catchment area of 10,000 hectares, or one-sixth the size of Singapore, the Marina catchment is the island’s largest and most urbanised catchment. Together with two other new reservoirs, the Marina Reservoir will boost Singapore’s water catchment from half to two-third’s of the country’s land area. http://www.pub.gov.sg/marina/Pages/default.aspx
Visit the Singapore zoo during Chinese New Year
Finally back to office. My family and i went to visit the Singapore zoo during the second day of lunar new year. I like going to the zoo and my kid just love the seeing all the animals, especially the cheeky monkey. The Singapore Zoo is a huge place and you really can spent a whole day at the zoo. I visited the Singapore Zoo last Year but every time I'm there, I'm still get very excited about it. I thinks it because it the only holiday I can spend real quality time with my kid and my wife. Singapore zoo ...
Historic District Kampong Glam
Hey! i got my new lens and want to try out the Fisheye effect and so i drove down to Kampong glam for some shooting. Kampong Glam has a very beautiful Mosque built 1826, Call the Sultan Mosque. Many tourists come and visit the mosque, not far from the Mosque is the famous street - Arab street. Arab street is a place to go if you are looking for fabric and silk and as you walk to Baghdad street you can find many restaurants and cafes. more pictures of Kampong Glam and near by places [nggallery id=16]
Bum Boat @ Singapore River
I took this picture couple of weeks ago but i likes this picture very much that why i post it. This picture was taken on the Anderson bridge ( i think so ), I waited the the bum boat approaching before it cross the bridge and disappear then shoot through the bridge in order to frame the bum boat, the skyscraper and the river in one. Singapore River and the skyscraper look beautiful at night.
MICA Building and the cross road night scenery
This picture was taken on Saturday night during my photography field trip for night shooting. The intention was to taken the picture as the night fall before the sky turn black. My instructor told us that the most beautiful moment is the dark blue sky before the sky turn totally dark and it happen within few minutes. The MICA was once known as the OLD HILL STREET police station and it was constructed in 1934. Only during the year 2000 that the build is handover to MICA. As you can see during at night with the colourful painted windows and the light ...
Pictures from the Singapore Flyer
Singapore Attraction, Singapore picture, Singapore flyer The Singapore Flyer is the later installment for the Singapore Attraction. It comprises a 150m diameter wheel which build over a 3 story terminal reaching a total of 42 stories at 165m. The wheel is attach with 28 air conditioned capsules which able to house 28 passengers comfortable. The wheel takes approx. 30 to 45 minutes to complete 1 round. There are many shops and food outlet at the terminal for you to chill and relax before you board the flyer. You ever can go for a 10 minutes massage to relief your tension. For your ...
Singapore Attraction The River Cruise Bum boat ride
Here is a post follow up from the previous. I've plan to for the Singapore River Cruise and this is my 3rd time. Taking the bum boat cruise is a breath taking experience, not only let you see the city from the unique views from the River and allowing you to engages the transformation between the historic and the modern Singapore together. You can take very nice backdrop of the sky scrapper and the old colonial building together. Amazing shot! The Singapore River flows under 11 bridges and some of the old bridges of were built during 19th century. Our Bridges 11 bridges ...
Summary of Singapore History
Visit Singapore – Brief history about Singapore!
Before you visit Singapore,I believe you would like to know something about Singapore. Like how Singapore got it name? Here we briefing describe about Singapore history……Early history about Singapore
The beautiful island has many name before it was call Singapore. During the 3rd century Written reference from the Chinese account, the island was refers as Puluozhong which translate from Malay words Pulau Ujong (island at the end of the peninsula).
The island also refer as Temasek (Water Town) during the early time was rule by Srivijaya empire. Some evidences have show that the city status as a regional trade during that time.
The born of singapore modern name
And after many century later, the island was re discover by Sang Nila Utama, a member of a royal family ruler of Palembang. However it’s said that, one day while he was seeking shelter from storm after ship whack and found himself landed on sandy shores of this island, he saw a unknown creature run across mistaking the creature for a lion and at that moment, he believe to be a good omen. So he decided to name the island Singapura. “singa” refer to lion and pura refer to “city”. The Sanskrit words for Lion City.
Following the decline of Srivijaya power Singapore was caught in the power struggles between Siamese and the Majapahit Empire for control over the Malay Peninsula.
During the 16th and early 17th century, Singapore was under the rule of sultan of johor.
Arrival of Raffles
Raffles visited Singapore only three times, the first time was during January 1819. In June 1819 for for weeks and for eight months in 1822-1823.
After he step foots on the island upon investigation, he knew that the island possessed great potential.
A formal treaty was signed between British East India Company and the sultan of Johor granting the use of Singapore as a trading post in return providing him with a yearly payment.
During he stay, he decided that the harbour of Singapore would become a great commercial emporium in the East for Britain. He also decided that Chinese, Malays and Indians would settle on different sides of the Singapore River and that Padang would become the seat of the Government.
(Source : Singapore, Tourism & Me by Pamelia Lee and Wikipedia)
The Straits Settlements
At 1826, Singapore, Penang and Malacca, the three British settlements in the Malay Peninsula, had become the Straits
Settlements and all came under the direct control of British India.The Straits Settlements became a Crown Colony during 1867 and were directly overseen by Colonial Office in London.
Japanese Occupation
It was tough for everybody during the Japanese Occupation. Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, Singapore remained under Japanese occupation for almos three and a half years and the Japanese renamed the island to Syonan (Light of the South).
Toward Independent and Self Government
After the war, the British took over and Singapore was under the rule of British Military Administration till 1946.The British Military Administration came to an end after a year. Soon after that, Singapore becomes the Crown Colony once again.During the pro war period, due to lack of food and high unemployment rate causing an increase in crimes. And it takes several years for the economy to recover. Singapore was granted full internal self government base on the Rendel proposal. Some of the area such as internal security and foreign affairs will still overseen by the British.
During 1963, Federation of Malaysia was form. It consists of Malaya, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak. The merger was short, The Parliament of Malaysia decided to expulsion Singapore. On 09August 1965, Lee Kuan Yew announced that Singapore was a sovereign, independent nation.
Hope that, after my brief describes about Singapore you will understand more about Singapore and how Singapore got it name. Perhaps, if you think that you wanted to know more. Simply click to link to know more about Singapore History.
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