International Day of Climate Action (the late-nite government remix)

A few days ago I mentioned the 350 Event happening in Singapore tomorrow. Well, since then it’s been through the government approval mechanism. I’ve got no idea why people accuse us of being a tight, screwed-down, soulless nation, really I don’t.
Anyway, here it is again with the edits:

It seems aerial photography is our new thing. [...]

International Day of Climate Action (Singapore)

It seems aerial photography is our new thing. We had Pink Dot a while ago, and now it’s time to let the top of your head shine to support climate change.
It happens on Saturday 24 October and it sounds like a fun day out.
Starting at 8am at the Padang, the organisers are hoping hundreds will [...]

Paths Of Desire

Desire paths show the way people actually move from place to place. They’re a kind of naturally formed “up yours” to the urban planners who try to herd us in ways that are convenient to them, but not necessarily to us. I follow this one on my way to work in the mornings.
pic by creativespark [...]

Equal Opportunity Employer

Singapore… no discrimination here. All Chinese women in their 20s will be treated equally. This is a gift store on the 2nd floor in Great World City.
pic by creativespark – an ongoing series of experiments with the camera in my phone

Journey To The West

This was the view from the balcony of my apartment about 4pm last Sunday. Between the two lions is the trickster Monkey King (on stilts).
pic by creativespark – an ongoing series of experiments with the camera in my phone

The Last Packet

I moved recently, but around the corner from where I used to live, in Kembangan,  was a small provision shop (or “mama shop” in local language) run by a lovely middle aged Chinese woman and her mother.
The mother must have been well into her 80s and didn’t speak a stick of English, but she sure [...]

I Know A Shortcut

Shipping is really not my area of expertise, but while I’m on the topic I’m not sure if you noticed a small article in the Straits Times this week about the opening of the Arctic route in the Northwest Passage. It wasn’t given major play. I’m not sure we were supposed to notice it.
The passage [...]

Singapore’s Ghost Ships

Apparently at the moment Singapore and southern Malaysia have the “biggest and most secretive” gathering of ships in maritime history anchored off our coast… bigger than the US and British navies combined. No crews, no cargo. They’re just anchored there waiting for a swing in the economy.
The Daily Mail reports that they’re tucked away off [...]

Enlightened Commuting

Tanjong Pagar station in Singapore serves one part of the business district and it’s one of our busiest during peak crush hours. In the morning there’s a lava flow of people coming upwards, and then in the evening they flow back down again.
But each tiny cog in the vast machine is valuable and appreciated, and [...]

Panic Box

The government has a “dob in a sign in bad English” scheme going on in Singapore at the moment, but how about signs that are just downright strange?
I fancy myself as being visually literate, but I’m not sure what this one, on my train this morning, is trying to say to me. Why is the [...]