The Future Is Ours ...

The Future is Ours to Make. Theme of this year's National Day Parade.

The Future ...

The Future is Ours to Make - The theme of this years National Day Parade.

Guard of Honour

Awaiting the President's inspection.

NDP

National Day Parade dress rehearsal with the Combined Schools Choir in action. Singapore will be 40 years old soon!

Library II

Another view of Singapore's new Central Lending Library at Victoria Street. Finally, a library that Singapore can be proud of.

I can imagine Karl Marx dreaming up ideas that would change the world in the British library reading room with its green shaded lamps and imposing rotunda, but I would not be able to imagine anyone coming up with a flash of genius amidst the chattering kids and beeping phones of the old Singapore library. This new library is long overdue.

A bit of the old library remains though. Some of the red bricks from the old building can be found in the wall next to a garden in the basement.

National Library

The new Singapore National Library opened today. What a shrine to modernity!

Uncle

Astro Boy!

Outside

Singapore Story II

Japanese Occupation "Banana" money, Japanese Occupation Ration Card and Japanese Surrender Document.

Singapore Story I

Straits Settlement Dollar Note. First introduced in 1899. This particular note is dated July 1941.

Echo

Not really happy with this shot, but it's the best one I have so far of Mei Mei. She asked why there wasn't a photo of her yet. I posted a picture of her brother some time ago.