Days in the Navy

While sifting through my archives in preparation for submission to The Eddie Adams Workshop, i’ve chanced upon the pictures taken during the course of my 2 and a half years with the Navy. Looking back, it was a significant period of my life no matter how often i bemoan the days. I didn’t know it [...]

We never got to say goodbye

Pension State is Gordon, Marcus, Dex, Adrain and Ted, a 5-piece local outfit who started playing punk rock during its hey days in the 1990s. After playing their 1st gig back in 1997 at the YMCA, their self-titled EP was sold out. After faithfully plying the local indie scene through the years, many numerous indefinite [...]

Praying for the nation

One voice. One spirit. Hundreds of Christians gather every last Friday of the month to pray for the affairs of the nation at a local Church in Singapore.
In the 2 hour session, believers worship, paint, dance, pray and soak in the presence of God.
Being raised in a conservative Christian home, this is part of [...]

Baybeats

Since its inception in 2001, Baybeats has established itself as Singapore’s premier annual indie music festival. Now into its 7th year, this massive festival still continues to pack in the crowd and best of all, still remain free to the festival goer. This year saw a record number of more than 50,000 throng the bayside [...]

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Cross straits tension

 

A fisherman dwarfed by docking warships cuts a lonesome figure along China’s naval base in Xiamen. Naval crafts frequently patrol the straits of Taiwan as a show of force. Since taking power in May 2000, Chen Shui Bian has refused to embrace the one-China principle, which says that both Taiwan and the mainland are parts [...]

mu’ouxi

A dying art form, the Chinese Puppet Show is known as mu’ouxi (play of wooden dolls). I was able to appreciate the simple joy in puppetry in China last year.
Picture set here. 

Tea Making

Anxi County, in Fujian Province, China, is a county level city in the Quanzhou prefecture-level city. It is well-known for its ancient and famous Oolong tea, the Tieguanyin, which means Iron Goddess of Mercy in English. Anxi county supplies the entire nation’s worth of Tieguanyin tea to the other parts of China and to the [...]

Remnants of Xiamen

Remnants of doing street photography in Xiamen. The following are excerpts from my personal journal which i struggle to find time to keep up with.
 

The other night, i decided to venture down right the alley instead of the usual route left – which yields only shopping districts 1 after the other. Not unlike the streets [...]

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