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guideabouttown I am a Singapore Tourist Board licensed guide in English, French and Russian languages. If you're looking to know Singapore better, lets chat!

A glimpse of what I do when I have a fabulous bunch of journalists.
04/02/2024

A glimpse of what I do when I have a fabulous bunch of journalists.

13/05/2023

Sentosa's Wings of Time - an impressive light, water and music show.

Pulau Ubin sits on granite rock. The abandoned quarry-craters are now filled with turquoise water and makes for spectac...
21/04/2022

Pulau Ubin sits on granite rock. The abandoned quarry-craters are now filled with turquoise water and makes for spectacular scenery. Its the perfect get-away that doesn't need much planning - Truly a fulfilling way to spend an active morning ending with a hearty lunch at a restaurant that's stuck in the 1950s.

13/03/2022

My first home-made video.

11/02/2022

They're here! Happening now At Robertson Quay.

31/12/2021

A Hidden Garden, Pearl's Hill City Park. Come visit with me.

20/12/2021

Tired of social distancing😕

’s wonderland is a celebration of lights and colours on till 2 Jan 2022. A night market, food stalls with alfresco din...
13/12/2021

’s wonderland is a celebration of lights and colours on till 2 Jan 2022. A night market, food stalls with alfresco dining, fair complete with Ferris wheel await you. Entrance is ticketed and time slot entry must be respected to ease crowd control.
Christmas is certainly in the air in our little tropical island

The Barracks Hotel Sentosa took me on a time- travel - way back to the turn of the 20th century but with amenities and s...
10/12/2021

The Barracks Hotel Sentosa took me on a time- travel - way back to the turn of the 20th century but with amenities and service that speaks luxury.
Singapore is known to gazette her old buildings and repurpose them into usable space, not just galleries and museums but also restaurants, schools, retail space, hotel. This is one such place.

So Barracks hotel started out as the Blakang Mati Artillery Barracks in 1904, when Sentosa was a British military base . In fact, the island of Sentosa is chock-full of military history.

The 2 storey hotel has only 40 rooms with its own butler service. Symmetry seems to be the buzz-word here. Colonial architecture with long corridors sheltering your walk to the rooms, balconies large enough to hang-out in and enjoy a gin or two, white-washed building with black wooden doors embellished with golden knockers and doorknobs.

Lawns are immaculately manicured and 2 pools glisten in the sunlight.

And you don’t even have to stay here to enjoy it’s beauty - restaurants serving French, Japanese, Indian and more await you to experience a bit of old-world charm and bring you quiet happiness.

Come, discover it with me 🙂

15/11/2021

Chetty pusam

The Chettiars, a people who come from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, arrived in Singapore in the mid 1800s. Their line of work? Merchant bankers and moneylenders. As they landed on our shores, they formed a merchant-banking system giving loans to locals. Many of the Chettiar moneylenders ran their businesses in long shophouses called kittangis along Market Street and Tank Road. See the last of the kittangis in this video - a place where they conducted business and rested at night.

Chetty pusam is celebrated as by the chettiars on the eve of Thaipusam. Before the sun is up, devotees gather at the Tank Road temple, giving hommage to Lord Murugan, the patron deity of this temple. HE makes his way to visit his little brother, Lord Ganesha whose abode is in Chinatown. That evening, after a full day of festivities, Lord Murugan makes his way home after paying hommage to his Mother, Goddess Mariaman, also in Chinatown. As his carriage returns, he stops at a few banks to bless them.

This vedio takes you from morning to night in 2019 which explains the throngs of maskless devotees.

12/11/2021

Wake up Singapore !!!

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Art in the city #bourgos #spain

Sentosa's Wings of Time - an impressive light, water and music show.

My first home-made video.

They're here! Happening now At Robertson Quay.

A Hidden Garden, Pearl's Hill City Park. Come visit with me.

Tired of social distancing😕 #nightsafari

Chetty pusam The Chettiars, a people who come from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, arrived in Singapore in the mid 1800s. Their line of work? Merchant bankers and moneylenders. As they landed on our shores, they formed a merchant-banking system giving loans to locals. Many of the Chettiar moneylenders ran their businesses in long shophouses called kittangis along Market Street and Tank Road. See the last of the kittangis in this video - a place where they conducted business and rested at night. Chetty pusam is celebrated as by the chettiars on the eve of Thaipusam. Before the sun is up, devotees gather at the Tank Road temple, giving hommage to Lord Murugan, the patron deity of this temple. HE makes his way to visit his little brother, Lord Ganesha whose abode is in Chinatown. That evening, after a full day of festivities, Lord Murugan makes his way home after paying hommage to his Mother, Goddess Mariaman, also in Chinatown. As his carriage returns, he stops at a few banks to bless them. This vedio takes you from morning to night in 2019 which explains the throngs of maskless devotees.

Wake up Singapore !!!

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