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"Lenin's Tomb" at Raffles Place
Constructed in an effort to beautify the city, the "underground" car park topped with a roof garden that came to define the Raffles Place of post-independent Singapore, came in for some criticism as it was nearing completion. Likened to Lenin's Mausoleum, its critics even went so far as to suggest that it be used for the repose of Singapore's distinguished citizens. Despite the early reservations, Raffles Place Garden – as it was christened, was a quite a joy to behold. With its floral clock, fountain and a backdrop provided by Raffles Place's characterful buildings, the garden became what could be thought of as the 1960s equivalent of an instagram-worthy spot.
Christmas 1966 on the roof garden at Raffles Place, with Robinson's behind.
That Raffles Place was certainly a place I connected with. My visits there usually coincided with the preparations for the year-end season of giving, which invariably led to Robinsons Department Store's quite memorable toy department. Large and well stocked, the department was every child's dream. I looked forward to visiting each year, even if that meant having to catch sight of Father Christmas, whom I was terrified of. Out of Robinson's famous Christmas lucky dip, I once pulled out an orange coloured battery-operated submarine. It was a prized toy, even if I had to contend with using it once every three months during our seaside holidays at Mata Ikan – in the holiday bungalow's bathtub!
The promise of good food was another thing to look forward to when visiting Raffles Place. Makan time would on a special occasion, lead me to the Honeyland Milk Bar at Battery Road, which was just around the square's northeast corner. There was always a sense of anticipation that I got as the parting of the café's heavy doors delivered a cold rush of Worcestershire sauce scented air. The café's chicken pies were to die for. I enjoyed the pies with a dash of tomato ketchup – which I never could quite manage to cajole out from the sauce bottle without some help.
Raffles Place's little "corners", which included Change Alley, added much to area's unique charm. "Chin Charlie" to me and many non-English speakers like my maternal grandmother, it was a fascinating place to wander through and one of the places that made the Singapore of the 1960s, Singapore. The famous alley, which featured in films and in a BBC newsreel, seemed to be always be full of life and for a while, laughter – emanating from numerous laughing bags being set off in the alley by its many toy vendors as a form of advertisement. Popular at the end of the 1960s, the toys took the form of tiny drawstring bags that contained sound boxes.
The Raffles Place end of Change Alley, 1969 (Kim Hocker Collection).
Little did I know it as a young child, but the laughter, along with the Raffles Place that I knew and loved would soon to see lasting change. A tragic fire in November 1972, which resulted in the loss of nine lives, also saw to Robinsons losing its iconic Raffles Chambers home it had occupied since 1941. The subsequent move – of Robinson's to Specialists Centre in Orchard Road – also severed the store's connection with the square, which could be traced back to 1858.
Raffles Chambers – before Robinson's moved in.
By the time of the fire, the area had in fact already been in the cusp of change. At the glorious waterfront – Raffles Place "backyard", the grand old turret-topped 1923 built Ocean Building had come down in 1970 to make way for a towering third. The 1923 Ocean – the second to stand on the site – was the forerunner of a building frenzy that would shape Singapore's bund at Collyer Quay, which by the 1930s possessed a quality that could be compared to Shanghai's more famous embankment. The second Ocean's demise set a reversal of the process in motion. Two more of the waterfront's grand 1920s edifices erected a year after the Ocean, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Chambers and Maritime (ex-Union Insurance) Building, would also make way for the new.
John Little's Building early in 1946 – when it was used temporarily as the Shackle Club [source: Lizzie Ellis on Flickr (CC BY 2.0)].
On the square, one of its famous landmarks – John Little's Building – was sold in 1973. This would lead to Raffles Tower (now Singapore Land Tower) being put up in its place. Incidentally, Raffles Tower when it was still under construction, was the scene of a dramatic aerial helicopter rescue – the first in Singapore's history. The rescue on 21 October 1980 came at a time when 19 out of tower's intended 48 floors were completed. A fire broke out on the 18th floor, which left a crane operator stranded on a tower crane perched on the top of the uncompleted building some 60 metres above ground. The daring rescue effort saw the operator plucked from the crane's boom to safety by the crew of a RSAF Bell 212 helicopter .
Singapore's first helicopter aerial rescue was over Raffles Place on 21 October 1980.
Raffles Place would also lose its car park and roof garden not so long after this incident. A well-loved feature by that time, the garden's lifespan fell short of the "many, many decades" that Mr Lee Kuan Yew had predicted it would last when he opened it in November 1965. The construction of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system just two decades later, meant that the structure and its garden, went the way of Raffles Place's older icons in mid-1984.
Raffles Place – still with its garden – in the late 1970s. The former Mercantile Bank can be seen at the end of the square.
The building of the MRT also took out the other landmarks that could be identified with old Raffles Place. The former Mercantile Bank (built 1929) was one. The building, which marked the square's southern end, had been purchased by Chartered Bank to house its Singapore headquarters while its 6 Battery Road HQ at the square's opposite end, was being rebuilt. Chartered Bank's new premises at 6 Battery Road, which was put up at the start of the 1980s incorporated a provision for the MRT to be built at a time when the question of whether the MRT should be built was still being deliberated.
Over a CBD in transition at the end of the 1970s. Renewal, redevelopment and reclamation would change the face of a part of Singapore that at the point of independence, had a certain old world charm (photo source: Panoramio).
Raffles Place today, wears a look of modernity reflective of Singapore's impressive progress since the car park and its roof garden was unveiled. Cold as it may have become enclosed by the wall of towering symbols of success, Lenin's tomb it is not nor a place of repose for the distinguished – other than the distinguished past. There are the reminders of the square that was replaced if one looks hard enough – found in the names that are retained and in some of the new structures that have come to define the new Raffles Place.
Raffles Place over the years
Raffles Place stands on the site of a hill that was levelled in 1822 to provide filler for the reclamation in way of the south bank of the Singapore River that provided the grounds for Boat Quay.
Raffles Place in the late 1800s. The garden seen in this G. R. Lambert print was one of Commercial Square's early features, which was laid out, planted with trees and enclosed by a low wall and a wooden fence in the mid-1830s. The marble drinking water fountain seen in the photograph was the one presented by John Gemmill in 1864. The donation involved more than just the fountain as it required the laying of pipes from Mr Gemmill's property at Mount Erskine to Raffles Place. The fountain originally had metal cups chained to it. The fountain, which now stands outside the National Museum of Singapore, found its way to Empress Place, before being moved to the museum in the 1970s.
Gemmill's fountain – at the National Museum of Singapore.
Another G R Lambert print from the late 1800s. Originally Commercial Square, it was named Raffles Place by the Municipal Commission in 1858.
By the 1900s Raffles Place was well developed into a commercial and banking centre. This postcard view of Raffles Place in the 1930s shows several banking institutions established around in the square such as (from left to right): Mercantile Bank of India, Banque de l'Indochine (French Bank) and Yokohama Specie Bank (YS Bank in Meyer Chambers).
Preparations for war, 1941. A machine gun pillbox seen in front of a John Little's Building fitted with brick barricades.
Air raid wardens are dousing an incendiary bomb in Raffles Place in 1941 as part of a regular weekly mass demonstration to make Singaporean's bomb conscious and informed (source: Library of Congress – no known copyright restrictions).
A bomb damaged Raffles Place following the first Japanese air raid on Singapore on 8 Dec 1941.
Raffles Place in the 1950s, by which time stores such as John Little – established in the 1840s and Robinson's, founded in the 1850s, were already very well established and were household names.
Plans for a garden at Raffles Place were first announced in Nov 1963 during a State Government policy address made by Yang di-Pertuan Negara Yusof Ishak to the Legislative Assembly – the first with Singapore a State in Malaysia and the last ever. Work commenced on what was to be a 150 car capacity underground car park topped by a roof garden in July 1964. By the time LKY opened the carpark and roof garden in Nov 1965, Singapore was an independent country. LKY expressed his disappointment that the car park had to be elevated a metre above the ground for ventilation and access and observed that some had likened one end of the structure to Lenin's tomb. He also noted that there were also suggestions that "we might perhaps repose the precious remains of some of our more distinguished citizens in one end of this square".
Mr David Ayres' capture of Raffles Place in 1966, which made its rounds around the internet in 2012. The photograph shows the roof garden and looks towards the northern end of the square with the Chartered Bank Chambers on Battery Road at the far end (source: David Ayres on Flickr).
Another northward view – this one in 1969 courtesy of Mr Kim Hocker (Kim Hocker Collection).
The five-foot-way along John Little's Building in 1969 (Kim Hocker Collection).
Trishaw riders outside Oriental Emporium at Raffles Place in 1969 (Kim Hocker Collection).
A view of the car park from street level with a staircase to the roof garden (Kim Hocker Collection).
The Malacca Street end of the car park and its location today.
A view towards the north end with MRT construction work, 1987 (National Archives of Singapore).
A northward view today. The John Little's Building is replicated on the main entrances to the MRT.
A southward view of Raffles Place today.
The Singapore Land tower (R) – where the rescue of the crane operator took place in 1980.
One Raffles Place – which occupies the site of Robinson's and Meyer Chambers.
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Discovering Singapore's Best Kept Secrets: Beach Road Police Station and Barracks
Update 22 September 2017
Registrations have close as all available slots have been taken up as of 10.05 am. Do look out for the next visit in the series (location to be advised) on 21 October 2017.
Guided tours of best kept secrets in S'pore (Sunday Times, 23 July 2017)
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The sixth in the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) supported series of guided State Property visits, "Discovering Singapore's Best Kept Secrets", takes us to the former Beach Road Police Station.
The details of the visit are as follows:
Date : 7 October 2017
Time : 10 am to 12 noon
Address: 99 Beach Road Singapore 189701
The size of the group for the visit is limited to 30 and registrations will be required. To register, kindly fill this form in: https://goo.gl/forms/kDn5piD8NglKGH1W2
Background to the station and barracks:
The station and two barrack buildings were completed in 1934 at the tail end of a decade of reorganisation for the police force. The efforts also saw the establishment of a Police Training School at Thomson – the old Police Academy, as well as the construction of new stations and living quarters across Singapore, in the face of a relative state of disorder that had prompted comparisons between the "cesspool of iniquity" that was Singapore, a.k.a. Sin-galore, and Chicago.
The complex was a replacement for an earlier station, which had been located further east along Beach Road at Clyde Terrace and was built at a cost of $319,743. The barracks provided quarters for 64 married man in one of its three storey blocks. 80 single men and NCOs were also accommodated in another three storey singlemen's block in which a mess and recreation room was also arranged on the ground floor. The three storey main station building, described at the point of its construction as being of a "pretentious type", also had quarters – for two European and two "Asiatic" Inspectors – on its second and third levels. Its ground floor contained offices, a guard room, an armoury and a number of stores. A cell block – the lock-up – was also arranged "behind the guardroom", "approached from it by a covered way".
The station would play a part in a series of tumultuous events that followed its completion. A hundred or so Japanese "aliens" were held in it at the outbreak of war on 8 December, before they were moved to Changi Prison. This was a scene would repeat itself after Singapore's fall. The station was used as a holding facility for different ethnic groups of civilians including Jews, individuals of various European backgrounds and nationalities, and also members of the Chinese and Indian community, before internment in Changi.
Beach Road Police Station also found itself in the thick of action during the Maria Hertogh riots in 1950, when policemen from the station were sent to quell disturbances in nearby Kampong Glam – only to have the men involved retreat into the station, along with scores of civilians, for safety.
The station served as the Police 'C' Division headquarters until May 1988, when that moved into new premises at Geylang Police Station on Paya Lebar Road. The Central Police Division headquarters moved in to the station in November 1992 and used it until 2001 when that moved into the newly completed Cantonment Police Complex. The decommissioned former station was also used by the Raffles Design Institute for some six years. Two sets of quarters, added on an adjoining piece of land – two four storey blocks in the 1950s and a 12 storey block in 1970 – have since been demolished.
The station complex sits on a 2 hectare reserve site that is now the subject of a Government land sales tender exercise and as the successful developer will have the option of demolishing the two barrack blocks as part of the redevelopment, this may be a last opportunity to see the complex as it is. The main station building itself has been conserved since 2002 and will be retained.
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Categories : Architecture, Architecture, Changing Landscapes, Conservation, Discovering Singapore's Best Kept Secrets, Downtown, Forgotten Buildings, Forgotten Places, Heritage Sites, Reminders of Yesterday, Singapore
1972, when the Concorde first flew over Singapore
Singapore had a brief love affair with the Concorde. Arguably the only supersonic passenger aircraft to be successfully deployed, a London to Singapore was operated by its National airline, Singapore Airlines, in partnership with British Airways for a few years at the end of the 1970s. The aircraft's first flight over Singapore however, goes back to 1972, a year that was especially memorable for several events. I came across a wonderful photograph of that first flight some years back, one that in freezing the Concorde over a Singapore that in 1972 was at the cusp of its own reach for the skies, captured the lofty aspirations of the aircraft's developers and of the city seen below it
The photo of Concorde 002 over the old city centre of Singapore during its month-long demonstration tour of the Far East in June 1972 (online at http://www.concordesst.com/).
1972 was the year I was in Primary 2. I was seven, going on eight, ten months older than the newly independent Singapore, and at an age when any machine that sped were about the coolest things on earth. I was also finding out that going to school in the afternoon was quite a chore. Unlike the morning session I was in the previous year, there was little time for distractions and TV. School days were just about tolerable only because of the football time it could provide before classes started each day and unlike the previous school year, great excitement seemed to come only away from school, and the highlight of the year would be one that I would have to skip, "ponteng" in the language used among my classmates, school for.
Football was very much part of the culture at St. Michael's School, the primary school I attended.
The buzz the Concorde created, even before it came to Singapore in June of the year, left a deep impression with the boys I kept company with and the paper planes we made featured folded-down noses that resembling the Concorde's droop nose – even if it made they seemed less able to fly. I was fortunate to also see the real McCoy making a descent at Paya Lebar Airport, one that was much more graceful than any of the imitations I made. I have to thank an uncle who was keen enough to brave the crowds that had gathered at the airport's waving gallery for that opportunity. The event was a significant one and took place in a year that was especially significant for civil aviation in Singapore with the split of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines or MSA, jointly operated by the two countries taking place in the background. The split would see the formation of Mercury Singapore Airlines on 24 January to fly Singapore's flag. The intention had been to ride on the established MSA name, which was not too well received on the Malaysian side, prompting the renaming of the new MSA to Singapore Airlines (SIA) on 30 June 1972, a point from which the airline has never looked back.
The building that housed MSA and later SIA is prominent in the 1972 photograph, the MSA Building. Completed in 1968, the rather iconic MSA and later SIA Building was one built at the dawn of the city's age of the skyscraper. The building was a pioneer in many other ways and an early adopter of the pre-fab construction technique. A second building in the photograph that also contributed to frenzy was the third Ocean Building, then under construction. The Ocean was to be the home of another company that was very much a part of Singapore's civil aviation journey: the Straits Steamship Company. It was during the time of the already demolished Ocean Building that preceded the third that the company set up Malayan Airways in 1937. The airlines, which would only take off in 1947, became Malaysian Airways in 1963, and then MSA in 1965. The company, a household name in shipping, is now longer connected with sea or air transport in its current incarnation as Keppel Land. Other buildings marking the dawn of the new age seen in the photograph include the uncompleted Robina House and Shing Kwang House, and also a DBS Building in the early stages of erection.
The fast growing city, seen at ground level in 1972 (Jean-Claude Latombe, online at http://ai.stanford.edu/~latombe/)
The completed third Ocean Building (left), seen in July 1974 (photo courtesy of Peter Chan).
It was several months prior to the the Concorde's flight and just four weeks into school, that I would find myself skipping classes for what was to be the highlight of the year and of my childhood: the visit of the Queen, Elizabeth II of England, Price Phillip, and Princess Anne, to the 3-room Toa Payoh flat I had called home. As its was in the case of several other visiting dignitaries, Her Majesty's programme included a visit to the rooftop viewing gallery of the Housing and Development Board's first purpose-built "VIP block". The gallery was where a view of the incredible success Singapore had in housing the masses could be taken in and a visit to a flat often completed such a visit and living in one strategically placed on the top floor of the VIP block had its advantages. Besides the Royal family, who were also taken to a rental flat on the second floor of Block 54 just behind the VIP block, Singapore's first Yang di-Pertuan Negara and last colonial Governor, Sir William Goode, also dropped by in 1972. The flat also saw the visits of two other dignitaries. One was John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia in 1968 and the other, Singapore's second president, Benjamin Henry Sheares, and Mrs Sheares in 1971.
The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne, in the kitchen of my flat on 18 February 1972.
The Queen at the Viewing Gallery on the roof of Block 53 Toa Payoh on 18 February 1972.
One thing being in the afternoon session developed was the taste I acquired for epok-epok, fried curry puffs that are usually potato filled. Sold by a man who came around on a bicycle at dismissal time, the pastries that he vended – out of a tin carried on the bicycle – were ones to die for. They were made especially tasty the vendor's special chilli-sauce "injected" in with a spout tipped bottle and well worth going hungry at recess time, to have the 10 cents the purchase required, for. Being in the afternoon session, also meant that the rides home from school on the minibus SCB 388, were often in the heavy traffic. The slow crawl, often accompanied by the deep vocals of Elvis Presley playing in the bus' cartridge player, permitted an observation of the progress that was being made in building Toa Payoh up. Much was going on in 1972 with the SEAP games Singapore was to host in 1973 just around the corner. Toa Payoh's town centre, also the games village, was fast taking shape.
A view over Toa Payoh around 1972.
Toa Payoh's evolving landscape stood in stark contrast to its surroundings. To its south, across the Whampoa River, was Balestier – where suburbia might have ended before Toa Pyaoh's rise. That still held its mix of old villas, shophouses, and a sprinkling of religious sites. The view north on the other hand was one of the grave scattered landscape of Peck San Teng, today's Bishan, as would possibly have been the view west, if not for the green wall of sparsely developed elevations. On one of the hills, stood Toa Payoh Hospital, in surroundings quite conducive to rest and recovery. Potong Pasir to Toa Payoh's east had still a feel of the country. Spread across what were the low lying plains that straddled one of Singapore's main drainage channels, the Kallang River, the area was notorious for the huge floods that heavy rains would bring. When the area wasn't submerged, it was one of green vegetable plots and the zinc topped structures of dwellings and livestock pens.
The grave dominated landscape north of Toa Payoh – with a view towards Toa Payoh (SPH photo, online at http://news.asiaone.com/).
Potong Pasir (and Braddell Road) during the big flood of 1978 (PUB photo).
Another main drainage channel, the Singapore River, was a point of focus for the tourism drive of 1972, during which two white statues came up. Representations perhaps of the past and the future, the first to come up was of a figure from its colonial past. The statue of Raffles, placed at a site near Empress Place at which Singapore's founder was thought to have first came ashore, was unveiled in February. The second, was the rather peculiar looking Merlion and a symbol perhaps of new Singapore's confused identity. This was unveiled at the river's mouth in September. A strangest of would be National symbols and with little connection to Singapore except for its head of a lion, the animal Singapore or Singapura was named after, the creature was made up in a 1964 tourism board initiated effort. Despite its more recent origins, the statue has come to be one that tourists and locals alike celebrate and that perhaps has set the tone for how Singapore as a destination is being sold.
The Merlion at its original position at the mouth of the Singapore River (seen here in 1976).
The Merlion at its position today, staring at the icons of the new Singapore.
1972 was a year that has also to be remembered for the wrong reasons. Externally, events such as the tragic massacre of Israeli Olympians in Munich, brought much shock and horror as did the happenings closer to home in Indochina. There were also reasons for fear and caution in Singapore. Water, or the shortage of it was very much at the top of the concerns here with the extended dry spell having continued from the previous year. There were also many reasons to fear for one's safety with the frequent reports of murders, kidnappings and shootouts, beginning with the shooting to death of an armed robber, Yeo Cheng Khoon, just a week into the year.
The darkest of the year's headlines would however be of a tragedy that seemed unimaginable – especially coming just as the season of hope and joy was to descend. On 21 November, a huge fire swept through Robinson's Department Store at Raffles Place in which nine lives were lost. The devastating fire also deprived the famous store of its landmark Raffles Place home and prompted its move to Orchard Road. This perhaps also spelled the beginning of the end for Singapore's most famous square. In a matter of one and a half decades, the charm and elegance that had long marked it, would completely be lost.
Robinson's at Raffles Place, 1966.
The burnt shell of Robinson's (SPH photo online at http://www.tnp.sg/)
Another tragic incident was the 17 September shooting of the 22-year-old Miss Chan Chee Chan at Queensway. While the shooting took place around midday, it was only late in the day that medical staff attending to Miss Chan realised that she had been shot. A .22 calibre rifle bullet, lodged in her heart, was only discovered after an x-ray and by that time it was too late to save her.
Just as the year had started, shootouts would be bring 1972 to a close in which four of Singapore's most wanted men were killed. At the top of the list was Lim Ban Lim. Armed and dangerous and wanted in connection with the killing of a policeman, a series of armed robberies on both sides of the Causeway, Lim was ambushed by the police at Margaret Drive on 24 November and shot dead. Over a nine-year period, Lim and his accomplices got away with a total of S$2.5 million. An accomplice, Chua Ah Kau escaped the ambush. He would however take his own life following a shootout just three weeks later on 17 December. Having taken two police bullets in the confrontation near the National Theatre, Chua turned the gun on himself.
The case that had Singapore on tenterhooks due to the one and a half month trail of violence and terror left by the pair of gunmen involved, would play itself out just the evening before the gunfight involving Chua. It was one that I remember quite well from the manner in which the episode was brought to a close in the dark and seemingly sinister grounds of the old Aljunied al-Islamiah cemetery at Jalan Kubor. The trigger-happy pair, Abdul Wahab Hassan and his brother Mustapha, crime spree included gun running, armed robbery, gunfights with the police, hostage taking and daring escapes from custody (Abdul Wahab's from Changi Prison and Mustapha's from Outram Hospital). Cornered at the cemetery on 16 December and with the police closing in, Abdul Wahab shot and killed his already injured brother and then turned the gun on himself.
The Aljunied Al-Islamiah Cemetery off Jalan Kubor and Victoria Street, where two gunmen met their deaths in 1972.
Besides the deaths of the four, quite a few more armed and dangerous men were also shot and injured as a result of confrontations with the police. A 23 December 1972 report in the New Nation put the apparent rise in shootouts to the training the police had received to "shoot from the hip, FBI style". The spate of crimes involving the use of firearms would prompt the enactment of the Arms Offences Act in 1973, which stipulates a mandatory death penalty for crimes that see the use of or the attempt to use a firearm to cause injury.
The tough measures may possibly have had their impact. The use firearms in crimes is now much less common. This has also brought about an increased the sense of safety in Singapore, as compared to 1972. Many who grew up in that age will remember being warned repeatedly of the dangers on the streets, particularly of being kidnapped. The same warnings are of course just as relevant today, but the threat was one that could be felt. Many stories of children disappearing off the streets were in circulation and that heightened the sense of fear. While many could be put down to rumour, there was at least one case of a child being abducted from a fairground, that I knew to be true. There were also many reports of actual kidnappings in the news, including one very high profile case in 1972 that saw the abduction of a wealthy Indonesian businessman. The businessman was released only after a ransom was paid.
Singapore in 1972:
Singapore (1972) by Jean-Claude Latombe
Singapore 1972 – an album on Flickr by Polyrus
Singapore 1957 on – an album on Flickr by Gary Denvers
The 1972 General Elections
The Queen visiting Singapore in 1972 (AP News Footage showing the Queen's arrival at Block 53, Toa Payoh)
The Queen visiting Singapore in 1972 (AP News Footage showing the Queen at the viewing gallery of Block 53, Toa Payoh)
The Queen visiting Singapore in 1972 (Local News Footage showing the Queen's arrival at the flat I lived in)
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The fight for freedom from where freedom had once been curtailed
I miss the Bras Basah Road of my schooldays. Wet rice road as "bras (or beras) basah" translates into, and the area around it, had a life about it and a charm that now seems lost.
A Bras Basah still with its many reminders of the past. The Cox Club at Waterloo Street can be seen on the left behind the bus (F W York Collection, National Archives of Singapore).
The row of Indian Rojak stalls at Waterloo Street – a favourite makan destination during my days in school (posted on AsiaOne).
The street, a destination for those in search of sporting goods, books and good affordable food, was also where school was for some. Several of Singapore's pioneering schools, including our very first, Raffles Institution, have their roots in the area.
Bras Basah Road as seen from the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in 1968. The row of shophouses where bookshops and sporting goods shops were concentrated can be seen just beyond Saint Joseph's Institution (now the Singapore Art Museum). The Cathay building, 'Singapore's first skyscraper', can be seen at the end of Bras Basah at Dhoby Ghaut (http://www.goingplacessingapore.sg).
The row of book and sporting goods shops opposite the remnants of a 18th century gaol along Bras Basah Road (National Archives photograph).
Without the shops, the makan places and children hurrying to school, an air of emptiness now surrounds the place; an emptiness that also extends to a built environment that now lacks several markers of the area's eventful past.
The former Raffles Institution as seen from Beach Road – where Raffles City now stands.
The emptiness that is today Bras Basah Road.
One missing piece of this past would have taken us back to forgotten days when Singapore served British India as a penal colony. This piece, a cluster of structures belonging to a nineteenth century convict gaol, had long been a prominent feature on the Bras Basah Road until it was demolished in the late 1980s.
A view of Bras Basah Road from Mount Sophia on a 19th century postcard The gaol complex is seen just beyond the drying laundry at Bras Basah Green – what gave Dhoby Ghaut its name.
The cluster stood close to where Bencoolen Street crossed Bras Basah Road, its most noticeable structure being one I initially suspected was the gaol's gate-house. Built flush with what would have been the outer walls of the gaol, an arched passageway wide enough for a carriage to pass suggested it might have been one.
The inside of the gaol, photographed by G H Lambert, looking towards what appears to be the former apothecary's quarters (National Archives photograph).
The cluster was all that remained of a prison complex that old maps show to stretch southwards to the Stamford Canal, originally the Freshwater Rivulet, and eastwards to Victoria Street over the plot on which Raffles Girls School at Queen Street would be built.
The Layout of the Bras Basah Gaol.
The gaol gates – where the southward extension of Waterloo Street was to be constructed..
Where the gates would have been across Bras Basah Road.
The gaol, built by the convicts themselves, was completed in 1860. It last saw use as a prison in 1882, some years after the last of the convicts brought from India had been released in 1873. The convicts were put to work, clearing forests, hunting tigers and building Singapore – many of Singapore's first paved roads including Bras Basah, structures such as the bund at Collyer Quay, St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Raffles and Horsburgh lighthouses were built by these convicts. What remained of the gaol was also perhaps a reminder not just of the penal colony but also of the contribution made by the convicts in the building up of early British Singapore.
Raffles Lighthouse, among the structures built by convict labour.
A map of the Bras Basah area in the mid 1800s showing the location of the gaol.
The gaol proper was laid out across an area that included what became the sports field of the school I attended, Saint Joseph's Institution (SJI) and the now paved over southward extension of Waterloo Street that was known in more recent times for the famous row of Indian Rojak stalls. The area had apparently already been cleared and was in use as a playing field, referred to as the "Children's Corner", in the early twentieth century.
The Saint Joseph's Institution field in the 1970s.
The "gate-house", it turns out, had not been the gaol's gates, but the apothecary's quarters – part of the set of buildings laid out along the western boundary to house the gaol's hospital and lunatic asylum.
The former apothecary's quarters used by the CYMA along Bras Basah Road (c. 1970s).
If not for the fact that the lunatic asylum and the gaol had long moved out, one might have suspected that it might have been one of its inmates who sent part of the former gaol's perimeter wall tumbling down in October 1978. This bizarre incident involved a Singapore Bus Service bus that had been stolen from the Toa Payoh bus depot by a 15-year old boy. The portion of the wall that it crashed into was one that was shared with the bedroom of a house used by the caretaker of what had then been the Catholic Young Men's Association (CYMA) and it was fortunate that no one was hurt.
The 1978 incident involving a stolen SBS bus (National Archives photograph).
Besides becoming the home of the CYMA, the hospital section of the former gaol also saw use by the Malay Company of the Singapore Volunteer Corps up to the late 1930s. Part of the grounds also found use after the war as the Cox Club for Indian troops, which was later to house the Malayan Air Training Command (MATC). It was during its time as the MATC HQ that a Spitfire Mk 24 that some in the "pioneer generation" may remember seeing, found its way to the grounds.
A photograph taken by Randal McDowell in 1970 from the National Museum showing the section of the former gaol's grounds west of Waterloo Street, when it was used by the CYMA. The former apothecary's quarters can quite clearly be seen. Scouts can also be seen in the foreground – the troop from Catholic High School had their den on the grounds.
The former apothecary's quarters in the days when the grounds were used by the Malay Company of the Singapore Volunteer Corps.
Interestingly, and ironically perhaps, the same grounds, used in its early days to curtail freedom of people shipped from the British India, was to find use in the fight to free India from British rule. It was there that the Indian National Army's all women Rani of Jhansi regiment found their first training camp, which opened on 22 October 1943.
Capt. Lakshmi and Subhas Chandra Bose inspecting a guard of honour presented by members of the Rani of Jhansi regiment at the camp in Bras Basah Road. The former apothecary's quarters and the arched verandahs of what became the Soon Chong Leong building at the corner of Bras Basah Road and Bencoolen Street can quite clearly be seen.
The area of the former Rani of Jhansi camp today – where the Singapore Management University's School of Information Systems is located.
The Japanese Imperial Army supported INA found its second wind under the newly appointed Subhas Chandra Bose, seeking recruits among captured troops from the British Indian army units and the civilian population with the aim of freeing India from British rule. The events in Singapore of October 1943 represented a significant milestone for the INA. Not only was the women's unit training camp established, a Provisional Government of Free India had, only a day before on 21 October 1943, been proclaimed by Subhas Chandra Bose at Cathay building.
Members of the Azad Hind posing for a photograph in Singapore on 21 October 1943.
The women's regiment was formed in July 1943 through the efforts of the very young Captain (Dr.) Lakshmi Swaminathan (later Sahgal), who had come to Singapore only three years before to practice medicine. It drew its members mainly from the working classes in the Indian community of Singapore and Malaya and counted some 1500 women in its ranks. Capt. Lakshmi besides being the leader of the regiment, was also appointed as the Minister in Charge of Women's Organisation in the Azad Hind.
The women's regiment drew many recruits from the working class in Singapore and Malaya.
An article, apparently written by Dr. Lakshmi, "My days in the Indian National Army", offers some insights into the regiment and its training, which was to commence on 23 October 1943. In it she reveals:
"Our training lasted three months. It was very rigorous. We all had to wear a khaki uniform of pants and bush shirt, and cut our hair short. I had hair below my knees which my mother had never allowed me to cut. So I was really glad to have it cut and never grew it back since".
Dr. Lakshmi's account also tells of the women's regiment's participation in guerrilla attacks in Burma, to which the unit had been deployed in 1944 and 1945. The unit disbanded in 1945, at a time when the turning tide of the war in Burma had the Japanese Imperial Army and the INA in retreat.
The area where the apothecary's quarters was.
As controversial as Subhas Chandra Bose and the INA, due to their collaboration with the occupying Japanese army, may be, the memory of the Bose and INA is one that has been kept alive here in Singapore. A marker at the Esplanade stands at the site of a memorial of the INA, now a historical site.
The INA memorial at Esplanade, marked with the words Ittehad, Itmad aur Qurbani, which in Urdu means Unity, Faith and Sacrifice (National Archives photograph).
While the INA and Bose have not been forgotten, little however is now said of the Rani of Jhansi regiment and of Dr. Lakshmi, who passed away at the age of 97 in India in 2012. Like the gaol, the grounds of which the regiment also had its roots sunk into, the few physical reminders left have now been swept away by faceless buildings the man on the street struggles to find a connection to. That connection, brought about by the everyday things that drew us to the area and the many stories its buildings told of the history not just of one of Singapore's oldest roads, but also of Singapore itself, is one that now seems to forever be broken.
A view down Bras Basah Road following the surrender in 1945, © IWM (IND 4817). The structures of the former goal – used by the Rani of Jhansi regiment as a training camp, can be seen at what would have been the gaol's northwest corner.
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Categories : Bras Basah, Changing Landscapes, Downtown, Forgotten Buildings, Forgotten Places, Heritage Sites, Reminders of Yesterday, Schooldays, Singapore, SJI
Singapore's lost elegance
Modern Singapore stands today, close to 200 years after it came into being as a trading post, as one of the most advanced cities in the world. Icons of the new age now dominate the metropolis, its financial district, much of which came up on land that was made out of marshland and water, is now an amazing maze of glass and steel for which the sky seems the only limit.
Against all of this, it probably will be difficult to imagine Singapore as having been anything other than a city of skyscrapers – even if some fragments of the past are still found within the modern world; certainly not the elegant municipality it seemed to be a century ago as postcards and photographs from the era certainly depict. Having the air, almost, of a European urban centre, the commercial centre of the municipality had by the centenary of its founding, already taken on the appearance of the "great commercial emporium" its founder, Stamford Raffles, had envisioned of it.
Progress has seen that that charming and dignified old Singapore could not survive. The 1950s was probably when the beginning of the end came with the addition of the first "skyscrapers" to the waterfront (interestingly there was an attempt to limit the height of buildings at the waterfront back in the 1920s to a height of 96′ 6″). Much was also to follow, especially in the post independent years and by the 1970s the face of the financial district would drastically be changed. The 1970s also saw substantial amounts of land being reclaimed, creating the land on which Singapore has built its city of future.
Empress Place and Princess Square
The statue of the founder of modern Singapore, Raffles, was moved to (its current location at) Empress Place from the Padang on the occasion of the centenary of British Singapore's founding. The colonnade seen around it was damaged and removed during the war years.
Another view of Empress Place, with the Fullerton Building (completed 1928) already constructed.
Princess Square – looking up High Street towards Fort Canning Light. The Singapore Cricket Club is on the right and the Hotel de L'Europe stands at the location of old Supreme Court (now part of the National Gallery).
Battery Road / Fullerton Square
Fullerton Square, before the Fullerton Building came up. Part of the first HongKong Bank Chambers can be seen on the left. The Exchange and the old General Post Office on the right is where the Fullerton now stands.
Battery Road, seen with the Tan Kim Seng fountain (since moved to Esplanade Park).
Another view of Battery Road at Fullerton Square. The Medical Hall is where the Straits Trading Building now stands.
Battery Road at the turn of the century. The Dispensary, at the corner of Bonham Street is where 6 Battery Road (Chartered Bank) now stands.
Another view up Battery Road.
Finlayson Green
Finlayson Green at the turn of the last century. The Straits Times offices can be seen on the left with the offices of the Dutch shipping company Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatshappij on the right along with the three storey headquarters of Behn Meyer.
Another view of Finlayson Green.
Anson Road / Robinson Road
Anson Road, with the once iconic Boustead Institute at the meeting of Anson and Tanjong Pagar Roads.
Robinson Road. The Neo-Classical former Eastern Extension Telegraph Company Building (1927) and part of Telok Ayer market can be seen on the left.
Another view of Robinson Road.
Collyer Quay and the lost waterfront
Built along a bund constructed by convict labour in the mid-1800s, Collyer Quay was completed in 1864 and was soon lined with rather grand looking edifices. By the time the road was widened in the second decade of the 1900s through further reclamation, buildings such as the Alkaff's Arcade and the five storey St. Helen's Court had already been erected.
Now around which some of the tallest buildings are found, limits on the height of buildings along the waterfront was a subject of much discussion in the 1920s. In 1921, the Municipal Commission took a decision to limit the height of buildings along the waterfront to 96′ 6″ (about 29.5 metres), the height of St. Helen's Court. This was to permit "much needed circulation of air at ground". This was to however be challenged by the architects for soon to be built Union Building, who were successful in having the restrictions relaxed despite objections. One objection raised by John Little's positioned behind the new building was motivated by a concern that the height of the Union Building would be of "disadvantage and inconvenience to them in the matter of light" (see: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 30 January 1922).
Collyer Quay in the late 19th century. The first HongKong and Shanghai Bank chambers (completed in 1892) can be seen at the near end.
A view from the far end of Collyer Quay at Finlayson Green. Princes Building, the 1909 built Alkaff's Arcade can be seen along with 5 storey St. Helen's Court. St. Helen's Court, which was later to be renamed Shell House and subsequently Clifford House after the new 15 storey Shell House was built, was then the tallest building along Collyer Quay.
Collyer Quay in the 1930s, with the second Ocean Building (built in 1924) along with Princes Building, the Arcade, St. Helen's Court, Union Building (1924) and the Fullerton Building (GPO, 1928) already up. Trolley buses had by that time replaced trams as public transport.
The waterfront in the late 1920s with Johnston's Pier.
Clifford Pier, built in 1933, in uncluttered settings.
The view of the waterfront from the inner roads with the Union Building, HongKong and Shanghai Bank Chambers and the Fullerton Building.
A view of the Fullerton Road end of the waterfront.
The waterfront in the 1960s. By this time, taller buildings such as the Asia Insurance Building, had already begun to transform the skyline.
The Esplanade, late 1920s.
Anderson Bridge, when first completed.
Connaught Drive, possibly in the late 1920s.
Tags: Battery Road, Centenary, Colonial Singapore, Commercial Quarter, Empress Place, Esplanade, European Singapore, Financial Centre, Finlayson Green, Fullerton Square, Old Photographs, Old Postcards, Old Singapore, Princess Square, Singapore 100 years ago, Waterfront
Categories : Architecture, Changing Landscapes, Civic District, Downtown, Forgotten Buildings, Forgotten Places, Singapore
The tallest building in Southeast Asia
Standing tall at 82 metres when it was completed in 1955, the former Asia Insurance Building had the distinction of being not just the tallest building in Singapore, but also in Southeast Asia. Wearing an art-deco façade, the building, now the Ascott Raffles Place, was the creation of Dr Ng Keng Siang, who also designed it as Southeast Asia's first "earthquake proof" building.
The view from the one-time tallest building in Singapore towards what is today one of three tallest buildings in Singapore that is almost 3.5 times its height.
Soon after it was completed in the mid-1950s (source: National Archives of Singapore).
While it is dwarfed today by the towers of glass and steel that now dominate the financial district that has grown around it, the beautiful building maintains a majestic presence at its location at the corner of Finlayson Green and Raffles Quay having undergone a huge restoration effort from 2006 to 2008. The effort, a huge part of which involved the painstaking restoration of the 20,000 pieces of its Travertine marble face, saw the building being awarded with the URA Architectural Heritage Award in 2009, with it being gazetted for conservation in 2007.
Singapore's tallest buildings over the years (source: URA's Facebook Page).
The building, put up by the Asia Insurance Company at a cost of $8 million, was officially opened by the then Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Brown Black, on 10 December 1955. Besides the Asia Insurance Company, which occupied the second and third levels of the 18 storey building; the Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM and the Belgian and Indonesian Consulates were among the building's first tenants.
Construction of the building seen during the year of the Coronation, 1953 (source: National Archives of Singapore).
Besides the marble face, other features of note include the black Nero Portaro Italian marble found at the base of the building including two Nero Portaro pillars on which inscriptions commemorating the laying of the foundation stone by Commissioner-General for South-east Asia, Sir Malcolm MacDonald, in the year of the coronation of the Queen in 1953, and for the official opening of the building in 1955. The building also wears a crown of stainless steel, placed at its top to commemorate the 1953 coronation.
The building, was acquired by the Ascott Group in July 2006 for $109.5 million, and has since been converted as the hospitality group's flagship building offering 146 luxury suites. More information on the building and its conservation can be found at the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) conservation website. What may also be of interest are the memories of interactions with the building through the six decades of its existence. This can be found in several posts on the On a Little Street in Singapore Facebook Group (see Post1, Post2, Post3).
The stainless steel crown at the top of the building.
The staircase to the roof terrace.
Despite being in the shadows of the taller buildings around, the roof terrace of the Ascott offers a great view of the surroundings, including Raffles Place.
The James Cutler 15 storey brass mail chute that was originally installed in the building.
A look inside the Brown Suite during a recent URA Architectural Heritage Award Tour:
Additions to the existing building include a swimming pool, a drop-off point and a curved staircase in the lobby:
Tags: Architecture, Ascott Raffles Place, Asia Insurance Building, Built Heritage, Conservation, Finlayson Green, Former Asia Insurance Building, Photography, Raffles Quay, Singapore, Tallest Building in Southeast Asia, Tallest Buildings, URA Architectural Heritage Awards
Categories : Architecture, Architecture, Conservation, Downtown, Photography Series, Reminders of Yesterday, Singapore, Singapore Architecture


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Zulu & Hyatt Regency New Orleans Produces Zulu King Cake To Develop Scholarship Fund for Local Students
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Topics:Alcatel Lucent, Mergers & Acquisitions, Nokia, Telecom
Nokia buys Alcatel-Lucent for $16.58B; Looking at sale of HERE business
Shashidhar KJ
Network equipment maker Nokia has bought French telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion or $16.58 billion in an all share deal. Through a public exchange offer in France and the US, the Finnish company will make an offer for all of the equity securities issued by Alcatel-Lucent on the basis of 0.55 of a new Nokia share for every Alcatel-Lucent share. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2016.
Alcatel-Lucent shareholders would own 33.5% of the fully diluted share capital of the combined company, and Nokia shareholders would own 66.5%, assuming full acceptance of the public exchange offer. The combined company will be called Nokia Corporation, with headquarters in Finland and a strong presence in France. Risto Siilasmaa is planned to serve as Chairman, and Rajeev Suri as Chief Executive Officer.
The newly combined company will be looking at investing in the next generation of 5G network equipment and enabling Internet of Things.
With @Alcatel_Lucent, we're working toward creating better connections for everyone. Here's how: http://t.co/Giwcn21VaX
— Nokia (@nokia) April 15, 2015
Reuters reports that combined, the company will have about 114,000 employees and combined sales of around 26 billion euros. The report added that Alcatel-Lucent has some 6,000 employees in France and maintaining jobs was a key demand of the French government for its backing of the deal. The deal also included protecting two research and development sites at Villarceaux and Lannion.
"With more than 40 000 R&D employees and a spend of €4.7 billion in R&D in 2014, the combined company will be in a position to accelerate development of future technologies including 5G, IP and software-defined networking, cloud, analytics as well as sensors and imaging," Nokia said in its statement. It added that Alcatel's key offices in France, Germany, the U.S. and China will be retained.
It's worth remembering that in the quarter ended December 2014, Nokia posted an operating profit of €454 million, up 66% y-o-y on the back of strong performance of network equipment and services business and HERE business. Nokia networks reported a net sales of €3.4 billion which grew 8% y-o-y. Nokia had mentioned that had 162 commercial LTE contracts and was a key LTE radio supplier to 15 of the world's top 20 LTE operators.
HERE business sale
Separately, Nokia also said that it has initiated a review of strategic options for its HERE business. "That review is ongoing, it may or may not lead to a transaction, and any further announcements about HERE will be made in due course, as appropriate," the statement read. In the December 2014 quarter, HERE achieved 15% year-on-year growth in net sales to €292 million in Q4 2014. HERE also has an agreement with Baidu, the Chinese Internet search provider, to power its new desktop and mobile map services outside of China.
TechCrunch also notes that HERE is the last consumer-facing business it retained following the $7.2 billion sale of its devices and services business to Microsoft in April.
In this article:Alcatel Lucent, Mergers & Acquisitions, Nokia, Telecom
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Yesterday was market. It was my last market for a couple weeks as I took the next two weekends off for the kids birthday parties! I brought home lots of great stuff again this week though, including: a 2lb bag of peas, and a bunch of fresh carrots, 2 small cabbages, a bunch of mint, dill, cilantro, parsley, and spinach, 1 lb fresh (FIRST!) tomatoes along with a big yellow one for slicing, 2 lbs cherries, and 1 lb peaches (also first!), 4 bunches of wonderful yellow beats, and 6 small zuchinni. Some of this was bought for the housewarming party we are having tomorrow, and some was bought for us to snack on. All looks AMAZING though! July and August are such fun months to live locally!
I have a super busy month ahead. Tomorrow is the first of three parties I am throwing in the next two weeks. All necessary (two kids birthdays), so it should be busy, but fun. The house is starting to really pull together. I bought a couch cover for the first time ever... and it looks SO much better than our dirty old green couch. It was 25% off at Target and it already was a fraction of what it would have cost to get a new couch. I am off to get new pillows while we get groceries for the parties tomorrow moring.
I pulled out my sewing stuff!!! It is nicely sitting in the office behind me right now. What a beautiful site it is too. I only pulled it out once in the last house. That is once in 6 months. Sigh. I have missed it. I have many things planned. Mostly out of cool pillow cases that I found at Goodwill. I love recrafting!
The stuff from the market looks fabulous, and Yay!! for getting out the sewing stuff!! Can't wait to see what you come up with. I've had my eye out for some interesting sheets or pillowcases at Goodwill, but haven't found anything yet... I'll keep looking though! Good luck with all the parties! I bet it will be so much fun and I'm sure the kids will have a blast!
Good luck with the parties!! I am sure they will all turn out wonderfully.
I can't wait to see your sewing creations! You always inspire, I am busy knitting and sewing to cloth JH for the autumn/winter.
Have fun with the kids parties, I love the invites you got for Cyan!


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MAYDAY!
IssueJune - August 2004
01 Jun 2004 News
1 May is International Workers Day - traditionally a day of struggle against exploitation and capital - and each year there seems to be a widening of the issues focused on by activists globally, as detailed knowledge of the interconnectedness between oppression in all fields of life becomes widespread.
The global and creative nature of May Day activism also illustrates that people have more power and more creativity when we know that, around the world, others are acting on related issues and that there is growing knowledge and development of more life-enhancing, free and just forms of links between work structures and daily life.
20,000 South Koreans gathered in Seoul demanding the government retract its promise to send more than 3,000 soldiers to Iraq. Nearby in Japan, 42,000 demonstrated about pension reform while 12,000 others demanded the government withdraw its 550 troops from Iraq.
In Thailand 20,000 workers held rallies to demand a rise in the basic wage and end the government's privatisation drive.
Demonstrations and celebrations also took place across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
Jobs not bombs!
"Jobs not Bombs", "Peace for Workers, No to Wars and Profiteers" were the slogans in Athens, while in London activists targeted arms traders and held a Critical Mass cycle ride of 1,500 cyclists.
In Istanbul and Diyarbakir, Turkish riot police detained around 150 people who tried to hold a May Day march, and in Cairo Egyptian demonstrators were also confronted by massed police riot units.
In Berlin, street protests became violent during a second demonstration held against a far-right group; there were reports of more than 60 arrests.
Europe: no borders!
In Dublin, where the EU summit to welcome 10 new member states coincided with May Day, there was a high-level of police intimidation towards activists both before and during Mayday.
Activists called for a Europe without borders. Water cannon and batons were used by police on the Another Europe is Possible march and, unusually, activists arrested on minor charges were refused bail.
Solidarity demonstrations for those arrested took place outside prisons. After five days an Irish high court ordered the activists to be released on bail.
In Paris various marches, including the Christian trade Union CFTC, called for social justice in the new enlarged EU.
Barcelona and Milan were the focus cities for Euro May Day - which calls for a world of "steady income and access to housing, loving and hacking for all". This year highlighted that we live in a war economy, and campaigned for a "Bush-free" Europe.
Topics: Social struggles
"Moon, We hoped you were safe"
That sinking feeling
Save our deep seas: stop the strip-mining of deep-sea biological diversity
Flotillas of hope
After Fukushima: where now?
Marching on...
Anti-nuclear pilgrims reach Japan
Shell protest in London links Ireland and Nigeria
Iraq: one year on
The paramilitary candidate
Things are not as bad as they seem: they are much, much worse
The dangers of international terrorism
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It's very rare I talk about hair on here, I think that's down to be never really styling it and not really looking after it which leads me onto the Phil Smith Total Treat Argan Oil Cream. This was on offer at work and I was pretty intrigued as to whether it would benefit my hair at all and let's say I have been loving it since I started using it. You apply a 'pea sized amount' to towel dried ends and then dry your hair like normal and it works like a conditioner allowing your hair to feel smooth and silky. I love how it's a product that allows you to see a change on first used without making your hair feel slimy or greasy, just soft soft soft.
Since falling in love with that Peach Lights Highlighter from Makeup Revolution I have headed to their stand every time I've been in Superdrug to see what else I could pick up and one day I decided to pick up their Pro Fix Fixing Spray and let's just say it has exceeded all expectations. At a fiver I really didn't believe it would make much difference to the longevity of my makeup but apparently it does!
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I am terrible when it comes to skincare, I don't moisturise and I have definitely never used creams until now. I've been getting really annoying dry patches on the outer corners of my eyes so I picked up this Dirty Works Stop Puffy Eyes Eye Cream as it was on offer and I have been using it every morning (that I remember) and it instantly gets rid of the dryness, just goes to show you don't always need to spend loads on skincare.
I bought and reviewed this Seventeen Conquer and Define Contour Kit in the hope of attempting to learn to contour and although it's not great for contouring like a pro the lighter powder is amazing for setting under the eyes and I have thoroughly enjoying adding a bit for definition to my cheeks where I'm using another favourite; The Makeup Revolution Flat Contour Brush, because I realised I didn't have a brush for contouring and the rose gold was screaming at me.


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I don't recognize this color.
What is it? And is it available? And does it really look like that, whatever it is?!
That would be the Black/Silver/Crimson color combination. It didn't sell very well, so we decided to discontinue it. It was a bit more silver looking than white.


This Division is designed for 9-11 years-old players. All ages mentioned refer to the child's physical age on 12/31 of the calendar year preceding the playing year.
The players are provided with visors, jerseys and socks. The league will provide bats, helmets, catcher equipment and 3 infielder masks, for players to use. Parents will need to provide a pair of black shorts and glove. Cleats, personal facemask and batting helmet are optional but encouraged.
This is the first level of softball with a draft. Players are chosen by the coaches in a player draft. All 9-year-olds not chosen in the draft will play AA.
These games are umpired by league youth or adult umpires.
If you are interested in becoming a Manager, Assistant Coach, or Parent Administrator for your child's team, please indicate your desire to do so when you register online. All volunteers are required to fill out a volunteer application which is located on the "volunteer" tab on the SLL website.


Monday 25 March 2019/ Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Islamic State: Washington announces that the caliphate is destroyed. Actually, it was a matter of clearing one last, small, Syrian village. Of course they have a large number of fighters left in Iraq and Syria. They're operating currently from Afghanistan to Nigeria.
Afghanistan: Taliban are in constant relation with al Qaeda. Washington seems to think that Taliban will be a suitable negotiations partner and then will prevent other terrorist groups from operating in Afghanistan. It's reprehensible. It's an out and out lie.
Taliban will be victorious in Afghanistan. Zalmay Khalilzad knows it's a lie and pretends it's not. Trying to absolve the Taliban of their twenty-year past of lying and lying. Horrid. "Never ask a guest to leave" – a Pashtun saying that's not relevant to this matter. This withdrawal will encourage global jihadist movements around the world.
Monday 25 March 2019/ Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Al Shebaab is one of al Qaeda's most effective subsidiaries, known to penetrate Somalia's security services. Abu Hama al Sami leading a Syrian group, whre there's a leadership kerfuffle.
Monday 25 March 2019/ Hour 1, Block C: Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: North Korea, and China. The adventures of Pathfinder. Moon Jae-in, RoK president, has bet everything on rapprochement with the North. His conduct in the last few days is odd; DPRK has given him a hard time about the designations of two shipping countries (sanctioned) by the US, so Kim decided to quit speaking with the South. Mnuchin an Lighthizer and US rapporteur [so to speak] with DPRK are all in Beijing now. Since thr missled of the last century, Beijing has dangled he prospect of helping the US with North Korea in order to get concessions – then it turns out to have been a lie. Will Pres Trump fall for this?
Xi Jinping has been starving domestic private companies in order to favor state-owned enterprises. If the economy is growing, it's sure not at 6%; if it's growing at all, it's maybe 1%. The RMB is not convertible because if it were, within twenty minutes every housewife would convert her RMB to dollars. No one will keep his money in Chinese currency if he doesn't have to – as soon as it becomes convertible, it'll be worthless. . . . The recent inverted yield curve was a sign of problems in Europe, and of the strength of the dollar. . . . North Korea with nuclear weapons is more of a danger to China than to the US.
Monday 25 March 2019/ Hour 1, Block D: Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics; in re: The new Space Command.
Monday 25 March 2019/ Hour 2, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, & Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, and American Spectator, in re: Special Prosecutorgate. Nominees to come for 2020. Lindsay Graham may have Comey testify – but why in the world don't we have the Senate Intell Committee looking at what Susan Rice did in unmasking, and all the others? The head of that committee is an old-line Republican who'll sit on his duff and do nothing.
Monday 25 March 2019/ Hour 2, Block B: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, & Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, and American Spectator, in re: Joe Biden. Dems will go for the person they find most electable Pelosi has lost control of the Congress.
Monday 25 March 2019/ Hour 2, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Hamas rocket lands in town north of Tel Aviv, fired from northern Gaza at 5:30 AM; injuries. Israel strikes many targets in Gaza. PM Netanyahu returned from DC early for this; was to have attended a White House dinner and spoken at AIPAC (18,000 people there). Clear message to Iran, Russia, and others, that the US recognizes the situation Israel is in and backs Israel. US signs document recognizing Israel's sovereignty in the Golan Heights. Romania and Honduras have recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Two Russian planes, one cargo with 100 tons of materiel another with troops, stopped in Syria, then landed in Venezuela. Major escalation. Cargo plane returned whence it came; the other is still there. Jordan: demos continue; even some of the hyper-loyal Bedouin troops are joining. Criticizing the king. Unstable; worrisome.
Monday 25 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block D: Indiana Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Found an ancient jar with a human face on it; 2500 years old, from Persian era; found in a parking lot in the City of David National Park. Considered a remarkable discovery in that it's so old.
Coming: an exhibition on Route 38, the road that led northward, a-was the ancient link that led southward to Egypt; bldg a new highway that unearthed a Jewish settlement form the end of the First Temple period. Discovered and ancient large industrial zone for producing olive oil. Stone statue of the Egyptian dwarf god Bes, a god of war, yet also a patron of childbirth and the home, and was associated with sexuality, humor, music and dancing. UNESCO challenges any history of Judeo-Christian habitation; insists that everything is only a Muslim site. Important to refute the lies.
Monday 25 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block A: Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Eurasia.
Monday 25 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Eurasia.
Monday 25 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block C: Kara Frederick; Associate Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, CNAS; in re: Smart city surveillance: facial recognition, et al.
Monday 25 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block D: Kara Frederick; Associate Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, CNAS; in re: Smart city surveillance: facial recognition, et al.


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Ed Zinkiewicz
Volunteering to play spoons with a gospel/hymn group is Ed's Sunday afternoon play time
You know Ed Zinkiewicz! The host of this podcast series on volunteering, he practices what he preaches. On most Sunday afternoons, he's at a nursing home—spooning the residents! They love it—so does he! Ed has sung and played spoons with a bluegrass band for more than 35 years. For the past 6 years, the group has been taking their gospel sing-alongs to a very appreciative audience. Watching residents who can no longer talk easily sing makes it easy for him to keep volunteering week after week. "I see their joy, and I have found joy too!" says Ed.
Ed retired from successful 40-year career as a software engineer and took his own advice: He retired to a new passion of helping nearly and newly retired persons find joy, keep up, and make friends. His three-book Retire-To series focuses on social relationships, health and wellness, and finding fulfillment after retirement: Retire to Play and Purpose, Retire to a Better You, and Retire to Great Friendships. Additionally, Ed is a speaker and workshop facilitator on issues related to life transitions, especially around retirement.
Hosting this podcast series has been a particular delight for Ed. "I love hearing so many people talk about the ways they are re-engaging with life and giving back to others. Volunteers are inspiring! What a force for good in the world they are!"
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Pretty Little Liars actress, Lucy Hale, officially released her new single today and is already #1 on the itunes Country Music Charts.
To say her fans, officially called "Halers", were excited is an extreme understatement. Last night, Lucy was a guest on Country Music Chat and during the Twitterview we thought twitter was literally going to blow up. There was over an astounding 17,000 tweets in just 1 hour. Her fans, young in age, seemed older in spirit. They were grateful and seemed truly honored to be a part of her journey. The reason for this unfolded the more we talked to her.
Lucy Hale is someone worth admiring and #CMchat recently named her "One to Watch in 2014". The world is spinning around her and she is firmly grounded and remains true to herself. She has a rawness to her that is unexpected. She has an obvious creative nature that comes though in her acting and singing but also in the way she speaks. Although Lucy is a very talented actress and singer, I would bet her genuine nature has yielded more loyal fans than anything else.
"You Sound Good to Me" is a lightweight country-pop song. Written by 3 of Nashville's best songwriters, Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey, and Ashley Gorley, the song is a perfect fit for Lucy's voice. There is a youthful feel throughout and the fiddle track adds a unique layer of light to the song. With Lucy's passion and those of her 7.5 million active fans it will be fun to see the speed in which this song climbs the charts.
Check out the WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO here.


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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported Thursday that two strands of organisms that can cause food poisoning are on the rise.
An estimated 48 million Americans—or about 15 percent of the population—experience some kind of food poisoning each year, with only a handful of that number requiring hospitalization.
Overall, there were 19,531 cases of infection confirmed by a laboratory in 2012, which resulted in 4,500 hospitalizations and 68 deaths. In 2008, there were 18,624 cases. In 2011, there were .
The slight rise in confirmed incidences of food poisonings is pushing experts to continue to fight for stricter safety standards in the processing and handling of food.
Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director of the CDC's foodborne disease division, said Thursday that despite industry and regulation changes that have addressed specific problems and new regulations should better improve the disease rates.
Infections from the six common culprits behind food poisoning—Campylobacter, Listeria, Salmonella, E. coli O157, Vibrio, and Yersinia—weren't much different from 2006-2008.
Food poisoning causes an array of symptoms that affect the digestive system, such as nausea, vomiting, and stomach cramps. Severe problems typically only occur in children and the elderly.
However, the CDC estimates that depending on the type of disease agent, the actual number of cases could be anywhere between two to 142 times as many actual infections.
The CDC reported a 14 percent increase of food poisoning caused by the Campylobacter bacteria and a 43 percent increase in Vibrio bacteria.
Campylobacter is a group of bacteria that typically causes diarrhea. It's found in the intestines of livestock—most commonly chickens—and pets, although infected animals have no symptoms. The infection a problem when extended periods of diarrhea can cause dehydration and other complications. The CDC report states Campylobacter was highest among children under five years old.
Vibrio vulnificus normally leaves in seawater and is ingested through contaminated seafood, like oysters. It causes typical food poisoning symptoms in healthy people, but it can cause more severe complications in people with compromised immune systems. It's typically rare, but like all forms of food poisoning, it's under reported.
Compared to the first three years of FoodNet surveillance (1996-1998), the incidence of Vibrio infections has risen 116 percent. However, incidences of other foodborne pathogens, such as Salmonella, was either unchanged or lowered.
However, the , that for every Campylobacter infection confirmed in the lab, another 30 cases aren't diagnosed. For Vibrio, it's as many as 142 unreported cases for each confirmed one.
The CDC isn't alone in saying the latest numbers show room for improvement in food safety practices.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest called the rise in Campylobacter and Vibro "troubling," not because of the number of cases, but because of the significant illness it causes. The watchdog group called for better controls in the food industry, including testing chicken flocks for the bacteria.
The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more authority to regulate food industries. One change included adhering to Campylobacter contamination standards of chickens in processing plants.
The latest foodborne outbreak involved a possible E. coli contamination of Rich Farm and Market Day products. The company, Rich Products Corporation in Buffalo, N.Y., issued a recall earlier this month for all products produced at their processing plant in Waycross, Geo., with the best-buy dates ranging from Jan. 1, 2013, to Sept. 29, 2014.
"It's important to also note that consumers have a role to play following simple food safety guidelines for the foods they prepare for themselves and others, especially when they prepare them for people at higher risk for severe illness," Tauxe said.
For more information about what kinds of organisms can cause food poisoning, as well as their symptoms and treatments, see the CDC's Foodborne Illness Fact Sheet.


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