Singapore, seldom seen

Somewhere in Hougang heartlands, rows and rows of nondescript high-rise flats house the working class of Singapore and a community of forgotten old people whiling away a morning and an afternoon. Everyday. Nothing’s on. Their lives are an antithesis of bustling business centres, teeming shopping malls, an overly bright cityscape and busy executives who walk […]

Tombkeeper

I found this charming old man resting on a tomb in one of Singapore’s few remaining cemeteries. (Most Singaporeans are cremated because in a country where living people are already walking over one another, you don’t get horizontal space when you stop breathing.) He’s the oldest in a group of tombkeepers who continue this forgotten, […]