Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Charles Ngui was in the pioneer batch of DSTS students in 1964. His father was a progress planner at the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME) at Ayer Rajah Camp. He was a big influence on Charles’ early love for technical work.

Charles Ngui was one of the young officers who joined the early Economic Development Board. He has a deep working knowledge of the tool and die industry, and the businesses, big and small, in Singapore in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Sarafian Salleh aka Tuah Bugis talks about his interest in Malay graves and cemeteries, as well as the story of his father behind his photography. He also gives a sneak peek into his forthcoming book later this year, Lost Palaces of Singapore.

Sarafian Salleh is an engineer by trade, an author, a blogger, a social media creator, and a licensed tour guide. He is the face of the history of the Bugis community in Singapore, having recently published Tuah Bugis: Chronicles of the Seafaring People of Singapore.

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Sarafian Salleh aka Tuah Bugis retraces how he stumbled upon his Bugis heritage, the Bugis in Singapore history, and the importance of genealogy, oral history and memory.

Sarafian Salleh is an engineer by trade, an author, a blogger, a social media creator, and a licensed tour guide. He is the face of the history of the Bugis community in Singapore, having recently published Tuah Bugis: Chronicles of the Seafaring People of Singapore.

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Bhing Navato has been a domestic worker in Singapore for 28 years. Here, she talks about her pride in her work, her grown up ‘babies’, and writing poetry during the pandemic. Singapore is beautiful, she says, partly because migrant workers have helped build it.

If you’d like to purchase Bhing Navato’s canvas bags, drop me an email: [email protected]

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Bhing Navato has been a domestic worker in Singapore for 28 years. She remembers her first day in Singapore, arriving from Rizal in the Philippines in 1995. She counts the number of children she has helped bring up – 23 in all – and relates the challenges of being a domestic worker.

If you’d like to purchase Bhing Navato’s canvas bags, drop me an email: [email protected]

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Alex Tan Tiong Hee takes a walk further down Old Orchard Road towards present-day Centrepoint and Dhoby Ghaut. We pass by Cold Storage with Magnolia Snack Bar inside. There was an open-air, night-time hawker area opposite Cold Storage and more hawkers (now forgotten) at Koek Road. The first major change to Orchard Road was the building of Lucky Plaza.

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Chinatown Boy Victor Yue and I discuss how heritage efforts in Chinatown ought to bring the community, business and research together.

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Victor Yue is the ‘Chinatown Boy’. He recounts growing up in Craig Road and sorting coffee beans in a godown, before his family moved to Cantonment Road.

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Normah Dobbs tells us why it was interesting to work in the hotel and service industry. She married Stephen Dobbs after meeting him at Raffles Hotel and moved to Perth in the late 1970s.

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