我們EYE旅行~新加坡 - 繽紛獅城

Informative travel video on Singapore by Taiwanese. 

Delicious SG50 Lobster Roll at Swenson

I had SG50 special Lobster Roll with chili crab sauce at Swenson recently. This dish is only available at Swenson Restaurant in April this year as it celebrates Singapore 50th birthday this year. Every month, they will feature a local dish with a twist.

I think this is the best lobster roll as I love the warm buttery grilled crispy soft bun filled with generous fresh lobster in spicy chili crab sauce. Sadly it is only available in April. The lobster roll is served with potato chips and garden salad. I prefer Bedok Mall branch as they allowed me to change garden salad to coleslaw. The other branch at Nex is not so flexible. 

Lobster roll with potato chip and salad ($21.80)

Yummy lobster roll!

 Red Bean Soya Float. It is simply soya bean milk topped with vanilla ice-cream.

 Rodeo wings, my favourite fried chicken wings with BBQ sauce.

Chocolate mint sundae

Singapore Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

The first Natural History Museum located at National University of Singapore will be opening to the public on 28 April this year. In the museum, besides exploring thousands of plants and taxidermied animals and dinosaurs. The main attraction is the gigantic dinosaur sauropod skeletons. 
For more information, visit the website at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/index.php/lkcnhm/aboutlkcnhm

Image from NUS Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum website.

 Image from NUS Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum website.

In Memoriam Lee Kuan Yew Exhibition at National Museum of Singapore

Last week after paying my respect to Singapore first Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew at the Parliament House, I went to the National Museum of Singapore to view the exhibition: In Memoriam Lee Kuan Yew. 

I arrived at the Museum at about 4pm last Saturday and had to wait for about 20 to 30 minutes to view the exhibition which is supposed to end on 26 April but is going to be extended due to popular demand. 

Minister of Culture, Community and Youth, Mr Lawrence Wong said that the current exhibition will be retained and curated in the Permanent Galleries of the Museum which will be opened around August/September this year.

 Everyone gave Mr Lee Kuan Yew face.

 Mr Lee and his wife at Cambridge University

 Barrister wig and container, 1949

 Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch, 1953 was a gift from the Singapore Union of Postal and Telecommunication Workers. Mr Lee had successfully represented the union in an arbitration over a wage dispute which helped about 1000 clerks received 28 months' back pay.

 Poster of Singapore's First Legislative Assembly 1955

 Leaflet for Legislative Assembly By-election at Tanjong Pagar 1957

National Museum of Singapore

Tribute to Mr Lee Kuan Yew

When everyone said that Singapore could not make it after it was ousted from Malaysia, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said not to fear and that Singapore gonna made it. True to his words, today Singapore, a island state is a cosmopolitan and affluent city. Thank you once again Mr Lee Kuan Yew for all the sacrifices and dedication. 

 Saw these Lee figures by Singaporean artist, Christopher Pereira outside Cityhall MRT

Giant screen at Suntec City

Thank you Mr Lee Kuan Yew!

Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Image from Lianhe Wanbao evening newspaper.

Today I feel a deep sense of lost when I heard that our former Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew had passed away. Even though I was mentally prepared that he could leave us anytime, I couldn’t help but shed tears when I heard that he had indeed left us today morning. On one hand, I was happy that he was finally released from suffering what with the tubes connected from his body to the ventilator to support breathing. But I feel sad when he couldn’t celebrate Singapore’s 50^th birthday with us this year.

I can’t imagine a Singapore without Mr Lee Kuan Yew, a strong and great leader who led Singapore and his capable team comprising of Goh Keng Swee, Lim Kin San and  S. Rajaratnam from third world to first world within a few decades. Singapore is a small island of about 40km by 20km without natural resources but only people. With strong belief and leadership, he led and motivated Singaporeans to strive hard for their future and home.

I don’t know him personally. But in my heart I know that he had given his all to Singapore. He did what was best for Singaporeans. Deep in my heart, I just know.

Thank you Mr Lee Kuan Yew for dedicating your life to Singapore! Today it is prosperous first world city state.

Fifty Years of Singapore Design at National Design Centre

This week visit to National Design Centre at Fifty Years of Singapore Design exhibition brought back many fond memories.This exhibition chronicled Singapore design development for the past five decades in Singapore Design Week from 10 to 22 March this year and is free entry. If you want to learn more about iconic Singapore design products or history, 

This is a permanent display at National Design Centre

Fifty Years of Singapore Design( http://www.designsingapore.org/FIFTY/about.aspx)

Fifty Years of Singapore Design chronicles the development of the Singapore design scene from its early years in the 1960s, through maturity, into the vibrant industry that we see today.

The collection presents iconic, popular and pivotal designs that have shaped the industry, bringing together for the first time, design works gathered from the fields of Environmental Design, Fashion & Accessories, Product & Industrial Design and Visual Communications in a fifty-year span. Along with designed objects, the showcase includes the stories that reflect the movements, trends and values of each decade.

Fifty years is a compact time, but these are watershed years that have seen the design industry emerge into a creative powerhouse and a key driver of a nation’s innovation-based economy. Through the curatorial journey which included in-depth interviews and collaborations with designers, this exhibition is not merely a timeline of triumphs and milestones of Singapore’s design scene; but also a collection of personal accounts, a self-portrait of a nation’s creative sensibility and attitude set against a backdrop of changing aesthetic, and economic and socio-political climate.

National Design Centre

111 Middle Road

Free admission

Time: 9am to 9pm 

How to go?

Just alight at Bugis MRT station and walk for about 5 minutes. 

Fifty years of Singapore design exhibition

National Design Centre is about 5 minutes walk from Bugis MRT station.

Singapore iconic brand Singapore girl from Singapore Airlines.

Design in First decade 

Popular tourist attraction Merlion

I didn't know Singapore flag design was lead by former minister Dr Toh Chin Chye and incorporate the favourite colour and shapes of different races in Singapore.

If I have these notes, perhaps I am rich now.

Singapore mascots in various campaigns.

When I was young, my parents would bring me and my brother to Orchard Road to see Christmas light-up.

I want to wear cheongsam when I'm married.

Stikfas is started by Singaporean

Esplanade is my favourite place in Singapore.

Teochew Festival 2014

The Pinnacle@Duxton, the most expensive public housing in Singapore.

 Furniture designs by Nathan Yong