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Tamparuli Suspension Bridge, Sabah

1 November 2019 – 3rd day in Kota Kinabalu. Riding from the City Centre to the mountainous district of Ranau – the Kundasang Valley, where the Kota Kinabalu Park was situated. We did not planned to hike the highest mountain of Malaysia, Mount Kinabalu, but just to experience staying within the area. We managed to pre-book a resort, J Residence Nabalu. On our way to Kundasang, we stopped by a…

2nd November 2019 – The morning weather was cool even though it was a bit foggy at the resort. At least we could see more of the resort’s surrounding. We prepared our own breakfast in the room – bread and coffee. We decided to explore the valley of Kundasang. View from our room. Kundasang is a town in the district of Ranau that lies along the bank of Kundasang Valley at an elevation of almost…

The Changi Chapel and Museum is one of the war museums in Singapore, telling stories of the harsh and difficult days of the prisoners-of-war (POWs) during the Japanese Occupation. When Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942, tens of thousands of British and Australian troops were held at the internment camp at Changi. It also […]The WWII Stories of Changi Chapel, Cross and Murals

Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022), Britain’s longest reigning monarch, has died at an old age of 96. While Queen Victoria (1819-1901), in her 63 years of reign, managed arguably the golden era of the British Empire, Queen Elizabeth II’s record 70 years on the throne oversaw a devastated post-world war empire that had lost its former […]The Legacies Queen Elizabeth II Left in Singapore

At Nanyang Technological University (NTU), one can find remnants of the former Nanyang University, or Nantah, from the fifties and sixties, such as the Chinese Heritage Centre (former Nanyang University Administrative Building), Memorial Pagoda and Nanyang University Arch (the current one at Yunnan Garden is a replica whereas the original arch is at Jurong West […]Nantah’s Sundial, a Time-Telling…

Singapore’s Heritage Tree Series – Terap

Till date, there are 17 trees at the Fort Canning Park granted the heritage tree status. Four of them are the terap tree (artocarpus elasticus), with three located along the park’s 14th Century Walk of History (along the Fort Canning Service Reservoir) and the fourth one along Canning Rise, opposite the National Museum of Singapore. […]Singapore’s Heritage Tree Series – Terap

The Causeway is finally reopened after almost two years of closure. Despite decades of congestion woes, trafficking issues or an occasional tool used in political bickering, the Causeway remains an important link between Singapore and Malaysia. The Land Connection Mid-1910s – Goods and passengers between Malaya and Singapore were originally transported across the Johore Strait […]100 Years of the…

Sunrise @ Lower Seletar Reservoir captured on my morning bike ride. Jailani Mahmood