Balestier Road – of chicken rice, bak kut teh and tau sar piah

What comes to your mind when Balestier Road is mentioned? Chicken rice, food, shop houses, Sun Yat Sen Villa, low budget hotels, busy road et cetera. Balestier is known for its food such as bak kut teh, chicken rice and tau sar piah with budget hotels sprucing up in the area. Balestier is also home to many low rise shop houses, lighting shops, Fragrance Hotels and Sun Yat Sen Villa.

 

All photos were taken with Sony QX1L

 

Shop houses



low rise shop houses along the main street 



busy Balestier Road



Food



Chicken rice



Sun Yat Sen Villa



Balestier and Toa Payoh separated by PIE expressway

 



Toa Payoh swimming pool

 

Bras Basah Road - did you know?

I did a google on Bras Basah Road. The original name was Beras Basah, Malay for ‘wet rice’. More than a hundred years ago, it was a place used to dry the wet rice. In the 70's, Bras Basah was filled with schools such as Raffles Institution, St Joseph Institution and Convent of Holy Infant Jesus. And for that reason, many of us still remember Bras Basah as a place where you could buy school text books.

Today, Bras Basah is filled with iconic landmarks such as SAM (former St Joseph Institution), CHIJMES (former Convent), SOTA, SMU and the likes. Bras Basah is full of characters; a good place to take a walk with your camera.







Bras Basah Road

SAM - former St Joseph

 

SAM

Bras Basah Road - SMU in the background

Rendezvous Hotel at junction of Prinsep Road

CHIJMES - former Convent of HIJ




CHIJMES Gate - this Christmas season

SOTA - school of the arts



Kim Korean BBQ at SOTA



Big Tree at SOTA

Ah Kun of Pomo



Selegie Arts Centre

all photos were taken with Sony QX1L

falling in love with photography all over again..

X100S is so hot! Nite photography is very fun and very addictive with X100S. I have just invested in a very good Sirui carbon tripod. My past tripods were either too small to do anything serious or they were too damn heavy to lug around for outdoor photo takings. With the Sirui T-025 tripod which weighs a mere 0.7kg, I can lug it around easily anywhere during nite shooting.



X100S on Sirui T-025 Tripod

 

 

Fujifilm X100S

 



Fujifilm X100S

Street photography - Little India

Little India is possibly the most colourful place in Singapore. It is a very exciting and vibrant place to do street photography. Here you can find gaily painted  shop houses and buildings. The best way to appreciate Little India is to take a walk with a camera.

Little India - a world of its own!

 

road side market

temple

brothers



crowd

Bollywood style

bargain

stalls

vivid yellow

vivid blue

meeting place

crossing the road

Street photography at Tanjong Pagar

Tanjong Pagar is filled with nite lives when the sun sets. Pubs and water holes are plentiful along every streets and corners of Tanjong Pagar. It is a good place to do nite photography.

Don't keep your camera when the sun goes down! Life has just begun at Tanjong Pagar!

Tanjong Pagar nite life with Pinnacle in the background

 

Tanjong Pagar Road with old railway station

 

old railway station

 

old shops at Tanjong Pagar

 

Altez - tallest residential

 

Amara Hotel

 

Main Street Tanjong Pagar

 

Craig Road



Duxton Hill



Murray Street

nite photography at Telok Ayer

Nite photography is fun. For this photo outing, I used a small aperture (eg f8) and play around with shutter speed from 1 sec onwards. Keeping the aperture small is one way to bring almost everything in focus and also to prevent the photo from being over exposed. Remember to carry a tripod for nite photography.

Thian Hock Keng Temple

Telok Ayer Street



Raffles Place skyline in the backgroud

Toa Payoh Town Park

Everybody knows that Toa Payoh is a HDB housing estate. But did you know that nested within the concrete jungle is an oasis of greenery?

I took a walk at Toa Payoh Town Park one fine evening after work. Surprisingly,  the park is very scenic and I only discovered this now, though OrangeTee building is just opposite the park.

Fujifilm X100S

Toa Payoh swimming pool - taken from OrangeTee 13th Floor Skyterrace

Toa Payoh Town Park

Park

restaurant by the park



cutting through the tall grass

big bonsai

wetland

OrangeTee HQ

Toa Payoh with OrangeTee in the background



OrangeTee - standing tall

 

round bridge

bonsai feel

zig zag bridge

long bridge



wetland