Phyllis Chu

04/08/14 // Sunday, 3 August 2014

09:23

Back To The Good Old Days.

Hello little lady bug ! This paper weight / rock was hand painted by me when i was in primary one?

I remember attending this art and craft class at a community center near to where i used to stay. I'm glad i kept this little rock with me,it's something filled with memories, and at the same time useful and practical as i can prevent my papers from flying around with this paper weight.

These are some of the shots i took of chinatown when i was there over the weekend, i really like the vintage shophouses a lot, it always looks very beautiful everytime i look at them and i never seem to get bored of it . And the building in this photo above looks just like the apartments in Hong Kong, where it's all very cramped and squeezed up together.

I find these fans really unique, they look like those fans that women in the past used to fan themselves while strolling in the garden, *from what i saw in dramas of course.*

This is the chinese traditional costume called the Qi Pao, I remember i used to wear it every year on racial harmony day, or Chinese new year back when I was in childcare.we would wear our own traditional costumes and sit around in a circle at school, and probably sing some songs or play some games conducted by our teachers.

Singapore is a place filled with different cultures, and i really like the fact that despite our race or religion, different religious places were built side by side just like how this indian temple was located at chinatown. I felt that this really represents race and religion equality, nobody is more superior than the others.

Phone booth that was probably used in countries like London? why even their phone booth looks so vintage and nice? I really wanted to go in and take a seat since there are seats inside but it's locked! Felt really disappointed, so i left after taking a photo of it. Hopefully someday i'll get to visit the real deal.

Look at the spiral staircase, does it actually looks like strands of DNA? I always like staircase that look like this, however i always got scared while trying to climb up since it was very steep and looked kinda high. People in the past must have been very small built to climb up such a narrow flight of stairs. And it always amazes me how people in the past built all these architecture that looks so amazing with limited resources.

This was probably built to reminisce what people in the past used to do for a living. it was kind of like the "taxi" in olden days, except the fact that people back then were using their own 2 feet instead of wheels.