Postcards from Seletar

2011 in review

puni — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:06:43 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,200 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Renewed interest from ex-residents

puni — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:56:50 +0000

August and September have been busy months on this blog, with ex-residents reminiscing. The most popular threads:

Theatre Club – now with 24 comments and counting!
St Andrew’s Church at the Airbase
Ex-resident clears up mystery

Even the re:act project from 2006 has been attracting attention.
Seletar Airbase project

Orang Seletar

puni — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:00:30 +0000

Fabulous story about Seletar’s original residents…

kon seletar or orang seletar is now classified as an orang asli tribe in malaysia. they were named after the seletar area in singapore (or it could be the other way around), where about 800 of them once lived. these people could be considered sea gypsies or orang laut. however, they did not belong to the same group that raffles met when he stepped shore. the orang seletar were descendants of the orang laut from the spice islands of indonesia.

are there still orang seletar in singapore? i believe there are. some have assimilated into the malay community and some have even inter-married with the other races. i read about two orang seletar women who had chinese husbands. most, however, had migrated to sungai pulai in south-west johor.

Sunrise @ Old Seletar Camp

Seletar — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:27:55 +0000

via flickr.com

the cranes, the cranes

A resident’s personal farewell

laylamouer — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:59:49 +0000

Came across this clippings from 2 years ago…

2010 in review

puni — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:54:10 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,600 times in 2010. That’s about 13 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 10 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 157 posts. There were 17 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was August 6th with 126 views. The most popular post that day was Sunset Grill.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were vagsg.com, theonlinecitizen.com, blogcatalog.com, search.bt.com, and search.conduit.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for sunset grill seletar, raf seletar, raf seletar singapore, seletar, and sunset grill and pub.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Sunset Grill January 2008

RAF Seletar residents reunion March 2009
19 comments

Bird’s Eye View of Seletar Airbase – Past, Present and Future November 2007
6 comments

Theatre Club still invokes memories December 2009
12 comments

Theatre Club January 2008
8 comments