Highlighting a comment we had in an earlier post: I am currently seeking former residents of Seletar Camp who would be willing to be photographed at their homes prior to their being “expunged.” I also have a brief questionnaire for them so that I can personalize the photos with some of their poignant memories and reflections. If you’d be interested in having some high-quality photos … Continue reading Seletar homes and residents wanted by photographer

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Since October, we have seen one family after another move out of Seletar Airbase. Today, there are just 20 families left in the Park Lane, Hyde Park Gate, Oval and Haymarket area. We will all have to move out by 31st December. Rahul and I are attaching ourselves to Isabelle’s garage and art sale on Sunday, December 7th. If you are looking for: Seletar-related ART, … Continue reading Moving out sale

Nature walk Saturday, August 16th – sold out Saturday, August 23rd – limited spaces. Contact Sue for more information. Flea Market Saturday, August 30th = Contact Sue for more information. Continue reading Upcoming events at Seletar

Come September, Singapore’s very first farm resorts would be officially launched in Singapore. While most Singaporeans are delighted to know of yet another family outing place to visit during weekends, the question is how many people actually know about the history and heritage of Lim Chu Kang, the residents who used to reside on this plot of land? 31-year-old Eng Yee Peng was a former … Continue reading Diminishing Memories

With less than 6 months left at Seletar for most residents, many of us are contemplating what comes next. Somewhere in our future is a compilation of the community, history and lifestyle that was ours for a while. In fact, there just might be an analysis of the three tribes that occupied this swampy outpost over the past 500 years. We need your help. Over … Continue reading A new chapter

Steven Low is now online – with a series of ceramic workshops planned for May and June. Sue has declared June as ‘Seletar Children’s Month’ – based on the success of children’s events during the Spring Fair. Continue reading Ceramic workshops and children’s events

12th April 2008 2-7 p.m. A fun day for the whole Camp community and their friends! Eat, Drink and Be Merry Food, drink, ice-creams and other treats in store for you all. Come and serve your favourite treats or come as a customer with an empty stomach! Browse … With so many talented people in the Camp, there’s bound to be an array of things … Continue reading Seletar fair at Edgeware Road

Sunset Grill, run by Jerry and April, serves up arguably the best buffalo wings in Singapore. Located at the Republic of Singapore Flying Club, overlooking a runway that sets the scene for near perfect sunsets. It is not the easiest place to find, and we still hear of folks who aim to get to Sunset, and give up. Here is a wee map that might … Continue reading Sunset Grill

Another image from inside the Airbase c 1967 – wonder what happened to all these facilities? Continue reading Bank, post office and petrol kiosk

Here is another photo from the bunch Pete sent across. These days, we have the mobile provision shop, the ice cream van, and the rag-n-bone fellows, but back in the ’60s, there was enough demand for cut flowers to make it worthwhile for this uncle to visit. Wonder what he is doing now. Continue reading Does anyone know where the ‘flower man’ is?

The long weekend is just 9 weeks away. If you are looking for something different for all in the family, Seletar may have the answer. Sabine has announced two separate workshops – Polymer Clay Easter Eggs and Batik Easter Eggs. And I will be running WordPress Workshops, for those new to blogging, and those looking for more advanced tips. Continue reading Easter Eggs and Blogging with WordPress

A very big thank you to Matt and the gang at WordPress. This site would not have gotten off the ground without their wonderful support. To mark the season, they have allowed us to sprinkle snow on the site – enjoy! We have been quietly reflecting on how the time has flown, and how since our first book launch in September, we have received encouragement … Continue reading Snow in Seletar!

Lots going on in the next two weeks. Firstly, a warm welcome to the new online version of Seletar Chronicle. I’m so glad Sue has started posting updates 🙂 Another new face online is Le Petit Atelier. Look out for craft workshops every Saturday morning, starting Nov 3rd. The Events page is updated, and I have started tracking heritage and cultural walks around Singapore, so … Continue reading Happenings

Small aircrafts are part of the skyscape at Seletar. Some are private planes, others are training flights. Seletar is home to no fewer than four flying clubs and colleges. How these flights are going to compete with heavier maintenance traffic is a wonder. It will be a shame if the flying schools have to move out of Singapore, given the investments Singapore has been making … Continue reading Flying Clubs and Schools at Seletar

As we dig around for background on design decisions made all those years ago, references to past residents crop up. Here are the first two. Many past residents stay in touch; the largest group of course is through the RAF Seletar association. According to her profile by NLB, Violet Oon was born in 1949 to a Peranakan family……She had moved into a semi-detached house at … Continue reading Past residents

The National Parks Board’s National Biodiversity Reference Centre( NBRC) is Singapore’s focal point for biodiversity conservation. It’s website serves as the Singapore node of the Clearing-house Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This year, it is celebrating the 300th birth anniversary of Swedish biologist, Carolus Linnaeus, the Father of Plant and Animal Classification. Details of events at: The Linnaeus Exhibition It got us thinking … Continue reading Tree census

Singapore wins 14 medals Congratulations to the team 🙂 Singapore’s disabled athletes have scored a big win at an international sports meet in Taipei. The bi-annual event is known as the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Wheelchair and Amputee Games 2007. Singapore based aviation company to start operations in India The company is right now in the process of working out its … Continue reading 14 medals and BJets

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Logged in this morning to a flurry of emails from folks signing up to the nature walk next week – a very nice way to start the day! The expedition is now oversubscribed, so we will open registration for the next walk. Depending on the … Continue reading Dugongs of Okinawa

10 Worst Places on Earth – In 2006, Russia topped the list with the three sites in the top 10, but this year, two very large toxic sites affecting hundreds of thousands of people in India and China were included that had been missed in the previous global survey, said Richard Fuller, director of the New York- based Blacksmith Institute, a independent environmental group that … Continue reading Links for 2007-09-15

Goodbye to the Intelligent Singaporean – finally got around to reading other Singapore blogs, only to discover the rather cryptic final post Recently certain events have prompted me to re-evaluate the role & relevance of the Intelligent Singaporean in the Singapore socio-political blogosphere. These events have forced me to reconsider whether continuing my aggregation work furthers the original cause of IS. huh? Online competition from … Continue reading Links for 2007-09-09