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Over the long Chinese New Year weekend, I decided to take the children to Chinatown to soak in the New Year atmosphere. Here are some pictures from that visit!

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The pretty umbrella-like flowers strung on the road

 

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A new year decorative tassel strung on the wall of a building

 

 

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Chinese decorative paper cutting in one of the shops in a side street

 

 

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Another view of the main street in Chinatown, all beautifully decorated

 

 

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Beautiful lanterns

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The giant Rooster which welcomes people into Chinatown, this being the year of the Fire Rooster

 

 

 

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One Sunday while in Mumbai, I went out with a very old friend downtown. We ate, shopped and most importantly chatted the afternoon away. It was evening when we decided to call it a day and while waiting for our Uber driver to pick us up, I took these photos…

Trees framing sunset in downtown Mumbai

The facade of the Army Navy Building

Jahangir Art Gallery – an icon in this area

 

A beautiful moonrise captured just above Kala Ghoda

 

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Beautiful colonial buildings of the commercial district

 

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Some pictures from the air when we flew in from Singapore to Mumbai

 

Mumbai as we land….

The first glimpse of the overcast Mumbai skyline

I could not resist this blue sky….somewhere above the Bay of Bengal

Boats dotting the coast off Singapore

A gorgeous morning as we took off from Singapore…

 

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Some time back I took BB & GG to the Singapore National Museum as they have been studying Singapore’s history for their History lessons in school. These below are some pictures I took there….


A Rickshaw

An old telephone from the 1920s

 

 

A clothes washing basin from the time of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore

 

 

An art installation at the lobby of the museum made up of pots and pans

 

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Some old maps and prints from the National Museum Singapore

 

An old map – Singapore is marked with the red dot towards the bottom to the left

 

Another old map print of Asia 

 

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This one is the island of Singapore, probably around the late 1800s, early 1900s

 

A print of the natives of Singapore, around the time Raffles arrived

 

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Possibly a fort at the time the British East India company bought the island from the Sultan of Johor