City Hall

City Hall was built from 1926 to 1929 and was known as Municipal Building. The building was built on the two house built by G.D. Coleman in the 1830s. To read up more on the history of city hall, you can view here .

The spacious front steps form one of Singapore's most historic public spaces: here, in 1945, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, accepted the Japanese Surrender from General Itagaki, formally ending the Japanese Occupation of Singapore; here, in 1951, Singapore was proclaimed a city by Royal Charter granted by King George VI; here in 1959, the proclamation of self-government in Singapore was made by then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew; and here, Mr. Lee declared Singapore an independent republic in 1965. For more information, you can view the source from here.

City Hall Singapore

This is my contribution for skywatch. It shows our Singapore Flag flying high on top of City Hall.



City Hall was built in 1926 and has a long history. Will write more about the history of City Hall in my next post.

Thanks to Tom for hosting Sky Watch. For other sky watchers, you can go to Tom's website.

Science in the Mall (Final Part)

This will be my final part of posting Science in the Mall. I hope you all enjoyed the photos and see how Singaporean can have fun shopping and also fun education in the mall too.

Science in the Mall (Part 3)-Specimen of insects

Still at Plaza Singapura on Science in the Mall. There are many exhibits of different types of insects on display. I love the butterflies, they are all so beautiful and most I have never seen before.

Stick Insect and a skeleton of a lizard.

Aquatic Insects

Science in the Mall (Part 2)

This is a continuation of my earlier post on Science in the Mall.

There is an exhibit of a giant model of the Emperor Scorpion. Parents were eager to explain the details of the scorpion from the placard. I remembered I did that too when my sons were young whenever we visited any exhibition or the zoo. Parents are always very busy passing on knowledge to their children....lol.

Closer front view of the emperor scorpion.

Side view of the emperor scorpion.

This is the nest of the Black Widow Spider

A exhibit of the spider (not a real spider)

I found that the science exhibits are great for kids and adults and a good place to take photos too.

Please do look at the background of the photos, you can see the many shops in the mall. Shopping is one of the pastime of Singaporeans.