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Bitched on: Saturday, May 19, 2007
Time: 5/19/2007 05:16:00 PM
Actually, the laptop has since been fixed like a few days ago. Just too plain lazy to update the blog.
Yes. Lazy. And busy with work. Two more weeks before the job stint ends and I fly off to my Middle Eastern adventure. What exactly do I do for my work? Think Indiana Jones-y architect. My friends and I have to gather information from old text books and old plans of buildings of the 19th and 20th century Raffles Place in the school library.  Some of the books are so old (circa 1800s) that a sneeze or a rough flip or fold of the page can cause the paper to 'atomize' into fragments... (I think my friends and I damaged a few books like above; unintentionally of course). And then we view plans and drawings of old buildings printed onto microfilms using some sort of projecting machines. This is an example of what we can get:
 Sounds dull but it pays well (standard researching NUS undergraduate's pay, you go figure that out). Muahahaha...But its actually fun to be holding and going through these pieces of history (brittle as they are). Plus, we learnt a lot about the area.
Like there was the Robinson fire in November 1972 which killed 9 people. The old buildings of Raffles Place (then known as Commercial Square) were actually quite ahead of their times (post-Raffles history) with elevators and structures apt for the tropical climate.
Plus, in the course of a century, a lot has changed around the square. 1900s:
 1930s: 1950s: The large white building in the foreground is the famed 'Little John'. If you're wondering that it looks familiar, you might have seen it before at the two main entrances of Raffles Place MRT station.
That's how Singapore retains history I guess. We demolish something historical and build a replica. A lousy replica. That's Uniquely Singapore for you. Labels: personal
 
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Work.
Bitched on: Saturday, May 19, 2007
Time: 5/19/2007 05:16:00 PM
Actually, the laptop has since been fixed like a few days ago. Just too plain lazy to update the blog.
Yes. Lazy. And busy with work. Two more weeks before the job stint ends and I fly off to my Middle Eastern adventure. What exactly do I do for my work? Think Indiana Jones-y architect. My friends and I have to gather information from old text books and old plans of buildings of the 19th and 20th century Raffles Place in the school library. Some of the books are so old (circa 1800s) that a sneeze or a rough flip or fold of the page can cause the paper to 'atomize' into fragments... (I think my friends and I damaged a few books like above; unintentionally of course).And then we view plans and drawings of old buildings printed onto microfilms using some sort of projecting machines. This is an example of what we can get:
Sounds dull but it pays well (standard researching NUS undergraduate's pay, you go figure that out). Muahahaha...But its actually fun to be holding and going through these pieces of history (brittle as they are). Plus, we learnt a lot about the area.
Like there was the Robinson fire in November 1972 which killed 9 people. The old buildings of Raffles Place (then known as Commercial Square) were actually quite ahead of their times (post-Raffles history) with elevators and structures apt for the tropical climate.
Plus, in the course of a century, a lot has changed around the square. 1900s:
1930s:1950s:The large white building in the foreground is the famed 'Little John'. If you're wondering that it looks familiar, you might have seen it before at the two main entrances of Raffles Place MRT station.
That's how Singapore retains history I guess. We demolish something historical and build a replica. A lousy replica. That's Uniquely Singapore for you. Labels: personal
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