Kampung Siglap was a coastal settlement in eastern Singapore, with the earliest known records of the toponym Siglap as a single word appearing in the Singapore Free Press on 28 September 1843 and in two survey maps dated 1 November 1843 . From a linguistic perspective, Siglap is a phonetic rendering of Segelap, derived from…
Urbex is poison to me because it lets me be at my freest, disconnecting me from the constant noise and chaos of modern life by immersing into a world of tranquillity, natural imperfection, and the absence of time. In its mysterious ways, urbex also sharpens my observation, strengthens my spatial orientation, and deepens my awareness…
The 2024 Indonesian horror, Do You See What I See, that I recently watched on Netflix, which tells a formulaic forbidden love story between a girl and a Pocong, isn’t the reason this post exist, but rather because of its English subtitle. In it, the name Pocong was being translated as demon, and corpse, but…
My initial exposure to local legends began in the early 1990s, drawn by stories woven into the Social Studies primary school textbook. It was a fascination that involved compiling variations into my notebook during regular visits to the school library, which led to an unexpected librarian appointment by the supervising teacher. Despite retaining a collector’s…