New Art - Queentown Bird Fanciers

Queenstown Bird Fanciers
Drawing
Roger Smith  2013

This small sketch is based on a photo I took with my mobile phone's camera as I was walking under an HDB block; en route from Queens condo to the Queenstown Public Library, Singapore .

It is a scene that was quite common with groups of retired men hanging their bird in wicker and metal cages above, sitting on plastic chairs and passing the time before the sun got too fierce.

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Be It Ever So 'Umble

Queens - Stirling Road, Singapore

My home in Singapore (highlighted in yellow).  I spent almost four years in this condo and miss it still, especially the large pool which you can see in the centre of the photograph.

This image is taken by a friend and former colleague who lives in the high rise HDB ForFar Heights across the road.  Note the haze from Indonesia!

Queens - Commonwealath Avenue Entrance

Singapore Moving Crew

Moving Crew - Singapore
Roger Smith 2007
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This image was taken on the now-defunct UNSW Asia campus in Tanglin Road.  The arrival of books for the library was a moment of celebration, which proved to be short lived.

Transport crews such as this one are an integral part of life in Singapore where there is a very transient population; foreign workers and Expats.

In our Queens condo there was not a week went by without a new container being parked outside the complex as people moved in or moved out.  There were also numerous, smaller removal vans which moved people back and forth from HDB's to the condo and on occasion, in an opposite direction.