I Paint My Singapore

Yip Yew Chong
Paperback, 68 pages
9789811873874

This book contains Yip Yew Chong’s tribute to Singapore, the epic 60m-long, 27-canvas painting of our island home in its bygone days.

Many of these scenes of the 1970s and 1980s are no more, but come alive once again in these pages, each spread depicting an area with their iconic buildings and way of life.

Look carefully and see soldiers carrying concertina wire, Ah Mei and Ah Shui from The Awakening, the Jurong Bird Park waterfall, a kacang putih man, snake charmers, mahjong players, the National Theatre, break dancers and many, many more nostalgic details. And, yes, there is a Sikh gentleman riding his bicycle through many of the scenes.