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This blog is my attempt at second shot - precision heritage photography - and my search for little nuggets of history and heritage locally and overseas. When free, I can be found wandering along the streets and elsewhere, trying to uncover their geographical past.
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Yesterday.sg - Singapore's Heritage, Museums & Nostalgia Blog
Interview by Straits Times on board the Last Train out of Tanjong Pagar
Interview by 《我报》 my paper for Second Shot work
Interview by HISSOC Mnemozine
Second Shot in Stories Behind Singapore Streets exhibition
Speaker for NLB International Conference - When Nations Remember
Speaker for NHB event - Past Forward: A Heritage Blogging and Social Media Workshop
Second Shot in BiblioAsia
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Short interview by 《我报》 my paper
Second Shot works in Link Hotel
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icemoon, some people are able to see god but i can't, leh. you mean 'yahweh' is another name for god? 'yahweh' is jehovah?
i also wonder why you spell centre the american way (center). you studied in an american university?
I think either they are just trying to grab attention or the word happens to be a transliteration of a Chinese word. If it is the former, I think it is bad taste, and some may even find it offensive.
Hi Icemoon,
There is a 7th Manna cake boutique along Tanjong Katong Road. I can understand that they use the word 7th because it is next to the 7-eleven store. What about the word Manna?
In the Old Testament, it refers to the miraculous food that dropped from Heaven.
Cheers,
Yahweh is the closest intelligible name of God - YHWH, the famous four letter tetragammatron (biblical Hebrew has no vowels).
What a lose-lose situation for them. Christians may find the name offensive. Non-Christians may not find the name 'cool' enough in the secular sense.
yg, haha I guess most of our browser dictionary is preset to American English. If you spell it the British way, you will see a red underline.
But even when I chose UK English, I still get the red underline? Anyway, I believe the younger generation don't care very much whether it is UK or US spelling - or pronunciation.
I often hear the radio dj's pronounce the letter Z as "zee".
Anonymous (Anonymouse?), there is a newly set up cafe in my son's JC called Manna Cafe. There is a phrase at the front door that says something to the effect of being grateful to the Lord for your food. I guess the owner must be a Christian andI believe there's currently no law to say that you can't use a religious term as a business name.
I think it's a matter of comfort whether u can accept such displays. Take for example the Riverboat down at Marina South Pier. They got advertisement with Christian exhorting words to describe today's special menu. I like the food and the ambience.
So long no one bothers you with "preaching" during a meal is alright for me because there is always a place and time for such practices.
Chun See,
I use firefox and the UK dictionary has to be downloaded and installed separately. If I choose UK english, the red underline is gone.
Oh dear .. z is not zee? We say zee monster, or should it be zag monster?
I think the phrase "manna from heaven" has entered into our common vocabulary.
Yea, the Riverboat has a nice ambience. The food really biblical, haha.
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