Ooc. Canon May Have Him At 53 But Hes Still 50 To Me

ooc. canon may have him at 5′3″ but he’s still 5′0″ to me

ooc. latest strip has indomal shiptease, i see hima is also a man of good taste

“And is it true? Did Sang Nila Utama really find a lion there?”

I don’t know, Singapore wants to say as he absentmindedly stirs the kopi (with milk and sugar, as always) before him. He wasn’t there when his mother– his namesake– took her name, knowing only through the secondhand stories Malaysia had told him as a child, of the annals he read through as he grew older in search for the answer to a question he has yet to solve. Singapore reaches back through time and leafs through the pages of memory inherited, and tries to parse for the truth hidden behind myth.

(He wonders. Imagines. Reconstructs an answer in the space between myth and memory.)

Instead, he flashes a smile and says, “I don’t imagine it would change the outcome of this story.”

portrait of a lady (1950) - cheong soo pieng (singaporean b. 1917-1983) 

fukuoka asian art museum, japan 

ooc. rip history of the melaka strait basically being ‘a new challenger arrives!!’

Before the days of the hawker centre, food often came to you, rather than you to food.

Even in my childhood in the ‘70s, I remembered looking forward to the mobile satay man who would come around every couple days, and we would gather around the box and ate till our hearts’ content. A dollar would have gotten you 8 sticks of satay and 2 ketupats, and the satay man would was always super generous with the cucumbers, onions, and peanut sauce refills. 😋

With Grab food services today, we have come full circle, haven’t we? 🤔 😊

[Backstory: Pieces of my art for a book illustration project a couple years back… capturing the rags-to-riches story of a prominent family in the Events Management world today.

They were too poor to own cameras so they never had any photos of their growing up years. A lot of research went into doing this series; a project I’m proud to have been a part of, cos of the history buff that I am, and my love for telling stories through my art.

It was my most challenging illustration gig, but also the most satisfying. Cos a lot of research went into each piece, and I learned so much about how Singaporeans lived in that era.]

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