The Skies over Singapore

When the common soldier arrived via the sea, he must seen aircraft like these in the sky. They were flown from airbases in Singapore, RAF Tengah, RAF Sembawang, RAF Seletar and RAF Kallang (RAF-meaning-Royal Airforce). They doing mainly peace-time flight drills.

The one in the foreground is a BrewsterBuffalo B339, it looks cumbersome mainly because it is armoured. It can easily be diassembled, boxed-up or crated for transport.

The one in the back is the Bristol Blenheim, Britain's cheif light bomber in the early years of World War 2. Large numbers ensure it is stationed at nearly every corner of Britain's Empire.

Other planes include the Lockheed Hudson and the good old MacDonald Douglas DC3 (Band of Brothers)

The British Soldier 1940-1942

This is a stylised appearance of British soldier. He wears Woselley helmet, unlike Victorian Pith helmets of the Zulu Wars, this one has a metal core.

The Alternate World of Colonial Asia

The year is 1941. Singapore sits in the centre of the Far East, in a crossroad of many maritime routes, where nations had met and fought to control their destinies in an ever-changing world. Colonial Asia is inter-connected by by rail, shipping, the telegraph and more recently by radio communication and air travel. The people there are fully in the industrial revolution, the fuel and the machine now makes up an important part of their lives.

In Singapore, cables run through streets and spread out into the rural lands. The cables link up all household machines where power is consumed and a sizeable fraction is channeled to the city's Light Tower, where it will stepped-up for transfer to Britain, via India.

Why I create?

World War 2 in Singapore is over and done by nearly 60 years. Writing on the subject is as dry as finding water in the desert. It is no longer relevant in today's context, in this information age, where everything digital is commonplace and taken for granted. As the subject is vast and it is impossible to cover every bit of detail accurately, I choose to re-create the past from stories passed down from my grandparents, books I read, sites which I have visited, people whom I spoke to and from my imagination.

My ultimate goal is to tell a story about goodwill regardless its origins, whether its from the aggressor, the defender or the innocents caught in between.