I was in this on my own—it was make it or break it.

Among the wartime survivors was a four-year-old Makassan girl with a large mole dangling like a pigeon egg under her left eye, who was looking for her lost parents. She was picked up by a brothel woman, but later ran away to live among street boys left homeless by the war.They gave her the nickname Big Mole.

There were three things Gimme Lao did not know about himself.

Look, Cha Cha!” says Bo Bo.“We’re here at our new home!”Cha Cha shrugs her shoulders as she takes her first look at the Mandai Zoo.

Former spider boys came from all walks of life—they ranged from homeless street kids and school dropouts to decent kids, but the best ones were those who had gone anywhere and everywhere to search out and capture their fighting spiders; they even ventured into dangerous bushes infested with black mambas. These boys were risk-takers and crowd-pullers, always on the move, always looking for worthy opponents with which to fight their spiders.

So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it’s also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed.

Turn off the light!Who?Not me,but you!

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.

Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes