'It's this quick shift from darkness to very bright light that does the damage,' he said. It's an eclispe which last for 6 mins, 38.8 secs!Īnd ".There are also less otherworldly concerns - the potentially massive audience for this eclipse has raised fears that many could end up with permanent retina damage from viewing the event with the naked eye.ĭelhi-based eye surgeon Rituraj Barauh said the most dangerous phase was immediately after totality when the sun re-emerged. "The world's most populous nations will gaze skywards Wednesday as the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century lays a carpet of darkness across India and China, from Mumbai to Shanghai." Soothing music filled my ears as i hit away at my keyboards. I'd pretty much stopped gaming for a period. Oh well, just a day reminder to everyone over here!Īlmost overslept for Starting a Business. Stop acting and looking around, I know you wanna dig your nose. Oh well, hope everything goes well for me *fingers crossed*ĭidn't even have time to read, and study.Īnd i'm so behind times! >._< I’ll STOMP YOU! Orbi, bus lane inside, bio simi bio. Yea, kinda done with my individual assignment, and Meanwhile Bras Basah being called Beras Basah in the 1836 as in the early days, wet rice was left to dry on the area where there is a “fresh water stream” There was initially also a small number of outdoor bars set up beside rat-infested drains.Īfter the world war, going back to the Bugis in the 1950s to the 1980s, and surprisingly it was well known for it gathering of transwomen, which indeed made Singapore one of the top tourist destinations during that period. During the first half of the 20th century, commuters could conveniently travel from Bugis Street to anywhere else in Xiao Po via a tram service which ran along North Bridge Road, which was referred to by the Chinese-educated as Xiao Po Da Ma Lu (小坡大马路 little slope main road).Īfter World War II, hawkers gathered there to sell food and goods. The Cantonese, however, referred to the street as Hak Gaai or Hei Jie in Mandarin (黑街 black street) as there were many clubs catering to the Japanese invaders in the 1940s. The Bugis, or Buginese, also put their sailing skills to less benign uses and gained a reputation in the region as being a race of bloodthirsty pirates.ĭuring the early colonial era, there also used to be low mounds of whitish sand in the area, earning the street the familiar Hokkien moniker of Peh Soa Pu or Bai Sha Fu in Mandarin (白沙浮 white sand mounds).
It was these people after whom the thoroughfare was named. The whole vicinity was thriving and crammed with merchants and traders, making it one of the most vibrant economic zones of old Singapore.Īccording to knowledgeable long-term residents of the area, before the arrival of the British, there used to be a large canal which ran through the area where the Bugis, a seafaring people from South Sulawesi province in Indonesia, could sail up, moor their boats and trade with Singaporean merchants. The latter stretched all the way from Tanjong Pagar, through Singapore's Chinatown, to Jalan Sultan. Was doing on URA about development when bugis came into my mind.īugis Street lies in an extensive area which was commonly referred to in the past, by the Chinese-educated community, as Xiao Po (小坡 little slope). me and frank.Īnyways, actually, didn't had anything much on my mind to blog
Kinda came to school alittle too early today.Īnd again, we were stucked.
Come to think of it, there is a "blogger problem saga" which matched with my inactiveness of blogging.