A Beautiful Sunday

Sunday Brunches at the same cafe

national monument

The heat was still unbearable although I sat under the big shade on a Sunday afternoon.

I sketched the famous clock tower building of the Chinese High School on one Sunday. The Chinese High School, also the first Chinese secondary school in Singapore was constructed in 1919 and completed in 1925. The clock tower building was gazetted as a national monument on 19 Mar 1999. This year the School celebrates its 90th anniversary.

The building was used by the Allied defenders during the Battle of Singapore, as well as during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945. It was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army for the purpose of surveillance. The building's history is synonym to the history of our country.

There are four clocks on the clock tower. This historical building is a powerful landmark along a major road in a low rise, high class residential area.

a relax sunday afternoon

It was too hot to go out so I sketch indoor. This is the common lounge where my sister was working on her new laptop after a good Sunday lunch at the Graduate Club of the National University of Singapore. It was a big lounge furnished with sofa sets and a small billiard table. A group of players were at the billiard table. It was hard to sketch when the players were moving all the time so I decided to ignore the crowd and sketch only the father and son. That's my black coffee in the sketch and I can't live without it!

empty on Sunday?

Two days ago, Asnee, our Thai fellow urbansketcher had a great post displaying his many beautiful works of Singapore. One of which is our busy downtown central financial district sketched at lunch peak hours. I prefer to sketch the romantic side of Singapore, but here is a rare sketch I did early this year on Raffles Place, our downtown financial district. Inspired by recent digital exploration from the fellow urbansketchers, I added the digital colours last night. Although our downtown area is a typical busy financial belt categorised by many tall, modern and contemporary buildings designed by world renowned architects, there are less traffic and people on Sundays. Is'nt that the problem of all the financial hubs in the world that they all look like ghost towns on Sundays?

Raffles Place

I sketched Raffles Place early this year. The place was empty on Sunday so as my mood then I think. Will like to add some digital colours.

my other sunday activity

I reconnected with some of my old friends from the college chinese orchestra last mid autumn festival. Some of them I have not met over 35 years! Very quickly we picked up old or bought new musical instructments and formed a group to practise our favourite pieces every sundays.