"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the directionof his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
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Pulau Ubin
Location: South China Sea, off Singapore
Size: Four square miles
Population: 100
Population: 100
One of the last rural holdouts in Singapore, Pulau Ubin ("Granite Island") near Changi Point is a freeze-frame of Malay kampong village life in the 1960s. Thatched-roof homes sit among forested rolling hills and abandoned granite quarries. Fishermen live on kelongs, old wooden fishing houses built on stilts over the water. It's a soul-soothing escape from the highly urbanized buzz on the nearby mainland.
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- A.VIJAYCHANDRAN
- Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia
- Origin- Penang.Came to KL in 80's to study theology.Threw away my religious books after 4 years to read Law.