This is the house that Frank Lloyd Wright built over a waterfall at Bear Run, Fayette County, in rural southwestern Pennsylvannia for the family of Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann’s department store, as a weekend home. It is regarded as one of the architect’s most beautiful masterpiece, building over the falls instead of…
“Merdeka! Reflections on the Padang. Time-stamp: 0541 hr, 27th March 2015 “Merdeka!” the rap guttural urgent cry of post-independent Mr Lee Kuan Yuan, resonating in my subconscious mind, was interrupted by the young man in army fatigues. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” the bespectacled young man in crew-cut shouted “move in and make yourself comfortable! There is…
“A society grows great when old men plant trees, whose shade they know they shall never sit in” From an ancient Greek Proverb Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), First Prime Minister of Singapore. He had never failed to plant a tree every year from 1963-2014 (picture from the Straits Times Archives)