15 Apr 2024 – A Special Single Day Posting
Edited&updated 16Apr 2024
Mon: have been following with YC Yip’s work since his 2016Mural@WaterlooSt. AsiaOne featured him 13Apr(youtube link below) and recently received from NLB-BiblioAsia Vol20Issue01 featuring him The Way We Were. Decided to search in my postings to discover that there are at least 11postings he is mentioned.
24 Dec 2023 – Winter Solstice2023/I Paint My Singapore 心绘新加坡
The main reason to be here was not the shopping but to attend YIP YewChong’s exhibition before getting caught with the busy week ahead. Glad that he is on his feet again after a rough day last week.
Being his usual gracious&modest self, he took time to chat&sign books – have been following with his works for many years – https://yipyc.com
21 Nov2023 – Art of Joy/Book Launch
Sat: Congratulations to YC Yip&TaiHo Woon for an overwhelming success turnout for their book launch@TiongBahruCC today. Looking forward to reading it – great catching up with Irene&Susan.
The lines to purchase and for signing were so long that the panel fireside chat was ~an hour delayed.
23 Nov 2021 – Old Charms vs New Charms/On The EastSide To Chinatown
Great to catch up with IreneH and to see Yip in action. https://yipyc.com/maps/
YipYewChong’s new mural on a lane off TempleSt/Chinatown –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWpm-4rU0GI
21 Mar 2021 – CitySquareMall/Yip YewChong’s Works
Do enjoy many of YipYewChong’s works and the below documentary features SIN-Chinese from various dialect groups and their cultures. Here you can catch a glimpse of him bringing TV host DannyYeo to his studio to view the paintings 年晚，行清，烧衣， 中秋夜， 冬至 and 戏院横街湿巴刹 Also a walking tour of his ChinatownMurals, as well talked about his 2012 trip to his ancestral village in China’s Guandong province. E.
Well done YYC, hope that he will someday publish his works, if not already done? Pix downloaded.
11 Mar 2021 – Not All Who Wander Are Lost
23 Jul 2020 – Autophagy (pronounce otto-FAY-gee)
A quick walk thru’ Chinatown to run some errands and to catch the bus – delighted to catch some of Yip YewChong new mural paintings. Has been a while since being away from the 4-walls for more than 9hrs (excluding the stays in hospitals!).
30 Nov 2019 – It Has Indeed Been A Busy Month
Changi Airport’s tunnel leading to T4 – amazed how this location was once the budget terminal and now look at this – nobody in my way for these shots with how ice-kacang were made in the good-old-days. Have been trying to explain this and now finally an illustration speaking fluently, tkx to Yip YewChong.
Sun: Amoy St Located along the back wall of the 182-year-old Thian Hock Keng Temple on Amoy Street, this 40-meter-long mural portrays the lives of Singapore’s early Hokkien migrants.
Work in progress of the Thian Hock Keng mural at Amoy Street. Many people were surprised when I explained that the shoreline was right in front of the temple (in this photo, it’s where the tall buildings are). The mural is, in a way, educational – Yip YewChong
23 Feb 2016 –Talk By YipYewChong/2016
Appreciations to Yip Yew Chong for an educational & interesting evening@National Library. He mentioned that TiongBahru is his favourite work. Will look forward for him to publishing a book on all his mural paintings.
https://amylamsg.com/2016/07/11/heritage-muralstiong-bahru/
His drawing of his childhood days at SagoLane@Chinatown is amazingly descriptive. Remember hearing that the funeral parlours there also served as hospice facilities then! As a kid and now as an adult wonder what were or are his thoughts being surrounded by such a harsh reminder of the inevitability of death daily then?
http://yipyc.com/blog/2015/08/31/memories-of-sago-lane-street-of-the-dead/
His works bring back memories of the bygone days for me and as he said so clearly that there are no messages or agendas hidden in them, they are just what you see, like his website, easy to remember: http://yipyc.com/
http://www.btrts.org.sg/history-of-sago-lane/
11 Jul 2016 – Including Everton Rd
39&40 Everton Rd – Amah & Barber is in the neighbourhood where 4thAuntie LAM PohKua+family once lived. Spent some weekends there as a child with them as 4th aunt did not have any daughters and wanted to adopt me! But usually after the weekend, 5 Temenggong Rd was where I returned to.
First time venturing back here since the late 1950s – used to be sensitive about this issue, but fortunately grew out of it and has turned the situation to my advantage by feeling so much in demand 🙂 Still counting my blessings when thinking of the old CHIJ Gate of Hope…
Provision Shop – 8 Spottiswoode Park Road. This area is delightful & interesting with the contrast of old shop-houses and new condos.
9 Jul 2016 – Former Catholic High School
Thu: heritage Murals by Yip Yew Chong & Yuen Kum Cheong@Campers’ Corner are now completed and they are absolutely worth the time to take a look.
http://yipyc.com/ycs-mural-locations/
Heritage Muarls@51 Waterloo Street – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)