- Says Land Authority.
- The mention of the term “State Property”
Namely restored some
Old houses on Orchard Rd,
Bukit Timah Raceway
Restored. Former Official Buildings
and mansions –pls, they are bungalows, restored
and Black and White Houses =
A mixture of bungalow (British-Indian) and
Plantation home
Adapted for tropical use and slightly elevated on the account of water
And vermin (as I’ve said before).
Land Authority
sections this out as “For God and Empire”
Pitched rooves –not thatch,
little High-So’ lived in a kampung –this was after she lived
In the Conservation Shop House (peranakan)
–blame it on Japan
The black and white house is an airy,
breathable “Prototype”
for officials 1900s as general time
The quality of which
Divided by classes
Junior officer ;;
Senior officer. Class I being highest class, advertised as
plantation-style
as though a fantasy
Class III
being the bulk of Singapore’s –what landscape?
Answer: the colonial moodboard specifically
These houses are visually out of sight comparatively
for the most of us
says High-So’, It’s all warehouses: DEMPSEY ROAD
Mostly hidden from the main Singapore in the greener landscape.
They have that foliage and space
the bulk of Singapore’s
Disowned and repossessed landscape
Singapore she leases them out
–and there are just so many Aussies in Clarke Quay “Kerr,”
To westerners more often than not or mixed folk. this is a guess on my part….
The Europeans
Mingle with the Singaporean “go getters” mongrel up
Black and White and sometimes Red
High-So has a couple of these houses. She’s hokkien | with mongrel children.
^with a little bit of Indonesian in there
“For God and Empire”
We think its glorious, we inherit
Just its mechanics, its morning routines
–hard to remove
Black and white! house is a name the folk gave
For the pale face of the house
The dark timber of the house
peranakan house –conjoined, shoulder
to shoulder OK piebald
It’s this moment of I’m in a white man’s house
state of the home: original
And attracting pests
Orrr
It’s this moment of, I’m in a white man’s house
It’s a nuisance she says High Society
Orr
–vary it later “I OWN A WHITE MAN’S HOUSE….”
