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This weekend, I joined for Nor Syazwan Bin Abdul Majid’s Kampong Clean-Up. Wan is responsible for Wans Ubin Journal, an online community organization motivated by his desire to maintain the community that lives in the Malay Kampong on Singapore’s last rural respite, the island of Pulau Ubin. Today's post brings more photographs captured this weekend, and posits a possible answer to the question posed last week; how can Pulau Ubin survive in the face of Singaporean Modernity?
Pulau Ubin is a small island northeast of mainland Singapore accessible to tourists by bumboats from the Changi Point Ferry Terminal. The boat is the first environment to signal the island's identity. The fare is a mere $3 per ride, and passengers are to sit on a basic wooden bench facing each other. It appears like a miracle that anything in Singapore could be in such a condition considered the harsh domination of modernity in mainland Singapore. There are none of the HDB flats and expressways so common to the city. The island’s identity is as an escape into the past, but its very existence is dependent on Singapore’s Modernity.
