A nice pictorial

When I was in secondary school, history was definitely my favourite subject.

Unlike most of my peers who struggled to memorize the dates, event, key persons, their involvement, etc.

It's like reading a non-fiction storybook to me, since it was something that really took place in the place in the past and furthermore my keen interest in politics (however, not to get involved with it though).

Days ago, I came across this pictorial - "Through the Eyes of The King" (pictured above) at Bishan Library.

This pictorial detailed the visits of Thailand's King Chulalongkorn's (the grandfather of the present Thai monarch) to Malaya - that included Singapore during his reign (1868-1910) with comprehensive information coupled with old photographs, oil paintings of those colonial days.

King Chulalongkorn continued the modernization of Siam started by his father, King Mongkut.

A group photograph of the Thai Royal Family during one of their visits to Singapore.

Old photographs and oil paintings of the colonial Singapore and Malaya are depicted inside this pictorial.