Foreign Workers in Singapore
Life on a Sunday
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20 -30 of these Bangladesh workers lived in this small and dark dormitory room. |
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"Why are you taking photos? Are you going to show the world? Life in Singapore is not easy." |
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"Do you wanna join us for lunch?" This small corner is their bed, cooking and dining area. |
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Make no mistake, this is in Singapore, not India nor Bangladesh. |
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Simply lazing around doing nothing. |
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Although there are no proper place to sit, it beats staying in the dark and cramped quarters. |
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For those who can afford a little luxury, there are many coffee shops and restaurants around. |
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Shopping for groceries. |
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Snail mails from home. They don't have Internet like us. |
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Big headache for motorist: red man but they are still dashing across. They are ignorant to traffic rules. |
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By 7pm, the whole place is packed with them. |
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The 4 lanes road for vehicles has shrunk into 2 lanes. They have occupied the extreme lanes on both sides. |
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And when it is time to go back, they jammed up the bus stops... |
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...while others loaded up the private transport. |
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Hate them or pity them, these are the people who helped to scrape our skylines. We have to recognise their contribution. |
Unlike my usual photos taken with color slides,
these photos are taken in B&W.
2 & 16 Aug 98
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