Meeting up with Koh Eng Tat

It has been exactly 50 years since Eng Tat and I last saw each other at the end of primary school at Haig Road Boys' School. Anthony met up with him not long ago and organised this reunion at Katong. We are all older and perhaps wiser !

Farewell to the Liquid Amber

Our Liquid Amber tree, pretty to look at especially in autumn, was too close to the house and had caused much damage to our timber deck. The birds, frequent visitors, had made it impossible for us to stay under the tree for any length of time most of the year round. In the end we made the sad decision to have it removed.

Dom climbed up the tree which was in its last autumnal glory . . . .

and started pruning . . . .

till there were only a few branches left. . .

The excitement was recorded on video too, such as this one where the last nearly ended up on the roof !

Falling the last Liquid Amber branch from Kin-Mun Kan on Vimeo.

and then there was only the main trunk left . . .

meanwhile the heavy chipper worked away at the front . . .

and then the main trunk was gradually sliced away . . .

into pieces small enough to be carried . . . .

and finally the main stump was ground . . . .

leaving the house with a bare look, hopefully not for too long.