This is the Oei Tiong Ham Building, at the National University of Singapore's Bukit Timah Campus.
This building was named after the donor who donated $150,000 to the then Raffles College.
So who is Oei Tiong Ham?
The National Library Infopedia has a write up about him. It sure is interesting to read about him!
Looks rather modern to me! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI knew quite a bit abt the glorious days of the East Indies Company in dutch history. They brought the Golden Age (wealth)to the Netherlands in the 1800's.
ReplyDeleteFar as I know, the spice trade were conducted with the Rajahs in each state. This piece abt Oei is interesting indeed. Good grief - how does one keep up with 8 wives !
"Oei !" we say in dutch to express "oops" or "oh dear" when something goes wrong. Might give u a tickle to know that eh ?