[Hotels And Photos] The Robertson House By The Crest Collection

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Formerly Park Hotel Clarke Quay, The Robertson House by The Crest Collection (its name an eponymous nod to Dr J. Murray Robertson, a prominent British municipal counsellor largely credited with transmogrifying Singapore's once fallow central swamplands into a hectic wharf district circa the 1880s) may be misperceived as evangelizing colonialism, given ostensibly impenitent showcases emblematic of entrepôt trade witnessed at every turn: mondo black-and-white stills capturing teeming dockside activity, cartographic prints delineating the long-defunct East India Company's Asiatic reach, multitudinous rattan fixtures, even the hotel lobby itself is smothered in some nutmeg and clove-tinged scent. Then again, there's no denying this whole "colonial-chic" affair, for better or for worse, does indeed pique.

More at https://www.hotelsandphotos.com/the-robertson-house-by-the-crest-collection-deluxe-queen-room
 
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This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.


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More at https://www.straitstimes.com/life/f...ogue-in-singapore-59-years-after-independence
 
This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.


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More at https://www.straitstimes.com/life/f...ogue-in-singapore-59-years-after-independence
That is an atas entertainment for VVIP back then...now can go jail
 
This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.


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More at https://www.straitstimes.com/life/f...ogue-in-singapore-59-years-after-independence
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I was there last month—rooms were comfy, but the walls felt a bit thin. I could hear the hallway sometimes, but loved the riverside walk just outside.
 
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