You have landed on the philatelic hobby website of Masya S. Ong in Singapore.
This website is named for the Javanese alphabet (hanacaraka) and used to contain listing of the various temples on Java. With the rise of travel blogsites with more updated information the information on this had long become redundant, so that during Covid I re-dedicated it to my philatelic hobby, initially mainly to post swap lists and later to map and digitise my collections. My swap lists are now posted on Colnect.
My collection covers selected politically, culturally or economically significant countries whose story is told effectively through their stamps. Typically these collections end in the 1990s, so that they can be contained in a single album. A brief listing can be found under the Collections tab.
I am progressively (re-)mounting these collections and am adding wishlists as I go along. These wishlists and my swapbook are posted on Colnect.
For all my collections I aim to get copies with clean cancellations showing as many place names as possible. For Malaysia I actively collect regional definitives with inner-state cancellations.
For the Straits Settlements and its successor countries, my interest is in economic history. A colorful picture of Singapore's early trade arises from studying the endorsements (chops) on the early issues of the Straits Settlements, and the stamps of the post-independence period tell the story of the development of the national economy along with many others.