Meet the urban explorers who fell in love with abandoned places and each other

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Ms Amanda Cheong, 36, and Mr Stanley Cheah, 26, held their wedding in an abandoned lubrication plant.

Urban explorer couple Stanley Cheah and Amanda Cheong held their wedding in an abandoned lubrication plant in 2023.

PHOTO: RYAN LEE

SINGAPORE – In modern and ever-evolving Singapore, Ms Amanda Cheong and Mr Stanley Cheah found love in the city’s most neglected and forgotten spaces.

By day, the couple work in the shiny skyscrapers of two of Singapore’s biggest banks. By night, they are urban explorers who delve into Singapore’s abandoned places, and share the stories and scenes left behind by Singapore’s rapid development on their Instagram page, @AbandonedSingapore.

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