Category Archives: Others

Ray of Light

February 10, 2012 – 2:08 am

In the urban jungle that we live in, its difficult to travel around, find a spot and start taking pictures of the natural surrounding. In most cases, we will only see buildings which we will appreciate its architecture in the day and be impressed by its lightings at night. But sometimes, these structures can also create certain effects when its blended well with the surroundings. Its just like the photo below which had the sunlight penetrating through the void area of the flyover. Its a simple photo and personally, I love the effect. Do you?

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A day at Pulau Ubin

February 4, 2012 – 1:29 am

In preparation for my departmental field trip to Chek Jawa, I made a trip first to Pulau Ubin to make the necessary arrangements for the event itself. I’ve been to Pulau Ubin a few times but each time I did not have the opportunity to explore Pulau Ubin. I’m usually there for leadership camp so its pretty rush each time trying to complete certain activity.

As I set foot at Pulau Ubin, I engaged the service of this uncle called Ah Tek, who drove us to Chek Jawa. There is not better person that hearing from the people of Ubin the happenings in Pulau Ubin. He showed us the last Malay village, tell us which resident whom we met along the way stayed where and the location where a local DJ Dennis Chew met with an accident.

He brought us to Chek Jawa and explained to us how to get a guide and where are the places to visit. As we were walking in, we saw 3 wild boars and he even told us the name of one of them, Meh Meh. In urban Singapore, you will hardly see these animals these days so we were alittle excited when we saw it.

It was past 5pm and he brought us to a jetty like area which were were able to see part of Chek Jawa. The weather and the surroundings was just pefect, it was beautiful.

As we were exiting Chek Jawa back to the Jetty, he stopped and showed us a quarry. It was like a heavenly place. The water was clear, the reflections of the water and everything we see were simply too beautiful to be true. I’m looking forward to my Chek Jawa trip in mid-February.

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Do you know what’s a book? Or…

January 31, 2012 – 1:54 am

During a community function yesterday, I was sitting around with a few people and we were discussing about how we should let our kids display the creative side of them. Then we were talking about how different children are these days. Based on my own experience, they learn things much faster, more active, smarter and are able to articulate things at a much younger age. One of my friends that mentioned that some children doesn’t even know how to read a book. Surprised? The children didn’t know that in order to read a book, they have to flip the pages, instead, they swipe it.

While technology helps us in providing more interesting and interactive e-books, but sometimes, we got to go back to basics and let our children understand what the basic things in life are. Agree?

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Double Rainbow

January 26, 2012 – 1:45 pm

Last week, many people posted about the double rainbow that they see at various parts of Singapore. According to a news report, double rainbow is believed to be auspicious in Chinese culture. Based on the research which I’ve conducted online, a double rainbow is a sign from the cosmic Universe that you are about to have something great fall into your lap, and that one good thing will lead to another.

While I was going for my run yesterday, it suddenly rained heavily. After the rain, I saw the rainbow. But it seems, I could only see just 1. After taking the photo, I realised that there is 2. I’m not sure if its a sign of good things to come but I definitely hope so.

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Seeing Professor Brawn from a different side

January 21, 2012 – 12:41 pm

I attended a dinner at Professor Brawn’s new restaurant at 10 Boat Quay last week. It was this dinner that I started to appreciate this restaurant and see that its different from others. The owner of the restaurant has an autistic son and like many other parents who had autistic children, he was wondering if son will be able to support himself when he grows up.

Then, he had the idea of setting up a cafe and thought he could create a social enterprise where he could employ people with special abilities to help in the day to day running of the restaurant. From the kitchen to servers, each of them played an important role in the operations of the restaurant. I remembered that he mentioned one staff who loved to peel the skin of the potatoes that he is the one who peeled all the potatoes that were eventually served as rosti.

But the most meaningful part of the restaurant was the logo of Professor Brawn was designed by the son of the owner.

The next time you visit Professor Brawn, don’t just appreciate its food. Appreciate its contribution to the society.

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Channel 8 看电视 (Watch TV)

January 15, 2012 – 1:16 am

I can’t really remember when this song started getting its airplay, probably in the late 90s or at the turn of the millennium. Before we had cable TV, at least for me, my source of entertainment was Channel 8. I still remember during Prime Time, the station will play this song. The channel evolved and there had been several versions to this song.

Then this seems to be the second version. Our favourite Mediacorp artists were still in this video.

And finally, the Channel got Tanya Chua, Stephanie Sun and Mavie Hee to perform this song in its 3rd version (it seems). I couldn’t find any other versions after this.

For me, my favourite is the 2nd version since my favourite artist is in there. So which one is your favourite? Did it bring back any memories for you? Hopefully, we can get to see a new version in the future.

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Does it work?

January 6, 2012 – 12:18 pm

I was at the petrol kiosk last evening refilling petrol for my car. In front of me was a staff and a taxi driver. While pumping, both men were shaking the the taxi so hard and I thought to myself, “Isn’t the tank only this big? Does shaking the car really helps?” It seems that they were able to pump alittle more petrol after each shake. I’m not sure really. Anyone care to share if this method is useful?

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Roselephant

December 15, 2011 – 4:19 pm

One day, I received a DM from @elephant_parade that I’ve won myself a 15cm Roselephant. I’m not too sure how it really look like and was looking forward to it. Somehow, I was not really that smart and could not find any information relating to this particular elephant.

About 2 weeks later, I finally saw it. I was really impressed with the painting and my dad told me, “This is going to be your best birthday present.” In fact, when my dad first receive it, he told me he likes it very much. When I return home that night, I share the same sentiment as my dad.

I googled and found out that the original Roselephant, by JANE VEVERIS CALLAN was on display on the SouthBank by the Scoop Theatre next to City Hall in London. It was by BT. The miniature Roselephant that I’ve received were painted in Chiang Mai, Thailand and the one that I received costs £55. I will definitely try my best to maintain the one that I have.

For now, another group of elephants are in Singapore for the elephant parade till 11 January 2012. Catch them at various parts of Singapore.

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Lunar Birthday

December 8, 2011 – 10:44 pm

I come from a semi-traditional family. I use semi-traditional because my parents are relax on certain practices but strict on enforcing some others. In such a family, celebrating our lunar birthday becomes a norm, which in fact, I look forward to each year. We have several traditional dishes like the noodles and beancurd. The noodles are sweet because mum has added sugar into it and it comes with 2 eggs. Noodles represent longevity and it has always been my favourite. In the past when my grandmother was still around, she would always prepare the noodles for the birthday boy or girl (my uncles, aunties, cousins or me). Well, I miss her cooking or at least, the noodles.

These days, I don’t think everyone are really bothered with their lunar birthday. In any case, I thought this is one of the traditions that we must continue and at least, for my children, I will definitely celebrate their lunar birthday for them as well.

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Selling Guinea Pigs online, legal?

December 5, 2011 – 11:14 am

Recently, I’ve been receiving an email on a periodic basis. This email disgusts me as I did not know how this person got my email address and worst, trying to sell guinea pigs to me via online? Probably we should just leave these animals alone and if we have intentions to get them, we would probably get them from the pet shop and not through such cheesy lines and tempting us to buy them. Its a life long commitment in keeping animals like dog, hamsters or even guinea pigs as pets.