SG50 memorables

I was lamenting in April or May, that there is a lack of SG50 memorable.  Sometime in May or June, there was a Singapore Mint temporary stall at HDB Hub, so a bought a coin set and some other stuff.

The come July, it was really like the hashtag "simisai also SG50".  The "ultimate" is definitely the fishcake.

Here's some photos concerning memorable, fun-pack, celebration and milestones in life..

Just some stuff in the fun-pack.  There were lots of complains, but I'm contented.

After many years, I finally made the effort to put up the flag again.  The photo on the left is the view from 25th floor downwards, and the photo on the right is the view from ground floor upwards.  Looks like, we are the only one..

Lego set from MOE/school.  I find this gift very thoughtful.

Here's a short story about the Mac SG50 Hello Kitty set.  Everytime Mac introduce Hello Kitty set, me and Wee San will contact each other, to go eat Mac together, or to get the other to buy when one is out of town.  Basically, no one else in the family is kitty fan other than the 2 of us.  During the last set, we decided not to order online, but to get the kitty one by one each week.  Then we didn't manage to get the last one (Singing bone), and eventually got it through "other means"..  This year, Mac announced the sale quite late.  We did not contact each other, as we were both very busy.   On last Sunday night, while parking my car (Lynn was with me), we got a face-time call from my aunt.  They called to show off!  WS actually choose to order online this time round.  While chatting, I found out that theirs just got delivered.  I became very excited, shouting "Oh, I must rush home now, now!  The delivery should be by area, so ours must be delivered already too!!".  You see, this year, I also order online!  I didn't ask her why, I suppose like me, we can't bear to be disappointed, as this is the SG50 set.  In the picture below, the one on top is her set that came through Whatsapp, and below is our set that we assembled at home on Sunday night, as I was right :).

On 6th Aug, all school children went to school in red T.  Sweetie never like to post for photo for me, so I took this "ugly" shot, ha!

Me and sweetie talked about SG100 the other day.  Well, let's enjoy this moment first.

Window seat

I travel frequently for work, so I should be very familiar with various aspect of taking the plane.

However, I'm an "aisle-seat" person, not a window seat person.  So much so that, I don't exactly remember how it feels like to seat at the window.

On my 3rd trip to Beijing this year, in July, I travelled alone.  The plan to Beijing is double deck (A380-800), and I was assigned a seat (on the aisle) for my trip from SG to BJ.

The upper deck turned out to be very pleasant, as it was very much quieter than in the lower deck.  The business class is in the front, and there is only one section of economy class behind.  There are only 2 seats on the sides (A= window and B=aisle), and I noticed that the window seat is very spacious.

On my way back from BJ to SG, I choose the window seat.  It was so spacious, I got 2 slots below my feet, and a another compartment below the window.   Here's some photos:


At BJ airport.  The portrait of 牡丹花 after the immigration and custom:

One slot for my laptop, one for my handbag!

Under the pillow are compartments that can be opened, to put some more stuff!  BTW, I forgot to mention above that I dislike using overhead compartments, thus I'm so excited about the space below and around me.

Since I seldom take window seat, must take a photo of the cloud (ha!).  On the way to home sweet home...

More shoes!

Recently I went shopping at Diaso, and found a product that I've been looking for a long time.  It's a shoe rack.  Here's some pics to illustrate my new "investment"!!

This is my shoe cabinet, a floor to ceiling cabinet, with 10 shelfs.  I use 5 out of the 10 (pie say...).  I place my shoes in boxes, and print out pic of the shoes to label my boxes.  Those without pic are new shoes.

Out of the 5 shelfs, the top and the 5th are shorter in height.  The 3 rows in the middle are taller, and thus they are not fully utilised!

This is the product I got from Diaso - a shoe rack that is tall at one end and short at the other end. Here's how it works.

Step 1, place my tall platform below.

Step 2, place the rack over the platform, with the taller portion behind.  the rack sits nicely over the platform without squashing them.

Step 3, place another pair of shorter shoe on the top of the rack.  The higher portion of the shoe goes onto the shorter side of the rack.

This is another kind of rack.  This is the same size as a slim shoe box.

Here's the end result.  By investing $8 - 3 black double racks, and one pink single rack, I can place 7 shoes on a shelf.  Consider before, which is 5 or 6 shoe boxes on one shelf, I can increase capacity by about 15% to 20%!  Haha, time to get more racks and more shoes!!!

Stress ball

Again, one of my favourite food. I like most of the stuff there - Dessert Story at Bishan J8. A very nice slogan:

My favourite Apple Crumble

My favourite apple crumble from Greenroom cafe in Bishan Park:

A light dinner, on a Friday night, with a good friend:

Pistachio flavour

There is an ice cream place at Toa Payoh Lorong 1, near my office. The shop name is "Creamier". It has very good pistachio flavour ice cream. Tried it's waffle for lunch and took this pic in mid June:

A birthday party at NUSS

Came NUSS for Lynn's swimming lesson. Saw that someone had held a birthday party at the cafe beside the pool. Must be a little Indian girl, cos most of the guests are Indians, and the deco is princess theme.

Bad translation and bad sounding names

(i) One of the Japanese airlines is called "All Nippon Airways" (ANA). The chinese translation is:
ALL = 全
Nippon (Japan)=日
Airways = 空

I wonder how an airline called "全日空" (whole day empty) can make money...

(ii) I passed by a shop selling TOTO/4D at Bishan last week. The shop name is call “南发”. I wonder how many people queuing in that shop actually took notice of the shop name....

WP/YSL saga

I only become aware of some politics last year due to the GE. Before that I was totally ignorant. Not only me, a lot of other people that I knew expressed their opinion, no matter how humble, about our country's GE, our country's leader, our fears and frustrations, and of course our opposition party.

In overall, I'm a PAP supporter. However, I really think very highly of LTK and some of his party members. If i were in Hougang or Aljunied, I may not vote for PAP.

It's a terrible set back for WP. I think no matter what they do now, they have lost my trust. I'm disappointed because I thought highly of YSL. After the GE results last year, I kept asking/telling everyone "did you hear YSL's victory speech? This guy 有前途！ He thanked the Hougang people, then he thanked his mentor...." I thought he's a great politician, someone who had worked the ground and won over the people and his mentor's heart and vote. I don't want to judge his private life which I don't know. However, I think the way he handled this shows that he's not suitable to be our leader.

I also want to be thankful that our other leaders are good man.

Luggage delay and item stolen

I reached changi airport on Sunday morning, and was being informed by SQ groundstaff that JFK airport informed them that my luggage, and my colleague's, were not loaded onto the airplane. Once they receive them, they will send them to our home.

On Monday morning, I got a call that the luggages had arrived, and they would be delivered at noon. When I got home from work yesterday night, I discovered that a ring that I purchased on the trip was missing from my luggage. The ring cost USD98. It is definately stolen from my luggage.

So suay.. Going to log a insurance claim tomorrow. Lesson learned, never leave valuation items in check-in luggage. Curse the stupid thief!

GE 2011

GE's been over for quite sometime already. I wanted to blog about it, but was busy. This is the first GE that I cast vote. Its a GE that I followed very very closly. I have never felt so concern, so engaged in the past, probably because I don't have to vote.

A lot of opinion had been aired, a lot of debate had taken place, the GE's over and done, and many changes have taken place since. I just want to say, document here in my blog, that I'm proud to had participated engrossingly in this whole decision making of the country. I had casted my vote with both head and hearts in it. At this point, I will only say that I will also try to do the best for my country. JIA YOU, PM Lee, Mr Low TK, all MPs, all cabinent ministers!!!