It's time to do a brief review in the mid of the year.
In the past 6 months, changes take place one after another and i initiated nope. First, I change team, then DGM changed followed by a change in the chairmanship of the District. Ironically, the project team merged. I join the original team again. Very soon, some of the team members will also be shouldering a new challenge. There will be another round of adjusting to and balancing both responsibilities with a new work arrangements.
I feel like a leave floating in a water and flowing the current moving ups and downs without much choice. Ended ? Nobody knows. Best guess ? Changes will continue.....
What have not changed is my outlook of life, things that I would like to explore and to give it a try. What I value most should also remain and to cater enough time for it.
No changes can also be quite boring. Changes create opportunity as well. Change or No change, the key is to lead a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Maintain a calm and peaceful mind, keep young at heart and to learn to live with the happy and not so happy happenings.
Eat when u are hungry, sleep when u feel tired. Life can just be so simple.
In fact, life is so simple. Agreed ? Ha...ha...ha...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Teochew dishes (2)
There was a Chinese article in Zaobao last Sat on the Teochew restaurant ie Chin Lee Restaurant (深利美食馆）. I scanned the article and to share it with you here.
What interest me is the dried prawn roll and the goose palm with mushroom and sea cucumber. Will try it in my next visit. Just knew that the restaurant has been in business for 36 years. :-)
不简单, well done
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What interest me is the dried prawn roll and the goose palm with mushroom and sea cucumber. Will try it in my next visit. Just knew that the restaurant has been in business for 36 years. :-)
不简单, well done
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Crystal Dumpling
I last eaten the Tiong Bahru's crystal dumpling (水晶包) 5 or 6 years ago. I could not find the stall after the upgrading and renovation of the Food Centre . I thought the owner had decided to retire and din "persue" further where the stall could be located.
Recently, I was sharing with Lay Yen about the nice food in the Tiong Bahru Food Centre. One of the stalls I told her was the one selling the crystal dumpling. She shared that the owner had shifted to Alexandra Village Food Centre. Wow, so they are still in operation and i decided to visit them.
I found the stall last Sunday around 3pm but they had sold out the dumpling. Hence, I revisited the stall the next at 10am. Ordered a few to try and also bought some to share it with my colleagues. It still tasted as nice and they liked it too :-)
However, the prices have increased quite a bit: 70 cents / pcs for the salty taste dumpling and 60 cents / pcs for the sweet taste dumpling.
I hope u have tasted it before else I would like to recommend that you should give it a try. U are sure to love it.
The stall opens 7 days a week from 9am onwards until sold out.
Address: Blk 120 #01-10. Bukit Merah Lane 1 (opposite the form Bukit Merah SAFRA). Tel: 62745561
Recently, I was sharing with Lay Yen about the nice food in the Tiong Bahru Food Centre. One of the stalls I told her was the one selling the crystal dumpling. She shared that the owner had shifted to Alexandra Village Food Centre. Wow, so they are still in operation and i decided to visit them.
I found the stall last Sunday around 3pm but they had sold out the dumpling. Hence, I revisited the stall the next at 10am. Ordered a few to try and also bought some to share it with my colleagues. It still tasted as nice and they liked it too :-)
However, the prices have increased quite a bit: 70 cents / pcs for the salty taste dumpling and 60 cents / pcs for the sweet taste dumpling.
I hope u have tasted it before else I would like to recommend that you should give it a try. U are sure to love it.
The stall opens 7 days a week from 9am onwards until sold out.
Address: Blk 120 #01-10. Bukit Merah Lane 1 (opposite the form Bukit Merah SAFRA). Tel: 62745561
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
A380
Another A380 destination from Singapore Airlines - Hong Kong
I have been planning to try A380 for my holiday and it seems like it is more possible now. To better enjoy the A380 facilities and services, a longer flight distance is prefer. I will prefer taking A380 to Japan and Paris. Hong Kong is just slightly too short a distance especially if the price of the air ticket is higher than the usual SQ.
A380 to KL next ?
Monday, June 22, 2009
Photo that says more than a thousand words
He must has suffered a lot of hardship. Yet, with care, encouragement and hard work, he is able to live with dignity, to continue his study and make progress and a promising future for himself. If anyone thinks that learning / studying is a waste of time, please think again.
He is living with a very good example. I respect him and I wish him all the best.
Created a Twitter account today.
I was not very keen initially to embrace it as I was not very sure of its value. It is positioned as a micro-messaging platform and for the authors to update his/her activities/thinking day long with followers. I thought blogging would be more user friendly for readers as I could include more text + photos + video clip. Blog also comes with handy tagging feature that makes it easy to categorize content into relevant user-defined keywords. Readers can locate the needed entries much easier as well.
What motivated me to give it a try is the ability to use the mobile technology to update one's page. I dun need to have an internet access point to read and update the content. Pretty cool :-) I am not sure if there is similar feature in any of the blogging services but the technology does appeal and make good sense to me. I can now share meaningful content easily and faster through my handphone to more people. Of course, it can be challenging to one's phone bill.
The use of Twitter in the recent few major local and international affairs have helped to increase new twitter's users and gaining much popularity. As reported in today's Zaobao, Mayor Teo was suggesting using new media such as Twitter to facilitate exchange of views over topics discussed in the Parliament and National Day Rally. He also stressed that no technology could replace the importance of having an actual face-to-face talk over coffee/tea.
Though i have a twitter account now, I foresee that i will still be using more of a blog to share my views and happenings. I look forward to a day that I could use my handphone to update my blog as well. It is definitely much convenient.
I was not very keen initially to embrace it as I was not very sure of its value. It is positioned as a micro-messaging platform and for the authors to update his/her activities/thinking day long with followers. I thought blogging would be more user friendly for readers as I could include more text + photos + video clip. Blog also comes with handy tagging feature that makes it easy to categorize content into relevant user-defined keywords. Readers can locate the needed entries much easier as well.
What motivated me to give it a try is the ability to use the mobile technology to update one's page. I dun need to have an internet access point to read and update the content. Pretty cool :-) I am not sure if there is similar feature in any of the blogging services but the technology does appeal and make good sense to me. I can now share meaningful content easily and faster through my handphone to more people. Of course, it can be challenging to one's phone bill.
The use of Twitter in the recent few major local and international affairs have helped to increase new twitter's users and gaining much popularity. As reported in today's Zaobao, Mayor Teo was suggesting using new media such as Twitter to facilitate exchange of views over topics discussed in the Parliament and National Day Rally. He also stressed that no technology could replace the importance of having an actual face-to-face talk over coffee/tea.
Though i have a twitter account now, I foresee that i will still be using more of a blog to share my views and happenings. I look forward to a day that I could use my handphone to update my blog as well. It is definitely much convenient.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Father's Day 2009
Today is Father's Day. Simply a day delegated to all fathers. I am not sure if it is important to have a day delegated to me just because I am a father. With or without it, I am already one, forever. Just I have shared before, being a father is a honor and responsibility.
I cannot recall celebrating Father's Day when I was young. We din do it specially for it. I think there are a few reasons: Likely that my parent din like to waste much money. We stayed in a rental flat and every cents count. My father is a very serious and quiet person. I dun think we dare to try suggesting it. To everyone of us in the family, it is just another normal day, no big deal about it.
My father passed away 22 years ago. I was in army training when his condition worsen. I can still remember that my relative came to the army camp to fetch me to hospital, so that my father could see me again - one last time . That night, he left me and the family forever.
At that moment, I was not particularly sad. Maybe I was just too tired, due to the stringent army training, to feel sad over it. I think another reason was that we were not that close. I started to stay with my father and the family when I was 5 or 6 years old. The concept of father and family were too absurd for me to understand enough what it supposed to mean. Nevertheless, we spent 12 to 13 years living together.
I am very sure my father was a responsible person. He worked hard to sustain the family and sent us for education, all the way to JC. I knew he loved us. He was very worried, instead of being angry, for me when I returned very late from school without making a call home. He was standing near the bus stop, waiting anxiously and hoping to see me alighting from the bus.
I would like to thank my father for teaching me Chinese when I started schooling. He would teach me how to read and to write. Writing means pages of chinese words again and again. He could test me regularly to make sure I really understood it. That few years of "training" had strengthen my Chinese foundation very much and I am enjoying the fruit of it till now.
Our usual entertainment then was watching tv programme, in particularly, news. We hardly had family outing. My father would drive us to Malaysia on a few occasions during the 12 to 13 years. However, there was one occasion that my father drove me and my brother to East Coast Park (i think so) to play football. It was a sunny afternoon. Three of us and we played happily for hours. I always rememberd that afternoon. How i wish that moment could last a bit longer. A wish that I thought I could have deserved it.
For so many year that we lived together, I dun think I had done anything to let him know that I did appreciate his efforts and love. 2 to 3 months before he passed away, my mum encouraged me to pass him some of my monthly pay from the army training as appreciation. I was puzzled but i did. My father was lying on the bed at home then and quietly accepted it without much words. He was too sick to say anything.
Though we were not that close, I do wish that my father could be still around so that he could see us graduated, getting married, travel to different parts of the world as a family and knowing that we are also a father now.
As a father myself now, I will try my best to be a responsible person just like my father. I am sure my father was as honor as I am when my daughter first called me papa when she turned 1 year old.
Happy Father's Day.
I cannot recall celebrating Father's Day when I was young. We din do it specially for it. I think there are a few reasons: Likely that my parent din like to waste much money. We stayed in a rental flat and every cents count. My father is a very serious and quiet person. I dun think we dare to try suggesting it. To everyone of us in the family, it is just another normal day, no big deal about it.
My father passed away 22 years ago. I was in army training when his condition worsen. I can still remember that my relative came to the army camp to fetch me to hospital, so that my father could see me again - one last time . That night, he left me and the family forever.
At that moment, I was not particularly sad. Maybe I was just too tired, due to the stringent army training, to feel sad over it. I think another reason was that we were not that close. I started to stay with my father and the family when I was 5 or 6 years old. The concept of father and family were too absurd for me to understand enough what it supposed to mean. Nevertheless, we spent 12 to 13 years living together.
I am very sure my father was a responsible person. He worked hard to sustain the family and sent us for education, all the way to JC. I knew he loved us. He was very worried, instead of being angry, for me when I returned very late from school without making a call home. He was standing near the bus stop, waiting anxiously and hoping to see me alighting from the bus.
I would like to thank my father for teaching me Chinese when I started schooling. He would teach me how to read and to write. Writing means pages of chinese words again and again. He could test me regularly to make sure I really understood it. That few years of "training" had strengthen my Chinese foundation very much and I am enjoying the fruit of it till now.
Our usual entertainment then was watching tv programme, in particularly, news. We hardly had family outing. My father would drive us to Malaysia on a few occasions during the 12 to 13 years. However, there was one occasion that my father drove me and my brother to East Coast Park (i think so) to play football. It was a sunny afternoon. Three of us and we played happily for hours. I always rememberd that afternoon. How i wish that moment could last a bit longer. A wish that I thought I could have deserved it.
For so many year that we lived together, I dun think I had done anything to let him know that I did appreciate his efforts and love. 2 to 3 months before he passed away, my mum encouraged me to pass him some of my monthly pay from the army training as appreciation. I was puzzled but i did. My father was lying on the bed at home then and quietly accepted it without much words. He was too sick to say anything.
Though we were not that close, I do wish that my father could be still around so that he could see us graduated, getting married, travel to different parts of the world as a family and knowing that we are also a father now.
As a father myself now, I will try my best to be a responsible person just like my father. I am sure my father was as honor as I am when my daughter first called me papa when she turned 1 year old.
Happy Father's Day.
Washing car
Finally, I got my daughter to help washing the car today.
She has been asking me for it. She was very excited when i shared with her that we go wash it this morning after my AYG dry run. I think she liked it because it is something new and she can play with water when washing the car without getting any scolding :-)
She was pretty "hardworking" when washing the car:
I am sure she has enjoyed doing the simple task. It is also another opportunity to do some exercise together. After the washing, i encouraged her with a mini ice-cream at home:
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Thanks, 谨卉
She has been asking me for it. She was very excited when i shared with her that we go wash it this morning after my AYG dry run. I think she liked it because it is something new and she can play with water when washing the car without getting any scolding :-)
She was pretty "hardworking" when washing the car:
I am sure she has enjoyed doing the simple task. It is also another opportunity to do some exercise together. After the washing, i encouraged her with a mini ice-cream at home:
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Thanks, 谨卉
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