9 Nov 2014 – SIN Ireland Fund Emerald Ball

Fri: finally done with the outfit after nearly a week of mess in my living space! This has cost me less than S$30 for all the materials. But if one includes time, then that is priceless.

The only snag is that the eyes are not good enough with threading a needle without the help of this wonderful little gadget and another bigger eye 🙂

Thank you Carmel & Soon for an enchanted evening at the St Regis. Appreciations to HongSze for driving us there.

A fun evening with Irish dancing and other dancing…

Good and food and wines…

Good company.

Auctions raised  S$250,000 for the Autism Resource Centre and the government matching every S$ raised making it half a mil raised.

The Blue Head by Thierry Noir fetched a good price and appropriate for today’s date being 25yrs ago when the Berlin Wall was taken down! This painting is the 1st artist to illegally paint on the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down – Nana Mouskouri

Les&Ivy’s Private Dinner of Gourmet Food and Stunning Vintage Wines fetched S$18,000, 4K more than last year. Les also bid for this lovely painting of his old school, the former SJI, now SAM!

Good to catch up with Josie & Brendan Lyons, SIN’s first Irish Ambassador and welcome Jane & Geoffery Keating, the new and number 5 Irish Ambassador here.

http://amylamsg.com/2014/05/11/irish-ambassadors-in-sin/

The Wall was brought down, not by Washington or Moscow, but by courageous people from the east – Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005