16 Dec 2023 – First Panda Cub Born In Singapore/2021
Wed: Happy StLuciaDay to those celebrating&marking today – have not baked Luciabrød/Luciaboller/Lussekatte since 1st&2nd born were kids! Happy Bday to a dear Norwegian friend, Ingrid.
“St. Lucia” – The Cello Advent Calendar – December 13th – YouTube
One of #6’s requests while in SIN was to see the pandas KaiKai&JiaJia in Feb2020.
Since then there has been an addition to the panada family, LeLe born here in SIN Aug2021 – pix downloaded.
The panda care team@Mandai’sRiverWondersPark has been preparing LeLe’s for his trip to China and his last public appearance here is today. He will enter quarantine the next day before heading to China. Wishing LeLe the best in adapting to his future home in China – pix downloaded.
Welcome David&Nancy back here. Thank you to all for taking time to catch for Peranakan dinner@ChilliPadi/JooChiat. Chilli Padi – Peranakan Food Catering & Restaurant
Appetisers: KuehPaiTi/花篮饼, NgohHiang/五香,UdangSambal/叁峇虾
Safe trips further, stay safe and enjoy your moments. Pleasantly surprised to bump into Haresh – been a long time ago since we last crossed paths, appreciations to him for stopping to say hi – pix credits to Teresa.
Thu: Singapore International Film Festival 2023 Official Selection – A Year of No Significance /大風吹@The Projector/GoldenMiletower – tkx to Boon for ticket.
Chronicles a fading generation of Chinese-Educated-Singaporeans – A Year of No Significance – SGIFF
Fri: Singapore International Film Festival 2023 Official Selection Golden Leopard Award Winner,Locarno Film Festival 2023 Swatch First Feature Award Winner,Locarno Film Festival 2023 – Dreaming And Dying/好久不見@The Projector/Cineleisure. Long time no see is the literal translation and definitely long time no see and long time will not see movies when having to payS$13.
Dreaming & Dying (好久不见) + Q&A (theprojector.sg)
As interesting as this movie is, somehow get lost in translation and too deep for me to figure out! The contemporary relevance is aimed more for the X&Ygenerations.
On the other hand, this is more interesting to me – what is not to like with an A.I. that can to a certain extend interact educationally, intelligently, interestingly and with wit.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim – Edsger W. Dijkstra
Sat: berries&fruits ready washed, dried&cut for my infamous healthy/hahaha FruitCocktail dessert for the annual ChristmasBash@CC. Cheers,干杯,Salute,Skål,Sláinte to ring in the season.
Tkx to Calvin for yummy SuckingPig+food galore contributed from everyone – good to catch up with Helen&many others. Pix credits to Helen and others.