29 Feb 2024 – Atico Bar&Lounge

Tue: it is annoying that yet another FB-post, 3rd removed today since 14Feb – will take a break from posting any new FB-NewsFeeds. Thank goodness for my blog here for allowing me to check what was written as FB is just a kinda of PostIt-Note while here, they are expanded with more pix&words. For those who know me know that subjects like politics,religions,etc are personal&private which will not be discussed or written on social media, and also am against profanity,negative&unconstructive actions,speech,thoughts,words,etc.

Common Sense & Self-Censorship – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)

Appreciations with thanks for this tip from PaulK – wrote again to ask them to check if there is a bug in their algorithm and hopefully this will solve the problem.

Have been informed by DigiAccess/WiFi of 3months overdue for M1-payment! Had to send screenshots of payment to proof otherwise!! What is with today’s HighTech/AI? Quite alarming&frightening to think what else can go wrong when AI runs the world!!!

Cheer-Me-Up-Animal video to watch when annoyed&frustrated with things going upside down! – Monkey Death Wish (youtube.com)

Appreciations for tonight’s dinner@SushiTei/Paragon w a view of OrchardRd.

Stumbled upon this exhibition on the ground-floor@Paragon  – definitely none of these gilded sculptures will fit into my 4Walls – hahaha.

Tkx to Clement for making my evening new discovery of Atico Lounge & Bar on the 55Floor@Ion with 360º spectacular views of SIN, pleasantly&surprisingly empty – nice&peaceful location to have High-Tea on weekdays, as long as it is not crowded.

Good views of Orchard&ScottsRd.

4NUS-students researching EC-Travel-Study on the impact of travel patterns after the opening of the MRT TEL-Stage4/Brown-line here. Will definitely be using this line, especially when traveling to&fro Rochalie – directly from MarineTerrace-OrchardBlv, no transfers, no traffic lights, no traffic-jams.

Soup&fresh-produce-raw-salad-lunch/except for carrot,egg&potato which were cooked. Basil, beet, calamansi, carrot, celery, cucumber, egg, garlic, lemongrass, lettuce, mint, pepper, purple-potato, shallot, torch-ginger with a touch of dressing. Today all these ingredients, using up leftover NasiUlam’s ingredients, other days only a fraction of these ingredients or whatever there is in the fridge.

Thu: busy on this last Feb2024 day, a Leap-Year-day with Garry –

lunch/Kopitiam,movie/Beekeeper,shopping/Muji,T/TiongBahruBakery@PlazaSIN-3pix downloaded. Must be out of my mind to watch this action flick with eyes closed most of movie – that’s for not reading the synopsis first! But the best lesson there, not to click on to any links when online!!

Repeat after me… I will never steal from the weak and vulnerable again – Adam Clay

BeerTasting@LeVel33&SatayDinner@LauPaSat 

26 Feb 2024 – New SIN-Pools@58 MarineTerrace 01-47

Fri: on the way to pick up a coffee to discover the new SIN-Pools just across the street. Of course, had to buy some tickets, especially when there was no line at this new location for the $12mTotoHongBao jackpot – pix from MarineCre/jct MP-Rd where the new TEL-MT-MRTstationExit2

Delighted to see these preschoolers downstairs from SparkleTots enjoying&fascinated by the Lion-Dancers who never fail to amaze me!

Besides the LionDancersTrouper, Tan SeeLeng&YusofLateef were also present to wish the kids&staff a Happy Dragon Year.

Welcome Garry back here, appreciations with thanks for dinner@OldBibik’sPeranakan and dessert/ChocolateBreadPudding!+IceCream@AwfullyChocolat ~3k walk from JooChiatComplex-46MC tonight with the full moon.

Sat: 15thCNY-day/ChapGohMei, 1stFullMoon for the LunarNewYear, Chinese Valentine’s-D, thus marking the last day of the CNY celebrations.

Happy 60thBday to Calvin, for someone who is not a fan of cakes, 3 would be the minimum – hahaha. Thomas’s beautiful AgarCake went well with my fruit-salad-cocktail.

Appreciations to CC staff&friends

with special thanks to Iyas for his yummy homemade-Laksa and to Helen for the last LoHei for the season and pix with me in them!

Sun: morning market@GeylangSerai for TorchGinger for NasiUlam, Satay, SayurLodeh/veggie soup prepared in coconut milk. OtakOtak here too spicy, had to get it back@MT-coffee-shop – what a treat, Malay cuisine for this ending CNY-celebrations this weekend.

Tkx to HS, Boon&Will for gifts and for being@my 4-walls to help eat lunch. Not sure if I want to ever make NasiUlam again, too energy&time consuming – pix credits to Will. Made enough fruit-cocktail yesterday for today’s dessert too. AC on most of this hot day – if this continues, will need to go to the library to keep cool.

Good that there are still ppl with a sense of humour – hahaha.

Is it a ‘ghost’? Or is it a hoax? NEA says cemetery warning signs tampered with | The Straits Times

Mon: a good week to all on this Monday morning. Will be taking a break from FB as they are removing some of my recent posts for what their definition for going against our Community Standards on spam? REALLY? tryng to know&understand where this is coming from?? Have written to them but without any explanations or replies??? Is this what happens when AI takes over human common&logic????

Cheerful memories to offset for being upest! Mar2011HKG trip@Johnny’s – pix credits to Harry. What a Wonderful Life! – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)

22 Feb 2024 – Abalones And MeePok

Mon: Feb has so far been busy and at this stage in life rather taxing on both the mental&physcial, mind&body. A good night sleep&rest last night helped – has been a long while ago since day or night without coughing. Taking today&tomorrow to reset for whatever needed to move forward, but still procrastinating with paperworks! Appreciations to Mun&SK for this, not a fan of abalones, but tried these mini abalones yesterday and thought them to be rather good&tender. A 2024-Gilded–Lucky-Charm landed on my lap from the LionDance on the 1stCNY-day.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost – from my favourite Tolkien poem

Abalones bring back a funny memory from a Mar2017Perth/Australia trip where there was a RunawayAbalone – for real, hahaha! Perth 2017/2 – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)

Tue: good Tue-morning – grocery&fresh produce shopping@Giant&MarineC-WetMarket. Looking forward to the soon-opening of the MT-MRT-station and the completions for the redeco to these facilities.

Welcome to those attending 2024 Air Show – will be missing niece Yasmine&family for this event this year! Protectors of our skies, and other airborne marvels at Singapore Airshow 2024, Lifestyle News – AsiaOne

Tkx to EdgarO for his share of BakChorMee&KoloMee – pix credits to LeslieTay&EdgarOng

Bak chor mee is to Singapore as kolo mee is to us. It seems that it’s problematic nowadays to find anyone selling a nice bowl of it on the small red dot! Luckily for us, I don’t seem to encounter much difficulties in locating good old fashioned kolo mee in Kuching!

Like both BC-Mee&Sarawak-KoloMee and agreeing w LeslieTay Facebook that it not easy to find really good BC-Mee, many places have decent OK ones. Here in SIN/EastSide, my recommendation will be 132 MeePokKwayTeow, 59MarineTerrace.

Most memorable Sarawak-KL-Mee for me was 2011 in Sibu, costing about 1MYR then.

https://amylamsg.com/2011/03/19/sibusarawak/

Thu: cleaning&scrubbing pots&pans, working up a sweat to rid as much toxin as possible. Balancing accounts, paying&updating bills to not be in the red, appts penciled&penned into planner, tickets booked&paid for SIN-CAE-SIN/US$1,330.75S$1,850.58(dep SIN Mon29Apr2024). Consider this a healthy productive day before another busy social weekend ahead.

19 Feb 2024 – 人日=Human Day(literally translated)

Thu: trying to know&understand why this posting was removed by FB? Am sure there was nothing sensitive or malicious to inform FB family&friends about my brother’s passing. Wrote to FB-Support&Help but not sure if they will reply?

Fri: Happy Bday to all on this HumanDay人日, 7thLunarDay of CNY. Chinese legend has it that Nuwa女娲 who created the earth also created humans on this day!

Cuisine Paradise | Singapore Food Blog | Recipes, Reviews And Travel: [Day 7 Of CNY] Ren Ri (人日) and Yu Sheng (鱼生) (ellenaguan.com)

Missing Frank&Jessic’s 28 ingredients King of all YuiSang鱼生

Tkx to those who shared these amazing foods pix. Bon Appetit.

Here Are The Things You Need to Do on 初七, Which is Everyone’s Birthday – Goody Feed

Lovely to catch up with Leng,Tora,Victor&Aurora who are visiting – their eldest Marcus stayed back in Norway to house&pet sit. Have been informed that this winter in Norway has been severely harsh – coming from a Northern Norwegian, it must have been rough.

How blessed&fortunate that these fantastic LionDancers crossed my path as was just about to leave ChinatownPoint, and with nothing important to rush for, stayed to enjoy&watch their magnificent performance but not sure if it’s good for the heart – every time they are ready to make a leap on the poles, my heart misses a beat! As it is the cymbals&drums are enough to deafen any ear’s, especially when standing next to them – probably the best way to drum in the new year and to ward off evil spirits…

Sat: a morning for errands@ParkwayP before the main weekend crowds. Popiah-breakfast@MP-Hawkers – must do another Popiah-DIY-party again one day.

Brought own containers to package ChickenRice with extra soup(one of my favourite clear ChickenSoups) for the rest of the day.

Only the pure of heart can make good soup — Beethoven

Main reason for being here today is Watson’s. Was hoping to have got this done yesterday in Chinatown, but no such luck, ChinatownPoint branch did not have a pharmacy. These patches of Ketotop are a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) with analgesic &antipyretic actions and so far the only patches without fragrance that have worked for me over the years. Tkx to cousins Susannah&Edith for their S$8voucher+today’s promotion, managed to save~S$20.  Ketotop: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, FAQ – MedicinesFAQ

Sun: annual visits to the NW-side took a whole day with nearly 2hrs on public transport for oneway! 10.15hrs from MarineC with bus16+2MRTchanges Dakota&Bishan to Kranji&BkBartok and did not get back until 20.30hrs.

2ndSIL looking good&healthy and niece JenLeng looks much too young to be retiring from her job this year. Always enjoy her yummy home-cooked-curry but did not get to meet the new BrownGen.

Nephew JenMun&SiewKeng+grandnephew SuiChang all looking well – view from their BkBartok-HDB. Appreciations to the family for humouring this white-hair auntie&grandauntie w pix and by taking time to drive me to&fro MRT-stations – totally blessed with my family’s amazing younger generations.

Got back to be met with drums&cymbals from the annual CNY-neighbourhood dinner@ the common hardcourt area. Nice that everybody is having a good time and hopefully it will end by 22.00hrs – am sooo ready to crash tonight.

14 Feb 2024 – Third Brother

Sun: MandaiCrematorium for Steven’s funeral with nieces,nephews&grandnephews. Paid respects to my parents & to s-i-l since we were at the location, and surprisingly for a 2ndCNY-day, looked like many others were also paying respects to their departed ones.

A multi-million$ industry NirvanaMemorialGarden where both Steven&PohKit tablets with their names are now located.

Words will be out of place here as to how I feel about such extravagance spent on the departed, but each to their own beliefs to ease their conscience. The never-ending of beliefs, faith and hopes triumph over logic and reality again! As Denise puts it so eloquently – Our humanness makes us vulnerable and we all seek solace in different ways. I suppose it depends on the devils that haunt one from life’s experiences that determine what manner of solace we choose.

Nirvana Memorial Garden – A Six Star Memorial Garden (nirvanagarden.com.sg)

Tkx for lunch@CystalJade/JurongPt, Olai would have liked to see how they make his favourite XiaoLongBao小笼包 from scratch – 1st time in this location and was amazed at this made-to-be a HKG-St ambience.

Mon: sea burial today heading out to the open seas from MarinaBayFerryTerminal

where dearest bro Steven can now be free to RIP – despite of the rains we managed to send him peacefully off with loving memories&thoughts for his final journey to his resting place. Tkx for lunch@Daisy’s.

For the Chinese, a decent funeral is considered one of the most important acts of filial piety to one’s parents and elders. My dear children, when my life’s journey is over please let me go quietly and peacefully, no need with acts of filial piety, ie rituals, ceremonies, etc. The gracious decent lovely beings you are (during my life’s journey) and hopefully continue to be after my life’s journey are your acts of filial piety.

A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived – Tolstoy

Tue: fasting&resting to recharge for whatever may be ahead! Appreciations to Gel for delivering her annual homemade Kimchi+GreenTea – looking forward to tasting it.

Wed: 5thDay of the LunarNewYear/2024 is to welcome Caishen财神 in Chinese mythology, is a revered deity associated with prosperity, abundance&financial well-being. Forecast with the presence of quarrelsome stars, so best to be aware of such – hahaha!

Caishen | God of Wealth, Fortune, Prosperity | Britannica

Happy Valentine’s/Heart’s Day. The origins of V-Day is a pagan festival, Lupercalia in ancient Rome – not as romantic as you would imagine! According to Hallmark ~145million cards are sold in USA and ~250million stems of flowers globally each year! At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass – Joan Rivers

Today is also Ash Wednesday for those marking the start of Lent:

Ash Wednesday, Valentine’s Day fall on the same day this year | AP News

Tkx with appreciations for dinner tonight@CrystalJade/GreatWorldCity, pleasantly surprised with not much of a crowd at the restaurant for a Valentine’s evening.

Menu: in pix 2CombinationRoastedMeatPlatter, ChineseSpinach with AssortedEgg in Broth, Sweet&SourPork, PrawnPasteChickenWings, BeefHorFun, RoastDuck + not in pix SautéedBeef&Asparagus, CrispyHomemadeTofu, Chicken&DuckCongee, and my all-time favourite mini EggTarts. As per request for MeiPin to let her know the dishes…

10 Feb 2024 – The Year Of The Dragon

Wed: somehow fate has it that I decided against going out last night to see the 1,500DragonDrones as it was cancelled, perhaps might be able to catch it another night in the schedule? And just as well to stay away from anyone to nurse a runny nose&stomach.

MBS cancels Feb 6 CNY drone show, citing ‘unforeseen circumstances’ | The Straits Times

Yeah to that we will soon have MRT connection. Marine Terrace TEL-BrownLine MRT station Exit2 is just around the corner from me.

TEL Stage 4 stations handed over to SMRT for final tests | The Straits Times

My favourite commercial where taking public transport is concerned…

How do you measure the economic success of a country? Looking from this list, good to know that both Norway&SIN are where I have lived&worked in these countries and at present still visiting in SIN and returning annually to visit Norway. Happiness,success,riches,wealth,etc are relative&subjective! But life would be rather sad if everything is to be measured by monetary signs!

The World’s Richest Countries Across 3 Metrics (visualcapitalist.com)

We are all visitors to this time, this place – Aboriginal proverb. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love – QE2

Thu: condolences to nieces,nephews&grandnephews for the loss of their father&grandfather, my3rd bro Steven Lam KwokPing.

Reunion dinner@Rochalie with family&friends.

Good to catch up with MeiPin & Chris and nice to meet with May&Andrew who are also friends with Carmel & HelenSee, small world. Appreciations to Les&Ivy for ReunionDinner to welcome the Year of the Dragon, eager&ready to pounce its forceful

Fri: TGIF and a good weekend to all. To those who will be having their ReunionDinner tonight, enjoy your moments before the mighty Dragon eager&ready to pounce its forceful appearance tomorrow.

Sat: welcome to the Year of the Dragon to SIN. A Happy,Healthy&Wealthy Chinese/Lunar New Year to all who are marking and celebrating. My dialect is Cantonese, KongHeiFattChoy 恭喜肥菜is used at this time of year to deliver a wish for prosperity.

Tkx to Les&Ivy for 1stDayCNY lunch@Rochalie.

Did not manage to capture a family group pix, but some shots are better than none. Hopefully David will have better one to be updated here.

Appreciations to KK for the LionDance@Cairnhill.

Great to catch up with Rosanna&family who arr from UK yesterday and nice chat with YunYun.

6 Feb 2024 – Alexandra Hospital

Sat: an emotional afternoon@AlexandraHospital/Hospital In A Garden with bro Steven – 1stVisit here around noon in blue sky&sunshine and was impressed by all the luscious greenery surroundings, a feeling of peace&serenity, also bringing back childhood memories of 5TemenggongRd.

The sky opened up in the later afternoon and was amazed&liked where there were some open corridors with the bamboo shades curtains which prevent the rains in, but still giving the fresh-open-air cool breeze. Watching Steven drifting in&out, praying here that he is in no pain and he even gave me a smile when I left.

Just like in my childhood days, the cars could be under these shades to let ppl out at the main entrance and such a clever idea to have a glass roof here. Appreciations&tkx to nieces&grandnephews for picking me up to dinner@GreatWorld, and rather brave of me to attempt to be out on a Sat evening.

Alexandra Hospital (roots.gov.sg)

Appreciations to JeromeLIM for his share: Alexandra Military Hospital — which began operations in July 1940 as Singapore main military hospital, was the scene of a brutal massacre of medical staff and patients.

Sun:  1stDay of ChineseSpring is today Li-Chun立春 which means the start of Spring. CNY-Day usually is around this time. Thus CNY holiday is also called SpringFestival春節, also my dearest bro Lawrence would have been 90 today, may he RIP.

8things to avoid today – tkx to RY for this share&reminder: 1Don’t go back to your wives’parents, 2Don’t move house,

3Don’t pick a quarrel with others, 4Don’t cut your hair, 5Don’t go for medical treatment,

6Don’t lie down, 7Don’t exercise vigorously, 8Don’t immerse in video games or binge watch shows. Not that I was going to do any of these today considering the rest I need after the busy Jan-month but will try to remember not to lie down or binge watch any shows, and definitely not going or near into Chinatown.

Sad to hear of Roar’s passing in Trondheim/Norway, may he now RIP – condolences to Anne&family. Roar Margido Stenseth | Minneside (vareminnesider.no)

Jul2023: delightful afternoon 3k-hike@Baklidammen to&fro Lavollen when Roar just walked way ahead of us like there was no tomorrow despite having great difficulties to get up after sitting down. And that was my last hike with Roar.

Trondheim/2023 – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)

Mon: getting clothes, etc fixed to be ready for the CNY – the heat is back and AC is also back on. Was reminded by FB that it has been 11yrs! ago when Brian&Helen included me in their celebrations in HKG then when there was still energy to party till the early hours of dawn – hahaha!

Feb2013: painted the town red after dinner and did not get back to the hotel until 0300hrs. Appreciations to these young people for including this grandmother in their celebrations. Had a blast.

https://amylamsg.com/2013/02/06/party-like-there-is-no-tomorrow/

Tue: was planning for the LightToNight2024+1,500Drones tonight but would be tempting fate riding a bus to wet evening events. Have so far been living vicariously thru’FB-friends&social media pix. And even if I am there, my pix can never justify the real thing!

Light to Night Festival 2024 happening from Jan. 19 to Feb. 8 at Civic District – Mothership.SG – News from Singapore, Asia and around the world

Dragon made up of 1,500 drones to light up Marina Bay sky in February – CNA Lifestyle (channelnewsasia.com)

2 Feb 2024 – Where Size Does Not Matter

Tue: a day to catch up with errands and grocery shopping. Bus197 to BugisJct/M1 to settle with the application for DigitalAccess – was greeted by frogs near the bus stop,hahaha! Walked to ShineKorea/N-BridgeRd for this Yuzu(refreshing with 1TableSp mixed in a large glass of ice water)RoyleS$17/RafflesCity for my CNYtreats. Early dinner mood – MiniChickenRiceBowl++S$10@Guzman y Gomez/I12.

Giant/MT-Tue4%Sen, could not resist this basket on promotion and was pleased with how sweet these mini tangerines are. CDCvouchers/S$60 and ended up paying S$1.60. Here is a case where size really does not matter! punt intended lol. These mini tangerines are really juicy&sweet, highly recommended.

Wed: lunch mood for IndonesianFood/AssamFish+AcarAcar@JewelFoodRepublic, that’s the advantage with living in a place will all these choices. Nice to have caught up with Garry for this time round. 1st encounter with a robot police@T4 – wonder how that works? Somehow would feel safer with a real one in uniform! Tkx for this first taste from Ai-CHA爱茶

Tkx to Seb for this link – Police robots on patrol in Singapore (youtube.com)

Thu: welcome Feb and good to receive 6months of RecogenSupplements,complimentary BdayBox+7FOCsachetsS$256 delivered. Hopefully these will keep my joints lubricated for the next 6months, but for today, do need to let those joints, body&mind take a break to rest up for busy upcoming social events – collagen pix downloaded.

Collagen: Benefits of Types in Food, Powders, and Body (verywellhealth.com)

Fri: popiah from MP-hawkers to Rochalie for Ivy’s lunch – have not seen such a selection of such fancy teas from Korea. Will take some getting used to not seeing Mila there.

Tkx for Tea@M&S-Cafe/Wheelock – have not been in this space since it was Borders! just goes to show how long ago?? Great to catch up with AudreyM who has moved back to SIN from China since last summer, and now she is busy with her dog and a new job.

These are simple rules. No barking, no growling, you will not lift your leg to anything in this house. This is not your room. No slobbering, no chewing, you will wear a flea collar. This is not your room. No begging for food, no sniffing of crotches, and you will not drink from my toilet. This is not your room – Turner & Hooch/1989

2 – Happy Bdays Cathrine and Garry
4 – Happy Bday Kurt and Lawrence who would have been 90
6 – Happy Bdays Letty and MariaTorres
10 – Happy Bday MeiYEO
12 – Happy Bday SK
14 – ♥ ♥ ♥Happy Valentine’s Day♥ ♥ ♥
15 – Happy Bday Guri
16 – Happy Bday Mike/LOON
20 – Happy Bdays YatSoon, Jay and Henry
24 – Happy Bdays Bjørn and CalvinT
27 – Happy Bday Cleo