20 Mar 2024 – For Linn My First Born
Sun: started this St Pat’s Day braving my way to LittleIndia(where I would usually avoid on Sundays) before 10.00hrs and the crowds were just about starting but fortunate to get a table for brunch@TekkaMarket. Have not seen SusanTye since our student days in Dublin/Ireland, half a century ago! and today she&Soon are visiting SIN for a few days.
Guiding them from there to the St Pat’s Parade which starts 1600hrs@EmpressLawn. Good to be able to cover many places of interest in 5+hrs/15,000steps ~12k walk, even caught a wedding couple crossing the road! ArmenianChurch&CHIJMES pix credits to Soon.
A pleasure to guide visitors who are such good spot, flexible&fun and willing to walk in this heat&humidity tasting all kinds of drinks&food on the way without any complains. SIN-River+TanTenNiahHouse/LittleIndia pix credits to Soon.
Great turn-out despite of the heat – green balloons added a nice touch to the ambience&festivity.
Drummers from St Pat’s School did an excellent job to end the parade@UOB-Plaza.
Appreciations to StanleyQ for appetizers@Hortus to catch up with Bern&Kiat – apologies for not staying for the dinner but had previous family dinner arrangements@Rochalie. Tkx to Stanley’s driver for getting me from here to Rochalie.
May the roof above us never fall in. And may the friends gathered below it never fall out — Irish Blessing
Mon: Happy 50Bday to my beautiful 1st born amongst Leprechauns/Ireland moved on with the Vikings/Norway and now being brave in the BraveNewWorld/USA celebrating half a century with her Fabulous5. And she asked me how it feels like having a daughter half a century??? Words will not be able to justify how blessed my life’s journey has so far been!
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind – WilliamWordsworth
Tue&Wed: after such a week like the past week, will need another week to recover but no such luck. News from cousin Irene who is in our ancestral village in Tangbianli,Jiangmen,Guangdong province/China.
So far so good with the AncestralHall but looks like we are running into some minor glitches where the AncestralHouses are concerned. Tired&mentally drained to deal with drama where greed&materialism are involved but need to get into a mind frame to handle this for the good of the family’s reputation and the village there – never a boring or dull moment in this life’s journey, lol.
Appreciations to Vince,Daisy,Clement for meeting@ZionRdHawker for one of my favourite CKY-stalls. 6th in line despite being there before 18.00hrs(opening hr), took ~30mins as those in front of me were ordering many take-away-packages, min order now S$6, gone is the S$4portion!
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for – Will Rogers