13 Apr 2024 – Songkran&Thingyan
Wed: SelamatHariRaya to all celebrating&marking the end of fasting,1st-day Syawal month in the year 1445 of the IslamicHijrah calendar – a public holiday here in SIN. Beautiful Swarovski display – pix taken last week@MidValleyMallSouthkey,JB/Malaysia, will give it a pass to visiting GeylangSerai&KampongGlam this season.
Thu: welcoming rains this morning – enjoyed the short cool wet morning walk, especially on a day like this with the feeling of peace&serenity of having the paths to myself.
In solitude, we find wisdom; walking alone, we discover strength.
Alone vs Solitude – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)
Totally blessed to live less than 5mins walk from EC-Pk/AreaC. From here am able to walk(not in the heat&humidity!) to the airport (~12k/2+hrs)heading East or into town(~10k/2hrs) heading West. Somehow got yesterday&today confused, especially after a public holiday in the middle of the week! Thought nephew would be heading off to SYD/Australia today and was planning to walk to the airport, but he took off yesterday and will not catch up until after my US trip in mid-Jun. Not meant to be for me to do a long walk today…
A comment from IngvaldT triggered some memories of CPH/Denmark and TOS/Norway airports from the 1960s&70s, another LaLaLife time ago – LOL.
Ingvald: selv om Kastrup alltid har vært en av mine favoritt flyplasser(dersom en da kan bruke den betegnelsen om en flyplass). Så merker en at de Europeiske flyplassene ligger langt fra Changi. Og ikke bare i distanse. Sitteplasser, toaletter og annet har langt å gå før de når Changi standard. Noe de antagelig aldri kommer til å gjøre.
Fri: TGIF, a good weekend to all from another lovely very wet morning. If it was a Grand-Old Apr2015 9yrs ago in Miri/Malaysia, today will then be Great-Grand-Old in SIN with a slight change of less wandering and less climbing of trees&walls but without any regrets for going to where,when&what what I wanted when the moods&possibilities were there – hahaha!
The Grand Old Lady – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)
Appreciations with tkx to Theresa&CJ for delicious steak dinner with champagne to celebrate Ivy’s recovery. What are the chances of bumping into my 84yrs mature(his own description of himself, hahaha!)) bro-in-law Khalid on the bus, both on our way back to the EastSide on a Fri night? Nice chat to learn that he, originally from Iraq has been in SIN since 1970 – wow! 54yrs is a long time…
Sat: Happy Songkran สุขสันต์วันสงกรานต์ and Thingyan ပျော်ရွှင်သော နှစ်သစ် ဖြစ်ပါစေ။ – Happy Thai&Myanmar New Year to Lily&Theingi who are celebrating&marking the festival and tkx to them for providing the appropriate greetings for this occasion. Beautiful decorative characters looking probably difficult to learn!
After 2wet days, the morning sun is welcomed for the drying of weekend laundry, especially the bigger items like bed-linen+towels.
She stuffed her white load into the machine first and opened the package of laundry pods she’d purchased at Walmart…. She removed a pod and inspected the interesting, squishy thing. Last year, some crazy teens had dominated the news after eating pods on a dare. In no way did it look edible. Good old common sense disappeared a bit more with each generation ―