Day: 30/07/2024

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Flower Power

30 Jul 2024 – Singapore’s Orchid Diplomacy

27Jul2013: With cousin Amy Lam in St. Bees. It was great to catch up and share family stories. Merle loved speaking Cantonese with you. Good luck with the Coast to Coast Walk. We look forward to joining you for one leg of it next week. Yes I blinked!! First meeting with these 2 beautiful nieces, Merle&Mei when cousin YatSoon&Helen met me@StBeesUKc2c Thru’Hike 309k/192m in 16days 11yrs ago today.

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Sat27Jul2024: a few more blinks and today these 2 lovely young ladies are blessed with wonderful adventurous parents who take them around the world introducing to them the different cultures,foods,etc – their last visit here in SIN Jul2022, looking forward to their next visit.
Sun: appreciations with thanks for a palatable weekend of feasting on local delights with family&friends, will now need to walk more&eat less! ChilliCrab-signboard from MRTsta@OrchardBlvd/Exit2. MarineTerraceMarket&FoodCentre – SengHoeFishball MincedMeatNoodles – take away portion enough for Bfast&lunch!
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well — Michael Pollan
Mon: follow up appt@SGH, Bus196 instead of the MRT despite taking a longer time and more walking outdoors. Getting off on NewBridgeRd just after BlairRd crossing NewBridgeRd&EuTongSenSt-HospitalDr and stopping@Starbucks for a cuppa before walking thru’ OutramCommunityHospital to Blk3. Preference is still to walk under the shaded outdoor walkways than to be walking underground in crowded stuffy connections@OutramMRT. Shuttles from the bus-stops to the hospital buildings are usually too crowded for me!

Downloaded above pix shows the VIP orchids named after politicians&dignitaries @SingaporeBotanicGardens’ NationalOrchidGarden. From top L-R: Dendrobium Duke Duchess of Cornwall, Dendrobium Barack&Michelle Obama, Dendrobium Margaret Thatcher. Center L-R: Dendrobium Rodrigo Roa Duterte, Dendrobium Memoria Princess Diana, Dendrobium Narendra Modi. Bottom L-R: Dendrobium Malcolm&Lucy Turnbull, Dendrobium Masako Kotaishi Hidenka and Dendrobium Joaquim Alberto Chissano. 

Tue: Singapore’s Orchid Diplomacy – book features stories behind 60 hybrids named after world leaders – the first-ever book on the nation’s use of orchids for diplomacy was launched on Jul 29. The Foreign Affairs Ministry and National Parks Board say the book also marks Singapore’s 60th year of independence in 2025. The book features the

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that’s nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it’s ignored, it withers — Michael Douglas