16 Nov 2024 – Thanks For 20+yrs!
Wed: started the day looking forward to an outing in Changi for the afternoon but as it turned out, started the morning by spilling coffee over some paperwork but thank goodness nothing too important; then to discover that the tour by HS for ChangiChapel is at 1100 not 1400hrs and would have taken~1+hr to get there, thus too late to go. Oh well! such is life, enjoying sipping teas on this lovely cool wet afternoon in such circumstances.
Read somewhere late last night that many ppl were killed&wounded in a hit-and-run after car plows into crowds at sports center in some Chinese city and thought it to be Spam/false news imagining how it is possible to drive a car and hurt so many ppl? Heard over the news this morning when more awake&alert that it did happen for real in Zhuhai not too far from Jiangmen, LAM AncestralHall&Houses. Last visit to this area was~2 decades ago, but plan to make just one more revisit to Jiangmen in this life journey – map,link&pix downloaded.
35 killed, dozens wounded in south China car ramming – CNA
Spontaneous early dinner with Clement BakKutTeh@SinHeng/JooChiatRd – abb BKT肉骨茶a pork rib dish cooked in broth popularly served in SIN&Malaysia.
The Origins and History of Bak Kut Teh | by Yow Hong Chieh | Medium
Needed to walk after being stuffed&bloated with dinner. KimChoo@EC-Rd for some mini NyonyaBakChang/Zongzi 粽子 sticky rice dumplings to take away – typical SIN to be thinking about the next meal despite being stuffed – hahaha!
Amazing that ppl are asking this kind of $$$$ for the old SargentPepperBeatleLP @KatongSqLifestyleRetro!
Do like these 2paintings – Seasons by Byambajargal/Mongolia and Calm by GraceSoh/SIN exhibited@I12. Ended this lovely evening with Cendoh dessert – shaved iced local dessert that contains droplets of pandan-flavoured green rice flour jelly, coconut milk and palm sugar syrup.
Thinking it would have been a quiet afternoon&evening sipping tea turned to be ~10,000+steps walking and feasting the eyes&stomach, tkx to nephew for getting me out – that’s the unexpected&unplanned beauty&wonders of life. The thought that #1 will be getting married makes OLD! to ANCIENT!! and a reminder that as long as~10,000+steps every other day are still possible, there is still life and time to catch up with ppl.
Thu: appreciations with tkx for 20+yrs to an electrical-mixer that finally gave out when whipping cream. Thank goodness nearly done and only ~a few mins by hand to complete the consistency needed bringing back fond memories of a trip in N-Sweden where after picking wild blueberries+making a pie to discover that there was no electrical mixer in the apt! Was craving for freash-whipped-cream with the pie and hand-whipped for ~30mins to get the cream whipped, for real – what SIN do for food hahaha!
Fri: tkx to Seb & Adrian for dinner, for taking time to visit and walk on EC Pk. Has it really been 6yrs ago since Adrian&I last caught up? Let the Season Begin to ring in the holiday cheers – Fri pix credits to Seb.
The Music Makers – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything
Sat: getting 2024 SeasonGreets/snailmail+online ready over the weekend and the coming week to hopefully be done by Thanksgiving to have a more relaxing Dec to prepare for #2 arr.
In November, as the seasons shift, we witness nature’s graceful surrender. It serves as a gentle reminder that life, too, has its seasons, and within each lies its own unique blessings – Amber R. Treeman
Such a good idea a BlockParty+MovieNight – tonight’s LittleMermaid looks like ppl are having a good time – no, did not stay to watch but did pop by to check it out to see what the noise was about and to snap some shots to document. This kind of noise is OK for me as it is for everybody, ie not religious or political.