16 Jun 2025 – A Timeless Lampshade
Fri: Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition – for me its just any other day! Like any other superstition,fortune-telling,etc they are self-fulfilling prophecy – a belief or expectation that influences behavior&ultimately brings about its own fulfillment. This occurs when an expectation about behavior becomes reality due to an individual’s beliefs&subsequent actions – pix downloaded.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act ―
https://www.historyhit.com/why-is-friday-13th-unlucky-the-real-story-behind-the-superstition/
The 5Cs of Careers,Condos,CountryClubs,CreditCards&Cars – once seen as the SingaporeDream in the 1970s but somehow those 5Cs seem such a superficial take on success were and are not in my 5Cs – then or now but was not in SIN then. Pix downloaded.
https://www.ntu.edu.sg/business/news-events/news/story-detail/are-the-five-cs-still-relevant-today
Hopefully as some of the original 5Cs recede, perhaps new ones could take their place in the evolving SingaporeDream – pix downloaded.
My 5Cs are Contentment,Care,Communication,Compassion,Consideration – pix downloaded.
Favourite 5Fs are Family,Friends,Food,Flora&Fauna.
Sat: an evening walk to Parkway via the overhead bridge on StillRd to happily discover that the newly constructed elevators are now completed and working. Looking forward to the completion of the MPCC where my nearest library will be, ie 5mins walk from my 4walls!
Crossing StillRd/near the exit leading to ECP – one of the most iconic trees in our city, the RainTree/Samaneasaman can be identified by its distinct umbrella-shaped and wide spreading crown, which creates a great tunnel effect when planted in rows along our streets. Its compound leaves fold up at night or during rainy days when the sky is overcast.
Sun: Happy Father’s Day to all fathers celebrating&marking the day. In loving memory of my father LAM TinYue (1911-1996) who would have been 114 today and my children’s Norwegian grandfather JK HALD III (1923-2008) 102 today. How coincident is that the 2ppl who I admire&respect were born on the same day! Pix from Summer1967 touring Norway with my father and my first time there, never would have guess then that I would be living there one day. 1976Christmas 1st- born Linn with her paternal grandfather in Tromsø/Norway first&only grandchild for him then.
Celebrating with Gel within my 4walls with 3 different open-face sandwiches+mango pudding for dessert and enough bread for cucumber sandwiches to SL. Open-faced-sandwiches are the only sandwiches you need a fork&knife to eat them – sandwich can be a humble meal where life can be like a sandwich but you have to fill it with the ingredients you like to enjoy it fully. Tkx for drinks+herring – pix credits to Gel.
Mon: 2025 in SYD/Australia, so nice to see my favourite timeless lampshade up, glad that cousin Karen is able to use it – present pix credits to her. Once upon a time in 1988 FL/USA to 1999 SIN it has been in storage in my SIN-4walls since 1999 and just passed on to an appropriated home with an owner who appreciates it. Really like this lampshade but could not fit it into anywhere after moving away from the condo in FL/USA, and both my daughters do not have the decor for it nor were they interested!