25 Jul 2025 – Private Museum
Tue: ready&decked here with the appropriate colours lights for SG60. MT-GiantS$47.15 and with SenSavS$1.97,PromoS$7.15+CDCvouchersS$10 paid S$7.15 for this week grocery. Usually done with Bfast+TueGrocery before sunrise avoiding the heat&crowd.
Two of my favourites cartoonist – CharlesSchulz/Peanuts and BillWatterson/Calvin&Hobbes. Have been a fan of Schulz since student days in Dublin/Ireland and he was already launched since 1950! Watterson was launched in 1985 and was introduced to me when we moved to CA/USA. Both my children Linn&May had their imaginary friends/Knerten&Konda – could so relate with appreciations to both these cartoonists for always putting a smile on me.
Read&heard about 2workers being rescued yesterday after they became stranded on a gondola@RafflesCityTower. Usually like walking&wandering in the rains here in the tropics but considering that I had to take shelter@SBG despite having an umbrella yesterday, cannot imagine how the rains&winds must have been on the 28-29Floors – thank goodness no one hurt or injured – pix downloaded.
RescueTeam equipment are supplied by Campers’/SingingRock – pix credits to Chris
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/raffles-city-tower-gondola-two-workers-rescue-scdf-5249111
Wed: Happy 14Bday #5-James. Like his mother, he too likes to be near&in the water – the only one of my grandchildren who has not been here to SIN and will be starting in HighSchool next month! Also Happy 17Bday to GrandNephew Lucas.
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn’t – Jamie Lee Curtis.
Appreciations with thank to Chris for making sure that I get up these stairs to MtEmilyPk safely – no SingingRockEquiptment needed, hahaha.
First visit@PrivateMuseum/UpperWilkieRd, walking&wandering inside brought back memories of childhood home@5TemenggongRd, especially the staircase and the marble&wood floors.
The Art of Lee Boon Ngan: Celebrating 60 Years of Singapore through the Love of Chua Mia Tee & Lee Boon Ngan’ is open from now until 21 September 2025 celebrating the love and legacy of two Singaporeans who have dedicated their lives to art and nation. Tkx to ChuaYang for her interesting talk&tour – the photo by her of her father working at his last painting has quite an amazing effect for me.
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved ― Ansel Adams
https://www.findglocal.com/SG/Raffles-Park/208661435832201/The-Private-Museum
Squid-ink-pasta@DaPaoloGastronomia/BukitTimahS$39.45 – been a long time ago since having a meal in this location! Night walk into SBG from this gate was unfamiliar in the dark, felt more comfortable when we got to N-Parks-HQ leading back to familiar grounds from Nassim-TanglinGates.
Thu: a fire this afternoon at the multi-storey carpark@35MarineCrescent – quick response by emergency services, the fire was swiftly contained&extinguished. Thankfully, no injuries have been reported – pix downloaded.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/three-vehicles-catch-fire-at-marine-crescent-carpark
The sirens&fumes of burning rubber got my attention bringing back traumatic memories. https://amylamsg.com/2013/10/06/lost-for-words/
Fri: after ~15,000steps/12k@MtEmilyPk&SBG-LightShow slept like a rock on Wed night for 8hrs!
Now some clarity&energy to post! SBG will host its first-ever light show to commemorate the 10Anniversary of its inscription as a UNESCO-WorldHeritageSite, also coinciding with SIN-60. Just learnt that SwanLake is the first man-made-lake in SIN. Somehow one needs to be there to do justice for these lights!
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present – FrancisBacon
https://mothership.sg/2025/07/singapore-botanic-gardens-1st-ever-light-show/