2 Aug 2025 – Keep The Trail Alive
Wed: yesterday’s grocery@MT-Giant paid cash .25c after TueSS%,Promo,CDC, thankful&grateful for all the savings. Every $ counts and saving can be challenging for some people, especially with endless needs&wants, but you get the hang of it, things become more manageable. Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses and you will be amaze at how it can add up! A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own – ClareLuce
S$1.70/Coffee has gone up .10c, MeePokBfast/CDC, S$10/fresh produce@wet-market. CareFridge/FOC – 5items per month, had to close and reopen fridge a few times to use this month’s quota.
Thu: thank you Henry for this signed copy of My Father is Police Lah!/RowenaHawkins2025 – looking forward to reading it. Appreciations for sharing my humble salad,sandwich,soup lunch and for this Brownie to die for. Proclaiming themselves to be the OriginalBlackoutBrownieDealer/Bundt By The Backyard Bakers has been selling their famous blackout brownies at their HavelockRd flagship store since 2017.
https://www.citygirlcitystories.com/2025/07/book-review-my-father-is-police-lah-rowena-hawkins/
https://thebackyardbakers.com.sg/collections/singapore
Fri: appreciations with thanks on this last day of Aug2025 to AT-FellowHiker-TrailAngel/MissWiggy(KarenSB&friend). Sorry to have missed our 20Anniversary since hiking the AT-Thru-Hike/2005 and ATC-100Anniversary, missing y’all but the fond memory is still intact. https://keepthetrailalive.org/
9days snail from USA is one of the fastest record! Thank you to NancyMcGee for this WanderingNut – a pre gift before the hike! Today this WanderingNut is grounded with a compass by the window – hahaha
Sat: Our Wild Neighbours/野邻居 book launch@Campers’ for WT Chih inaugural book collaborating with writer SW Yap. The book is a culmination of 10yrs of shooting SIN-wildlife/biodiversity documenting SIN biodiversity, and also about photography. Was thinking of getting it for #6 but would have defeat the purpose when it is in Chinese!
Nice to be able to catch up with coffee&tea served from a box/ToastBox and appreciations to Glen for his help&tips regarding Nov’s China trip. Interesting pop-up-store with a good message against animal abuse from Samantha.
A visit with Helen to BukitPanjang – a new area for me to wander…
Appreciations to be introduced to her mother who is in her 90s @PreciousHomes /SenjaNursingHome, an amazing lovely lady who could still count in Chinese,Enlish&Malay up to 10 despite her not knowing that Helen is her daughter who has the patience of a saint.
Always fun on a joy-ride when you can have the front-seat on a double-decker-bus972, changing to 16 on OrchardRd back to the EastSide against the traffic to the rehearsals for NDP on NicollHighway. The bus is a reminder that life is a constant journey, and there’s always something new to discover, ie if you will take your eyes away from your digital devices and be aware of your surroundings!
2Aug– Happy Bday LAM ChengEn
9Aug – 59th SIN National Day
10Aug – Happy Bday LAM JenWee&Alvin NG. 12Aug – Happy 3rdBday Anna ANG
21Aug – Happy Bday LIM SiewChin/Candy
26Aug – Happy Bday Cindy LAM
29Aug – Happy Bday Sean KENNEDY
30Aug – Happy Bday Michelle ANG