26 Aug 2025 – 15K80Singer Sewing Machine
Sat: Fairmont Hotel – Flavours of Singapore High Tea@ANTI.DOTE
Chefs at this hotel have created a HighTea inspired by YC Yip’s art where he has specially created a painting series based on their food art to complement the experience. As his works portray multicultural SIN and the everyday food of the communities, the chefs drew inspiration and created a HighTea in diverse colours, flavours&aroma.
CendolSunriseMocktail – excellent&refreshing. Lyre’sLondonDry,RedBeanSyrup,CoconutWater.CitricSolution,PandanFoam
Savouries: Chinese,Malay,Indian.Perankan,Eurasian.
Sweets: TrafficLightCake,KuehSalat,PutuPiring,
PaniPuri,OrhNee,EggToast,Kopi&Tea,Scones and VanillaBourbonTea.
Every bite was tastefully presented inside out in cozy ambience with his paintings on the walls to evoke an aura of traditional SIN where the diversity of coexisting in harmony that makes SIN truly unique. Highly recommended S$68pp but reservations necessary before it ends on 30Sep2025.
RafflesCity: across N-BridgeRd is the HQ of SMRT/former CHIJ-classrooms.
Food-court was under renovation when last here, now its TheFoodPlace where the NasiPadang looks inviting, will try another time.
New Kino here has nice SIN-gifts. Hazy evening and wondering if Indonesia is again at their forest fires but then was reminded that it is 1st of the 7thMonth/LunarCalendar starting the HungryGhostMonth. Need to get indoors and shut the windows with the AC – the never-ending of beliefs,faith,hopes,etc triumph over logic&reality again! Our humanness makes us vulnerable and we all seek solace in different ways, depending on the devils that haunt one from life’s experiences that determine what manner of solace we choose.
Sun: Wow! imagine this outside by your window! Where do they all come from? Was not aware that there are so many parakeets flying freely about at ChoaChuKang with at least ~250 of them perched on one tree. If energy&mood permit, might even wander about there to see it for real but will NOT stand under this tree – hahaha, pix downloaded from ST.
Appreciations for SundayDinner@Rochalie, first taste for this yummy Promfet wrapped in seaweed but the abalone was a challenge for the denture – hahaha! Tkx for these fresh 楊梅 YeongMui/BayBerry, been a long while ago since last tasted these berries and used to confused them with 山楂果 HawthornBerry which in CTM is one of the most commonly recommended foods to help treat high blood pressure
Hardly go into the gazebo now that it is enclosed wtih the new portrait! Enjoyed a few minutes sitting by the slightly opened door to savour some fruits+a glass of Port with the family while no one was smoking within.
Mon: its back to schools for both Norway&US-flock with 3 at the universities on full scholarships and 3 into HighSchools. Missing them&looking much forward to being with them again. Watching them off to their own life is such a blessing but also a reminder to enjoy our moments as our time here is getting shorter! #1Katy will be completing her Masters@UofSC end of this year and getting married Feb2026 – tickets are booked to be there. A good semester to them and a fabulous week ahead to all – pix credits to Linn who is an amazing daughter&mother and a wonderful teacher.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead – Nora Ephron
Tkx to neighbour who was going to rid&trash this old sewing machine bringing back childhood memories when mother sewed all my clothes on such a machine and where she taught me basic sewing, also by the window!
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine – Proverb
CK-Lim/9672 5786 who makes house-call said that it is in decent useable condition after cleaning&oiling+replacing the cable taking ~2hrsS$100. Found the original receipt costing S$340 in 1951 ~S$4,181 today – strangely the UserManualGuide is in Malay.
Tue: welcome Garry – introducing to him 红星酒家RedStarRestaurant. Have always wanted to try out the food here and the pushcarts certainly brought back happy childhood memories of Sundays lunches with the Kwoks and Leungs…
For more than 5decades, this location has and still serves DimSum on traditional pushcarts+most still speak Cantonese here, advantage for me! 點心DimSum/Cantonese=literally to touch the heart. What a pleasant surprise to bump into VictorYue, another Cantonese connection.