Day: 10/09/2025

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Mount Sophia 2025

10 Sep 2025 – Thank You Cousin Karen

Sun: cool&wet day with on&off rain showers all day, perfect weather for snoozing. Surface car-park here is now finally equipped with EV-chargers and the elevator-landing on the ground-floor is newly painted ‘pretty in pink‘!

Now I am totally confused, found my father’s death certificate where his DOB is stated 15Jun2011 as originally documented in the family records’ data? So will go back to the 15Jun2011 for his DOB. As for paternal grandfather’s urn, Irene has written to:

KwongWaiSiewPeckSanTheng Columbarium. 50BishanLane/SIN – have not been there since Nov2016.

This photo is of my ancestor. His name is LAM Song Kee. His urn is #11657. The urn is located at block 42/4166.
I live in Los Angeles in the U.S. and cannot come to see the urn in person.
I need to know the birthdate and death date on the urn. Unfortunately, the dates are hidden by the ribbon.
Can you please advise me of LAM Song Kee’s birthdate and death date? The purpose is for carving an ancestral tablet to place in my family’s ancestral hall.
Please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Irene Lam(Lam Oiying)
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Nov 2016: Yun & I paid our respects to our common paternal grandparents, LAM SongKee (1891-1950) and CHAN SweeNgor (1891-1978)@KwongWaiSiewPeckSanTheng/廣惠肇碧山亭. Took us about 1hr+ on #13bus in the rains. By the time we got there about noon, the sky cleared for us to do our duties – there are ~100,000niche capacity here.

Mon: HKG-family&friends, stay away from Tapah and be safe. Running errands@PlazaSIN trying these new staircase from HandyRd-MtSophia/515steps brighter&broader compared to the old staircase dark&narrow one (now moved a block away) taken with Helen Sep2022.

Sep2022: Helen is always a great sport to tag along my spontaneous uphill walks, hahaha and this time round was to MtEmily&Sophia. It was pleasant to step on a natural path again despite it being just a few steps. MelbaCafe was closed, so will have to be another time to go inside there.

Whenever I am in this area, memories of childhood days of the grand EuVilla, and like #5TemenggongRd such a pity that it is also gone.

Sep2022: Oh well! at least the memory is still intact – sunset also means its time to head for a bite. Found the narrow never-ending stairs leading us down to between the Cathay&SOTA buildings, has been a long while ago since I took these stairs.

Today the former TowerHouse’s renovation is completed and now a clubhouse on MtSophia for the condos HausOnHandy on HandyRd.

https://remembersingapore.org/mount-sophia-tower-house/

MtSophia.

Beautifully done-up@SophiaHills

And if walking is not for you, make sure you have a car or can afford to Grab if you live here!

Nice to still see a few of the shop-house-style on SophiaRd.

Heading towards NivenRd where there are some still some old charm&personality with more low-rise-shop-house-style and a Sikh temple.

At Camper’s to meet with today’s appt regarding the LongDistanceHike presentation to discover that SiaoXuan called in sick but did not let me know. Was it that much to expect her to text me? What a waste of my energy adding to my frustrations and ppl ask me why I do not want to work?? Since in the area, consoled myself with OldChangKee’sCurryPuff and LE CafeConfectionary&Pastry’s BeanCurdTarts.
It is unusual for me to do night walk, but decided to take the frustration out playing hide&seek with the moon tonight despite it being a hazy night but the breeze was so relaxing that I nearly fell asleep on the stonebench after ~12,000steps today.

Tue: appreciations with thanks to cousin Karen for yummy lunch@家嫂Ka-Soh/GreenwoodAve – after 86 years as one of the oldest independent restaurants in SIN and pioneers of the Cantonese style fish soup that features a milky&creamy fish broth without the use of milk, sadly they will be closing their doors for good 28Sep. Pix credits to Karen with below site added Sun21Sep2025.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/singapore-food-beverage-eateries-closing-heritage-brands-rent-manpower-5357526

What a perfect way to end this lovely wet catch-up-day@CoffeeBean&TeaLeaf/MarineCove – HotVanilla&YuzuOsmanthusCake hit the spot today.

Wed: some quiet time before the busy social days ahead and really desperately needing to stop eating like there is no tomorrow or there will be no tomorrow…

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison – Ann Wigmore