1 Dec 2025 – Getting Ready for Season’s Greetings 

Fri: no plans of much decorations but the usual embrodried ChristmasTree with the 24 languages for ThankU – will be inserting in Dec postings starting Mon1-Thu25Dec. Got these lovely festive looking life-berries@MT-Market. PP/Australia asked if they were edible(typical foddie like myself!) – Pl@ntNet identify this TallTutsan/Hypericum x inodorum is a woody shrub known for its clusters of berries that ripen from red to black. While historically used for medicinal purposes, it is now often considered a weed in many regions and is not safe to consume, as the berries can cause gastrointestinal distress – looks can be deceiving! Anyway pretty in my eyes for any table centre-piece. Unlike orchid was told that they have a short-display-span – will experiment to check if they are worth S$10.

Don’t judge a book by its cover – All that glitters is not gold  and First appearance deceives many

Sat: Happy 19thBday to my only grandchild JohnW#3 born in SIN and since he is born here in 2006, will celebrate the last year of his teens! today but will be tomorrow for him in the US. This is what happens when U blink too fast! from an adorable toddle in 2008 at the back yard@AvalonSubdivision to 2025 dashing handsome young man@High-School-Senior-Prom,Irmo,SC/USA.

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away ― Murakami

Annual-Post-Thanksgiving&Pre-ChristmasLunch and this year its Tex-Mex for Clement, Leonard & SL – thankU for gifts. Not sure how much longer hosting within the 4-walls for more than 1person will be possible? Has taken this whole week to pick up grocery, etc and a few days to prepare the food. Have been feeling it the past few years whenever preoarations for a gathering but this year really feeling it more…

Continued with dinner at the newly renovated MingKitchen@ChangChengMeeWah,Blk59-MarineT with still decent food but prices of course have gone up –  3dishes for 3ppl/Sweet&SourPork,Tofu,VeggieS$40

Sun: first Sunday of Advent and only 3more Sundays/24days before Christmas. Appreciations for Sunday’s dinner, made SautéedMushroom to go with Les’s yummy SteakRochalie – a quick bite of fruit+my favourite BengawanSoloKueys before heading for the MRT. With health isues, not wise to tempt fate stayng around 3ppl smoking cigars indoors enclosed in the Dessert&CigarRoom. 

Mon: Dank je wel/Dutch – need to get snailmail Season’s Greetings ready for mailing by midweek, and now with the PostOffice@PP closed, will head to the GeneralPostOffice@PayaLebarSq. Since there picked up some stationary@Popular.

HenriCharpentier another favourite location for cheesecake – could not resist these which will make perfect gifts for the season ahead 5packetsS$87. Took much will-power to not get something for myself…

Nice to see some green-grass on either side of PayaLebarRd with the front of PLQ-Mall and the back of GeylangSeraiCommunityCentre/GSCC – wonder how long this green luxury will last before constructions…

Good to see many Seniors enjoying the GSCC-facilities.