28 Nov 2024 – Happy Thanksgiving

Mon: trying to keep my section of the HDB/PublicHousing-common-corridor clean&safe. Had a GreenBroom yesterday, but today after hanging there for~20yrs it’s gone missing despite Halloween being over – hahaha! Whoever took it probably needs it but hopefully will be returned? Will not be putting out another one – had a GreyBroom out this morning when cleaning but will be taking it indoors.

Nearest neighbour has thanked me for the use of the GreenBroom when I have been away the previous years, but she is now in a nursing home since the dramatic&traumatic incident in Aug. The other section of the corridor after the elevator&staircase is OK but would have preferred less stuff out there! which is not within my control but will complain if it gets worse than what it is…

A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners — Irish Proverb

EU/7,USA+Canada/6,SIN/3=16total 2024 Season’s Greeting SnailMail done and will get the oversea ones into the mail by Thanksgiving, local ones can go later. Hopefully they have reinstated the festive postage rates which were taken away last year! Thank you to JingMei for BananaCake for JB – looking forward to tasting them.

Tue: grocery@Giant/Tampines~S$80 and rather pleased with today’s savings~S$20 Ikea’s mini ChocolateChristmasLogS$4.50(had it last week and liked it) in addition to that the sky did not open up until back into the 4walls. Good to start the day early and get done with errands before 14.00hrs.

Appreciations for the invite to an interesting for the National Heritage Board’s Heritage Trails Focus Group Discussion (FGD)@NationalHeritageBoard(NHB)61StamfordRd and thank you for refreshments+informative bookets – must try to get on some of these trails to check them out. Bus36 on a joy ride passing OrchardRd with ChristmasLights. Will not post until after the Thanksgiving but it is an improvement for me but still wish for the classier tradition colours of green&red, not blue! RegentSt,London/UK white AngelLights will always be my favourite and when you have a good thing, no need for too many changes.

Wed: lunch&afternoon for our seasonal get together with Henry and tkx for fruits. Forgot to take pix being so engrossed with catching up in this lovely cool afternoon heavy downpour, chatting within my 4walls and having the lights on due to the dark sky. The rains stopped~1800hrs, walked to PP to get some ParmaHam to go with the figs from Henry. Saw this bicycle that both Henry&I thought perfect for me!

Thu: Happy Thanksgiving – whether you are celebrating or not, one should always give thanks to all our blessings. No turkey or BeaujolaisNouveau with the family, missing and thinking about them…

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them – JFK

Decided to watch a HKG movie@Cathay, 破·地獄=lit Break Hell’s Gate/The Last Dance recommended by Henry. Enjoyed this interesting flick but would have preferred it in the original HK-Cantonese, here being dubbed to Mandarin. Will rewatch it again when the original version is available.

The Last Dance isn’t just a Hong Kong movie about death; it’s a wake-up call for Malaysian families to break through our own personal hells of unexpressed emotions –

The Last Dance: A Hong Kong Film That Hits Close To Home for Malaysian Families | TRP

How Hong Kong plays and a movie use Taoist funeral rituals to tell stories about life

Do not remember being here in CenturySq, must be the first time here? and do not know what in the world got me in the mood for a steak dinner@The MeatHõuse by the cinema! For S$18 it was OK but did ask first if it was possible for rare!!

23 May 2011 – … Only in Sandvika

Sandvika is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bærum where the most beautiful town-hall is located (to my eyes) and is designed by Linn & May’s great-grandfather, Magnus Poulsson. See posting:

https://amylamsg.com/2008/10/16/sandvika/

Had to be there today to make sure that all the red tapes and official papers are in order for me to stay! And to do some shopping for the house!! Pix are from the center of Sandvika which of course is not the same as it was from the first visit, summer of 1968! It was a cold and stormy night and L&M’s father had to catch his bus in front of the town-hall back to his military training then!

Now the main street where my first Norwegian bank account was opened then was Bergen Bank, now DnB and no longer on the main street which is a pedestrian street. The first row of pix is more the old Sandvika and the next row is the new Sandvika; the pix below, hmmm, how do you like your prom dress made of recycled box-wine containers?  The French will certainly frown on that, not only for box-wine but the fashion 🙂

Bus from Kolsås takes about 15mins and cost NOK30/S$7oneway. Today is my lucky day, found NOK 200/S$45 on the ground! Decided to spoil myself by taking the bus both ways and had a snack! Walking there will take nearly 2hrs but too tired and lazy after a whole weekend of cleaning.

May & Bjørn transported second-hands dish washer, fridge/freezer, stove and washing machine (all in good condition, except to clean them!) in their SAAB over Sat & Sun. Was really impressed how Bjørn managed to get those appliances from the original place to his car and out to the house. Now all the appliances are ready to be used  thanks to them…

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in the household is the mother – Beverly Jones