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2006-11-19T16:12:00.000+08:00

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Quiz 4

2006-11-18T15:45:00.000+08:00

Question: What is this?

Hint: Must be used in pairs:)

Answer to this Quiz, click here:)

After the Rain

2006-11-17T18:16:00.000+08:00

During the hazy season, I begin to like the rain. Though it is Autumn now in most cities, but here in Singapore, it is still Summer :) and the grass will always be green like this.

This was taken after the rain...and some rainwater are collected on the grass and the 'petals' that has fallen as well...

Tallest...

2006-11-16T05:08:00.000+08:00

This is the tallest building in Singapore...it is called UOB building in Raffles Place:) I was there to the Change Alley and The Arcade and happened to pass by. Tomorrow you'll see the Raffles Place MRT station, the closest ''european architecture'' we have in Singapore:)

''Vivo-shaped'' Fountain

2006-11-15T01:53:00.000+08:00

I called this vivo shaped. And somehow in this building, or so called vivocity, everything is almost like a 'fluid' representation, from the icons, the ads, the ceiling, the outline, the carpark and now the fountain:)

Jazz by the Bay

2006-11-14T21:51:00.000+08:00

There will be free appreciation of jazz, live jazz band performance in the outdoors. See how neatly the settings are to entice islanders to join in the Jazzy ambience:)

Southernmost tip of Asia

2006-11-13T00:00:00.000+08:00

Being a suntanning craze, my frequent suntanning spot is Sentosa. There are three beaches, Siloso, KM8, Palawan Beach. Normally after the tann, my suntan-buddy and I would take the TRAM around the island and at one point which is where you will see here on this photo, the SOUTHERNMOST tip of ASIA:)

The 3rd Quiz answers are here.

Quiz 3 (Back by Popular demand;D)

2006-11-12T00:00:00.001+08:00

Now, this is the 3rd Quiz for Mr/Miss Sharp Eyes DP ;)

Becos Quiz 2 (Circles...Circles) was a little difficult, I've decided to include a small clue on the photograph for those who are more observant to make the 'chase' a little exciting!;D

The question to today's quiz is:
What is this?

p.s. I'm running into the future today, as I'm taking a long haul flight tonight;) I'll be back on Monday 12Noon to announce the 'WINNER';)
So Carlos (Coimbra DP), I hope with this 'extended play' time, you'll get an opportunity to join...

I will miss this...

2006-11-11T01:11:00.000+08:00

This is my favourite Indian food called ''Nasi Briyani''. I dun really eat a lot of red meat. But this mutton curry is so delicious that even now while typing out its description makes me 'salivate':p hmmm.....

The stall is always in long queues (Long queue= means lots of demands); despite the price is S$5, lots of people still dun mind it becos they have really prepared the whole set meal really well. You can try it at Northpoint Mall, Basement 2, stall name ''Shami Banana Leaf Delights''

Ice Kachang

2006-11-10T00:00:00.000+08:00

I post this because the colours resembles much like the coming Christmas season. Everywhere is in the midst of preparation for xmas, such as all decorations in green and red. Instead of putting up a christmas tree photo, I wanna introduce this very cooling dessert which is much favoured in Singapore. Not just becos of our climate which is summer summer summer throughout the whole year:) we also love spicy food like curry, sambal, chili crab etc

So you can imagine, this coloured ice scrappings that formed like a 'mountain' and underneath are red beans, atap seeds (the soft ones are really delicious;)), some jelly cubes in pink, green stripes and they also added 'durian' these days:)

I was told that in the 60s, this dessert is held in the hands and it is shaped like a ball:) Lots of children and adults both love it. But due to hygiene reasons, this way of eating ice-kachang is seldom seen. What kind of desserts do you like in your city?

Do you like to eat Sushi?

2006-11-09T00:34:00.000+08:00

We went to Sakae Sushi at Wheelock Place. It's something like our final dinner gathering for this year 2006. I like this round spherical shape interior lamp. The queue was super-long as usual but as we dun mind the counter seats and compromising to that we get to 'cut queue';)

At the counter seats, you'll face these conveyor belts, 'conveying' all these colourful plates of sushi, maki, nigiri, makimono ....and ohh, sometimes sashimi:)

Yesterday's quiz answer is related to today's. Thank you all for participating:) most of your answers are really imaginative;D

Ta-daaa........

Here's the answer

Circles...circles....

2006-11-08T00:10:00.000+08:00

Quiz lovers out there....again a look out for MISS SHARP-EYES DP or MR SHARP-EYES DP :)

The question is: What is the function of this item in the photo?

Pastels

2006-11-07T01:07:00.000+08:00

I've got them as Wedding Anniversary gifts to Eliz & her husband. These flowers looked a little fragile, soft and delicate...

Aren't they lovely?

How about a new angle?

2006-11-06T01:10:00.000+08:00

Ohh..worry not. Our kind of dwellings are not tilted at such an angle :p

It would be interesting if everyone lives in such a TILTED block of flats. Hee hee, one would climb the stairs but would seemed to be jus walking across a short distance. But hey, then wouldn't the furnitures need to be sealed tightly to the floors:)?

Handwriting vs Art

2006-11-05T23:48:00.000+08:00

This is a hand written 'ad' about babysitting which i found on the noticeboard. This board has a broken alkalic panel, been vandalised at the bus stop and somehow it is illegal to put up any ads like this without consent from the authorities. It's format is rather more like a piece of note. The language is a mixed of chinese and engish-a little unusual. Even the style is very sincere, very genuine. She even included her (bad) experience of parents cheating on her, not paying her etc thereby demanding a upfront deposit of $300 (cos she's afraid people will 'cheat her')

Just felt her writing is like some scribbles that looked like some abstract graphics from far :p

Stay

2006-11-04T13:49:00.000+08:00

I love this soundtrack in the movie 'Dirty Dancing' - not just this soundtrack, the movie also:) In the 90's, I remembered going to movies at the old cinema Lido (now a cineplex). With my classmates especially Ching Sian and we often hang around Orchard Road then went for McDonald's together and those days were really with lots of laughters. That used to be my kind of Saturdays' activities after our extra cirricular activities. We joined the uniform group called Girl Guides so sometimes in the late evenings we will attend camp fires organised by other schools' guides or scouts:) Those were the days....

Have a good weekend!

A Strange Mentality called 'Kiasu-ism''?

2006-11-03T00:01:00.000+08:00

The more difficult to reach, ''must be'' a better fruit?

This mentality is very strange in Singapore. In fact, I dun think it is something we are proud of. This mentality even has a name called 'Kiasu-ism'. Can you believe it? Even the Wikipedia has information about it!(Read what Zsolt feels about this mentality)

On theme day of November, Kim wrote very nice comments to me about what she heard about Singapore, being very forward looking in many aspects. I was glad. But being a Singaporean, sometimes I dun see eye to eye with Kiasu Singaporeans. This behaviour - it's very annoying and irritating behaviour:( I dunno why only Singapore is so famous for this? And it can be such a vicious cycle as many parents are teaching their children the 'wrong doings' with bad examples set. It is not gracious at all.

Why can't our people be recognise as more 'world-class' people?

Mood

2006-11-02T00:00:00.000+08:00

These lamps are unique in my eyes...
They are not found on the streets or in the outdoors,
They are part of the different lamps placed intentionally in series of 3's.

I wonder why in threes'?

Theme Day - November

2006-11-01T00:01:00.000+08:00

I was rather weak in my Chinese writing at that time when I was only 15 years old. And one school teacher told me this:

"Having a pen-pal is an effective way to improve Chinese writing''

To speak (I mean conversational Chinese) is not a problem, at least to me, BUT not for writing Chinese :( So I decided to... continue click here to this true story, my real life story about how the MAILBOX relates to me. Whenever I walk past mailboxes, this particular kind of mailbox design always captured my attention. And whenever I was in Hong Kong too (There's still plentiful there, but not so in Singapore.)Hence now in Singapore, it is something that is about to disappear soon...

I managed to find this traditional mailbox at Vivocity food republic.

p.s. I have previously wrote a post about how Singapore is striving to become a digital nation, you may click here if you wanna read about it;) as it'll soon be a reality that we are going to have email boxes replacing such snail mailboxes

This is my story and something that is about to disappear soon, check out the other 62 !! fellow Daily Photobloggers who are participating in the 1st November theme:

Porto -Seattle WA USA (Kim) -London, UK -Greenville, SC -Albuquerque, NM (USA) -St Paul Kate -ShangHai, China -Phoenix, Az -Twin Cities, MN -Sequim, WA -Stayton, OR, USA -Bandung (Indonesia) -Dallas, USA -Stavanger (Norway) -Singapore (zannnie) -Budapest (Hungary) -Paris (France) -Tuzla (BiH) -Melbourne, (Aust.) -Auckland, New Zealand Singapore (Raymond) -Dubai UAE (DXBluey) -Vantaa, Finland -Oshawa, Ontario, Canada -St. Paul MN Carol -Singapore (Keropok) -Delta Colorado, USA -Rotterdam (Netherlands -Queens, NY (USA) -Tenerife (Spain) -Santiago (Chile) -Nelson, New Zealand -( Japan ) -Hyde (UK) Sydney (Sally) -Manila, Philippines -Aliso Viejo, CA (USA) -Nottingham UK -Brussels, Belgium -Sharon, CT (USA) -Sydney Australia (Nathalie) -Edinburgh, Scotland -Evry, France -San Diego, CA (USA) -Santa Clara, CA (USA) -Saarbrücken, Germany -Joplin, MO (USA) -Indianapolis,IN (USA) -Trujillo (Peru) - Barcelona (Spain) -Berlin (Germany) - Vancouver, BC (Canada) -Trier (Germany) - Houston, TX (USA) - Joensuu,(Finland) - Jakarta, Indonesia - Van Buren (AR USA)- Macky (Kyoto, Japan)- Macky (Tokyo, Japan) - Wilf (Réal, France) - Kala (Honolulu, Hawai'i) -

Green, what does it mean to you?

2006-10-31T01:05:00.000+08:00

What does GREEN symbolise to you?
To me it's linked straight away to sunlight giving its energy to create 'life':) I love the sunshine, and it means plants get to photosynthesize. Thus, spiritually it means 'life' or Protect our Earth:D => Liveliness. See you can also roll on the tarn, see photo by Wilf ;)

My 14-year-old cousin is packing his luggage for his Volleyball training in Taiwan. This trip, organised by his High School, is a compulsory training and these young men will have a friendly match with some of the schools in Taipei. The tricky part about this packing is, NO GREEN and also NO RED. (Green is pro- and Red is anti-). Simply becos of Taiwan's current political situation, he can't bring the RED backpack..., no green windbreaker, no green school uniform, no red shoebag:( aww....

Colours can be so sensitive.

I guess some of you who live in cities with the four-seasons climate are already experiencing Autumn, and Joensuu, East Finland is already snowing! Wow...however, I still wanna share some 'sunshine' elements with you...

Twilight Zone

2006-10-30T01:58:00.000+08:00

Every day I must pass by this particularly block. Today I like this moment when the sky is of this blue...I love all hues of blue and twilight is very special time of the day for me. I like this instrumental as it can express how I feel about this 'mood'.

Waiting

2006-10-29T01:25:00.000+08:00

Waiting can be infuriating and it can also be such a joy. I pressed the bell today, but no one answered. I didn't know whether was it because no one was at home or maybe they didn't hear someone ringing the bell.

While waiting, I squad down and saw this, still holding on to my umbrella, I decided to take out my camera. Now you know why to me, the waiting is 'a joy'?:)

MRT

2006-10-28T04:35:00.000+08:00

A place of worship

2006-10-27T00:17:00.000+08:00

How about a temple instead of Churches' pix? ;) This temple (Seu Teck Sean Tong Temple) is right in the centre of this housing estate where I took the night shot which Olivier from Evry (France) likes:) Actually this is a rather old estate in Singapore called Toa Payoh. Many efforts have been taken to 'upgrade' the surrounding areas like having a lift that stops on every floor, new market etc. And strangely if you were to take a shuttle bus within this town, you'll see more senior citizens than others. Some estates just has a demographic of young newly weds, some have more couples with young toddlers and some have big families with more primary or secondary school children.

This is how the zoomed out view looked like:)

Super loooonnnnnnggggggg bus:)

2006-10-26T00:01:00.000+08:00

ohh, it's really a long bus. Today I managed to capture it with my Sony Cybershot;) I'm feeling a little glad as I can share it with you all here:D

How is your city's most versatile transportation like? I dun really mind taking buses, cos here in Singapore our transportation is rather well connected (or i should say well-organised). After about ten stops, you can easily see an MRT (subway) station, where you can choose to alight or transfer to another public transport. But actually i kind of miss double-decker bus rides in my younger days. We still have them though, just fewer on the road than before.