The last time, before this late morning, that I went to SAFRA Tampines was a couple of years back to take my IPPT (Individual Physical Profiency Test). Today, I went with Warden and my father-in-law (Captain Warden), because the Japanese Restuarant called Sakura had not started operating yet.
Apparently this place keeps a whole shelf of [...]
With the economy downturn, there is probably one major thing on eveyrone’s mind this Lunar New Year – how to survive this crisis? But in the midst of all the financial turmoil, let us not forget other things that more important than money. Here’s wishing everyone a happy, healthy, fulfilling and prosperous Chinese New Year!
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Power Play by Joseph Finder is a straightforward novel – Five terrorists; Thirteen hostages; One reluctant hero called Jake Landry. As a junior executive in a mulit-billion-dollar company, Hammond Aerospace, Landry was called in as a replacement for his boss for a weekend of top executive team-building at a remote lodge. The story took an [...]
Back in 2006, Warden was looking for the album of this artiste called Wendy Lands. Shortly after my post, she had gotten a copy of it via Amazon, and it has been sitting among our CD collection since. I had not encoded a copy of it into my iTunes collection, until this afternoon.
What I hear, [...]
Warden and I went to Novena Square for some shopping and she asked me to select a dinner place. I recalled that I had tried this place called Mingles on the second floor, and Warden went for it.
I had pasta with chicken cheese sausage, a root beer float with vanilla ice cream, and ordered a [...]
As I continue my journey on photography, I am always learning new things. Not just the technical jargon and technicalities of using the equipment, but perhaps other revelations as well. Photography has taught me to look for details of interest, to take a view from a different angle – see things differently, and even to [...]
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Back on my first job, I used to have lunches at this Seow Choon Hua Restaurant, located at Sultan Gate which is near Beach Road. The stall selling the Fu Zhou Fishball noodles is the main attraction of this place. It is not actually a restaurant, so don’t go expecting excellent ambience or first-class service.
I [...]
What possesses a man to have the resolve to travel across the world, on a bike? Surely something is behind that drive to even make that first step. Is it for fame? Is it to prove a point? Or is it simply for self-satisfaction that you can do something before your time is up? Perhaps [...]
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What is Pongal Festival? I did not know until today, and I just happened to stumbled upon it when I went to Little India this afternoon. In all honesty, I just wanted to walk around and take some pictures, and Little India fits the bill. When I reached the Little India MRT station, I simply [...]
