The same things and people are revolving around you everyday, but have you noticed the changes?
Spend time to slow down your pace, and observe...


I wish changes were not that fast.

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After watching Destination Most Wanted yesterday leaves me a lot of after thoughts...
If Tony Leong and Carina Lau didn't had their wedding at Bhutan, I guess most of us have never heard of it before...
And through the programme, tens of thousands of people learnt more about Bhutan...

Situated between China and India, and within the Himalaya Mountains, only 8000 tourists are allowed in their country each year, and they have to be selected! Surprised?

They don't have traffic lights, only human 'operated' ones.



They started environmental conservation since 30 years ago, and schools have their regular clean up around the school area everyday (which here, we have the school attendants to do so, or we make it a CIP - Community Involvement Programme, which is compulsary because we have to reach a certain no. of hours of CIP each year)

The king of the country puts GNH (Gross National Happiness) above GNP (Gross National Product)

Their buildings are not taller than 5-storeys, and all have carvings of the tradional cultural symbols, which makes it unidentifiable for anyone to know whether this or that household is rich or poor. It sees the equality in all.


A very unique country of very special qualities. They are not very much catching up with the technology development, they don't see the need to. But they are happy as the way it is.

I wonder if they even have crimes committed in their country, since money is secondary to them... what could they be asking more for?

Another puzzling thing is, they are a Buddhist country, even fishing is illegal in their country, but they are consuming meat (although other people do the slaughter for them), and they eat beef! (???)

Looking back at our own home ground, it depends from what point of view you are looking at.
If you are comparing against other countries, of course we have our merits and demerits. As the saying goes 人比人气死人 (competition is never-ending)... and 比上不足比下有余 (we may not be the top, but we are above some)...
But if you are just looking at our country itself, like how the Bhutanese do, we do have our own plus points. 知足常乐 (Be contented).

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Anyway, I do hope I have the chance to be among the 8000/year to enter their country some day... to see and experience myself, the beauty and uniqueness of their country.
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Sikkhim somehow reminds me of Singapore, many of their younger generation who are educated has moved on to the cities or other countries in pursuit for a better job, for better lives. Many also don't speak their own language anymore, they speak Nepalese or English.
Singapore - many are migrating, and Chinese don't speak, or you can say, can't speak Mandarin anymore, they speak English.

Well, what do you think?

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Here's the first episode of the show!

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When the earthquake strike in China (Sze Chuan province) on 12 May, many hearts were shattered...

Just by looking at the several days of coverage on all types of media is sufficient to make you feel the impact on the victims. The deceased suffered the pain during the split second when everything collapse on them, and the ones living/survived are suffering the pain of the lost of their loved ones... probably "pain" is not a word strong enough to convey their feelings...

One moment, they had everything which they could live and survived with, maybe not to a maximum extent, but it was still a day which they could get by like any other day.
Then the other moment, they are left with nothing, but only the remains of the everything they had in the previous moment.


As at now, there's already close to 29,000 deaths. Rescue operations are still going on... tens of thousands are still missing...

The architectures affected had schools in the list, many children didn't survive. Devastating parents were crying bitterly beside the body of their child... some were covered in tears as they carry the body of their child...


And the most upsetting thing is, China has the one-child policy, which means the parents lost their one and only child.


There are cases where the parents sacrificed to protect their children from the catastrophe, one of such was the parents were on top of the child when the rescue team found them, and the child below the parents survived, but the parents didn't...
Many children became orphans...

A picture tells a thousand words... especially in this case.
Words and description further substantiates the illustration of their situation.
It evokes the emotions within you to feel deeply for them...
Those who are in the front line rescuing the victims are worth our respect.


Though homes are gone, let us hope for more survivors, for homes can be rebuilt with human effort... maybe not the feel... but the physical building... a place to house their remembrance of their loved ones...

Let us all contribute, even though it may not be a lot, but a little here and there accumulates.
We are all on a more fortunate ground, very, very much fortunate...

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First post of the month, just something random.

Yesterday went to the long-time-never-visit Bugis with Jov and Leen and found that the foodcourt they used to have is no longer there, and what was present was restaurants ranging from western to chinese food. So decided to tried this shop named 红锅 where they sell 过桥米线 (cross-bridge vemicelli?) 'cos I was attracted by their humongous-ly big bowl (and it costs $6.80 only, a rather reasonable price!)

"因为快乐的理由很简单，所以不快乐的理由很简单."
(Because the reason for happiness is simple, therefore the reason for unhappiness is simple.)
......................................................................- Lee Yan

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Yes, F-R-E-E.
The word I've been longing for since the school started.
Now I'm so free to do anything I had wanted to do.

I wanted to catch 7pm & 9pm drama, the usual 8pm timeslot for variety programmes, sometimes even 5.30pm encore dramas.
But now, none or say, most are not what attracts me! Even 8pm variety timeslot, I only catch Tuesday's Buzzing Cashier, Wednesday's Folks Jump Over The Wall, and Saturday's Sheng Siong Show. Occassionally watching others randomly.
If there's something to add on, it's 10pm HK drama - Revolving Doors of Vengeance.
So I've been watching another HK drama - Dicey Business on DVD.

PJ went to HK and is back, and HP went to Perth on Sun.

Oh, and watching news. Realised Zhang Hai Jie is back as news anchor on Saturday (thought was in March).
Looking forward to Just In Singapore, 9pm local drama starting next week.

When you aren't free to do things, there's load of things waiting for you.
When you are free to do things, nothing is there for you to do.
I've once read this story from a primary school chinese textbook, I think, it's about a device which allows you to save the time that you have on hand for future use.
If only there's such a device...
I've always remembered this story... haha

Oh, and PS is going for intern in Shan Dong at end of the month, won't be seeing her till mid-Aug!
Everyone is going overseas! I wish I were...
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So free... to update here with just some thoughts.

Why people hold such negative views about guys who cry?
Guys are human. They have feelings and emotions. They have the right to express them, regardless of their identity, status, in public or in secret. Tell me about 男儿有泪不轻弹, 只是未到伤心处. Tears come from within the heart.
Sometimes, a guy's tears may even be more impactful than a girl's.

Don't be a always hold pessimistic views about things in life.
There are people who hold on to life so preciously, because they had no choice.
There are people who commit suicide, but they had choice.
The world has not come to an end when things don't go well for you.
The earth still revolves, life still goes on.
Think for those around you.
When you aren't happy, they aren't too.

Post more happy happenings, delete the unhappy ones.
So that when you look back, you'll have better memories.
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