Singapore
Am I cute enough at this age?
Singapore kids have one of the highest rates of myopia in the world. About one out of two children under 12 have to wear glasses. To some, are cute and adorable. To some are related genetic that couldn’t help much.
Stay a distance from the computer, television. If not, you will be spending extra money to heal the problems in the future.
I meant it!
Singapore’s Third Series Coins
Announcements by MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore), the third series of Singapore National coins signifies the national icons and landmarks have been released on 25th June 2013.
Read more in http://www.mas.gov.sg
5 cents coin – Esplanade
10 cents coin – HDB (Housing and Development Board)
20 cents coin – Singapore Changi Airport
50 cents coin – Port of Singapore
$1 coin – Merlion
Singapore’s most popular dog breeds
According to AVA (Agri-food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore) records, below are the tops 10 most popular dog breeds in Singapore.
1) Shih Tzu
2) Mixed breed such as Spoodle
3) Jack Russell Terrier
4) Maltese
5) Miniature Schnauzer
6) Golden Retrievers
7) Chihuahua
8) Poodle
9) Labrador Retriever
10) Pomeranian
West Highland White Terrier – unlisted
Sunset is back
After a long way of hazy seasons.
A sky breaking sunset, unwillingly leaving the Super Tree beneath.
Sharing this beautiful moment with friends and followers. Wishing all living a life with happiness and good health under the deep blue sky.
Where was your 1st Ice Cream born?
Singapore Cold Storage Company was the 1st supermarket that manufactured ice cream in 1923. The local oldest supermarket set up in 1903, its first Cold Storage Supermarket open in the 1930s on Orchard road.
So, can you imagine how difficult to get a stick of ice cream in the olden day?
Garden city on the coins
1-cent coin – Singapore National Flower, Vanda Miss Joaquim, a special hybrid orchid.
5-cents coin – The Fruit Salad Plant (Monstera deliciosa), a dark green heavy foliage climber.
10-cents coin – The Star Jasmine (Jasminum multiflorum), a slender climber with pure star-like flower.
20-cents coin – The Powder-Puff Plant (Calliandra surinamensis), medium size shrub with hemispherical pink color headed flower.
50 cents coin – The Yellow Allamanda (Allamanda cathartica), a vine that blooms trumpet-like bright yellow flower.
$1 coin – The Periwinkle (Lochera rosa) small shrub with single stem, produces flowers in velvety purple.
Don’t you feel rich to have a garden city on a coin? Perhaps, that’s my other reason for loving our local currency.
Sing “Singapore Sling”
A bartender, Ngiam Tong Boon who worked in Raffles Hotel in 1915, created the Singapore Sling. Since then, the recipe was so valuable to the extent that it has to be locked up in the safe of the hotel for many years.
The frothy gin and juice based cocktail were combined with ingredients including gin, cherry liqueur, pineapple juice, lime juice, Cointreau, Dom Benedictine and Grenadine. It’s shake up and end with a garnish of sliced pineapple topping with a cherry.
Singapore Sling has gained international fame over the years.
Actor, Johnny Depp acted in the movie ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, mentioned Singapore Sling while meeting the attorney.
The drink is pretty high in spirits content. So, if you drink, don’t drive. If you don’t drive, you can drive yourself to sing out Singapore Sling aloud!
What a hardy tree like him
The ‘greenheart’ tree grows in Guiana, South America. The scientific name, Chlorocardium, (chloro means green; cardia means heart). It is the genus family of Lauraceae.
The tree can grow up to 40m high and is one of the densest and hardest woods in the world.
Due to its extreme hardiness, standard tools cannot lay a hand on it. For that reason, it has greater commercial value for construction materials, dock and marine industry. It can also be used as a medicinal cure for reducing fever.
What are your 60s products?
These are the electrical products commonly used in the 60s of my country.
They are all PHILIPS’s products. I personally used transistor radios, tape recorders and record players before.
For PHILISHAVE, I was not qualified at that time…
Now, I am qualified but then they are no longer qualified in this Era.
If you have it one or more of those, keep the physical body, share the memories with the next generation.
What are the things on and above the grass field?
When space allowed, the open space grass field next to the Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) station is always able to accommodate many kinds of activity.
Pasah Malam (night market), mobile circle, exhibitions and religion ceremonies are some of those frequent activities I could remember.
This in fact is a good and smart idea for space optimization. The day in day out route draws great attention for community bond, at the same time linked up social awareness as well.
The ceremony here is held outside Eunos MRT station where a Taoism religious celebration took place. The on going Teo Chew Chinese opera performance is a form of showing gratitude to gods while audience enjoy in appreciation.
The wooden throne seats catered for heavenly gods are cart by disciples while it swings in trance. Simple decorations those days were replaced by modern days decorative technology and creativities. Seats are litten up with colors of neon and eyes-catching blinkers.
When the field is empty after the day of activities, what is the something that will draw your attention from above?
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