Random days in Singapore as Tour Guide

Glad that Asher has dropped by Singapore before HK trip.

Just for today

My friend Asher send me a very motivating email today. 

I saw this on somebody's fridge today, and thought I'd like to share it: Happiness is basically a choice which is not dependent upon situations or conditions. Each of us is responsible for our own happiness. Happiness can be enhanced by what occurs around us or what those people around us do, but we are more likely to be happy if we center our activities on others instead of on ourselves. Dr. Archibald Hart suggest writing the following affirmations on cards, keeping them with you, and reading them periodically. JUST FOR TODAY I will set my affection on things above, not on things on the earth. JUST FOR TODAY I will not worry about what will happen tomorrow, but will trust that God will go before me into the unknown. JUST FOR TODAY I will endure anything that hurts or depresses me because I believe God controls what happens to me. JUST FOR TODAY I will not dwell on my misfortunes. I will replace my negative thoughts with happy and hopeful thoughts. JUST FOR TODAY I will choose to do some things I do not like doing, and I will do them cheerfully and with a happy spirit. JUST FOR TODAY I will make a conscious effort to love those who don't show love to me and be kind to those who do not appreciate me. JUST FOR TODAY I will be patient with those who irritate me and longsuffering toward those who are selfish and inconsiderate. JUST FOR TODAY I will forgive all those who hurt me ~ even forgiving myself. JUST FOR TODAY, I will choose to BE HAPPY!

Sent from Laney's iphone.

Please help to save the poor Dolphins

There was this documentary movie, The Cove which I have watched recently left a very vivid image in my mind till now. I would recommend you to watch it to understand what’s going around behind those happy underwater world show with dolphins around the world which is remarkably tragic and sad.

I can never really comprehend the fact that the Japan people from Taiji would believe in the information provided by their own scientists and government that dolphins and whales are considered as pest because they have been contributing to the depletion of the fishes in the sea. This is the most ridiculous remark I have ever heard in my whole entire life. Food chain has always been around in ages. There is always a balance in everything that exists on earth. Sadly part of the human inhabitants in Japan refused to hear the truth about human being the ones who have contributed to the depletion of the fishes due to the unimaginable rate of human being involved in the fishing industries around the clock every day.

The fishermen in Taiji, Japan believe herding and killing whales and dolphins is the primary solution to the depletion of fishing. They also believe this as part of the Japan culture in Taiji basically. They quoted this as normal and it is part of their life taking from instance, In Australia there are kangaroos and Aussie consumed kangaroo meats, in Taiji Japan, they lived around the sea and ocean where they are surrounded by whales , dolphins and other fishes, they consumed them in the same way.

It is really distressing to hear their words which they have spoken with so much confidence in them. The thing that disturbs me the most is bloody gruesome scene on how they claim that they have improved the tactic to kill the dolphins instantly to reduce their pain which is in fact not true after your watch the documentary. The dolphins actually swim and hopped with a high screeching sound in agony pain while the cove ocean water turned from clear blue to bright red in color gradually. The conversation that records about the fishermen’s killing was almost like a acclaimed credits and honour which they have earned in killing the dolphins or whales. The dolphins always have a smiling face all the time in the show but in fact if you actually watched them closely on their eyes, there are tears. Dolphins are very sensitive to sound, when they are in captured in the museum or shows, the audiences’ clapping and the excitement scream from the crowd stresses them in a very tremendous way. Dolphins are the smartest and most friendly animal on earth in the ocean.

In the documentary, it is not just mere concern about the dolphins but it is also a mere concern that the Japan government is aware that dolphins’ meats itself contain a huge quantity amount of mercury which has exceed the amount of the approved quantity amount in the food for health. The health of the residents in Japan is at risk of having too much mercury in them by consuming dolphins’ meats. Japan government is also aware that some of the dolphin food distributers have packaged the dolphin meat as whale meat which Japan people are not aware of. The history of the Minamata Disease is going to repeat itself again in Japan in the matter of time. In the 1950s, Industrious Factory that poured the toxic mercury waste into the river and ocean in discrete. They worked with the government to conceal the truth. The children and people who drank from the river suffered from Minamata Disease. There were a lot of deformed children and people around back then. This disease is a silent killer taking away one’s sight, brain function, hearing and muscle movement gradually in time till one’s body become malfunction.

Ric O Barry who is the founder of the dolphin-Flipper and the first Dolphin Show in America resigned to become the founder in the Save the Dolphin organization after he has seen the Flipper committing suicide on his arms. He has been arrested in America for so many times in freeing the dolphins back to the ocean and sea. He is also the reason why the Documentary, The Cove was being filmed to uncover the truth.
During the time in Japan, he offered to pay the same amount of money the fishermen earned in killing and catching the dolphins if they would stop this field. They refused and said this was part of their custom and responsibility to save the depletion of fish. No one in Tokyo is aware of this till now. The media in Japan is very well under controlled by the government.

This documentary made me reflect a lot lately. I am really going to be a vegetarian gradually. May God bless those Dolphins and people in Japan. The documentary did not stop this dolphin killing activity. It will happen every year between September and January. 23 000 dolphins including the baby dolphins are killed each year in Taiji Japan. People in Japan are consuming the meats with no awareness of the mercury content. The Tsunami lately did not stop the dolphins killing either.

September is going to come soon every year. The ocean is going to be fill with blood and echoes of the cries from the Dolphins again if we sit there and do nothing.

Signed the petition to save the dolphins in Japan now. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/stop-the-dolphin-slaughter/

For more information on the dolphins and The Cove
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/blog/post/a-big-year-in-review
http://www.takepart.com/

Almost a year

Time passes by so fast. It is almost a year since i am back from Melbourne. There have been so many photos for me to upload them and so many things to be updated here. I just can't find the time. Things around us might keep changing but in life it is pretty much like the law of physic, there is always a constant to everything we do.

My mom who has actually supported me and invested in my education and my life since i was a kid.

My secondary good friends which i have known back them who are doing what they dream of doing, who have always been there for me even though at times they are preoccupied with so many things in life.

My poly good friends, colleagues, churchmates, uni good friends, didi and all my aussie good friends who become part of my life,

They are my constant in life even when things around me keep changing. I enjoy knowing little details of them every now and then. i hope you all would remember your constant too. Sometime i just wish time would freeze for a little while. i pray that this year i would be a better owner to my dog and everyone in my life would be happy and blessed.

Janis Birthday Early Celebration

Flower, Lixia, Tricia and Myself celebrated Janis's Birthday at Ma Maison at Bugis. The queue to get into the restaurant is really long and i feel that the standard of the food drop temendously since the last time i been there before i go to Melbourne.

Tricia's squid ink pasta was so salty, and it was comparable as tasting the seawater literally even though i have a fettish of salty food. Grilled chicken ordered by Lixia and Janis was not bad except that the chicken smell of it was a bit strong. Flower ordered a wrong dish but hers was quite all right than ours except that it was rather starchy. I have ordered a seafood paella which really sucked, i miss the paella back at Brunswick Street..... The seafood smell was so strong that Lixia who was sitting opposite me can smell it... Hehe thank God our soup of the day was the most pleasant on that day...

We headed off to have dessert along Liang Seah Street... We celebrated Janis Early Birthday with the cake and desserts.... We really have a lot of fun... =)

Dinner with Flower

I have had a bad diahorrea on wednesday early morning at 5 am and i was late for an hour. In the evening, i meet out with Flower for Dinner at MOF at Raffles shopping centre which is like the Japanese kinda of fast food. i had ramen n salmon balls. The salmon balls are quite all right, Flower was urging for some cold green tea dessert....

The following is the rating of the restaurant:
Service of the restaurant: 2/5
Ambience of the place:3/5
Quality of the food : 2.5/5
Variety of the food : 3/5
presentation of the food : 3/5
price of the food:3.5/5

Trio hates to shower and getting herself dry from hair drier