thoughts escaping my mind
Since my EZLink card disappeared from my wallet, I weighed the pros and cons of the two CEPAS compliant cards available in Singapore today: The EZLink Card and the NETS FlashPay Card.
From the picture, you can guess which card I went with.
But first, let me complain a bit.
Continue reading “NETS FlashPay Card and the case for free top-ups”
I was just thinking about my post where I mentioned that Singapore needs a national sport – something that Singaporeans naturally would be motivated to play because they simply love it.
It seemed ping pong was the answer. Singapore has invested so much into the sport. Our entire team has been transplanted out of their home country and away from their families for our selfish desire for a medal. And now, we actually have a silver medal after our 48 year drought.
While others are asking when the next medal will come, the question I think is more important is who is going to win it. I said, hopefully, it’ll be a born in Singapore Singaporean.
But now, I’m not so sure. Not so sure that ping pong should be our national sport.
Yesterday, I watched two matches in two fields of sport, involving two countries who made it to the finals of that sport for the very first time.
I’m talking about Singapore in the team ping pong finals and Malaysia in the men’s singles badminton finals.
Okay, National Day 2007 “City of Possibilities” is long over.
Didn’t even see the parade on TV.
But I happened to be around the area on the NDP Preview show on 28th July, and although I’d been up and around on my feet since 6am, I stuck around just for the beginning of the show before getting bored with the proceedings.
Totally unprepared, these are the shots from my 18 – 70mm kit lens, so far the best kit lens from Nikon.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity of attending a Spice Garden Walk (Level 1) and Spice Paste Demonstration (Level 2) at at-sunrice.
It was as exciting as Singapore politics could get.
My eyes were glued on Channel News Asia for live coverage of the elections.
Results were announced from a central location – the Elections Department – while party supporters assembled in pre-allocated areas.
I thought this took out the fun of getting the results right in the constituency where seats were being contested. In the past, as the results were being read out, you could hear the crowds behind the camera cheering as they knew from the numbers who had won. Continue reading “Two is enough?”
It was over in five minutes. Continue reading “Like a virgin”
I could not decide, it was the last day of campaigning, the last of the rallies. It was a hard choice between Workers’ Party and the Singapore Democratic Alliance where they were speaking in Serangoon Stadium (Aljunied GRC) and Potong Pasir (Potong Pasir SMC) respectively.
Why I wanted to attend the WP rally? Get better pictures. Hear what they had to say because I’d left early in the other one. Why I wanted to attend the SDA rally? I wanted to see what kind of support Chiam See Tong still has at Potong Pasir. Continue reading “In the heat of the night”
Since the Workers’ Party rallies have been the hottest around, I thought I’d soak up some action tonight.
Unfortunately, being so hot, arriving any time after 8pm is pointless. The crowd was so thick, it was hard trying to get to the front.
Furthermore, the field out in Yishun next to the Polyclinic was so poorly lit, I could not get many decent pictures.
To make matters worse, the ground was soggy and wet, I dropped my camera cap when I was changing lenses. It was absolutely madness.
Being short doesn’t help. Putting my camera above my head was also useless because I was just too far away.
I left after half an hour, as the sound was bad too.
Nevertheless, here are some pictures of the crowd that spilled out beyond the field.
My dear friends,
When Gomez (WP) messed up his minority application at the Elections Department, the flats in East Coast started shaking as if there’d been an earthquake in Indonesia.
Nope. It didn’t. Did an eyebrow even lift? Continue reading “Our faith is shaken”