Durians for free

Flight attendant assaulted by a passenger

Our pet has disappeared

Kurochan has not been back for almost a month to the dismay of my in-laws. He has done the disappearing act before, at the longest a few days but this time it looks like he won't come back forever. I supposed he has found a new owner who loves him more than us. It is sad but that is the reality of life.

Protection from COVID-19

After a 2 month hiatus .....

After a 2 month hiatus, I am back blogging again. Much have changed during the last 2 months. The corona virus that originated from Wuhan, China, is now known as Covid-19 (corona virus disease- 2019). After the thousands of death and infections in China, the disease has now spread to the whole world. Europe is now the epicenter of Covid-19, taking over the "title" from China. Thousands are dying everyday and the end of the infection is nowhere in sight.
Businesses are affected badly especially in the aviation and tourist related industries.
Stock markets around the world have lost trillions of dollars in value. To add to the misery of the stock markets, the oil trade war which OPEC has with Russia has caused the crude oil prices to plunge from USD 50 a barrel to about USD 30 now.
America as of last night have declared an emergency against the Covid-19. Travel from Europe and other Covid-19 areas are not allowed into USA to prevent the spread of the disease for the next 30 days.
I will stop writing about the Covid-19 and the situation the world is in as you may get further news from the media.

A busy body

Bushfires killed 480 million animals

Hot spring in Sembawang,Singapore

This video of the old Sembawang Hot Spring was taken by me in August 2009. Besides the video, I also took a few pictures.



However, after the hot spring has been renovated (2018/2019) it is now opened to the public. There is a big difference between the old and new Hot Spring. Below are some beautiful pictures taken by Ashley Tan. Hope you will enjoy it.

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Harvesting daikon or white radish

Today, we start to harvest the radish or daikon as it is known in Japanese from our little garden. As we have lots of the daikon, we gave them away freely. The daikon is sold cheaply in the supermarket because of its abundance. It is in season now and a slightly bigger one than that in the photo above cost 99 Yen or about $1.30. Our daikon like the one above weighs about 1.5 kg.
Daikon or white radish is used to make the famous Singapore carrot cake or chay tow kway (pic below).

Laying of tiles and installing a BBQ pit

It is a cool glorious autumn morning with lots of sunshine. We are still in the process of laying tiles on the other half of the garden. We plan to complete laying the tiles and installing a bbq pit in preparation for our bbq party in the coming spring.