my trekking boots

mentioned about my new trekking boots on 03 SEP 2011

my trekking boots after surviving the training before abc trek, the abc trek and the weekly trek after abc trek...

i am 'rough' on my right side...

too much pressure on the balls of my feet??? closer examination... main pressure on the ball of my right foot n pressure even out on toes n ball on my left foot...

right sole wearing off faster than left... i am pleasantly surprise at the condition of the soles... the black tyre material really tough :)

the leather outer also not bad... oops...

giving way... [must remind myself not to pull the shoe-lace too tight]

i quickly sew it... heehee not bad hor...

hope my boots can continue to withstand the weekly trek n... abit paisay lei wanting the S$160 boots to last for so long but  i very hardworking lor... brush n wash the soles n air the boots after each wear... haha so... hope my boots can withstand the 'far' future ebc trek... targeting to challenge the 'everest base camp' trek within next 5 years :)

happy trekking......

音乐剧大家乐 Let’s Rock The Musical

in case u say i 'bo-jio'... i attending '音乐剧大家乐 Let’s Rock The Musical' this sunday...

'Let’s Rock The Musical' (音乐剧大家乐) is about a story of 5 teenager with love in music looking for their dream. Young and vanguard Ah Lun (阿伦), Ah B (阿B), Ah You (阿友), Ah Kin (阿健) and Ah Keong (阿强) formed themselves as a band, and sing for their dream. They work together with unspoken consensus, and turned themselves from ”Losers” to ”The Winners”. 'Let’s Rock The Musical' is suitable for all age of people, it had the auditory entertainment of a concert, and also has the friendliness of a drama performance.

'Let’s Rock The Musical' chooses numerous popular cantonese* pop music, masterpieces from The Wynners (温拿乐队) + "Canto-pop master" Alan Tam (谭咏麟)+ Kenny Bee (钟镇涛)+ Popular Canto-pop song writer James Wong(黄沾)
* YES cantonese one! hahaha my cantonese still 'cannot make it one'!!!   but i dun think it matters!!!

《音樂劇大家樂》2011年11月於香港元朗劇院首演，觀眾反應熱烈;2012年2月於香港屯門劇院載譽重演！

音樂劇《大家樂》是向一代嶺南創意大師黃沾先生致敬的作品，創作理念之根本，以「黃沾先生寫的曲與詞」和「溫拿樂隊及其成員的歌曲」為立足點，再由演員用自己的氣質和風格­去演譯這個根據58首選曲重新創作的音樂劇，成為一個原汁原味的港產音樂劇。
內容講述5個對音樂充滿熱誠的年青人追尋理想的故事。青春前衛的羽模倫(簡稱阿倫)丶崔牛畢(簡稱阿B) 丶武朋友(簡稱阿友)丶曆保健(簡稱阿強)與吳堅強(簡稱阿健) 合組樂隊，為夢想高歌。好友齊心就事成，由"Losers" 變成 "The Winners"。

《音樂劇大家樂》選用的歌曲都是粵語流行音樂中耳熟能詳, 來自溫拿樂隊+譚詠麟+鐘鎮濤+黃沾的經典作品.金曲包括: 《玩嚇啦》丶《L-O-V-E-LOVE》丶《今天我非常寂寞》丶《問我》丶《一段情》丶《相識非偶然》丶《Sha La La La》丶《朋友》丶《千載不變》丶《今晚夜》丶《愛定你一個》丶《大丈夫日記》丶《愛人女神》丶《明星》丶《讓一切隨風》丶《心裏有個迷》丶 《舊夢不需記》丶《愛情組曲》丶《親情》丶《上海灘》等58首經典好歌!

新加坡文化獎(音樂)得主,本地資深音樂人, 梁文福先生于香港觀賞首演後之評語:

"《音樂劇大家樂》做到了老少鹹宜，全場皆樂。它既有演唱會的好聽，又有舞臺劇的人情味。戲從一開場這個戲就能讓我投入其中；回味起來，還想再看呢。"

Trailer to Hong Kong premiere...


Venue : Kreta Ayer People's Theatre (牛车水人民剧场)
Date : 25 and 26 Feb 2012 (Sat and Sun)
Time: 7.30pm
Ticket : $55, $45, $35, $25
Enquiries: 62223972

so where is Kreta Ayer People's Theatre, 30A Kreta Ayer Road, Singapore 088997...

this sat/sun 7:30pm hor... let me know if you need me book ticket for you for cash collection on the spot... but make sure you dun sabo me la :)

update 27FEB2012......

garrick called this afternoon, chatted about yesterday show... aiyo the part where abigail's skirt dropped off is accidental not part of the plot... so poor thing... i thought that was part of the plot and asked st why abigail so pathetic, always has such scene... st's remark was 'abigail is a comedian'...

um... not part of the plot... still so poor thing lor, such happened... but 'blessing in disguise' that such happened on a comedian that made it seemed so natural?

23 FEB 2012 THUR - 'Eat-Out' Lunch & Bento Dinner

porridge this afternoon (tpy kou fu foodcourt)
粥 + 梅菜...

内有乾坤... this is the 招牌粥... got 猪肝, 猪肉, 猪肚, 鱿鱼, 花生, 猪肉丸, 油条... yum yum :)

i'd 'kway chap' + 花生 last week (also from tpy kou fu foodcourt)

'eat-out' this afternoon... so this is bento dinner ;)

show up for life

from fb... meaningful...

22 FEB 2012 WED - Bento Lunch

today... pumpkin......

made up for the 'lack of greens' this afternoon...

...... instead of throwing away the pumpkin seeds... i roasted them yesterday ;) ... yum yum and healthy snack... while watching tv now ;)

lunch time :)

today...

yesterday...

a story to share... happy valentine's day

happy valentine's day... a story to share (from facebook)...

Married or not you should read this...

“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?

I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company. She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane. When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.

This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that every day for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Jane about my wife’s divorce conditions. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.

My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mommy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me. On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Jane about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.

Suddenly it hit me… she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.

Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mom out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy. I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind…I walked upstairs. Jane opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Jane, I do not want the divorce anymore.

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Jane, I said, I won’t divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other anymore. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart. Jane seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away. At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.

That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed -dead. My wife had been fighting CANCER for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice. She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from the whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push through with the divorce.— At least, in the eyes of our son—- I’m a loving husband….

The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves.

So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!

If you don’t share this, nothing will happen to you.

If you do, you just might save a marriage. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

12 FEB 2012 SUN - Prosperity Toss Salad [LoHei]

we enjoyed the 撈鱼生 [Prosperity Toss / LoHei / YuSheng] so much on cny day 14 [05FEB2012 SUN] that my sis, susan went to the supermarket on that very day, to buy another 2 sets to eat after cny (expiry date APR2012)... so we had the prosperity toss yesterday, since not for cny, we do without the raw fish or abalone, so we had 'prosperity toss salad' :)

haha we can't finish all... a bit too sweet and sticky... so i kept the leftover in the fridge... today i added some purple cabbage, celery and cucumber to make this colorful salad... look nice.. taste yum yum too :)

12 FEB 2012 SUN - Hindhede Nature Park 2 of 2

... hindhede playground...

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hahaha forgotten that i'm taking video, not taking pic where i can edit with anti-clockwise...

slide-video 02 of 12 elijah wanna climb back...

slide-video 03 of 12 rachel gave kenneth a fright...

slide-video 04 of 12 yiping...

slide-video 05 of 12 elijah... rachel...

slide-video 06 of 12 yiping...

slide-video 07 of 12 elijah... rachel...

slide-video 08 of 12 elijah... rachel... kenneth...

slide-video 09 of 12 up the steps...

slide-video 10 of 12 rachel... elijah... kenneth...

slide-video 11 of 12 elijah...

slide-video 12 of 12 kenneth... elijah... rachel...

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swing-video 2 of 2 elijah... twinkle twinkle little star...

on our way back... elijah was very tired, he was like dozing off on the bus... i told him to go ahead to nap if he can assure me that he will wake up when we're reaching home... he was sitting on my left then, so he rested his head on my lap while still in sitting position... i woke him up one bus-stop in advance, no problem at all... then he said 'i cannot walk, my leg pain, my leg zig-zag zig-zag... muahahaha my first time hearing such description for numbness, so CUTE!!!... so i carried him down the bus :)

12 FEB 2012 SUN - Hindhede Nature Park 1 of 2

hindhede quarry...

blow bubbles 吹泡泡......

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wow wow elijah doing yoga asana post... i never teach him leh... he must have potential :)

i 'rolled and cut' wholemeal bread with 'peanut butter' and 'seafood-sandwich spread' and prepared 'ants on a log' for the little ones to snack...

... to be continued... next post... hindhede playground :)

11 FEB 2012 SAT - My 1st Solo Trek [MacRitchie-RifleRange-BtTimah]

st not in town, so i trekked alone... frankly i struggled a bit in the morning, 'aiya alone not so safe to trek lor,...' lucky enough i managed to overcome the laziness :)

0856 starting point...

0924

0936, 0939

0956 at tree top walk 4.9km 59min [chatted with the uncle attendant for about 2min]

1046 at rifle range road 8.7km 1hr50min

circled in pink is the lady i spotted after the tree top walk... soon after here she stopped and asked me how soon she can reach the main road... she started at ard 7am with a few friends, they planned to RUN from bt timah to macritchie to bt timah... she got blister on her toes so the rest continued running while she walked alone... she finished all her 1-litre water... so i gave her some water...
we continued our walk and chat... she is from ipoh, working in s'pore...... she was so happy when she saw a taxi drove in BUT it's a on-call taxi... i told her not to worry, the taxi likely have to drive out from this road after picking up his passenger... so we continued walking...
soon we saw the taxi again... i helped her stopped the taxi... the driver is kind enough to stop and the passenger was so kind too, before i opened the door, he already moved in to the middle seat... so i told them the lady leg pain and asked if they could give her a lift to the main road... then take care...bye... she's off...
hope she is well now :)

1138 bt timah nature reserve 13.2km 2hr42min [at this point i was very exhausted already! however i continued to trek up to bt timah summit after refilling water from the cooler at the visitor centre]

1149 this pic!!! hahaha i was so giddy that i just sat on the road side... in order not to attract attention i pretended taking pic lah, right after i held my head down to cure the giddiness... btw my position here was somewhere in the middle of the vistor centre and the first hut (keruing hut)... i applied some 白花油 (medicated oil) on my nostrils and forehead, then i continued... took a break at the keruing hut... continued to up up again...

1206 at the 2nd hut (simpang hut)... lying flat...

1219 at bukit timah summit 15.4km 3hr22min

hahaha... the above 3 pics so blur hor... well depicted my giddiness then???

1229 ready to descend...

for the first time i took a break while descending!!! stopped by at keruing hut...

1249 at bukit timah nature park vistor centre 16.8km 3hr53min.... obviously i was not very well still... 16.8km instead of what i facebooked 16.3km... btw i sat on the stone for a while before leaving...

i sat down again... on the stairs of the overhead bridge to beauty world centre... head held down.... then headed to Mc... quite long queue lor... queued for about 10min before i got my ICED-MILO NO ICE!!!... i held my head down while waiting for my milo... guess i will faint if i were to wait for another minute... HENG ah!!! 

haha my guess was right... low sugar level!!!... i do not have the habit of taking breakfast before trek lor... i am FINE after i finished the medium size ICED-MILO NO ICE :)