As my close friends have known, this Sotong has been sick for quite some time. No its not H1N1 or anything contagious, but rather Hives or what the doctors call em - Urticaria.
This problem has been pestering for the last 4 months.
have taken Herbal medicines and unknown preparations like Stir fried Chives (Hives?) with sesame oil and bathing with rice wine. But the itch still persists and I often end up being a monkey instead, scratching here and there.
Anyway, preparations for the Seafood union (Sotong and Jiew Hee) is going pretty well, except for some kinks with respects to the family side. Still waiting on the ballot results from HDB though, although at closing, there have been 253 applicants for the 10 units available.....
What!!! 1 in 25 chances of getting the ballot, provided that we get it earlier or the rest of the 252 applicants don't choose the one we want... Still beats striking the Toto though.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Weddings, Babies and Exits
As, most of my ardent readers know (Meaning HQ you), I've proposed to Jiew Hee and finalizing on our wedding plans. How the proposal went can be read on Jiew Hee's blog, but I will post the play by play on a later blog, to remind ourselves 40 years later on how it actually went, assuming the world hasn't exploded or at least, this blog hasn't died went.
The month of September is surprisingly a productive months, meaning I know at least 4 new borns coming into this
Lastly, a lot of hoohah has been raised over the PRC who declared her partiotism while showing blue SG IC. From China's point of view, it is a very positive reinforcement on China development. However, as a Singaporean, I can't help but feel sad that SG is used as a stepping stones for so many, including Singaporeans.
Somehow, Singapore is not able to instill loyalty in its residents or citizens. I know many people who still return to their native country after accumulating their savings here is Singapore. Its not hard to imagine why, as ties of kin and kith is note easily broken nor childhood memories easily forgotten.
From reading the forums, Singaporeans are not really anti FTs but rather the lax ruling that Singapore govt has adopted to facilitate the ushering of the targeted 2 million PRs. I would think the plan and rationale behind the thought is solid, however, the execution is really bad. As per most government agencies, they are very focused on the figures and charts, but failed to take into consideration the aftermath. Its true that Singapore requires X amount of new blood to sustain Singapore's growth, but does that not mean that we need them to stay and not leave once their piggy bank is full.
Singapore government as been asking the citizens to accomodate these strangers into our shores, which I felt that we had been doing quite well, apart from some bias against Indians and PRCs.
I think i'll cut short here and continue later
The month of September is surprisingly a productive months, meaning I know at least 4 new borns coming into this
Lastly, a lot of hoohah has been raised over the PRC who declared her partiotism while showing blue SG IC. From China's point of view, it is a very positive reinforcement on China development. However, as a Singaporean, I can't help but feel sad that SG is used as a stepping stones for so many, including Singaporeans.
Somehow, Singapore is not able to instill loyalty in its residents or citizens. I know many people who still return to their native country after accumulating their savings here is Singapore. Its not hard to imagine why, as ties of kin and kith is note easily broken nor childhood memories easily forgotten.
From reading the forums, Singaporeans are not really anti FTs but rather the lax ruling that Singapore govt has adopted to facilitate the ushering of the targeted 2 million PRs. I would think the plan and rationale behind the thought is solid, however, the execution is really bad. As per most government agencies, they are very focused on the figures and charts, but failed to take into consideration the aftermath. Its true that Singapore requires X amount of new blood to sustain Singapore's growth, but does that not mean that we need them to stay and not leave once their piggy bank is full.
Singapore government as been asking the citizens to accomodate these strangers into our shores, which I felt that we had been doing quite well, apart from some bias against Indians and PRCs.
I think i'll cut short here and continue later
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)