Around Singapore

Royal Square at Novena is a mixed development: T.O.P. in 2017. Comprising of Medical Suites, Retail Shops/F & B/ Restaurants and a hotel. Still advertised today as there are around a combined 15 retail/F & B outlets still vacant. And around 31 Medical suites unsold.

RoyalGreen @ Bukit Timah Estimated completion date is under Period 8 Flying Stars on 31 December 2022. With 8 blocks of 5 storeys high residential enclave.

I know, many consider it not gloried to see a rubbish compactor. In the early morning, prior to an early morning audit; at a newly TOP HDB precint at Ang Mo Kio Ave 1; one of the block's rubbish compactor was left opened and brightly lit.... The rubbish truck would back up to the compactor and unload the rubbish .... Here.. goes...

This plant with beautiful "trumpet" flowers is known by various names: Firecracker Plant or coral plan. It belongs to the famly of: Scrophulariaceae : synoym: R. juncea And this plant originates from Mexico.. And it's family consists of pink or white flowers. It loves direct sunlight. That is why,you can see the plant trying to face sunlight. It only needs minimal water to grow.

RV Altitude at River Valley Road by Proxy-Pacific Holdings (Freehold) via private land sale Consists of a single tower block: 21 storeys high with a total of just 140 units. One single Tower block is one of the safest Shapes and Forms Feng Shui design. This allows for the flow of qi around the entire block/stack.

Which simply means: Buy me!

Rymden 77 is on a site that was once three separate bungalow homes. The developer somehow managed successfuly to negotiate with these three owners, who by the way were totally unrelated.

This road side stall, sells Chinese calligraphy written on `papers'. In the past, it was very popular for houses to paste such calligraphy writings especially during the Lunar New Year. Depending on the size and amount of words, these `good luck calligraphy' sell for between US$2 to US$20 depending on the size and number of characters. This is indeed a dying occupation as nowadays it is much cheaper to buy it off the printers.

Various scenes of shop house frontages...

This picture was taken in Smith Street, Singapore, Chinatown. This display, shows various specimens of: 1. Seahorses 2. Sharks fin 3. Crocodile And many more medicinal / herbs...

A typical shop with their name panel. Notice the two lions `holding up' the name panel at both sides of the bottom of the name panel.

This pole is found at the Windermere condominium at Choa Chu Kang... There are some gramma errors; but nevermind.. commonsense says that it is so easy to use! No need these instructions:- SAFETY TELESCOPIC RESCUE POLE-EXTENDABLE PLEASE USE ACCORDINGLY AS FOLLOWS:- 1) GRIP HOLD OF ONE END OF POLE WITH THE HOOP AT THE OTHER END 2) EXTEND OUT ALL THE WAY TO "VICTIM"..... Maybe, perhaps; by the time one reads this instruction; the drowning person would literally have died!

Source & Credit: The cantonese name this street 死人街 ( Sei Yarn Kai ) for a reason.. the ground floors are for funeral wakes while the 2nd + 3rd floors are to house those terminal-ill folks,awaiting their time.. 2nd floors r oso those shops that make or sell paper dolls n funeral rituals essentials. For your reference ...

[Note: There are two images in this message. Image 1 = 27k and Image 2 = 69k] Topic: Chinese Customs Please note that the Double Happiness Sign should be in gold colour. (The scanner cannot properly reflect the gold colour). Below, front cover of Wedding Invitation card, image 1 below, size= 27k Above, cover page: Source & Credit = Carlton Hotel, Singapore Below, Partial inside page / leaf of a typical invitation card. On the left side of the card is the invitation words written in English and on the other side (right) is written in Mandarin. Note the paper used is pink in colour. Below, image size = 69k Above, inside page: Source & Credit = Carlton Hotel, Singa…

[Note: There are three images in this message. Each image is approximately 23k in size] These pictures were commonly found on Chinese New Year cards especially in the 1950's and 1960's:- Picture 1 below:- Picture 2 below:- Picture 3 below:-

[Note: This message contains two images: Image 1 size = 84k and Image 2 size = 71k] 1. This wedding card is Pink in colour. 2. At the back of the card, there is a Double Happiness Sign. 3. The front cover, there is a picture of the typical Phoenix (Female) and Dragon (Male). Front view, image 1 below, size = 84k Image 2 below, size = 71k Source & Credit for both front and back of the Wedding card: Kian Seng Restaurant, Singapore

[Note: This message contains 5 images. Image size are between 3k to 35k each] 1. Modern Chinese New Year cards comes in diverse art form. Some Chinese New Year cards are with totally red background from the front cover, to the inside page and back. 2. Some of these cards are also scented with perfume. 3. There are other cards with art work and background colours. Overall, majority of the cards always have a significance or meaning either in the picture or wordings used or a combination of both. Here are some typical samples:- Below, Picture 1, size = 23k Above, Source and Credit: Kuo Tai, Taiwan Below, Picture 2, size = 35k Above, Source and Credit: Unidentified Belo…

[Note: There are two images in this message. Image 1 size = 27k and Image 2 size = 67k] Below, Front cover of a wedding invitation card (image size = 27k):- Above: Source & Credit - NTUC Pasir Ris Resort Below, Inside page of a wedding invitation card (image size = 67k):- Above: Source & Credit - NTUC Pasir Ris Resort

Below, front cover, image size = 47k of a `pink' Chinese Wedding Card What we can understand after seeing the four samples of Chinese Wedding Invitation cards are:- 1. Traditional Chinese Wedding Invitation cards are Red and (newer cards) in Pink background. 2. All cards have the Double Happiness calligraph either in the modern form (wordings) or the traditional design. 3. Some traditional cards have a picture of the Phoenix (Female) and Dragon (Male). Thus you can understand why Red is considered an auspicious colour for the Chinese. However, many Chinese who are Christians, do use White Wedding Invitation card especially if it is a wedding at a church.

Sanctuary Green Condo by CDL Site plan

Sandy Eight @ Tanjong Katong expected TOP in early 2019.

This plant is quite common in Singapore, but always never placed directly at the frontage of the main entrance door. As each of the leave is pointed much like an Anglo Saxon knife blade. This plant comes from Zaire. It's family name is: Dracaenaceae. And it is commonly called: Variegated Snake Plant. This plant has a cousin, which is much harder to find in Singapore. The profile of it's leave are the same except that it's yellowish and greenish band of stripes is horizontal vs the vertical stripes found on the attached Snake plant. Worse still, this cousin is also called Snake plant but it has another tongue in cheek name: Mother-in-l…

In the Commonwealth Crescent public housing estate; the vehicle porch shelter is built around an old existing tree branch... Kudos!