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Electrico – What Do You See?


Theres a jewel on the ocean,
a gem upon the sea
Where the future is an open book
A land of destiny
We could set our sights into the wind and sail the seven seas
or climb the highest mountain top as long as we believe
What do you see? What do you see?

Chorus:
See the moon and the stars, look how far we have come
Look around at our faces, they shine brightly in the sun
With our hopes and dreams, imagine what tomorrow it may bring
What do you see? What do you see?

Verse 2:
Now the time has come to reach out,
To open up to see
That we stand together in this land
Cos we are family
As thoughts of reaching to the sky are carried on a dream
With hearts and minds united, our dreams we will achieve
What do you see? What do you see?

Chorus 2:
See the moon and the stars, look how far we have come
Look around at our faces, they shine brightly in the sun
With our hopes and dreams, imagine what tomorrow it may bring
What do you see

Bridge:
What do you see when life makes you take on a mountain
Youll see that nothings gonna stand in your way
Together we can share
The strength of a million
and the courage of a million more

Chorus End: See the moon and the stars, look how far we have come
Look around at our faces, they shine brightly in the sun
With our hopes and dreams, imagine what tomorrow it may bring
Cos the skys the only limit when youre not afraid to dream
What do you see? What do you see?

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Clié & Cleo First Skate Park Session

We went to the ECP Skatepark to skate for the first time. The kids love the skate park so much that they simply did not want to leave.

Both fell at some point, but Clié suffered the most bruises, 4 to 5 across her knees and legs, daddy was a close second with a huge bruise just under the left kneecap. Cleo suffered nothing as she wall in full protective gear.

Its been too long since I last skated. Tried to royale on the first curb I saw not knowing its heavily waxed already + the hot sun made it really really wipe-out-ish sleek. Ouch. Ok, go slow… I’m glad i at least got back my proper royale, backside royale and soul grind. The next time i’ve got to get back my soyale, pornstar, unity, backslide, christgrind, topside whatever…

Can’t wait to go back to the skatepark again.

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ECP Skate Park

Clié at ECP Skate Park

A real concrete skate park is finally added to Singapore’s landscape. Its just by the beach at east coast, opposite Bayshore condo area.

I remember back in 97 when everyone was skating, the desire for such a skate park was so deep that paper petitions were signed by kids not knowing what to do, who to talk to when all we had was the love of skating. We skated in the CBD, waxing curbs and everyone was into long low stylish royales. We even made a grind box at home, explored all grindable places in our area, but we did most of our skating at the playground near Blk 14 at Marine Terrace. Now, 12 years later, here I stand on a real skate park.

Amazingly i still met some of my old skate friends today when i visited the ECP Skate Park for the first time today. Aaron, Derrick & Louis were there, they were there skating like they were when i last saw them. They are no longer kids like we all were back in the days. Now its not longer a fad, its clear that skating was not merely a hobby for them, its clear that skating has always been part of them.

Look how deep the bowl is

I was there with my Pearl, Clié and Cleo as we had a few hours to spare in that area. Did not plan to skate, hence no skates, but its good that i had the camera with me, so manage to take a number of pictures.

Cleo looking at Derrick riding the ribs

The bowl is so so deep. There is even a rope ladder nearby just in case people get stuck in there. The kids were quite afraid about the bowl as it is super deep for them.

Just looking at the park, the curbs, the rails, the ramps, the lush green grass, the shaded rest areas, the calm beach just beside, its beautiful, its wonderful, i’ve got to come skate asap.

No more talk… time to skate. time to roll! Now who wants to come along?

Derrick Top Side Soul

Aaron chillin

Derrick and Louis

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CMS Matrix

CMS MatrixIf you need a CMS (Content Management System) and don’t know which to go for, go to CMS Matrix to do a quick comparison on the shortlisted CMS you have in mind. That is of cause if you do have something in mind in the first place.

With the many CMS out there and the many types, its really not an easy task. Some are using a windows environment, some are using LAMP, some using Oracle Database, the list just goes on.

I’ve installed, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Movable Type, PHPNuke, etc. and they all can be used to create a website, serve content, get the job done.

But there are a few things i do feel important to consider if you really want to get into it.

  1. It should be Open Source or cheap.
  2. It should have a huge community of people using it, so that when you need help, you can find help.
  3. It should have the necessary modules / plugins based on the features you need. eg. Forum, Poll, Comments, etc.
  4. It should be easy to customise to the look you want.
  5. It should not be a pain to use in the long run.

Hope you find something suitable.

I personally think WordPress is really powerful now and can be customised to become lots of things.

Also of late, Squarespace looks promising. CushyCMS and LightCMS looks easy and fun to use too. Can’t wait to try them.

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Bliss

Cleo having a drink at BlissWhat a wonderful Saturday it was.

Got up at 7:15am and went jogging. Came back, read the papers, had a shower then went straight back to bed. lol…

Kids came back from Chinese class and we got ready for lunch at home.

Brought Cleo to afternoon phonics class, then headed to Starbucks, to have my latte and got some work done. Wife brought Clié to Popular to get some stationary and books, hence i had peace and full concentration.

After picking Cleo up from her class, we headed to Ikea and got hotdogs for the kids as a snack while waiting for their turn to go into the play area. Had tea and chicken wings with wife, we chatted. Got the kids out from the play area and we only bought a $2.90 clock.

We then headed to Punggol Park and had dinner at Bliss.

Wife, kids, food, beer…

Reached home, showered and slept at 9:30pm.

What a day. What a Saturday.