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Beautiful

She gets out of the train and swiftly runs up to him as he awaits just outside the train door. He hugs her tightly and breaths in the smell of her hair. She hugs him back and slips her hand into his back jeans pocket. Their joyful smiles are like lovers who missed each other dearly and finally being able to be together again. The indian couple walk towards the escalator… happily ever after…

What a beautiful sight.

The doors close, the train leaves. Its nice to know that there are beautiful things happening even on monday morning rush hour.

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Happy National Day 2009

Cleo at National Day Observancy performanceIts 8 Aug 2009 and Cleo joined her class in performing a dance number at a nearby tented basketball court. She was all dressed up in red and white just like her classmates, but i think the dress mommy picked out long time ago is just amazingly beautiful.

We sang Singapore songs like stand up for singapore, home, etc and we even said the pledge. Its all so nice. I feel so at home some what. Its a pity we did not manage to get tickets for the parade if not the kids would have simply loved it. Actually Pearl and I would also have loved it. Oh well, at least we still felt the National Day spirit.

This year is so different from any other year as our country have used New Media heavily to get citizens into the spirit. The NDPeeps website was the main platform for all New Media engagement and there were lots and lots of channels being used. There was the Facebook Page, Flickr, Youtube and not to forget Twitter and more.

The best part was when the parade was shown on TV, NDP became the trending topic on twitter. Everyone had different views of the NDP, some loved the outfits, some bashed it, some were surprised with the pole dancing, some did not get the whole buaya chasing west side bimbo and east side nonya. lol… its funny to see and read about Singaporean’s thoughts. This is something you can’t get at the parade.

I wonder what NDP10 is going to be like. I think its going to be a milestone NDP next year. Lets hope we get tickets and on top of that still be able to engage citizens digitally.

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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