US Cities Learning from the Neatherlands on Best Bikeway Design

Rather hot day today.
Reached office at 8.45am
MS needed more sleep so we wake up at 7.30am instead.

Vetted a few papers and attended a meeting in the morning.

Looking forward to Labour Day holiday tomorrow.

Shared this at work:

Dublin taking part in a trial to draw all travel information together with IBM Research to help make transport "smarter". Why city transport is set to become 'smarter' 


My Reading - Quiet:
"desensitization training" - an approach that made sense to me. Often used as a way to conquer phobias, desensitization involves exposing yourself (and your amygdala) to the thing you’re afraid of over and over again, in manageable doses.

Push-ups : 40

Watched the video on bikeway planning and read this article:
US Cities Learning from the Neatherlands

Happy Sunday

Attended Church this morning.

Moved some furniture around in the afternoon.

CL meeting from 2.30pm

The Slight Edge - Success is not a random accident. It's not about taking the quantum leap. There are many many small steps taken before you reach success. No success is immediate. It is not a lottery ticket. nor a magic bullet.

Home Blessing

This morning MS and I and her sister together had Japanese lunch at Sushi Teh. Used the 2 reward point vouchers of $30 each (credit card coupons ). Lunch was $76 in total, had 5 different dishes.

Conducted a home blessing this evening at home of Gary, Rachel and their 3 year old son Joel.
They live in Jansen Road. Small cozy apartment, 2 levels.
The rest of the cell members were there - John & Emily, Shim Boon & Mabel, Emily.

The Slight Edge - "Some day" does not exist. There is only today. Your ship is already here. You already have the money, time, skill, and the confidence. You already have everything you need to achieve everything you want.

A Shift

TT some money over to Elson.
Shifted the masterbed into position, in our room now.

The Slight Edge gems - The secret of time. The right choices you make today, compounded over time, will take you higher up the success curve.

Dividend Growth Stocks

Bought this ebook for USD40 and started reading.

Planning to change my investment strategy for Dividend Growth Stocks.

This is long term investment commitment and requires discipline not to be influenced by the ups and downs of price fluctuations and market risks

Good ebook to read.

Video Shooting

Went to visit a video shooting for the Challenge Theatre.
The studio was at Jalan Peminpin, stayed there from 3 to 6pm.
First time for me to see such shooting in action. 

Valentines Day

Valentines Day. Send an SMS to wish my wifey happy V Day.
This is such a over-rated and commercialized affair these days.
Everyday can be Valentines Day to you loved ones. We need to treasure one another's uniqueness more and not take each other for granted.

Here is a beautiful story told without a single word. Valentines Day can be like this. It's about your heart and passion for one another, not giving up and pursuing loved irrespective of the unfavourable circumstances.

Accomplished Several Tasks Today

Back to work today after 4 days of Lunar New Year holidays.

A few things I accomplished today:

1) Almost finished the Benchmarking and KM Committee Paper

2) Manage to get AP Menon as our moderator for the Leadership summit

3) Almost completed the Rental Income 2011 spreadsheet.

3Rd Day of Lunar New Year

We are still enjoying the public holiday today. Back to work and school tomorrow.
Nothing like relaxing with a good book.

Did some gardening. Harold went off to do his part time work.
Had steam boat dinner together.

Went for a run in the evening.

Day 2 Lunar New Year

Rather quiet day. Catch upon some house work.

Did some handy man work. Replaster a part of the wall in bedroom and study room.

Tidied up garden. Trimmed dried leaves.

And catching up with some reading ....one of my favourite past-time.

Happy holidays!

Lunar New Year Decorations

For us we have rather simple decorations in and outside the house.

The flowers in the garden were also cooperative. There are many blooms and they add to the colour and beauty to start the new year.

Lunar New Year 2013

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year 2013. The Chinese calendar refers to this year as the year of the water snake. Here in Singapore, it is a rather gloomy day. In fact, it started raining at about 12 noon.

It's nice and cool but not so good for those visiting family and friends on this auspicious day. We didn't visit anyone this year after my wifey's dad pass away in March 2012.

A Simple Reunion Dinner with Family

Re-union dinner this year, we had it at the porch outside the house. It was fun, all 17 of us got to sit on one table and it was a great dinner. It was a simple pot-luck dinner where each family brought something. We had yu sheng, soya sauce duck, prawn batter with bread, curry chicken with french loaf, belachan fried kankong, chinese cabbage and seafood soup, meat roll and a steam fish. For dessert, it was agar agar.

This is the first time all our parents are not with us as our father passed away in March 2012. Treasure your parents when they are around and their fond memories will live on even when they are gone.

Wishing all a Blessed and Happy Lunar New Year!

Watch this 15 min clip on Reunion Dinner. Reminded me of my childhood days.

Memories

Re-arranging for more space.