25.02.09 1909 Hrs Rainbow. It's been a while since I last saw it. Hmm.. 16 yrs ago.. Wow, that makes me feel old now. Near Istana . I am pretty sure the president is having a better view than me since he have a nice biggest garden in Singapore as a background. If you look at carefully, it is actually 2 rainbows. Although, it like it going to fade away...
July' 08 Midnight Moon & perhaps Planet Venus? Taken this near the playground while Raj & I messing around with the new camera , back then.
170907 1906 Hrs Took while Geocaching at East Coast near the unfinished Singapore Flyer back then. Today, with the same position, you will see a Big bicycle wheel behind blocking the clouds.
040307 0056Hrs If you look up, you will realise beautiful things in life is free.
Done By: Me (Sorry about the jerky images as this is all edited in a my only owned computer - mobile phone)
Taare Zameen Par mean (Like) Like Stars on Earth Taare Zameen Par; Aka Every child is special is a show that touched my heart deeply. Instead of the usual “Boy meet Girl, fall helplessly in love & live happily ever after” bollywood concept. It felt very real as it could just happen to any of us. It does not even matter if you can predict the ending. It is that kind of show that you want to watch because you want to see & feel the process how main lead character is going through.
The plot goes something like this: Ishaan Awasthi (Starred by Darsheel Safary) an eight years old boy living in his own little imaginary world under the shelter of his family. In his world, he failed to understand everyone else's concept of life - to be the best. Due to his disability to understand & judge properly added with the constant pressure for him to excel. He flunked all his subjects in school. As a result, others viewed him as a lazy boy that trying to be funny. Despite the jeering & scolding from his peers & teachers in school, he is contend to be with his family at home.
However, when he did something unexpected & even manage to convinced his brother, Yohaan aka Dada (starred by Sachet Engineer) to cover for him. Perplexed by Ishaan's behaviour, they believed Ishann is beyond their discipline. His father, Nandkishore Awasthi (starred by Vipin Sharma), a successful and busy executive decided to send him to boarding school. His mother, Maya Awasthi(Tisca Chopra)whom gave up her job so that she can give unconditioned attention to her sons as a housewife also agreed. They believed only by doing so, Ishann will finally shine like his elder brother, Yohaan, a successful scholar and an athlete.
Does it really help when you send a problematic child/person away, to a unfamiliar & competitive place? It is almost as if when you believe that you send a criminal to the prison, the place will transform him to good. Nevertheless, if you watch National Geographic channel on Prison Nation, the truth is the opposite. No doubt, boarding school is not a prison. But to Ishaan, there is no difference. Now, there are no hiding haven for him anymore. Among his competitive peers, he just became a zombie, a living dead with no mind of his own. A zombie which is trapped within four corner of walls with crying wails that everyone will make fun of.
Ironically, it is the place that made him living in limbo is also the place that he finally found his true self after much struggle.
I believed Taare Zameen Par is a movie that can stop most people on the track with their obsessions with the rhythm of life. Made them realise it is not the destination that mattered but the journey that make life worth well. Just like the movie itself. Like I said before, it does not even matter if you can predict the ending. It is that kind of show that you want to watch because you want to see & feel the process how main lead character is going through.
Although, it is a 3 hrs show, you would not feel at any point Taare Zameen Par was produced by an amateur director directing his 1st movie. Aamir Khan. Actor transformed to producer & director. Amole Gupte who is also the Creative Director together with his wife, Deepa Bhatia spent 7 yrs to write down this script. With so much effort that produced such a fruitful result. An extraordinary yet realistic story.
No doubt, this is one of my favourite all time movie.
Ting - Tink... Tinkling sound of a wind chime, When played by the breeze As it swayed with the wind. Hopefully, The gentle ringing will be music to your ears, Bring soothing peace to your mind, As it remind you there's a Friend blessing for you, In among the air...
My beating heart is now bind onto the serving plate,
Nothing more but a vulnerable prey waiting to be slaughtered,
Displayed & paraded,
With all prying eyes on me,
As each beat of mine pumped with fear,
Never have I felt so naked & fragile.
With knives poking me over & over again,
Just to test how tender I can be,
Blood finally oozed through me with each whim & fancy cuts,
But no one cares.
All they in awe is the power of the superiority,
Pleased to feel the invisible anguish in the air,
While slicing part & pieces of me,
Never too deep of a cut,
As all novelty ends with a dead heart.
The last moments of a dying heart,
Is then worthy in the name of Jest ...
*Just to clarity churrascaria style obviously don't served food in torture as above. Just looking at the other side of the coin. To each of his/her own interpretation. Animals, cruelty, bullying or even minds of the twisted ones...Up to you.
Yesterday, my friends & I went to Shokudo at Hereen for a gathering. Heard about the unique concept of the theme “Streets of Japan”.
As described by the website on Hereen :
" Themed “Streets of Japan”, Shokudo offers the best and finest representative dishes of Japanese cuisine conveniently under one marketplace. Preparation “a-la-minute” is the call of the day with our chefs preparing your orders “live”. The exquisite breath-taking interiors and ambience mimic the classic landscapes and streetscapes of Japan literally will leave diners in awe!"
Really? In my opinion, it is just like Marche but with japanese food. Though, I prefer Marche anytime.. So each of us is given the card at the entrance. Be warned, you will have to pay $100 penalty if you lost the card. Okay. We proceed to find our reserved seat by ourselves. After walking a full circle, my friends decided to ask for the waitress for help. I wonder why must we look for our reserved seats by ourselves in the 1st place?
Just like in food court, someone have to stay around to look after the bags while the rest goes to hunt for the food with the cards in their hands. I volunteered that position. As I take a look around, I have to say the surrounding is quite interesting. Wallpaper of animated market place, a framed map of Japan, Japan street stalls look alike stalls, some chamber seats that looked like those steamed bamboo container without the top. Too bad, because of the mass marketplace concept the place looked overcrowded & look pretty much like a maze.
Finally, it my turn to hunt for food. Omelettes, sushi, bamboo steamed rices, hot plates, fruits, desserts, teppanyaki and crepes. Maybe, things are starting to look up, although it just take 5 min to browse through all the stalls. So, I ordered steamed bamboo rice with eels & a hot plate with scallops. Thought I just wanna try how it is like & maybe "top up" later. So I passed my card to cooks & have to wait for 5 min to prepare the food for each stall with the receipts on the hand. It feel kinda dumb to go back to my seat & just come back to collect food for 5 mins. Out of boredom, just tapped my card on the reader while standing around like the rest.Pricing not too bad, I thought.
By the time, I collected my food & returned to my seat. Everyone is already enjoying their food. So,finally we get to eat as we chit chat. The bamboo rice with eel taste really so-so but what astonished me is the portion! Wow, that is amazing stingy. The container looked normal, but the portion.. Hot plate is okay, nothing great. Now come think about it, all the cooks looked young.It must be like those fast food like Mcdonald just have to heat up the food or something. And I always thought Japanese food culture is great. Marche is way better..Really made me lost my appetite.
As we continued our gathering, there's an arrival of 8 customers proceed to sit next to us. As there are no enough tables for them, the waitress added a table next to us. The gap with us & the new arrived customers is only about 5cm. Whether they reserved the seats or not, I don't know. All I know is now if we proceed to leave now, we can either move the table ourselves to get out or squeeze through other patrons area to get out. We chose the latter.
Disappointment is the word.. It just like an amateur dining area yet with overcharged pricing even with no culinary skill, no ambience and no service but with a service charge. Do you know the japanese food stall in Upper Changi Rd market ? Near the Victoria Junior Collegue? They have way more quality than this.
Meoow...Dont disturb me.. Put that camera away from me..
Caught this cat in action with on 31st Dec 08. Hilarious! Guess sometimes, we just need to look around us to find the beauty of Mother Nature..
31.04.09 So cute,right? Sadly to say this, but this cat( I personally gave it a name as "Meow" )maybe no longer be with us anymore. Late at night, one of my neighbour friend,was on his way back home that when he saw this brown cat with dark stripes sitting under a bench, back facing him. He started to meow at it. It didn't even move. He went toward the cat's face. Maybe deep in sleep, he thought. It is not. It's eyes are closed and seems to have vomited blood on the mouth. He then now realised the red stains on the floor are the cat's blood & red cat's paw prints. That's unbelievable amount of blood that look like split red soft drinks!
The cat didn't seems to be suffered any scratches from a cat fight.What's happening? Panicking, he started to call SPCA. But, no one is answering. Perhaps the person in charge is at the washroom as they have only one person on duty every night. He almost called the police on the spot. Suddenly, a thought came to his mind. Police most probably come with this 'why you have to bother me with such trivia?' attitude & if SPCA arrived to find the chances of it to survive is too low, they will kill it in the name of mercy. Perhaps, sometimes Mother Natural can do it's miracle work without the intervened of the human being so called 'help'. Just like the baby moths. He left the block. He didn't returned the scene again till the next night. The benches & the floor has cleaned up. Although, there are still a stubborn dark spot under the bench the cat sat or rather lying on. It's as if nothing happen at all.
He recalled he seen a similar cat in my hand phone, though he is not too sure what is the gender. I was furious when he told me. It doesn't matter whether it is "meow" or not. But he did left an injured cat to it own device. But ,I don't blamed him entirely. At least, he did have the cat's welfare in mind. I am pretty sure at the block, at least someone would have heard the pleading cry from a small defenceless animal from some piece of shit human ill-treating it and plenty more of those passerby that turn an blind eye of the injured cat. In their mind, it must be it is only an animal not human so don't bother! I did tried to look for Meow, but couldn't find it. Hopefully, it has been adopted. As for the injured cat,I really hoped it can nursed itself to health than rather SPCA putting a jab to end it's misery...
It is moments like this, I really hated to be human being. Because, in this entire planet - Earth, the only mammal - human being, believe hunting to be a sport rather than for survival.
