Saturday, September 15, 2007

Fort San Domingo

Ipork will be leaving Singapore for Ilha Formosa in the coming week.

Porteguese sailors called this island Ilha Formosa, meaning 'Beautiful Island'.

And in the following week, I will be there, absorbing this spicily flavoured Chinese culture.

More than just a visit to an urban city, I hope for more traditional and aboriginal features to be introduced.

Famous for nightmarkets and the tallest building in the world, I'd expect friendly smiles and courteous sales counter girls.

A pity over zealous courtesy and kindness are not a common sight here in Singapore.

What could we expect?

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Everyday Little Things

Jogging through the neighbourhood estate.

I came to realise many things have changed.

The trees have grown, the flowers have wiltered, the roadworks done, pair of students holding hands.

I really enjoy time spent doing things I like alone.

As I was waiting for Green Man to appear to cross the street, a pair of young boys and their mum came by.

The mum was teaching her little boy about the calendar.

She asked, how to say the nineth month?

The boy: September!

She asked, how about the tenth month?

Boy goes: October!

Lastly, she questioned the eleventh month.

Hesistantly, the boy pondered and did not come out with an answer...

I wanted to answer for him, it was:

I-DON'T-REMEM-BER!