The clear, blue, shallow sea of Maldives

We take a end year break in Nov to Club Med Maldives (the deal is a great steal!)

Life goes back to basic there.
We take our own (sweet) time doing sports, eating, drinking, chatting, fish watching, resting (I mean sleeping), watching sun rise and sunsets, hang around the beach. No rush!
This is the first holiday whereby we are totally 'out of reach'. Turning off 3G and no Facebook for a week is 'shiok'! hahaha!

For me, I felt really really relax! In Singapore, I can never has the luxury to sleep for total of 12 hours a day (night sleep and mid day nap). I also tried out Yoga by the sea. Oh man! It's amazingly nice especially it was done at sunset. Hope to do it again if there is any here.

We walk around the island, looking at nice fishes and corals of variety. Water is too shallow to snorkel. But its good this way as we can take photo easily.
We are sad to see lots of dead corals. The global warming causing the water temperature to raise is the main reason for this :( Even at the Atoll, we see more dead than live. This trip really makes us feel that we have to be more environmentally friendly.

Yes, the photos... will be uploaded later (hopefully tomorrow) as its too many. hee..

This trip will complete our Indian ocean island tour. Moving forward, perhaps to go Tioman or Redeng (South China Sea)

Look forward to our next trip :D

Nature never fail to 'WOW' me....

Recent encounters of many natural phenomenon in Singapore and overseas makes me want to preserve it more :)

UP RIGHT: The big rainbow that can be seen island wide in Singapore. UP LEFT: Flowers from Angsana Trees can be scented from my house
Down RIGHT: Sunset at Utaru Sea of Japan, Hokkaido Down LEFT:Blue Sky Farmland at Aomori, Japan

Take a look up, it can help release the tension that you might be facing :)

Take a little time to appreciate nature

In other places where we called island, we always exclaimed on beautiful sunset, sun rise, clouds and blue sky... We have it all in our island, Spore :)

I got some nice photos when I look up and out from my place ... ... arrrgh... :D


No matter how busy you are, do take time break and appreciate nature......

一样是灾难，但不一样的态度！

最近的天灾, 真的让我看到‘人对待人’的不同态度。不用多说，大家心知肚明 ！实在是纳闷。。。

希望支援快到该到的地方。。。

Rainy days aren't so grey after all

The rain that persisted till now still 'on the go'....

The rain actually brought in some interesting business opportunities for some industries.
- Cabby biz
- Car repair business
and one more.... not business related though,
- An Escape from ponds and reservoirs for those that swim :D
Interesting when you really think about it! This fishes and tortises in MacRitche reservoir could be thinking of escape route that their ancestors once done it 20 over years ago...hee... its like scene in 'finding Nemo'!

Rain also means its time to walk with my boots. Yup, my boots take rest for almost 9 months in a year and now its time to 'work', or rather walk. Hee.. So winter!

Actually rain is liquid form of SNOW... so (if you give n take), can just take the rain as snow if you happen to walk outside :)

Merry merry Xmas!

Gone with the Haze, Hello Sun and Rain

Simply contended with the Sun in the morning and the Rain in evening to shower Singapore with fresh air!

We never missed out on weekend jog even though my consultation schedule is tight.
Last Sunday, we went in the evening after rain... air was great and we saw this phemonenon "mist floating above water" very interesting.
Me, a photo taking person, take down the mist that make the whole reservoir looks as like we in high land. Not very clear with my 1.3 mega pixel. Maybe its time to change to cyber shot phone :D



On a contra, last Saturday, I got this lovely sun set from my place. Quite a scene I felt :D



" Take time to enjoy nature... you find new aspiration "

蓝天，白云－好想你们！

已经有三个星期没看到蔚蓝的天空了。

这里每天多是多烟 （不是雾OK！）的，好灰，好灰。。。

着烟雾弥漫的天，不是浪漫，　也不是秋天来临的象征。。。

不法之徒的燃烧肥地是罪魁祸首，自私的只管自个的钱包预算，

给的是国家的烦恼，人民的不便　（身体不适，户外运要减少。。。。）

麻烦！

天天期待蔚蓝天空的出现，好让我们的生活恢复正常。

恢复快慢，就看风向和雨量。。。

看看PSI。。。

"今天PSI：74　－　中等水平 (加油，加油!)” 我很想快快去跑步，游泳OK！保佑，保佑 : )

Legalising Sea Turtle egg picking - Weird Law!

Yesterday morning, I heard about this news in FM933... I was like 'Hur, what stupid legalisation is this?'

Yes, this state (I should not mention the country) wants to legalise Turtle egg picking so as to prevent illegal activity. When this was announced, the Wild life conservative group strongly protested. Well, I protested too, in the car though.

Sea Turtle is one of the endangered and going to extinct marine life.

The sad thing is these young turtles sometimes, do not even have a chance to live to fight to the sea.... They ended up in someone's stomach! (angry)

I remember last year, there was news on the young turtles being hatched in east coast parks (Surprise!) They missed their way to the sea and dropped into the drain instead (cute!) Some young parkers saw and called the park rangers to arrange to put them back to the sea. So kind hearted...... I thought, the mama turtle must be very intelligent to have selected Singapore to hatch the next generation. Safe ground, for sure :) No egg pickers!

Some funny discussions we have when we are in the car, after hearing this news:

* Since East coast is quite safe place to hatch, we should direct more turtles to come......
We are peaceful animal loving country! Then, how to DIRECT the TURTLES??? No answer...

* The TRUTH about Ninja Turtle...
A: what is the benefit of eating turtle eggs? These egg picking people are bad...
B: I don't know...... Suppose to be good I think :P Still, they should know sea turtles going to extinct soon... Still eat! (angry)
A: Ohhhhh... So the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is for real!!! Perhaps these people eat the turtle egg will mutate and become Turtle!! (cru)
B: (Laugh out loud!!).... "Turtle POWER"!!

Turtles are 'long life' marine animal, hope their life will not be further shorten by human 'stupid' action and laws.

Peace "V"