Come Come!

Not sure about you but I am already feeling the squeeze in tiny Sillypore, with more immigrants coming into this tiny island strapped for resources such as land, housing, water, transportation, education etc. In 2008, our population grew by 5.5% to 4.84 million, which translate to an additional ~250,000 people. There were 100,000 newly minted PRs and citizens in 2008.

Guess with ads on my blog from Google like this:



It is an open invitation with open arms to welcome everyone here. I hope the gahmen knows what it is doing and hope they are making ample infrastructures and resources such as teachers and doctors (sustaining indicators for developed countries) for this tiny nation. My other blog entries to highlight possible issues - here and here.
Curious note: Who paid Google to have that ad? ICA???

Mascots mask up

Even Singa the Courtesy Lion, our mascot for National Courtesy campaigns, prepares for the inevitable onslaught of H1N1 in Singapore. With his daily interaction with tourists, posing for photos to be taken, I would think he needs the more precautionary N95 mask.

Buildings I

Guess which country these photographs belong to.

Of things to come

I really cannot contain my excitement as initial reviews and videos of the 1st city - Barcelona concerts come online!!

There is only so much we can do

Sometimes I feel jaded as life seems to be helpless and there is only so much one can do. We have to leave it up to God.

Anyway wished I didn't change my air tickets to Chicago to London now..
They are renaming the famous Sears Tower in Chicago to Willis Tower (London-based insurance broker Willis Group, agreed to lease a large portion of the building and as part of the agreement obtained the building's naming rights). Just sounds so wrong despite the fact that it will constitute a 5-year, $350 million green renovation to upgrade the building. Sears was the tallest building for 25 years since 1973 until Malaysia's Petronas Towers were built in 1998 in Kuala Lampur. Sometimes we take things for granted, thinking they will be here forever, then the inevitable change will come and take it away from you.

That is why I love taking photos of old buildings, because some day it will be torn down to make way for something new. Will try to post up some of my building shots.