happiness addict - i'm what i'm

perhaps the man knew all. but he wouldn't say anything.

they beat him, kicked him, tortured him.... threatened him.... but he just wouldn't say a word.

it's the things that he had to take in order to uphold the happiness of mankind.

he sacrificed himself.

then when he was asked, "What cause did you die for?"

"the cause of upholding human happiness."

"what's so important about being happy?"

"isn't it all we were there for?"

"what if you get your happiness but could not live thru it? would you be happy?"

"as long as i wasdoing what i thot was right, i was happy. and as long as i was happy, a minute of happiness was worth many life-times of mere existence."

"sounded like some happiness addict.... now you are here, are you happy?"

"i'm just what i'm.... happy, sad, angry, contented.... all are just excuses of not wanting be my real self."

pandan river - the eagle 'hunter'

internaional business park - jurong


jurong town hall


jtc hq


science centre


ayer rajah food centre


the eagle 'hunter'


pandan reservoir jogging track


some tree plantation


singapore mint


new condo


jln mas putih playground


pandan reservoir panoramic view

jurong, a town of the west, pioneering industry, manufacturing in the 60's. and now, still a lot of factories and offices. jtc, jurong town corporation is spearheading the effort of building infrastructures for this purpose. it also went overseas to duplicate the same in countries like china, india, vietnam...

he took a late lunch near the jurong east centre hawker centre; mee goreng and law mee. started his jog toward sceince centre road, passed by jurong country club, went up to jurong townhall, cross jalan ahmand inbrahim into teban crescent, that led to jln penjuru, where singapore mint located, tunred left into pandan road, went up to pandan reservoir. they re-did the banks with water creeping plants, and decorated the side of reservoir with floating plant-pads. he crossed the road, and jogged along the side of the pandan river where there was no road before. he was cornered into a tree-plantation sort of place, where rows of different types of trees were planted. he had to turned back. then he headed on along west coast rd, into west coast housing estate, then stopped over at ayer rajah food centre where he had ice kachang. afterwards, he headed toward the newly constructed, highest building around the area. he found himself in the jln mas putih, merah, kuning estate... though each was just a street of 2-storey terrace houses, each had a playground to itself....

when he was at pandan river, he met a photographer with his bulky professional canon camera and the powerful tele-zoom lens.

"are you taking pictures of the birds?"

"eagle."

"do they come here?"

"they won't stop here, but fly by.... i just try to capture it when it's soaring; in its flight. one just flew by."

"did you capture it?"

"no. too fast, i was not prepared."

"how long do you think to wait?"

"maybe the whole afternoon. taking picture, good ones, is like fishing, it's not up to you to setup your equipment and off snapping.... the subject has to present itself in the right angle, right time, right mood.... right lighting..."

"patience is everything, i guess."

"patience, not only that. you must cherish failures."

"how?"

"tell yourself, the more times you fail, the greater the challenge, the bigger the satisfaction when you got it done. i always go for hard-to-get goals."

"are you married?"

"not yet."

"so must be setting your goal too high?"

"last time yes, but now no lah. i'm already 40 something, my cock is old already..... cock-old-dodado, any hole will do."

changi beach park - triathlon

changi beach park - sunrise


along the esplanade ..................... the map


wet sand ........................................... is that a bird?


taking it easy guys ....................... it's no walk in the park


the bikes - for lelong ............. .........warming up


gals, ready ......................................... guys, don't loose out


bike ride feel the breeze ..................................... wow, i did it!

Changi beach park in the sunday morning exudes a lot of quality freshness and brings many pleasant moments.

nothing is more fitting to hold the triathlon in changi beach park.

they went to register and get their arms printed with the runner's numbers in indelible ink. then they have to wait for their turns to start the race. it was 750m of swimming, 20 km of cycling and 5km of running.

the 1st group started at 8.10am.

she finished the swimming in 20 minutes, she was quite exhausted, and dragged herself to the bike park, put on the helmet, and shoes, pulled herself to the racing ring, and out she went. it took 1 hour to finish the 20km.

she felt quite sore from all the friction, got herself some real good breather when pulling the bike back to the parking area. she started slow in the running, and kept that pace, since the sun is getting very hot by now. she took 40 minutes to finish the 5km, a nit slow, but it was a very good triathlon after all.

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the king and his gardener - beauty

the king was impressed by his gardener's skill and dedication in keeping his big palace in tip-top shape. he asked him, why he's so fond of plants and flowers that he spent all his time in tending to them, and no time for his beautiful wife.

he answered, "to keep the beauty of flowers is to work hard on them; whereas to keep the beauty of a woman, you have to work hard for her, your majesty."

istana - hang goat head, sell dog meat

istana - a very good layout, just like a corner of new york central park. there's a 9-hole inside, there a small pond, a fountain and of course the istana.

his camera ran out of battery, and he wanted to take some more pictures. he saw an ang moh holding a camera like his, so he asked, "are you using a sony camera?"

"yes."

"let me take a look." he did.

"oh.... different model. i thot to borrow your battery for a couple pictures more. my battery just ran out."

"just not the same size."

"you see, even the same brand also using different size battery.... what those people's trying to do? profiteering! for digital camera, handphone, laptop, they make money on the battery, for printer, they make money on the cartridge, the airlines make money out of fuel charge, convenience charge, toilet charge, anyhow charge.... and for tv what do think they make money out of?"

"tv? hmm... i don't think they make a lot of money out of the so low prices they put up."

"no... they make money out of not selling it, but just putting up un-reasonably low prices, so people come.... and they sell other appliances."

- as they say, hanging up the head of the goat, but selling dog meat instead