自然美

今天开车送小女到学校的途中早晨的灿烂阳光透过树枝叶把路边的遮荫树上寄生植物照射的特别青葱翠绿。

这些寄生植物不是特意种植上去的；像最近很流行的垂直种植花园，它是小鸟的杰作。人们刻意的想要自然怎么也比不上自然的自然。。。看。。。。






好几年不常在新加坡，最近回来到处走走才发现全岛好多树木都长满了这些自然美丽的植物。我们的绿化行动到最后连自然界也被感动了，它也在帮忙新加坡的绿化了！这是不是自然界在告诉我们 “顺我者昌。。”的意思？

到处走走

This morning while doing my ocassional walking at lower Pierce reservoir, notice the landscap and sky was stunningly beautiful.

Lately, been into the hobby of walking arround as a form of excercise. Minimum 5km per trip but sometime up to 10km for places such as east-coast part. i like the freedom of being on my own foot and could stop or detour say to the beach or look up an ancient tree in the nature reserve.

I expecially like the open board-walk at Macritchie, half under the shade half open to the water of the reservior. It help to clear the lump off my chest whenever i walk down the path.




On Saturday morning, although it gets a bit crowded when almost all students from all schools in Singapore gather there for cross-country runing and canoeing training, but the vibrant sporting scence make a person feel good about being part of the tribe that embrace healthy and fesh-air living.



and hundred of JC students doing their cannoeing ECA...dotted the entire wate surface of Macritchie.....what a sporting scence!!




Lower Pierce reservoir board-walk is as nice albiet too short.





Not to forget the southern-bridges.


These places are realy a gem and gift for us Singapore. In no time, we could walk around the entire Singapore making ourselve healthier and at the same time discover many nature beauties along the way.

被拒绝

Thank you for writing in. We appreciate the time and thought you've invested in being part of Forum.
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Yap Koon Hong
Forum editor
The Straits Times
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Since the letter was reject, might well publish here myself. Guess is due to mentioning of minister name.

The frustration here is until now, the NEA still not explianing the criteria for the various grading but only saying A is above 85%,etc. who case about 85% or 70%? what people need to know is for e.g. for C scoring 50 to 60 marks it mean that say the stall does not meet the 50 inspection item/obervation of say Never wash refrigerator regularly, Didnot wash hand after toilet etc. In this way, people will be able to decide if they should buy from a C stall. i hope eventually NEA will explain the full detail.
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Three lives (including the miscarriage) in the contaminated Indian Rojak case were lost. As a quality assurance professional, I hope to offer some suggestions regarding the policy and the important execution part.
1. Revamp the Stall grading system. Like a Zaobao columnist wrote, the grading is in-effective and people not taken seriously. Instead, coffee shop jokes about “A” being Aye Sai Chiak – Can eat, “B” is Buay Sai Chiak –Cannot eat. I would like to add C is for Chiak liao Si-Eat and die. Joke aside, I urge NEA to explain the real meaning of the grading to the public. If in the Geylang Serai Indian rojak stall was graded C recently but its food still kill people, should we not scrap C? Allow only “A” (and A*) like what Mr Kaw order all the hospital stalls to have? I also took this opportunity to urge him to exercise his authority as a Health Minister for Singapore, to help all Singaporean have hygiene food, not just those who work at or visit the hospital.2. The poison food can be the result of human and environmental issue introduced into Raw Ingredient supply (one chain), the storage (the 2nd chain), the preparation process (the 3rd, etc), the cooking, the serving and finally the consumption. The entire food chain needs to be controlled. Contamination could be introduced by human, equipments, and rats, flies, and cockroaches from neighbouring stalls. Worst still, it may come from the raw food from the wet market carry by these creatures. Hence, the point here is to look at the whole environment and not just a microscopic view of the stall. Redesign to separate the existing integrated wet market/hawker center, and build them separately from each other in the future. Also, introduce an overall grading for the centre. With this, the peer pressure is there for the stall to own the shared responsibility to make better grading. The above are policy, let not forget the execution and enforcement part, like many forum writers suggested, NEA should formulate an effective policy to make it a serious business for the stalls and center about the grading, for example, rental rebate as reward and license suspension as deterrent, etc. Hope 3 lost lives is enough for various government agencies in charge to take it seriously and work together to ensure policy and corrective actions are put in place

有空来看看

There are many thoughts that come and go in our life. After reading a good book, read a newspaper atricle, witnessing an event, own life experience, etc. I hope I could use my blog to record all these and better still share with other and having thier sharing as well.

相信每个人的心灵都有一种与外界沟通的渴望。有些通过文章，书本，演艺，或和别人倾谈抒发自己内心的思想。有的采取自言自语，或在内心和自己通话，或对着月亮，蓝天白云，黄昏的晚霞，清晨的日出，默默的抒发。又或者有些人选择和上帝倾述。总之，每个人都希望有人会听到自己，更好的是还能产生共鸣，希望。。。。期待。。