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It always saddens me a lot when beautiful history are destroyed. St. Matthew’s Church in Singapore is one of that fine piece of history that is heartbreaking seeing it being demolished. The St. Matthew’s Church, Singapore has an article on Wikipedia as mentioned the building has stood there for more than 77 years. A long historical building in the bustling young Singapore. The St. Matthew’s Church is the kindergarten that I attended and holds very fond memories of mine. The brick structure gives the whole building a oldies feel and a spectacular structure that had function well.

The kindergarten grand hall if I could remember was huge from a 7 year old point of view. It holds several of these small rounded table for the little sizes of us, it would stretch rows and rows and on which lunches were served with fresh fruits. We had to say our prayers before able to take lunch, this was where my first ‘Amen’ was said. Most of the time girls will say, ‘We thank you God….., Amen’ but most of us boys will just keep silent a few seconds and just say ‘Amen’ at the end because the food was simply too sumptuous to wait.

There is a steep hill ,from a small kid point of view, in the kindergarten and below the hill were more classrooms, my classroom was located at the top of the ‘hill’ so normally I don’t have to go the way down. It was a lovely kindergarten of love. It just is very much different from the kindergarten nowadays and I am glad that I was able to experience such loving care of teachers under god. There is a certain comfort in a kindergarten by the church, it was the idea of love and sharing being imparted not marks and academic that I find comforting. Such beautiful structures where love and joy was shared demolished is a pity I often see in life.

有时生活不能太执着，要学会放下

放下人家的看法，放下不必要的心事

放下那紧紧抓住的人事物

放下世界的忧郁来看世界比较开心，比较快乐

有太多太多东西了，你一定很累了吧，只有放下才能活在当下

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” that was what end of Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford University, 2005. He quoted the phrase from a magazine he saw, The Whole Earth Catalog. Describe as a beautiful quotation accompanied by a gorgeous scene in which a new day at the back of this magazine.

Lately my “Luck-o-meter”, seems to be down apparently for no particular reason. I can’t say it is total bad luck but a lot of these little lint balls of curses just piles it up. Whatever I do, it seems it makes more friction than before. Just meeting nice people when they are just at their nastiest moments, even non-living things like the lift throws its tantrum at me. To the plain hotter than ever weather and the snappish lecturer with a much too rational thinking. The extra overnights factoring the darkness under the eyes and the seductive temptation of the bed itself and I wonder why I am in melancholy.

Particularly is that I seems to get my designs rejected all the time, not that I didn’t put effort into it but it doesn’t seems to go right. I will just stare at the lecturer nodding in disbelief agreement and giving myself a deep sight in my heart at another mistaken moment, this is also the time which Howie Day’s Collide song comes in the background. Heavy steps now take me away to do more painstaking research into the deep nights of the universe. God hops away from my dream as the day began slowly to unfold on the eyes of this small boy in a little city. What will tomorrow unfold.

Donut recently have been pretty popular in Singapore, it is like this underlying trend with many small donut shops popping around Singapore. Whenever I link donuts and people, I get the picture of American cop having a dozen donuts in their patrol car and with a cup of coffee in their other hand with their half munched donuts. They show this image quite regularly in Hollywood movies in which scar me of the idea of donuts plus people equals American cops.

Donuts to me are like lollipop, I like them occasionally, not on a regular basis but once a while. There is sort of a fatigue feeling whenever I eat them, as a result of the ‘air’ inside the donuts. I don’t actually like my donut to be too ‘creative’, I like them simple, the classics - chocolate donuts, strawberry with candy sprinkles, etc… The fancy donuts usually taste ‘different’ in a bad sense, just not the perfect match.

My family have been buying quite a few boxes of these donuts back recently and I just love opening these boxes and see all the different designs on these circle shaped food. Interestingly, before I have ever had a chance to eat any of them, I see two or three donuts left in the box of dozen. Seriously, my family are ‘dozillanuts’ eater, they manage to finish a lot of donuts within a few hours. So I normally left a few bad donuts to eat.

Came across this curious image going through some search, it somehow seems to be a poster of how to do a dance that I assume it was call the Hustle. From American Hustle to Rope Hustle, I guess it was very popular to do such fast motion dancing back then. Had some sort of a vintage feeling that came through.

The design of the watercone is what I call socially responsible design that benefits many areas where clean water is hard to come by. The watercone takes advantage of the evaporation process of saltwater turning it to clean drinkable water under the sun. The material used for the watercone, plastic, is durable and can resist many accidental impact.

Each watercone can create up to 6-7 glasses of clean drinkable water every 24 hours. Imagine if one family has 10 watercones, they can get to benefit around 60 glasses of fresh drinking water. The only fault I see in the watercone is that it needs a source of saltwater. Sadly, people living in deeper areas without even saltwater can hardly take advantage of it. But it is a very encouraging design to help people who can hardly get safe drinking water.

最近在新加坡的天气变的比较热，比起去年的这个时后还要热。

不只我一个人这样觉的，经过的一些路人他门也是这样讲的。。。

可能是地球变暖了吧。已经住在热带的新加坡在热下去真的要人命啊！