To destroy is much easier than to build or develop

Lately, I feel a bit sick...especially in the morning, almost every day sneezing or feel like wanna sneeze. Maybe, because of recently, there are a lot of construction around my place, sometimes dust is every where. But things impressed me, when I went to office in the morning, the building is still half destruction but when I went back home at evening, the bulding totally empty. Wow, only take a view day to destruct such kind of 7 floor buidling, however take months to build it.
See this building, only a view minute to destroy this, but may be a year to re-build again.

Storm, hurricans, Earthquake, exploision have destroyed many buildings, places and LIFES.

How am I look like ? - Sayonara (2)

This is always a funny question about how am I look like ?, so wanna guess ?
When I went to India and waiting for the cab in the lobby hotel, the concierge service jusk ask me:
Concierge: What time is it your flight to Japan maam ?
Me: Oh, Japan hmm seem to be I will catch a flight to Singapore
Concierge:Singapore? are you from Singapore maam?
Me: No, I am not. why ? how am I look like ?
Concierge: seem to be you look like a Japanese maam
Me:really oh Sayonara..then the cab took me to airport

And When I arrived in Singapore:
Taxi driver: where are we going maam ?
Me: please go to Killiney Road
Taxi driver: are you Filipino ?
Me: how do you know ?
Taxi driver: your English is not like local Singapore
Me: am I look like Filipino ?
Taxi driver: yes
Me: terima kasih (thanks in Bahasa)
then the taxi driver

And the next day, when I went to bank
the cashier: hello miss, what I can help you
Me: I want to change my letter address
The cashier: can you give me your IC ?
Me: yes, here is
The cashier : are you Indonesia ?
Me: Yes, why ?
The cashier : oh, your name is like Thai name, a guy name
Me: oh Really, is that so ?

And a week later I went to Bangkok to meet with a customer
A customer : she give me her name card
Me : oh, this is my name card
A customer: are you a thai ?
Me: why ?, am I look like Thai ?
A customer: yes, your name is thai name but your face mix
Me: mix ? sawaa dee krap
A customer: :

He....he....so, everytime anybody ask me, I usually ask them to guess ?

Evening of French Music - Sayonara (1)

This concert is the last performance I see with my close friend Mina, who will go back to Japan to persue a new interest for good. The Evening of French Music is a joint collaboration with Japanese Association in Singapore, with the Music director/conductor Yan Yin Wing. The music is opened with feature Lee Pei ming (her picture below) - who play the Piano Concerto No.5, this is my favourite) and is closed with the "L'Arlesienne" Suite 2 (Midori Miura who play Flute), really enjoy the Sunday night.

Singapore Lion Dance - Mid-Autumn festival

Lion dance competition usually start before the moon cakes festival. In such country like Indonesia, it is called "barongsai". The lion-like "creature" leaps onto a set of poles, its head looking left and right, assessing the area. When it is deemed safe, up it leaps again onto a higher set of poles.

I heard there are many stories of the lion dance, one is about its search for food, but typically there are 8 basic characteristics of Lion dance that the dancers must know; happiness, anger, sadness, merriment, motion, dormant, astonishment, and suspicion.

Finally - Mooncake Festival is here

from Left to right ( Yam, Snow, Greentea and Strawberry)

The Moon festival (Mid-Autumn festival) will be starting on 18 September in this year. The Mooncake festival starts in Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "zhong qui jie."

Children are told the story of the moon fairy living in a crystal palace, who comes out to dance on the moon's shadowed surface. The legend surrounding the "lady living in the moon" dates back to ancient times, to a day when ten suns appeared at once in the sky. The Emperor ordered a famous archer to shoot down the nine extra suns. Once the task was accomplished, Goddess of Western Heaven rewarded the archer with a pill that would make him immortal. However, his wife found the pill, took it, and was banished to the moon as a result. Legend says that her beauty is greatest on the day of the Moon festival.

Some legends say, on this day the "Man in the Moon" was spotted at an inn, carrying a writing tablet. When questioned, he said he was recording the names of all the happy couples who were fated to marry and live happily forever after. Accordingly, just as June is the traditional month for exchanging nuptials in the west, many Chinese weddings are held during the eighth lunar month, with the fifteenth day being the most popular.

BTW, the most famous legend surrounding the Moon festival concerns its possible role in Chinese history. Overrun by the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the Chinese threw off their oppressors in 1368 AD. It is said that mooncakes - which the Mongols did not eat - were the perfect vehicle for hiding and passing along plans for the rebellion. Families were instructed not to eat the mooncakes until the day of the moon festival, which is when the rebellion took place.

Chinese people will celebrate this festival with dance, feasting and moon gazong. Today my friend give me some mooncakes to celebrate that it will be started soon. Tomorrow, we will be seeing the Lion Dancing on the street festival started from 5 September to 9 September, before the Mooncakes falled.

In general, I like the mooncakes with Yolk, double Yolks will be fantastic, especially the traditional one and drinking with Chinese/Japanese hot green tea in the rainy season like today.