Hokkien Mee

Commercial Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee

Home-Cooked Hokkien Noodles

This morning my dream:

Richard and I were at a Pasar Malam. A Chinese woman was selling Hokkien Mee. She asked if we wanted to buy. I bought one. However, I regretted later when I saw how she prepared the noodles and what I got in the end.

The Hokkien Mee turned out to be a clump of spaghetti. First she put had a pot of gravy. Then she had all the gravy in a plate and scoop a clump of spaghetti on the plate (a bundle of spaghetti). Next, she used scissors to cut the bundle of spaghetti (golden, translucent look). It did not look delicious nor appetizing. I regretted and I felt so cheated. Next, I confronted her and demanded a refund, otherwise I would call up the authorities. She was nonchalant to this.

Richard refused to help me, standing at one side, watching. A man passed by. His hand was holding a red handphone. I asked him to help me. He said he had bought a packet of Hokkien Mee from this woman earlier on. Next, he opened up his packet of Hokkien Mee to show me. It consisted of yellow noodles and white Mee Fen. The Mee Fen was very fine, the small Men Fen, instead of the usual big Mee Fen in Hokkien Noodle.

I promised to return the handphone to this guy after I had finished used. He was not anxious about his handphone nor had any doubts or suspicions on me -- absolute trust in me. He went to play games. Later, I return him his phone.

Richard and I left the place. We went to a housing estate, HDB flat. I walked passed some corridors and came to his mother's house, but also seems to be like a restaurant area. The house seemed to have 2 compartments or 2 adjoining doors, side by side to each other. Outside this door, it was dark, and on the opposite side seems to be the restaurant.

I entered the house on the right door. Upon entry, I was greeted by Richard's sister, calling me "大嫂" (big sister-in-law). I smiled at her and acknowledged the greetings. I seemed to have talk to her for a while before I proceeded to enter the house, further up. I turned left to another 'door' (entrance) where Richard's mother was in the 'kitchen' area. She seemed to be preparing something. It looked like a 'restaurant', but it was not. The place was bright. I went to this place, and at the back was some curtains which could be drawn. I asked Richard to draw the curtain for me as I wanted to take a bath at the bath tub. As I was bathing, I was taking care not to sit on the dirty stains in the bath tub. Still, I had accidentally sat on it. Richard laughed at me. But I was so scared because my backside touched something. I looked at it in the murky water, but can only see a mess of brown thing -- I was not wearing spectacles! I asked Richard to see what was it inside the water. What could the 'poky' thing be? It turned out to be a coffee bag!

Outside the house, it was dark, and there seem to be a female waitress. She gave me something which I had forgotten what was it. Next, I headed to the toilet. The pathway was not bright, but dim. At the toilet, there were mirror and plants. I found something which inspired me. I had forgotten what I had seen. It was some ornaments displayed in the toilet.

Gloomy Grey Sky

A cool weather with no sun but grey sky. Just drizzling a bit and now it seemed to stop again; and he is back.

He rushed out of the house angrily, slammed the gate and went out just now...

We went to buy tap for the service balcony at Home Sweet Home, Woodgrove. Since the day he had fixed it, I have not had a chance to use the new tap yet. We went to Woodgrove to buy the tap. I told him which type of tap I wanted to use. He complained of the price. The one I wanted cost about $34 while the one he bought cost about $16. He came home to change the tap, and I heard him 'fixing' the tap... went in and out... as expected...

Today, I had a chance to use the tap. It was so tightly closed. I need to use a lot of force to open the tap. After I had finished washing the clothes, I off the tap and began to use the water for mopping the floor.

While I was mopping the floor, I saw water leaking out from the tap (the hose). I tightened it. It flowed out more water. I asked him to help. He was looking after Isaac (unusual because he had caused the daughter to cry during lunch time, at the extraordinary table...). Asked him to help and he came. Someone need to take over to look after Isaac...

He asked me to go to him and that he wanted to teach me how to open and close the tap. The tap was not installed properly. The head was loose or not fitting. He asked not to overturn/overclosed it.... I am the one who do all the laundry and mopping the floor. Children also used the kitchen tap to wash their shoes. Do we need to ATTEND COURSES on how to ON and OFF the tap? He was angry and said that I am very STUBBORN, saying that I am very 'ti ki' (metal teeth in hokkien). I "TI KI" (metal teeth) and what about him?

Today, the daughter shed tears while eating lunch. I did not cook. To cook, I need someone to look after Isaac. To mop the floor, wash my clothes also need someone to 'free' me. And mopping the floor and washing my clothes had to wait so long. Am I idling?

Do I have a FREE TIME? Do I have free time to go even FACE BOOK to SOCIALISE and talk nonsense with people? He is so carefree! He can even skype! He can buy Galaxy Tab (its' his earnings, I have no say, and his money.) he can do anything he wants with his own money. But when it comes to buying a tap, I GOT NO SAY! I am using the TAP and not him, but he also wants to save on a few dollars... and today he need to go out to BUY AGAIN... (which I never said MUST GO OUT AND BUY TODAY). He just got impatient, got angry, and REFUSED to listen or REFUSED to ASK?

Whatever it is.... Just now, the tenth floor neighbour came upstairs and talked to him about leaking water. I was not there. I was mopping the floor, and I heard someone talking. When I walked on the way to the kitchen, I saw the Evergreen Boy standing at the gate with another boy. It was about the water. He told me in such a way that it was my fault!

TAI JI QUAN

Can you imagine the whole scenario? Who is the head of the household and who is earning the money and who got money? Who had 'destroyed' all my money? BUSTED, it was BUSTED. FUND MANAGER, WEBSITE MANAGER, CEO... who am I working for in this family?

He is earning money, not me. I told my mother so that she would not worry about me. But what is his money is not my money and I got no say. Can money make the home at peace?

The Green Dragon

This morning, I dreamed of the Green Dragon, a 3-D real Green Dragon, displayed at the altar of a person's house, a Chinese male. The green dragon looked like a dinosaur, but it has a dragon head and the dragon's tail. The head of the dragon moved! And it moved a few times. This surprised us so much. Next, I looked at the tail. The tail was sculptured tail, that of a dragon's tail, containing scales. It is a sculpture, framed, at the tail end...

I had so much to write this morning when I woke up, but now I can only managed to remember this portion of the dream. Now that I had just come back from Farrer Road....

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Priesthood

On this day 19.12.2010, police came to patrol the region. Next, they went there. Now that I had taken a photograph and looked at the photograph again, there was a dog there... 2 policemen.

Several years ago, at this block, an incident happened -- man with possession of gun. The place was surrounded... the man escaped... (issued closed, and this is before I had kids)....

On another day, Pumpkin Day, 22..9.2010, on the way to Causeway Point, we met 2 persons...

This reminds me of the show, Your Hands In Mine... The husband and the wife said different things...

This morning, I so happened to dream of them, this family (BEE) I do not know about them at all...

In my dream, I was awoken with a YELLOW TRAIN just above a big brick drain on a raised platform. The big drain was dirty at first, but on this day, someone had come to clean it. It was so clean and nice, fresh air now... I wanted to capture this moment of truth and I quickly took out my handphone and videoed it. Behind me was Clara. We were sitting on the bicycle. I was riding it. We were having a fun time -- the bicycle was heavy 'laid' with goods it seemed... but literally there was nothing. But it was so hard to balance the bicycle and we could fall anytime. As I was taking video of the drain washing ( a very big drain at Bukit Panjang), we saw the yellow train approaching. We need to shun and swayed rightwards, in case hit by the train. It was drizzling and raindrops fell on the train and making the image on the handphone rather obscure. The train had 3 longitudinal compartment, making it a BIG TRAIN, but each compartment operate separately. Surprisingly! We stood at the right side of the drain, watching the yellow train. The left compartment was slightly obstructed from our view (meaning, it had not moved yet, still lagging behind). The other two was ahead, just above us. It seemed to move forward, but also need to wait for the first compartment train....

Prior to this ending part of the dream, I was with Nicole, and also with another woman, which I had forgotten who was it. This woman wanted to buy a flat and we brought her to the next block of flat to see. We went upstairs of the block of white flat, which appeared very dark. As we were walking along the staircase up the flat, we spoke about looking for flat (the approaches -- looking at the newspaper etc) We were supposed to help the woman to find a flat (she wanted to buy a flat).

I was holding Clara's hand. We came to Boon Lay Place, the place just opposite of Boon Lay Garden Primary School. Over there, the pavement was under construction. As we were walking there we saw some gangs there. Clara quickly asked me to stop and we reversed. She was scared. Earlier on she had told me, but I had forgotten. On this pavement, behind of us in real life was the Church of Christ...

At a familiar carpark, I saw Pokemon. He was driving a car, helping us to load some toys and baby stuff -- the walkers, pram, etc, all in browns.... This carpark was the carpark of my grandmother's house, at Boon Lay Blk 209...

Another section of the dream, I saw Nicole. She and I were discussing about a piece of booklet. The cover page of the booklet is a priest, dressed in purplish-magenta robe. On the centre of the figure was written a Chinese character "孝" and with inverted commas. There was a circle below the figure.... a circle that seemed to be real and had smoke...a depiction of power.... Nicole and I was saying about 'obedience' and the future generation of priests, which are going to be more evil...

Both Pokemon and Nicole are Catholics... Today is Christmas Eve... Wrote about Christmas Party on 21.12.2010... came to know about Richard's grandmother's hospitalization on this day about 3am... and yet until now, nobody informed him nor did he bother to find out....

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Happy Pumpkin Day

Dinosaur Mouth with Fern growing

Yesterday 21.12. 2010, I captured photographs of the dinosaur slide with fern growing at the mouth of the dinosaur.

Another view of the dinosaur head of the slide

Last night, I had a dream:

There was a water barrier. My mother and sister had crossed over the water barrier successfully. When it was my turn, I was too slow. The gap was so far apart and I was so afraid of the height. The platform I was standing was moving. As I was focusing on the distance apart and thinking of how to get across, my head 'spins' (the platform was moving and seemed to move faster and faster). It was a platform that looked like a sculpture -- a huge water sculpture at the centre of some place. Suddenly, the platform moved so much that it moved out of the water area. I saw the opportunity and quickly jumped. My mother and sister saw that I was not wet. They and the crowds were amazed at my 'luck'.

Next, I don't know how I landed at NUS (National University of Singapore). Richard, students, and even one of my ex-classmate or friend (GPC) was there. It was a 'white' scene. These people were dressed in white, all sitting on the floor, waiting (for something). I need to move first. I asked how long would she be staying around. She replied,"until 7.32pm"... So precise! I answered,"7.32?" She said,"Yes". Then I knew that she wanted to study or do some revision. Next, she asked me to go watch videos with her.

The next moment, we were at a green 'stairs', but this 'stairs' had no steps at all. It was more like a ramp or slope. It was going down like a slide. However, there were so big gaps on this 'slide'. There were 2 or 3 thin 'vertical bars' on this slide, not symmetrical. I was thinking of how to slide down like that. GPC went down first, and next was my turn... It was such a scary moment.

Then I was at NUS Science Laboratory. Inside the air was so stuffy all of a sudden. There were water in the lab. I need to swim through the lab(bypass) as the corridor was blocked. Inside the lab was a female teacher sitting at a corner with a student (male). The water was at above waist level. As I was standing inside the Science Lab, another male student came out from the other end of the door. He was trying to move the tables and chairs. He exclaimed that there were no more room for the tables and chairs. As I watched him, I noticed that something was not right. The water level was now at my chest level. Grey tables and chairs flooding the corridors and Science Lab now. It was so hard to move. I need to escape.

Suddenly, I arrived at a Chemical Factory from the sky (landed on the factory). The workers were sitting in the factory, gathered around the vicinity of the factory. There were white and blue containers around. As I landed, I saw some words on the container (starting with letter E...). A man who looked so familiar stood out from the crowd. He came over to help me. We spoke for quite a while and then I told them that I wanted to go home. I headed for the gate. The man went to the gate. The crowds followed. I was so surprised that someone put a pumpkin on the man's head. The man seemed so happy. It was such a nice moment and I did not want to miss the rare sight and unusual occasion. I quickly took a snapshot of it. I did not know if I had taken a photograph of it. Everything happened so fast and I need time for my camera to on and then to set it to the right mode. As I landed on the factory, I did not know what day was it. I asked the man, "Today is what day?" And the man standing at the closed gate said,"Today is Pumpkin Day!"

Inside the dream, before it ends (at the gate), I told myself "I like Pumpkin!" Just how realistic was the dream. The man looked familiar, tanned (bright brown) skin even though I do not know him. But literally he was Mr Sim! I know how Mr Sim looked like. He was fair and perhaps some curly hair. Most obviously, he got a mole on the face... In 2 days time, it would be the birthday of Mr Sim...

蔡琴-最後一夜 (1994.9.27針線情第8集)


Happy Birthday To Cai Qin

Mystery of Life

劉德華 -一起走過的日子MV


Bones found on island may belong to Amelia Earhart Friday, 17 December 2010
WELLINGTON (AFP) - – US aircraft history buffs are hopeful that tiny bones along with artefacts from the 1930s found on a remote Pacific island may reveal the fate of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart.

In one of aviation's most enduring mysteries, Earhart took off from Lae, in what is now Papua New Guinea, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe via the equator in 1937 and was never seen again.

A massive search at the time failed to find the flyer and her navigator Fred Noonan, who were assumed to have died after ditching their Lockheed Electra aircraft in the ocean, according to the Amelia Earhart Museum....

After I had read this news, I did a search on this woman at Wikipedia.

Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937; declared legally dead January 5, 1939) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the US Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the world-famous Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

The whole night I did not have any dream. But this morning, I continued to read what was written on wikipedia. I dozed off. I had a mysterious dream in a foreign land. Richard left us. Ricsson drove the car. I was sitting beside Ricsson, so worried that he would hit oncoming cars. I was so surprised that he could drive the car so well! He could steer well and throughout the journey, it was a safe one. Sitting in the car, I helped to lookout for oncoming cars and the rear cars as well, and telling him to slow down or to help him to steer a bit of the steering wheel at times. At certain point, I asked him to step on the brakes to slow down. I asked him if he knew which was the brake and I was surprise that he knew it all. It was very challenging, heart-throbbing dream. The scary part was at the T-junction. It was a very steep slope. Ricsson could not manage it. I quickly asked him to step on the brakes. I helped to pull up the hand brakes as well. He car seemed to slide down a bit, and I was so scared that it might rolled back (and might hit other cars). I was carrying Isaac and had to ask Clara to take over. I don't know what happened... it was so fast (or that I cannot remember everything). All I know was I was standing in front of Clara, who was sitting at the rear seat. The car door was opened. I had passed Isaac over to her. But what was in front of me now was a small little kid, with a even small little 'doll' (baby)... I called out,"Where is Clara?" The next thing I knew in my heart was: they had changed identity .

Later, we came to another foreign place that has no trees at all and looked white (creamy-white): clays, something like Grand Canyons. Water covered the clays and inside were words. I did not go near to see the words. We arrived at the place. Richard was driving the car. I was sitting in the car and I realized that Riccson was not in the car. I was so worried for Ricsson. I asked Richard for a solution... After we alighted, Richard cycled back (Thailand) to the place to look for Ricsson. Meanwhile at this place, a woman was with me. It looked like an ex-tenant of mine, a China woman. She wanted to buy something from the store. I was with her. She bought a drink and saw some food on display. The food looked like white noodle (Hor Fan), but it was coated black and did not look appetizing to me. But I helped her and the storekeeper asked me to take myself. During payment time, this China woman saw something else. She asked some questions about the white dumplings. The storekeeper was so impatient and not happy with all her questions and bargaining.

I was so worried about the safety of the two guys. I called Richard's handphone, which I do not know if it would work in a foreign land. Nevertheless, I tried. I dialled the numbers, pressing each numbers and calling each numbers in the dream. It got through and a man's voice was heard. It spoke English. The voice sounded like Richard, but it was definitely not Richard's voice. His English was quite good. Later, he told me his name, YY (intials, cannot remember the full name). He was from Penang! I said I got the wrong number. Perhaps instead of 9, I had pressed 7. So in the dream, I had to be more careful this time. I pressed slowly and carefully, using my heart and also saying the numbers of Richard's handphone.... when I woke up, I was still recalling the handphone numbers... (just two days ago, in one of the dream, I saw my Chinese name on one shop. I was so surprised to find my name on the shop...)

Records and achievements
Amelia Earhart received the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government in June 1932
Woman's world altitude record: 14,000 ft (1922)
First woman to fly the Atlantic (1928)
Speed records for 100 km (and with 500 lb (230 kg) cargo) (1931)
First woman to fly an autogyro (1931)
Altitude record for autogyros: 15,000 ft (1931)
First person to cross the U.S. in an autogyro (1932)
First woman to fly the Atlantic solo (1932)
First person to fly the Atlantic twice (1932)
First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932)
First woman to fly non-stop, coast-to-coast across the U.S. (1933)
Woman's speed transcontinental record (1933)
First person to fly solo between Honolulu, Hawaii and Oakland, California (1935)
First person to fly solo from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City, Mexico (1935)
First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City, Mexico to Newark, New Jersey (1935)
Speed record for east-to-west flight from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii (1937)

Assuming another identity
In November 2006, the National Geographic Channel aired episode two of the Undiscovered History series about a claim that Earhart survived the world flight, moved to New Jersey, changed her name, remarried and became Irene Craigmile Bolam (October 1, 1904 – July 7, 1982; was a New York banker and resident of Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey). This claim had originally been raised in the book Amelia Earhart Lives (1970) by author Joe Klaas, based on the research of Major Joseph Gervais. Irene Bolam, who had been a banker in New York during the 1940s, denied being Earhart, filed a lawsuit requesting $1.5 million in damages and submitted a lengthy affidavit in which she refuted the claims. The book's publisher, McGraw-Hill, withdrew the book from the market shortly after it was released and court records indicate that they made an out of court settlement with her. Subsequently, Bolam's personal life history was thoroughly documented by researchers, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart. Kevin Richlin, a professional criminal forensic expert hired by National Geographic, studied photographs of both women and cited many measurable facial differences between Earhart and Bolam...

Last night, I had another 'revelations'...
1. John Barth: John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work....
2. Liza Wang, Elizabeth Wang Ming-chun, August 28, 1947 (age 63), Shanghai, Republic of China married Law Kar-ying (traditional Chinese: 羅家英; born August 27, 1946 in Shunde, Guangdong, Republic of China) on 2 May 2009...

Toilet REFLECTION

Two people staying in the flat and two toilets in the flat. I cannot imagine how a toilet can be used until 'like that'. Black toilet bowl and spoiled shower. There was no shower head in the bathroom. I had never seen any floor mat in the house. In the old house, I had seen A floor mat, but it could not absorb water. It was placed near the entrance door.

A house with NO FLOOR MAT at all. A house that is CLEAN on the OUTSIDE but NOT THE INSIDE... I don't know how all these people think. I don't know if their house is a 'better house' or that my house is just not suitable for these guests. In the past, she would come to our house. Ever since.... she never step into the house, hardly, if not for some agenda. I am very grateful that she had come to help me really... even though she had declined and showed reluctance over the past and also 'this time'. She complains of arthritis, I thought it was real... But her truth was revealed in another instance... Ugly truths should not be written in elaboration and precision. (If you should wonder why all the dots...)

She said that the fire in my house is not hot enough... My sister said that my house has a lot of dust. My mother said that my house is messy. My sister-in-law said that my house smelled of DOGS (when Cebest was around)... These are all remarks about my house. And who are all these people? WOMEN of various positions in the society -- two housewives, one boss, and one is my mother (working then)...

Her old house or new house, both toilet bowls were dirty. I wonder if there were ever toilet bowl cleaning. But I had never seen the toilet brush until recently. The son had bought toilet cleaner for her. But it was still dirty in a way...

The son said that Singaporean is "BO CHAP"... whether they have betterbathrooms or not does not matter to them... But Singapore is stressing so much on clean toilet now. Look at betterbathrooms.com and you can see all the varieties of toilet accessories and all the toilet needs when you need to upgrade or renovate your toilet. There are even photographs of bathroom suites. It is so nice to see clean and neat toilets!

Abstract Art

Our Lady Shrine
This is so unbelievable. Today is the Eleventh day of the month and it is the birthday of my niece. Tomorrow will be another birthday, that of Mary.

It was a dream made while I fell asleep just now. I had so many things to do for my blogs -- update and even to do some 'cleaning' but time does not permit. While Isaac was sleeping, I tried to take my computer, but he later woke up... I waited for him to sleep and In the end, we slept together... and I was in dreamland....

I had forgotten the whole details, but there are specific scenes that I remembered clearly. As I had forgotten the sequence, the scenes that I had seen might not be in the right sequence. But I tried to relate as closely and in proper sequence as possible.

There was a bus stop which seem to be crowded, but I only saw my family and a guy. This guy walking towards us offered food to us. The bus stop was filled with packages, blocking the way (making it crowded)... and we had to stand out of the shelter (of the bus-stop). I had talked to this man, dressed in white upper part and another coloured bottom part. I was about some (computer) matter concerning (upstairs)...

Next, I went to the place (to take something or to go toilet... I cannot remember). But the first scene that I witness was a group of religious people, wearing white and carrying a small banner walking out of a gathering.... It was a MASS ending and it was St Mary of the Angels! But I did not see the church. I was in this building, which I cannot see.... I was IN IT...

Novena Church
It was one of the priest from Novena church, the same priest that I had seen at St Anthony Church before. He must be the priest who was celebrating the Requiem Mass. There were altar boys as well. In the dream, I did not know what procession was that. I asked the people involved and they told me about the mass of the dead... I did not hear any music. Among the people in this mass was a figure with 'hood' and no face...

I was shocked... In the dream, I had experiences of 'meeting the dead' while on Church Visit (to St Joseph's Church and also St Mary of the Angels).. I walked away quickly.

Soon, I was at a HDB corridors. I was walking down the stairs. I saw a red wedding gown. There was a wedding going on in this HDB flat. People (in the dream and also in reality) said that the dead and the wedding cannot be mixed... A procession of people were walking down the stairs going for their wedding ceremony... Suddenly, they were walking faster than me, overtook me...

In the dream, I saw the number 4. It was the 4th storey of the HDB flat. There were 2 'wings' (the corridors) on the left and right of the HDB flat leading to the common open-space just before the stairways. I was just at the stairway when people were walking out from the 4th storey. A red translucent wedding gown I saw, but not the bride or bridegroom...

In the dream, I saw my friend Eileen... We chatted and I asked for her current home. She was hesitant at first saying that it was still the same as before. But we had not met for so long and what was the same as before? Is it Boon Lay or Jurong West? She told me that she was staying at Chua Chu Kang now... before this her residence was Jurong West...

Just last night, I watched Frontline about the death of the handicapped girl at Hougang.

Channelnewsasia: 3 December 2010
SINGAPORE : A 24-year-old Indonesian maid who allegedly murdered a disabled girl on November 24 may be younger than what is actually reflected on her Singapore working papers, said her lawyer.

Nurhayati is accused of killing 12-year-old Linda Lee Yee Lin at Block 573, Hougang Street 51.

The court heard on Friday that she will be remanded at the Changi Women's Prison for a psychiatric evaluation and the case will be mentioned again on December 24.

Speaking to reporters outside the courtroom, her lawyer, Mohamed Muzammil Mohamed said that he is verifying Nurhayati's age with official sources in Indonesia.

If convicted of murder, she will face the death penalty.

The name had the same pronunciation as my friend's name. She was the only child in the family too... During my 21st birthday, she had given me a White Dog Puzzle, which I had took time to put the puzzles together, glued it and then framed it with purple frame and had placed them in my guest toilet at my old house.

The Foundation Stone

I named this stone on the top left corner "The Foundation Stone"

Today is number 9th day of the month, the number 9... the inverted 6... and the Chinese date is always one month minus the English month. Thus making today the eleventh month of the Chinese calendar, but it is the fourth day of the Chinese (农力十一月初四)... Yesterday was the third day (8 December 2010) of the Chinese month...

I am going to name this stone, The Foundation Stone... (see Mystery of Salvation, Mystery of Noah Ark) You can see in the above photograph a stone which I had mentioned in my earlier posts about The Final Testament. Everyday, we walked past this area... and I had seen 'things' around this place, which I wanted to write posts about it, but had no time. Yesterday, I went to the place again. And I took a photograph of it after some 'inspiration' and a moment of "AHA" or "OHHH" came to my mind.... I decided to take a photograph of it. However, I saw some UNUSUAL thing as well as you can see from the photograph. It is a mystery I need to find out...

Today, we were walking to Causeway Point. On the way, I saw something growing out at the edge of the stone...it was a plant with two leaves! The stem was as long as 8-9cm long! Did I miss the plant yesterday? NOPE NO NO, "LUCKILY" I took a photograph of the stone and its vicinity yesterday. The photograph indicates VERY CLEARLY that there were NO PLANTS around the stone at all yesterday. HOW can my eyes be wrong and my photographic memory be wrong. I wanted to take a photograph of it, but my camera battery went flat.

BRIEFLY FIRST...

Causeway Point/Woodlands Civic Centre
We went to these two places... it was terrible experiences dealing with crowds and technology as well as educational institutions being involved....

Home SWEET HOME?
Upon reaching home, I saw my door gate 'stuff' with a piece of Folded A4 size flyer. I took it out from the door gate/metal gate and it reads "The TUITION NATION"... Next, I opened the gate, holding the flyer with me and into the house. Upon entering the house, I have to put down the flyer and attends to Isaac.

My Neighbours' Metal Gate 'stuff' with "The Tuition Nation" Flyer.

Coming back from shopping, there were lots of things to be unpacked or unloading from the pram. While I was busy walking in and out of the kitchen, some noise from the gate caught me. It was footsteps sound, the 'dragging' of footsteps... it was a Malay guy giving out Flyers again. The moment I was walking near the gate to see what actually the sound come from, the "Flyer Man" was already standing outside my metal gate. I did not get to see the face. Everything happened so fast. I only see that it was a man's image and dark skin that looked like Malay. I was standing at the gate and YET, this man did not offer to GIVE ME the flyer. Instead, he THROW the flyer onto the floor!!!!! He THROW the flyer onto my door gate floor!!!!! I looked at the FLYER, and it was from SEMBAWANG TOWN COUNCIL --- HEARTTALK!!!!

Inside my house, standing from where I am, looking at the 'Flyer Man' and what he had thrown onto my floor.

The third piece of flyer I got was from a woman, a fair Chinese woman which looks like China woman.... 'weird' dressing ('professional flyer distributor' clothing)... she had ANOTHER WAY of putting flyer at my metal gate.... and she looked at me and I looked at her.... I wanted to see what she was doing. Despite me standing there, I was like a 'transparent' person...

The Fourth 'event' that stirred me, now I was eating my lunch, which was about close to 3pm already. It was a Garanguni man ('rag and bone' man)..... BUT is he a REAL Garanguni man? This is the question!!!! And I called out for him... to have a business with him......

OM

8 December 2010, 4.32pm took this photograph of Shop and Save, Woodlands North Plaza (Blk 883).

Saw a teacher of QiHua Primary School as well as the OM... He was dressed in red T-shirt still, with the number 5 at the back. Spotted him at this timing... He was at the cashier by the time I walked into the supermarket. He was queuing up for payment. He had bought a packet of rice (5kg). Next, he walked towards the school side. I saw him walking to Blk 875 and was walking along the corridors just outside the kindergarten. It was drizzling slightly then. I saw him taking a packet of rice with the right hand, without any use of plastic bag.

This shows that he must be going back to the school...


Questions raised inside my mind....

Inside Shop and Save, I had a terrible experience of shopping in the supermarket. Pushing the pram, I had a hard time SHOPPING. The lanes were parked with small trolleys and big trolley/Cart (whatever you may call it -- those rollers with goods on it). I have to give way to these carts/trolleys. After giving way to one, I had difficulties passing the lanes in the next moment. I had to detour. Similar instance happened. There is no way to 'hide'. Oncoming BIG CART with PAPER BOXES (just like those old women collecting paper boxes/cartons) passing me.... I had to step to one side of the lane, giving way to the big cart. The person pushing was a woman with long hair.

These people can use the back of the supermarket, but why are they using the front and blocking customers and creating dangers to customers as well -- in case such big cart knock into people. Imagine people pushing trolleys. They are going to have a hard time pushing the trolleys as well.

The shopping lanes are so small and that explains why there are hardly people pushing trolleys. Most often, trolleys are used by the staff for putting their own things, parked at the side of the lanes as well.

There are people who used the trolleys, pushed all the way to their home and dumped the trolleys around the neighbourhood.... they had even managed to take out the one-dollar coin 'deposit'....

Immediately after the long hair girl went into the 'office', a short hair woman came out of the red plastic shielded door. She was scolding, murmuring as she walked saying,"烂鸟人。。。" (Sickening Bird People...) keep repeating and xxxx don't know what else she was scolding, venting her frustrations or telling people......

Bookshop

A long dream. It was a woman whom I seemed to have seen before and know rather well in the dream, but now I had forgotten who she is. At first she was managing a room of 'people' (some kind of services she was helping with the people), but later, her attention diverted to managing of a celebrity male or someone of special importance (大哥大). This person looks like Gallen Lo...

Inside this house, I was fixing my pink shoes which I had bought from Metro. Somehow, it was spoilt after Isaac had worn them (the right shoe was spoilt). Its sole was still clean. They had not been worn out before. I discovered that I had chosen the wrong matching pair of shoes as well. These two shoes were of slight difference -- one white and one black (the peripheral lining). Next, a maid came to tell me,"Are you going to change the shoes?" At first, in my mind, I had already resigned my fate: not to change the shoes since it was spoilt -- the pink cloth and the metal part of the shoes were detached. But still, I answered,"Yes, I am going to change." Next, I put the shoes in the box.... hiding some broken parts.

The next thing that I do was to go to the room where the above mentioned 'celebrity manager' was. Over there, my mother was sitting next to 'Gallen Lo'. Chatting and watching them, suddenly our attention diverted to the black window panel on the right side of the room. The whole wall was just a black glass panel just like hair salon shop. Some Malay children came walking past and they peeped into the black glass. They looked so funny. The three of us laughed.

Next, I was at the entrance of a bookshop. The owner was a man with spectacle of medium built. He was a parent of my children. In the dream, my memory told me that I had to wait for him for so long for him to come down from the second floor. This time, he came down again from the second floor. As I was waiting for him to come down from the second floor, I saw amazing things happened at the second floor, from the view of the first floor. I saw Fox Racks (racks with picture/carving of fox at the side). There were story-telling session and there seemed to be magic. I saw a 'dashing' appearance of something. Intuition told me that that was the fox spirits...

Moments later, the spectacled well-dressed owner came down. I spoke to him in Chinese, asking him for permission to go second floor. He agreed. The second floor seemed to be all books. I thought that it was just books. But when I walked up the stairs and further into the bookshop, I came to a corner shop on the left. It is a Traditional Chinese Medical Shop. In front of the shop was selling BAGS, various coloured and brands of bags. Some were lying on the floor for special sales, others hanging just outside the front of the shop. The bags looked tempting. The material seemed good. I thought of buying for my mother or for myself. I caught hold of one hanging bag, a very special bag that look long and a ribbon in front. On top of it, besides the strap, there are two rollers. I did not buy the bag in the end.

Next, it was an arcade centre, adult playroom I went. A woman was talking to another woman. I overheard their conversation. She told me to follow them and they brought me to this place where food were sold. I wanted to buy food for Richard and myself. After her recommendation, I ordered what this woman had recommended -- it was some kind of special 'recipe' and deviation(creation) from the normal food we had. I bought two packets of food -- fried kway teow and fried hokkien mee. The fried kway teow was going to be different. It is going to add 'Laksa Mee Tai Mak". It came with a package. The drink is going to contain the "Laksa Mee Tai Mak" also. They add in some drinks. I asked the woman if it is going to be alcoholic. In the end, I don't know what she was talking. I just trusted her recommendations. On entry to this shop, I saw the hokkien mee, which looks appetizing. So I ordered it as well. This made two packets of mee which I had made up my mind to order.

While waiting for the noodles, I went to walk around. People were play games. There were table games like Billiard around. Later, I heard the bell. It was the bell to say that the food is ready for collection. However, when I walked there, some people were sitting round the table. The stall owner was asking questions and the 'customers' were drawing their answers (writing in missing letters in the blanks). I was confused. I told them that I wanted to take my food. They ignored me and asked me to wait. I asked them,"what are these people doing? Can you explain?" The stall owner spoke Thai language. In the dream, they were really Thai...all thai, including the customers -- the skin tanned. I did not understand anything they said. The game looked interesting. Later, I got to know that it was some kind of 'incentives'. I blamed it on the women... the conspiracy game they played...

I went to a playground. I happened to see both women. One dressed in pink and another black(with some whites). Crowds were around the playground. Children were playing. I saw the women, the two of them. I could recognise their face. Their skin were very fair. The woman after talking to me quickly went behind the playground. I could not see her. After that, she walked away from the playground. She had apparently swopped clothes with the other woman (her accomplice). At first she was wearing pink, but at the time when she left, she was wearing black (with traces of white). This sight seemed to be happening at Boon Lay... those blocks of flats around Boon Lay Shopping Centre...

I was arguing with these women for 'cheating' me. Next the other woman (not the one recommending me the food, the accomplice) told me a possible answer or a more appropriate word for it. It was a four-letter words which I did not understand the meaning, nor have heard of it before. It starts with E sound and it seems to be called ELIN or ERIN , something like that. I asked them how to spell the words. I finished the dream with seeing the 'cheater' woman walking away in black(and white)...

Marsiling Point

This morning, I had another dream of Marsiling. This time, it is not about fish, but about BREAD and MRT. I came to a MRT Station. I was on the escalator, going to alight. It was a colourful escalator with colourful steps consisting of mostly red. Standing at the escalator, I saw afar 'empty space'... what happen to the escalator? It was a steep slope downwards -- a great height! I was so afraid of heights! My heart was thumping so loudly. At this point, I was really scared and really thumping loudly that I could feel my chest moving and the impact was so big that even the whole escalator swayed. The rest of the people turned towards me. Everyone was affected. I feel so bad. But I was really scared! Someone on the other lane of the escalator, a normal black and silver escalator just like what we see in the MRT Station, came to my rescue. It was a teenage boy.

I was walking along the void deck of a flat, in the neighbourhood of Woodlands (don't know where is it). I saw a group of people at the void deck later. Their hair were dyed -- all with various modern hairstyle. It belongs to the same family of people. Suddenly I saw that the person was the one who rescued me and we talked, thanking him. Something happened over here, but I cannot remember the full details now. It was some kind of opinions differences and Richard and I stood there for quite some time -- thinking of which bread to buy from the corner of the shops. At first Richard said wanted to go 'upstairs' to buy some food home. But later I told him that there are BREAD at the corner on the way home (really is Marsiling Point in the dream). He was already on the escalator 'up' and I tried my might to shout to him to come back.

There were two bread shop at this location of the Marsiling Point, the site just opposite Marsiling MRT Station. At this site, you can see two rows of shops, one on the left (along the same side as Sheng Siong Supermarket) and one on the right (the same site as the coffee shop). In the dream, there was two bread shop, and it just happened that on each side, there were one bread shop each. Richard and I were deciding which bread shop to buy. On the left side of the bread shop, I saw pink and green cake (those Rolls), so colourful and with white creams in between. On the right side, the bread shop seems to sell more bread with good stuffing... I wanted Richard to buy Chicken curry buns...



The photograph above shows Marsiling Point and these are the two rows of shops that was being mentioned above.

I have no idea at all about the history of Marsiling Point. But on 23 November 2010, I saw a plaque placed beside the staircase as shown in the photograph above. It wrote about The official opening of Marsiling Point By Mr Hawazi Daipi, MP For Sembawang GRC (Marsiling) on 5 December 1999. Below these words, there are logo of Sembawang Town Council, written: This gateway was sponsored by Woodlands Neighbourhoods Merchant's Association. I supposed the logo on the right of the plaque belongs to this association.





This is not the first time I dreamed of Marsiling. The most recent one was on the 20th November 2010, where I saw an award of the Hua Luo Han fish at the wall (the wall with two signs on it) as shown above.

Some Dreams about Marsiling: Three Jewels and The Face Business

No Peace

This morning, as I was dreaming (knowing that I was dreaming), I had a very special encounter. After my dream (which I will briefly mention, as much as I can remember), on and off, I 'saw' two faces or 'portrait' of women faces. First, it was a girl and the next a woman. I do not know these women at all and in the 'dream', they seem to 'transfer' information to me. I had forgotten what these information are by now and especially in the whole day I had done so many tasks.... and by now when I had come back to continue to write this post, it is almost 11pm and another new day is coming and today is going to end soon.

(If only I can have 'the supporting spouse'...)

Today I had a very special dream yet again. On the walls of a place, I saw feathers, the kind of 'wet look' feathers and they were all sticking on the walls, forming the shape of birds. They were not beautiful, but strange looking... as though the remnants of dead birds. In this dream, I dreamed of water (pools polluted with 'powders'), mangrove trees, gateway, familiar people (Nicole and her boyfriend/husband) and unfamiliar people (the guy beside Nicole is not the usual guy that I know, and in the dream it is...(someone I don't know).

No Time
Yesterday 30 November 2010, my fish died... I wanted to write a post for my blog, but circumstances do not permit me to do so. Even post on Kampong School was also written at Peace Diary. They are my 'raw copies'.

Today My Inspirational Song was at first 每天愛你多一些 (Everyday Love You a little More) but I realized something...

A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色)

夕陽之歌—梅艷芳


Anita Mui classic 2003 farewell concert --voice from the soul


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Not completed my work yet... and his eyes pinned on the TV and Isaac 'bothering' me.... How can I do my work? So much grievances..... I give up... have to go...

To be Continued