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Singaporean-Six words Saturday #11
“Heavy traffic near shell stations today”
Today, most of the shell Petrol Stations (excluding four of them never join the promotion) in Singapore are having a promotion, Celebrate the launch of new Shell FuelSave 98 and 95 at just $1 (nett) per litre, promotion stared from 10AM and will end at 6pm only for today, it caused heavy traffic jam anywhere near the shell stations. The CISCO have been activated for crowd control. Some drivers did horn non-stop while queuing for petrol promotion, some drivers were jumping into the queue, some were quarreling because of small matters during the queue…Again, the shell management are fancy showcasing the ugliest side of ourselves after the previous promotion on our national day!
The queue was just crazy! It ran more than 1 km outside the Shell Petrol Stations at many places. I was told by a lot of people they spent an hour queue for pumping the cheapest petrol. Ya, crazy queue indeed …I don’t know how much they can save, maybe $30, I bet for the max, but how about the time, an hour! Save money but waste the time and the petro while queuing, how much can you save? What is the purpose of saving? In the end only Shell is the winner, will be on the headline on the media.
I never joined the queue, for me the best way of saving money is to take public transport when I am not in a hurry. I always try not driving on weekend when I am not rushing between office and home. I try to take a walk for some short distance. Isn’t it the easy way to save money and save our environment instead of queuing for an hour to pump petrol.
The previous shell Petrol Stations promotion on National Day caused a lot of traffic problems too. I just don’t understand those who can afford a car worth tens of thousands of dollars, eat out one time can easily spend more than $50 for a small family, buying one TOTO spending more than $50, but yet they are scramble like ugly beggars for the small discount, are these our lovely typical Singaporeans?
Should I say “Happy Pumping!” ?
Long-tailed Macaque-Six Words Saturday #10
“My parents are kissing , I'm behind .”
The three long-tailed Macaque gave me a lot of fun this weekend. I guess they are father, mother, and of course, behind the little one is baby long-tailed Macaque. 
Six words Saturday is a very interesting meme. All that's necessary to participate is to post your own six words, add a linkto the blog hosted by Cate and visit all other participations. This week I would like to share with you this photo of lovely long-tailed Macaque. I were so close to them when the photo was taken. Well, I will tell you where I took this photo and some more other interesting photos will be posted next week.
Six words Saturday is a very interesting meme. All that's necessary to participate is to post your own six words, add a linkto the blog hosted by Cate and visit all other participations. This week I would like to share with you this photo of lovely long-tailed Macaque. I were so close to them when the photo was taken. Well, I will tell you where I took this photo and some more other interesting photos will be posted next week. 
What is the baby long-tailed Macaque looking for?
Camera Critters, this meme is all about photos of animals/critters. Hope you like these three lovely long-tailed Macaque and visit Camera Critters for more fun. 
Six words Saturday No 9
“Slow down, simplicity, and appreciate life.”
Six words Saturday No 8
“Children are busy celebrating Mid-Autumn festival.”
The Moon festival (also called the Moon cake festival or Mid-Autumn Moon Festival ) falls on October 3 which is Saturday this year. Every year on this fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, traditional Chinese family will celebrate this special occasion so called "Zhong Qiu 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. This is a time for families to come together and eat moon cakes and pomelos, Mini yams, water caltrops, drink Chinese Tea, beneath the bright and full mid-autumn moon. In the old days, children used to play with colorful lanterns of animal designs such as rabbits, dragons and fish, but in keeping with the times, airplane, rocket, spaceship and superhero lanterns are popular now. Lantern processions are also part of the fun. Children in the neighborhood gather together and parade their colorful lanterns through the streets. While children are playing their lanterns, adults will sit together, drink tea, eat moon cake and chit chat until late night. Now in modern days of Singapore, every one is too busy to celebrate this traditional festival, young generation like to spend more time with friends rather than family members, a lot of traditional cultural are lost. Moon festival seems only left different kinds of modern type of moon cakes full filled in shopping center. And of course, at this very traditional festival, children in kindergarten are busy celebrating Mid-Autumn festival, this is a very good time for teachers to teach our culture and have fun to teach children to do handmade lanterns. Theses are some of the art work done by them, I happened to see one kindergarten organize the handmade lanterns competition in the park yesterday, some photos were taken there.
Six Words Saturday No 7
Six words Saturday for this week: “Colorful post-it notes work on her.”
The photo is from Jama blog, “Colorful notes pasted by the participants of a workshop on what they have learn that day.” If you are curious what are the things in my this post related to Jama’s post-it note, read on.
My Six words Saturday for this week: “Colorful post-it notes work on her.” Of course, “her” here is not Jama, “her” mentioned is my daughter. Sometime I just get angry with her all habits, and no matter how angry I am, it doesn’t work on her…She always forgets to bring homework to school, she leaves the dirty clothes in the bath room after shower, she doesn’t cover back the toothpaste after brushing teeth, she takes out the chocolate and leaves the empty box in the fridge, or she leaves the house phone in the fridge and looks for it when it is ringing…Many such habits company our daily life until I am really really frustrated, because no matter how many times I scolded her, things are never changed.
So one day I choose to keep silent, and write a lot of post-it notes, paste all over the places where I think she need to be reminded…In the end of the day, when she was sleeping, I checked all the post-it notes, Guess what?
Some are the post-it notes are disappear… I saw the school back was packed and nicely kept by the door side for tomorrow which I left a post-it note to require her to do so, the clothes were kept in the basket for washing…Etc etc. There is a post-it note written by her in the toilet: “Hi, mom I wish the post-it notes from you will be lesser days by days.”
Yeah, she is right, a lot of her bad habits are gone, now the post-it notes from me are lesser.
“Colorful post-it notes work on her.” I will share this story with other moms on this Six Words Saturday… And I would like to hear from you how to be a better mother.
Six Words Saturday No 6
Six words Saturday for this week: “Forgive, forget who have hurt you”
This post also a reply to my dear friend who discussed with me about the topic of forgive and forget. (PS, i know you will read this post. :)
Do we forgive and forget that someone who has hurt us? I believe a lot of people will forgive but never forget.
And some of people may forget who have hurt them and just move on with their life but never care to forgive.
My girl friend still remember she has been betrayed by her ex-boyfriend, actually she forgives him already but she can’t forget the feeling of being hurt, it is a big shadow in her life, even after many years later she happily married to a husband who loves her so much, but she still can’t walk out from the shadow, she always worry being betrayed again, she is not happy at all up to now.
I believe many people have similar experience just can’t forget the matters that they have being hurt, they will probably never forget the person who have hurt them or the things that have hurt them. They are unable to forget so they remember the pain of being hurt…
I know we can't really MAKE ourselves forget anything. But you must forgive the someone who had hurt you, you must forget the hurt in your heart, otherwise, the hurt will concentrate in your heart and hurt you more. You need to choose to forgive and forget the people who hurt you (not for them, but for yourself)...and you will be able to move on with your life.
Believe me, whatever pain it caused, will fade with time....Time has a way to heal things with God’s help. So forgive and forget who have hurt you, forgive your own failure and mistake and forget those days with only grey sky on top of your head, I am sure you will be happier.
Six Words Saturday No 5
Six words Saturday for this week: “I really don't like you, Mommy.”
“I don’t like you Mommy!” I though I was the only one who heard this words until I read this post.
Have you ever heard from your kids said that:" I don’t like you Mommy" ? Do you feel hurt? I did.
My daughter doesn’t tell me in person, but she wrote in her diary and blog, “I really don’t like my Mommy.” Just because I forced her to learn Chinese, just because I didn’t allow her to chat online with friends…
I am wondering how are you going to do if your children tell you something like this. Anyway, this is always my answer to her: “ It's not my job for you to like me but it's my job to guide you to grow into a person I like.” That is my answer to her, with smile and firm. Although I am really hurt.
Am I wrong? Anyway now she doesn’t tell me or write such words already. She knows I love her.
Six Words Saturday No4
Six words Saturday for this week: “What’s wrong with my turtle?”
I just not sure what’s wrong with my turtle, there is a tail out from the shell, it doesn’t go back for a few hours already…They were swimming in the fish tank happily before. There were four turtles in one fish tank before, two of them were given out to friends not too long ago. Now there are two turtles. Just only a few hours ago, Before I were about to clean the fish tank, two of them are still happily playing together, one of the bigger one like to climb up on the back of the smaller one…I the bigger one down, and notice the tail of the small turtle is out from the shell, no matter how I touch it, it doesn’t go back to the shell…
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