Took a trip down memory lane on Thursday while Eric was at a Senior Staff Mtg. I scanned all the pictures from our 1987 trip to Hong Kong. I used to write these trips up by hand in clear folders and insert the photographs with sticky tape. So now I am typing them all up into One Note Notebooks. Goodness knows why, who will ever look at them? I want to get rid of the dusty, insect-ridden old folders that have travelled from Butterworth to Cobram to Katherine and then Darwin, many of the photos deteriorating too. is that really us in the pictures? We are so young: Eric's hair is the colour of honey and I'm positively skinny!
As each visitor from Darwin arrives they are asked to call in on Luke and Tahlia to collect one or two albums. We are expecting Sue Rose next, a 2 night stop-over on her way to Bhutan. She arrives on the night of Good Friday, unfortunately too late to participate in our "Inaugural Cherry Hill Condo Tennis Morning". Haven't planned much yet but have booked the court for the morning so better now make it happen. Have talked about this for a long time but was saving my knees for Nepal, then recovering. We will have dinner with Sue the following night after work. The big news from Darwin this week is that Luke has been offered a job at Escape Travel, a subsidiary of Flight Centre and starts in 3 weeks. He as been looking for a change from JB HiFi for some time now, with more opportunities to have weekends with Tahlia. It's lovely to hear him so excited and he tells us he is also keeping up with the study requirements of the Bible Studies Course he has started.
On Friday, with my left knee now giving me no more trouble than the right one, Eric took me back to Bukit Brown Cemetery. The walking club went there in early Feb and I missed out on a good opportunity to see birds in this old cemetery which has become very overgrown. In 2016 the Land Transport Authority will be constructing a new dual four-lane road through Bukit Brown to alleviate congestion during peak hours. Many of the grave sites are listed for demolition and families have until April to register to have them exhumed.
There are also plans to document pre-exhumation related rituals that are performed by the families or if they suspect there are interesting artefacts buried with the deceased, they will ask the family for permission to document the exhumation itself. Perhaps they'll produce an Asian reality program one day like 'Who do you think you are?' and we'll be watching an exhumation.
Cablecars to Sentosa at Mt Faber
There are also plans to document pre-exhumation related rituals that are performed by the families or if they suspect there are interesting artefacts buried with the deceased, they will ask the family for permission to document the exhumation itself. Perhaps they'll produce an Asian reality program one day like 'Who do you think you are?' and we'll be watching an exhumation.
The trees were alive with birdsong but we didn't see a lot of new birds. Even so, it was a very peaceful walk, very few people about: just one walking a dog, another three on horseback and a few doing maintenance on graves.
We might have overdone it a bit this week! I know what you're saying, "Not like us at all!" On Saturday night Peter came over after work and we shared a meal and a few drinks which went on too late and made Sunday a long, long day. Unknowingly, earlier in the week we had arranged a social get together between our Punggol and Kovan MAE Branches to end the working week at Wild Oats in Punggol Park, so there was no getting out of that. We would have been wise not to have accepted the invitation to kick on over at Heather and Michael Munro's Condo though. They have the most outstanding swimming pool and a great riverside view from the 11th floor. My goodness it was hard to get out of bed for the morning walk on Monday.
The walkers met at Kent Ridge MRT and we followed the Southern Ridges walk to Hort Park, along the canopy walk and Henderson Waves then up to Mt Faber and down to VivoCity for lunch 3 hours later. This is definitely the longest and hardest walk I have attempted this year and I was a bit sore and sorry for myself when I got home. We both had an afternoon nap after all that.
At Hort Park
On Henderson Waves
Overlooking Keppel Bay Skyline
View of Reflections @ Keppel Bay
The 1129 apartments at Reflections @ Keppel Bay have full facilities which include BBQ pits, gym, tennis courts, Jacuzzi, landscaped sky gardens, and playground. It also sports an Olympic-sized pool and a double-storey clubhouse. it is close to Sentosa Is, VivoCity, Keppel Bay marina and a only 10 mins to the city by car. A 2 bedroom unit in the complex is listed for sale at Sg$1,995,000. Just out of our price range.
We might have overdone it a bit this week! I know what you're saying, "Not like us at all!" On Saturday night Peter came over after work and we shared a meal and a few drinks which went on too late and made Sunday a long, long day. Unknowingly, earlier in the week we had arranged a social get together between our Punggol and Kovan MAE Branches to end the working week at Wild Oats in Punggol Park, so there was no getting out of that. We would have been wise not to have accepted the invitation to kick on over at Heather and Michael Munro's Condo though. They have the most outstanding swimming pool and a great riverside view from the 11th floor. My goodness it was hard to get out of bed for the morning walk on Monday.
The walkers met at Kent Ridge MRT and we followed the Southern Ridges walk to Hort Park, along the canopy walk and Henderson Waves then up to Mt Faber and down to VivoCity for lunch 3 hours later. This is definitely the longest and hardest walk I have attempted this year and I was a bit sore and sorry for myself when I got home. We both had an afternoon nap after all that.
At Hort Park
On Henderson Waves
Overlooking Keppel Bay Skyline
View of Reflections @ Keppel Bay 
Cablecars to Sentosa at Mt Faber
You would think we'd be smart and have an early night after all that but no, we turned on the tv and started watching episodes from the last series of Offspring. Love that show and couldn't stop at just one, or two, even three.
Today I went to Spotlight to get a few bits for the next sewing project and then ventured out to test the clues Eric set last week for the great race event. We need to confirm the clues are able to be followed and time how long it takes to solve them before we put the whole lot together for the intrepid racegoers.
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