US Navy. Singapore Navy.
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.Herman Melville
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.Plutarch
The boundaries which divide life from deathare at best shadowy and vague.Who shall say where one ends,and the other begins?Edgar Alan Poe
One week after my trip to the zoo, more things have gone on… *duh*
Tired? – yes.
Resting? – have to.
Summary:
Dinner at the Terror Club
Visiting my nephew ^_^
School programs
Watermark award ceremony
CIP with US and Singapore Navy
Shimin’s (belated) Birthday dinner
Interview and relief
My Ian is a real auntie killer.
Love his smile.
Love his laugh.
The watermark award ceremony was held at the floating platform at the marina.
The very same place where they are going to have the National Day parade.
I must say that it is a real honor to be among the first to be allowed onto the platform. Not very often do you get the chance to be on that restricted site with good weather and a beautiful scenery.
In fact, we were among the first to experience the place in all its glory, without the crowds to hamper our views or distract us with extra sounds effects.
I do look forward to seeing the NDP, but it will be from the comfort of my home this time. I have volunteered myself for duty on both the preview and actual days, depending on which day I am roosted on; I will get to see fireworks LIVE!
Nothing beats seeing em’ live aye?
-does the hanabi jig-
The US Navy came down to WWS to do their community involvement program with us. Some guys from the Singapore Navy also came along.
38 US Navy + 10 Singapore Navy.
We were given various sectors to get work done – that being removing certain objects and clearing as much debris as possible from the shore.
Serene and I were put in charge of the crew from Harpers Ferry.
Went to the wakeboarding side, tried to dig up the poles but broke the shovels in the process of digging. The muscled people managed to get one of the poles up, so that in itself was a very big thing for us already.
Some of the guys were humming carol of bells at one point, or rather the beginning of the day.
Question: Is that not a Christmas tune?
No complaints from me regarding that… its one of my favorite Dec tunes :)
Spent the rest of the time picking up litter, cracking jokes, playing with crabs (big and small, dead and alive).
One of the guys kinda freaked out when a baby crab got under his shirt. For his sake, I am glad their photographer did not get a shot of him doing that ‘dance’.
Due to certain orders they were given, and the uniform they were wearing that day, they could only go into the water up to their ankles. -.-lll
That left me in the water, fishing up the plastic bags and other items for them to put into their trash bags.
I was up to my calves in mud at one point, trying to get to various objects that were stuck in the mud. I’ll have to get myself into the mud again one day to retrieve that elusive rattan box in the future. *bleeh*
The objects I pulled from the water ranged from small (straws) to big (huge plastic bags/ plastic sheets/ huge containers filled with mud and sediments). Some were so huge, the Navy fellas thought I had pulled out dead bodies.
-hysterical laughter-
Muddy, sweaty, hot and tired.
It is a somewhat depressing yet hopeful experience.
Depressing - it is impossible for me to comb the body of water and get rid of all the trash.
Hopeful – I got rid of that trash, and those pieces will not harm the environment any more. I am doing my bid for society no?
At the end of the day, there were some laughs to be had and nice photos to be taken.
The guys on other sectors hauled up chairs and other metal items from the breakwater. Other areas brought back parts of docks, i.e. huge wooden planks.
I believe it was a good chance for the Singapore fellas to work hand in hand with the US dudes.
In house jokes:
Pansy?
Where’s the food?
Eels vs Crabs vs Snakes
Japanese language anyone?
The half wasted me managed to haul my bum home after lunch with Uncle Joe.
Knocked flat out before the alarm went off for me to leave the house to go and meet Diana, Yang Mui and Shi Min for dinner at Central.
Manhattan Fish market!
Shiok food… but I think I am allergic to some kind of seafood… my nose was itchy again… Hmmm…
We gave Shi Min a belated birthday dinner as well as went walking around the maze that is the shopping complex. Diana’s got a new hairclip!
Seeing that there were no suitable places for deserts, we walked to Chinatown point instead. We ended up having ice cream and drinks at MacDonald’s after I banged my head against a glass panel outside Swenson’s. If anyone sees an article in STOMP about a person creating a din there, I think it would be safe to say that the person was me. Hearing about the reactions of the patrons from Diana and Yang Mui really sent me into fits of laughter. But only after my tears stopped flowing… it was a rather hard bang know?
We laughed, contemplated and discussed facial cream, among other things, before heading home on the NEL.
Now I await our next outing… hmmm… when will that be?
-rabbit emicon for dance plays in the background-
Good thing I don’t have anything on for today… if not I would be falling asleep all over the place. Oppz.
Sleep is good~
WELCOME BACK MARILYN~!!!
Glad you had a good time...
Sure got more pictures than those you put on your site right?
Must show show~ :D
Ying Ying Zhou,
next Sunday how?
Before I take sign off, here’s a line from Mr. P Chan:
“Navy boys are good, but only when they are in Singapore.”
Comments anyone?
-hystiercal laughter-
^-^
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.Plutarch
The boundaries which divide life from deathare at best shadowy and vague.Who shall say where one ends,and the other begins?Edgar Alan Poe
One week after my trip to the zoo, more things have gone on… *duh*
Tired? – yes.
Resting? – have to.
Summary:
Dinner at the Terror Club
Visiting my nephew ^_^
School programs
Watermark award ceremony
CIP with US and Singapore Navy
Shimin’s (belated) Birthday dinner
Interview and relief
My Ian is a real auntie killer.
Love his smile.
Love his laugh.
The watermark award ceremony was held at the floating platform at the marina.
The very same place where they are going to have the National Day parade.
I must say that it is a real honor to be among the first to be allowed onto the platform. Not very often do you get the chance to be on that restricted site with good weather and a beautiful scenery.
In fact, we were among the first to experience the place in all its glory, without the crowds to hamper our views or distract us with extra sounds effects.
I do look forward to seeing the NDP, but it will be from the comfort of my home this time. I have volunteered myself for duty on both the preview and actual days, depending on which day I am roosted on; I will get to see fireworks LIVE!
Nothing beats seeing em’ live aye?
-does the hanabi jig-
The US Navy came down to WWS to do their community involvement program with us. Some guys from the Singapore Navy also came along.
38 US Navy + 10 Singapore Navy.
We were given various sectors to get work done – that being removing certain objects and clearing as much debris as possible from the shore.
Serene and I were put in charge of the crew from Harpers Ferry.
Went to the wakeboarding side, tried to dig up the poles but broke the shovels in the process of digging. The muscled people managed to get one of the poles up, so that in itself was a very big thing for us already.
Some of the guys were humming carol of bells at one point, or rather the beginning of the day.
Question: Is that not a Christmas tune?
No complaints from me regarding that… its one of my favorite Dec tunes :)
Spent the rest of the time picking up litter, cracking jokes, playing with crabs (big and small, dead and alive).
One of the guys kinda freaked out when a baby crab got under his shirt. For his sake, I am glad their photographer did not get a shot of him doing that ‘dance’.
Due to certain orders they were given, and the uniform they were wearing that day, they could only go into the water up to their ankles. -.-lll
That left me in the water, fishing up the plastic bags and other items for them to put into their trash bags.
I was up to my calves in mud at one point, trying to get to various objects that were stuck in the mud. I’ll have to get myself into the mud again one day to retrieve that elusive rattan box in the future. *bleeh*
The objects I pulled from the water ranged from small (straws) to big (huge plastic bags/ plastic sheets/ huge containers filled with mud and sediments). Some were so huge, the Navy fellas thought I had pulled out dead bodies.
-hysterical laughter-
Muddy, sweaty, hot and tired.
It is a somewhat depressing yet hopeful experience.
Depressing - it is impossible for me to comb the body of water and get rid of all the trash.
Hopeful – I got rid of that trash, and those pieces will not harm the environment any more. I am doing my bid for society no?
At the end of the day, there were some laughs to be had and nice photos to be taken.
The guys on other sectors hauled up chairs and other metal items from the breakwater. Other areas brought back parts of docks, i.e. huge wooden planks.
I believe it was a good chance for the Singapore fellas to work hand in hand with the US dudes.
In house jokes:
Pansy?
Where’s the food?
Eels vs Crabs vs Snakes
Japanese language anyone?
The half wasted me managed to haul my bum home after lunch with Uncle Joe.
Knocked flat out before the alarm went off for me to leave the house to go and meet Diana, Yang Mui and Shi Min for dinner at Central.
Manhattan Fish market!
Shiok food… but I think I am allergic to some kind of seafood… my nose was itchy again… Hmmm…
We gave Shi Min a belated birthday dinner as well as went walking around the maze that is the shopping complex. Diana’s got a new hairclip!
Seeing that there were no suitable places for deserts, we walked to Chinatown point instead. We ended up having ice cream and drinks at MacDonald’s after I banged my head against a glass panel outside Swenson’s. If anyone sees an article in STOMP about a person creating a din there, I think it would be safe to say that the person was me. Hearing about the reactions of the patrons from Diana and Yang Mui really sent me into fits of laughter. But only after my tears stopped flowing… it was a rather hard bang know?
We laughed, contemplated and discussed facial cream, among other things, before heading home on the NEL.
Now I await our next outing… hmmm… when will that be?
-rabbit emicon for dance plays in the background-
Good thing I don’t have anything on for today… if not I would be falling asleep all over the place. Oppz.
Sleep is good~
WELCOME BACK MARILYN~!!!
Glad you had a good time...
Sure got more pictures than those you put on your site right?
Must show show~ :D
Ying Ying Zhou,
next Sunday how?
Before I take sign off, here’s a line from Mr. P Chan:
“Navy boys are good, but only when they are in Singapore.”
Comments anyone?
-hystiercal laughter-
^-^
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