lil’ snow white

it all began on 19 Jun, Fri, when we were supposed to meet colleagues at the Asian Civilisation Museum after dinner to visit the galleries. entry was free that evening, n all museum-goers cld get a tic for a free Bacardi Mojito!

after a more-than-satisfyin dinner, we decided tt it was too late to visit the ACM then. decided to visit it the following wkend. we had a photography session by the river instead.. there were beautifully lit floats featuring the lives of the settlers in Singapore durin the early days.

while busy takin our photos, all of a sudden there was a “cling” sound tt sounded like one of e ropes hoistin e reverse bungee had given way! i looked towards tt direction n saw e capsule bein flung out 90 degs to e right n then to e left, like a pendulum. it was scary n i thot that an accident had happened! it was only e next day when fiona told me tt it’s their new ride!!  笨蛋!!

the followin day, we met F&N (Fiona & Nic) for some shoppin n dinner at orchard before adjournin to clarke quay for more action. they were havin a salsa party at the central sq canopy, but seriously it was jus a small mat set up with a few ppl dancin n din look the most interesting. we ended up at Arena instead. it was fun! cancan’s first real clubbin trip (minus those no-dance halloween parties) in 2 yrs!

the last time i dined at Indochine was at the wisma branch, when it was still there! gosh, that’s aeons ago! this one by the river seems even lovelier! check out that exotic decor wif e perfect play of mysterious colors! we had very nice whitebaits (oh yeah tt’s cancan’s fave finger food) n their house salad, and some deer meat.

seriously i thot the deer meat was a steak.. it turned out to be “deer meat ala tze char store”. hahaha! but nevertheless it was delicious n i paired it wif their fragrant white rice, which tuck tuck said (repeatedly) tasted really good. in e end he almost had more rice than salad i think. bo liao leh! kekeke!

after that it was back to the SG River Fest! another Cuban performance here. it was really cool.. i wished i was in e right attire to do some partyin!

some kind soul gave us tix to redeem e Mojito even tho we din manage to get into ACM. the queue to e ACM was a friggin 2-hr long!

the followin day, we came back for another dose of the river happenings. finally got into the ACM, but gave the Kangxi exhibition a miss cos the queue today was even longer!! kao eh.. that was actually wat i wanted to see most..

dinner was at the happenin Penny Black. we tried their popular fish fingers and it was GRRRREAT! suddenly got a cravin for that again… *slurps*

we’re 6,734 miles away frm London.

after dinner, it was a “musical by the river, under da stars”! A free local production, A River Romance brought us a lovely love story bw a Nonya girl n a poor coolie. cancan loves the nonya heritage, long before the Little Nonya was screened!

the musical, in my opinion, was pretty impressive, featurin an array of well-designed props and colorful traditional costumes. for a free production wif a make-shift stage, i think it was superb! the songs were nice and catchy too. wonder if they cut an album or sthg.. they incorporated some china acrobatics in the musical too, which was a bit extra, but nonetheless VERY impressive (i mean the stunts).

durin the SARS period, our holy almighty national leaders were administered a vaccine which us commoners had no access to. it seemed to indicate that their lives r worth more than ours. i found that fact hard to digest. but ok, perhaps it’s true if we assume that our country, n the general well-being of all in our society, cannot function w/o them.

and then i thot of a huge fund-raisin campaign gg on right now, for a little girl ill-stricken wif cancer. the target sum of the campaign is a hefty S$500k! of course, who am i to judge if someone else’s life is worth $500k or not?! if i’m a mother, my child’s life wld definitely be worth much more to me! wat wld stop me frm gg all out to raise money to save the life of my most precious one? as i read the blog, i cldnt help but drop a few tears.. one can definitely understand the reason behind this fund-raising campaign.

but as i read more, i cldnt help but to think of the other not-so-fortunate little ones out there in our society, who similary are struck wif illnesses frm a young age, but do not have recourse to such well-publicised fund-raisin campaigns.

Children’s Cancer Foundation is a charitable org which i donate to monthly. in e past it used to be Club Rainbow (n of course NKF), now i’m thinkin of startin donations to them again, on top of CCF. both CCF n Club Rainbow are charity organisations which help children with illnesses. i chose both of them cos i particularly sympathise wif young children wif illnesses.

n perhaps becos of this, sthg crossed my mind. tt wif the hundreds of thousands of dollars donated by the kind souls in this campaign, it cld either be used for a treatment for a single child (wif a recovery rate of 50%), or it cld be used to save e lives of 100 children wif a recovery rate of 70-90%.

for the friends n family of the child, the decision wld be understandably, unanimous. but for everyone else (i.e. includin me), i really dunno. it kept me pondering n thinkin abt life again… it makes me upset that unfortunate things liddat happen to kids so young, so innocent.

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