This weekend

Yesterday night, I decided to check out the last of national day fireworks series. The finale's by Team France. Along the road leading to Raffles City, traffic slowed to a crawl & ppl jam-packed onto the stairs of majestic Parliament House and sprawled onto the lush greens of Padang. For once too, the ever law-abiding sporeans triple-parked on the road in front of Parliament House, paying nary a heed to the endless vehicles inching by! Thank god, missy luck's smiling on us, we managed to squeeze into one of the triple-parked lanes. *hee*


Parliament House, in all its grandour


People packed onto the stairs


The road is all ours

Together with the rest of the hot-blooded sporeans (big, small, young, old, man, woman) & a no. of foreigners, we roared and clapped in appreciative approval everytime a generous burst of pretty sparklers lit the sky. It was a good 15min visual treat - too bad my baby Lumix can't capture the true beauty enough.


Some pretty sparklers

This morning, I went to check out the Red Dot Design Museum, where there is a flea market every Sun, 11am-7pm, where young designers showcase and sell their creative originals. You'd get everything from coasters to beaded jewellery to blouses & bags - everything self-designed and home-made. Man, I totally feel at home. This is how I'd like things to be - unpretentious yet bursting with raw energy. A quiet little place tucked away from the madness of it all, within which there's a Pacific Coffee outlet for carefree-ers to while their time reading a book while sipping their lattes. I'd be back again.


The Red Dot Design Museum near Maxwell Market


My kinda place


Go check it out if you are free

Oh, and I think we are going to hear some good news on our old flat. We have quite an interested buyer. Finally, after almost a year. Painful as it is (afterall it's been our abode for the past 14 yrs and is where mama spent her last days with us), I know it's a right and more practical decision to let it go. May the deal goes through smoothly and may the new owners take as good care of it as we did.