One Night with the President

Something I've learnt from my company - they (the higher management who are all from Hong Kong) don't worry about the things they cannot control. Such as, will the shop be renovated quickly enough in time to open, whether the factories can do our orders quickly enough, etc etc... It's a splendid system of working; I've realised - they never seem to be stressed and all of us do get our work done pretty efficiently. I guess this applies to real life too, felt that many singaporeans are worried over the CaSINo thingy, and most of us cannot do anything about it, cuz even if we voice our opinions, it's 'noted' by the government but yea... 'noted', how effective can the opinion be if it is 'heard' only, not 'activated' upon? Presume that many fear about the vices, illegal prostitution rings, big baddies, mafia, etc that might inhabit our city once the caSINo is up and running. For the moment, there's nothing we can do about it, except perhaps stop ourselves from going there, so I guess my advice to those fretters is to stop worrying; I do not condone gambling, but this is the society's fault, we cannot bear its burdens.

Watched SOM - the Sound of Music musical, Wednesday night with Matt and Shiner. It was worth every penny spent (a hundred whopping bucks to be exact~), I was happily reminded of my childhood favorite songs, 'do re mi', 'the raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens song', 'edelweiss' and so many others. It is a really inspiring true life tale... how much a part music plays, in my own life. How a simple rendition of a contemporary christian song can bring tears to one's eyes - it is unfathomable how much value there is to songs, yet I do forget sometimes how to sing, and I have to start to learn it all over again. When Captain Von Trapp sang 'Edelweiss', it was a really rousing piece that reminded me how much we have taken the peace we have for granted. And... the President, the venerable distinguished mister SR Nathan was there! Along with his wife, and kids, and bodyguards... the bodyguards also got to watch the show! We felt that it was really kind of kewl to watch SOM with him - Although I might say he was at least 7 metres away - I never saw the President 'real-live' before... But wow! He looks exactly like on TV! And there were fireworks, somewhere at the Esplanade, outside of course, just at our intermission time, we could peer out of the 'durian windows' and see them spiralling. So it was a very special day for me, even though I was slightly incapacitated with a cold. =)