Choose Your Words

Words are free. It’s how you use them, that may cost you. We know once the words are uttered, there is no way to recall them, no matter how sorry we are. They can be only forgiven, not forgotten. So, be careful with your words. It is better to bite your tongue and swallow the words, than trying to ask for forgiveness after that.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. - Jodi Picoult

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. - Andre Maurois

Four swiftest horses cannot overtake the word once spoken. - Chinese Proverb

The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath. - Gautama Buddha.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. - Sartre

Too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. - Patricia Briggs

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. - Robert Fulghum

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. - Horace Mann

When you doubt between two words, choose the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. - Julius Charles Hare

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. - Arabian Proverb

Articulate words are a harsh clamour and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb! - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Hibiscus Flower

According to Wikipedia, Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae. The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, tropical, and semi-tropical regions throughout the world.

Hibiscus have dark green leaves; flowers are big, colourful, and trumpet-shaped, with colours ranging from white to pink, red, orange, yellow, peach. They bloom throughout the year. They are widely cultivated as ornamental plants for their showy flowers, or used as landscape shrubs.

Hibiscus are hardy, versatile plants in tropical conditions. They are easy to plant. Cut a section of a branch and stick it in the soil. In its early stage, make sure they have enough water. They do not need a lot of attention once they start growing.

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Dinner At Ernest's

Dinner at Ernest’s are always something I look forward to. It is a time to catch up with old friends, to see how they are doing. Time is moving on. We are all getting on too. The fact that we are still meeting and catching up after all these years (we have known each other since 1986), shows there is some affinity between us. We all appreciate the opportunity to get together whenever we can.

Thanks to Ernest, who loves to cook and entertain, we have a place where we can gather and be ourselves. During such times, there is always plenty to eat, and drink, between the talk and laughter.

As usual, Ernest cooked us a scrumptious meal. We had...

Claypot rice.

Braised lamb with herbs & spices

Fried pork belly with garlic

Pan fried prawn with seasoned garlic/salt/pepper.

Chicken soup. The chicken was somewhere in there.

For those who arrived earlier in the afternoon, Ernest prepared a pot of sweet potato with dried longan and dumpling soup for us.

The day went by very quickly between the eating, drinking and talking. Needless to say, we all had a great time.

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Cheeky Humour

Laughter is cheap medicine. When possible, where possible, laugh. It may not add years to your life, but it will surely add life to your years.

Take a look at today’s selection of Humour. Remember the ones you like best, and go spread some laughter around. No one will ever has enough laughter, or complain that they have laughed too much.

May your week ahead be filled with joy and laughter.

When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” It is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway. - Erma Bombeck

Research has shown that laughing for 2 minutes is just as healthy as a 20-minute jog. So, now I’m sitting in the park laughing at all the joggers. - Unknown

If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people. - Jarod Kintz

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn’t. - Mignon Mclaughlin

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more. - Walter Matthau

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. - Marston Bates

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once. - Unknown

If you could read my mind you’d back away slowly then run for your life. - Unknown

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. - Collis P. Huntingdon

It’s silly for a woman to go to a male gynaecologist. It’s like going to an auto mechanic who never owned a car. - Carrie Snow

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they’re born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you. - Ray Romano

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People

We cannot judge people by their looks. Good looking people does not necessarily mean they have a good heart. Neither can we judge people by how they talk. There are people who can talk the birds down from the tree. They do not necessarily harbour good intentions. So, looks and words aside, the only way to judge a person is through their actions. As they say, action speaks louder than words.

People are more complex and complicated than meets the eye. You can look to the one in the mirror for a testament.

Here are some truisms about people.

Good people are like street lights along the roads. They don’t make the distance short but they light up the path and make the walk easy and safe. - Unknown

The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life, and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds; the people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too; the people that love you, simply for being you. - Unknown

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. - Ernest Hemingway

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you’re delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody – and that’s what’s made them radiantly attractive. - Mignon McLaughlin

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under. - Charles Swindoll

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

In reality we never lose the people we love. They become immortal through us. They continue to live in our hearts and minds. They participate in our every act, idea and decision. No one will replace them and in spite of the pain we are richer for all the years invested in them. Because of them, we have so much more to bring to our present relationships and all those to come. - Leo Buscaglia

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Floral Display

The ‘Dahlia Dreams’ flower display in the Flower Dome in the Gardens by the Bay is on until the 17th of March. Because it was Chinese New Year, they also included a display of flowers that are considered auspicious for the New Year – flowers (apart from Dahlia), like Cymbidium, Celosia, Camellia, Anthurium, Chrysanthemum, Hydrangea, Peony...

Some photos from my visit to the 'Dahlia Dreams'.

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Lanterns In the Gardens

Some lanterns displayed at the Gardens by the Bay during Chinese New Year. They are lovely, and they stood out prominently in the dark. A lot of thought and creativity was given to the creation of these lanterns. They are great works of art. You will appreciate the lanterns more if you know the story behind their creation, or what the creation was supposed to mean. Unfortunately, I do not have that information. But the gist of it all is harmony, progress and prosperity to the people and nation.

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God of Prosperity

Some photographs of God of Prosperity in the Gardens by the Bay.

The God of Wealth, or God of Prosperity’s name, (also known as Caishen, a direct translation in Mandarin), is often invoked during the Chinese New Year celebrations.

“Caishen – literally ‘God of Wealth’, is the mythological figure worshiped in the Chinese folk religion and Taoism. He has been identified with many historical figures, viewed as his embodied forms. It is unclear whether they are genuine historical figures, though most of the stories agree that Caishen's most popular incarnation lived during the early Qin Dynasty.” - Wikipedia

Although it’s a mythological figure, people still secretly wish, that there is a God of Wealth and somehow, someday they will benefit from the God’s benevolence.

If you are wondering about the suspended dragon that swirl around the supertrees alongside the God of Prosperity, this is the Year of the Dragon. During the Chinese New Year lanterns of the animal’s year are featured in the celebrations.

In the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Dragon is especially auspicious, with those born under this sign believed to embody the dragon's positive qualities. Individuals born this year are believed to embody traits of ambition, charisma, flexibility and adaptability.

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