Ne Zha 2 Screening in Singapore!

Ne Zha 2 will be screening in Singapore theatres on 6th March. 2 more weeks of waiting. I'm looking forward to watching it. Will they be screening in Imax theatre? 

Birthday Month

I'm celebrating my birthday this month and will be spending more than usual as there are many promotions during the birthday month. My cousin treated me to sumptuous 8-meal course at Sufood and my youngest brother and parents brought me cake. Thank you for the treats!

Indomitable Spirit: NeZha Director

I like the indomitable spirit of NeZha director, Yu Yang. He pursued medical degree but didn't become a doctor so as to pursue his animation dream. For three years, he worked hard to achieve his dream without any income. This NeZha movie is kind of a dedication to his mother unconditional love in supporting his dream. It is now the highest grossing animation in the world with a single market. Why? Europe is not screening it.  So their citizens who want to watch it travelled to China to watch. America only started screening NeZha last week. The special effects and story are awesome. Singapore has not screen this movie yet. If I can’t watch it in Singapore, I’ll travel overseas to watch it. 

Just work hard and ignore the naysayers. Some news  media just like to focus on the negative. (That’s why I don’t read news often) Just focus on doing well and the results will follow in due time. 

To the scmp reporter who doesn’t know the reason why the director decided on NeZha story. He stated the reason in this interview.

Ne Zha 我命由我不由天

When I was young, I used to watch Ne Zha, Chinese drama in the 1980s. The drama is based on 16th century, Ming dynasty novel Investiture of the Gods 封神榜 by Xu Zhonglin. I really enjoy the story of the good prevailing and Ne Zha fighting for justice. In battle, he has the spear and wind fire ring with him. The third son of General Li, he had a tumultuous relationship with his father who took his life in his past life.  Even though he was impulsive, he cared for his mother and helped the weak.  He is a protection deity revered in Chinese Taoism and you can find Ne Zha temples around Asia.  

I heard that Ne Zha 2 movie is very popular. I hope to watch this animation movie soon in Singapore. 

May there be justice in this world. No more human trafficking. Protect the children who are the future of planet earth.  

我命由我不由天. My destiny depends on me, not on heaven. I like his spirit on being a master of his fate.

PS. I hope Wikipedia conduct check else there is no credibility if any one can type in inaccurate information just to ride on the wave of this popular movie. Wikipedia will just become irrelevant. I noticed the Ne Zha title wikipedia was edited often.

Hong Kong drama on Ne Zha. Can't find 1980s China drama production now. 

XTRA Furniture Store at Marina Square

Visited XTRA furniture store recently at Marina Square where you can shop for furnitures by well-known designers like Tom Dixon and Herman Miller chairs. They also have affordable accessories decor like cute MAGIS dog decor.

They have unique and fun furniture designs. Maybe I get one cute furniture for my new home.

 

Breakfast at Shake Shack

Had a quiet breakfast at Gardens by the Bay Shake Shack restaurant which is near the flower dome this Monday morning. I brought the arugula egg and cheese burger and breakfast tots hash brown. The arugula egg and cheese burger is suitable for plant based eater.

人日快乐 Happy Birthday

Today is 7th day of Chinese New Year. For Teochews, we will eat 7 different type of vegetables. 

For today lunch, my mum cooked 7 vegetables that she brought from Prime Supermarket which sells pre-packaged 7 vegetables ( Caixin, Chinese leeks) for about $5 a pack. It is convenient to customers.

Happy Birthday everyone! 人日快乐！

  Today lunch. 

New Blog

Hi everyone, I have a new blog on flowers only. Since I'm quite free now, I'm also learning and creating videos on flowers and post on YouTube. So far the videos I posted are quite short and mostly photos but at least I started to create and share. I will start to take more videos and post on flowers. 

The new blog is here 

Tossing Yusheng With My Friend

Had a sumptuous lunch with my friend at Putien yesterday as I like their fried beehoon, vermicelli which I find it comparable to homecooked beehoon. Also I find the price quite reasonable compared to other Chinese restaurant and there is no additional service charge. We had 2 person set lunch and we got to eat yusheng. We paid about $148 for the set lunch for 2 person and additional cost for drink tea.

The staff was flexible as he allowed us to change two dishes from noodle to fried bee Hoon and sea cucumber dish to scallop broccolis. 

 

Brave Whistleblower: Edward Snowden

I have to say you can learn a lot from Edward Snowden as he gave many insightful views. Depending on who you ask, some like the USA government staff call him a traitor but he contributed to the rest of humanity and the world by revealing the truth about USA government illegal activities like wire tapping and worldwide surveillance back in 2013. American journalists like him. He risked his life and is now living as a naturalized citizen in Russia. Hopefully he can be pardoned and be back to his country. In earlier post, I already shared the greatest enemy of USA is within the USA government. How could they allow people to vote without documentation and allow massive illegal immigrants to enter the country? Really mind-boggling right? Like him or dismiss him, he has the guts to do what is right.  I hope the higher power, Universe, God can protect him and his family. 

Some wisdoms by Edward Snowden in his interview on The Joe Rogan Experience. People are now trusting podcast then mainstream media and the government (I don’t agree with everything Joe Rogan said). Just look at the incompetent Californian governor gavin and what he has done to the once beautiful California.

Like him or hate him, he will go down in history as a Hero to humanity for exposing USA government global surveillance. It’s okay to spy on your enemies but to spy on your allies and your own citizens?

"Patriotism is not about a loyalty to government. Patriotism in fact is not about loyalty to anything. Patriotism is a constant effort to do good for the people of your country"

"Loyalty is good when it's in the service of something good." 

"You can’t awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep”

 "The scandal isn't that they're breaking the law. The scandal is that they don't have to break the law"

"I didn't come forward to be safe. If I wanted to be safe, I'd still be sitting in Hawaii making a hell of a lot of money to spy on all of you."

"But at the end of the day, you have to recognize if you’re trying to eliminate all risks from your life, what you’re actually doing is eliminating all possibility from your life. "

"I was waiting for a hero but there are no hero’s, only heroic decisions”

“I always wondered why, when things went wrong, someone didn’t do something. Then I realised, that someone was me”! 

"When we become fearful, we become vulnerable to anyone who promises to make things better." 

""When you don't tell your story, other people will tell it" 

 

"no warrant is needed to spy on you because it’s not your data, it’s the companies data”

One needs to remember, absolute power corrupts. The 34th USA President, Dwight David Eisenhower warned against the military undue influence in his farewell speech, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.".