Still in Mountain Area

I’m still in the quiet mountain area with vast space. I do like this peaceful place. It would be great to retire somewhere similar to here. While resting in my room, I listen to this great classic by Jacky Chung.

Even though I like this mountain area, I find that there are more tourists visiting. 

Update on Two Blogs

Finally I spent some time to update both travel and blooming flowers blogs. Last week I started to travel solo to both city and mountainous places for a month. This is the longest period of time I'm away from Singapore since New York two-week solo travel in 2011. After working hard for 20 years, I decided to do what I always wanted to do which is to see flowers during the Spring time and to explore beautiful mountain. In my former job, I could only have 1 week rest in March and even during that period, I also need to prepare for next week work. 

It's the best time to travel when you are in mid-40s when you are quite fit and financially comfortable. I noticed some seniors having difficulty walking up the mountainous area during the travel. After the trip, I'm open to suitable job opportunities. If I can’t find anything suitable then I depend on current passive income and continue to blog which earn some money.

I was wondering if I should create another Youtube channel on travel. After thinking, I decided to just add Travel playlist to current channel on Blooming Flowers and Arts and changing the channel name to Blooming Flowers, Arts and Travel for easy management. So if you like to see flowers, just select and click the Gardens playlist. Also I think it's troublesome for my friends and relatives to toggle between channels and for me to switch between channels to update.

Just Travel and Enjoy Life blog here: https://travelandenjoylife8.blogspot.com

Blooming Flowers and Arts here: https://bloomingflowersnarts.blogspot.com

Heart Sutra and Buddhism: https://heartsutrabuddhism.blogspot.com

Buddha Relic Tooth Temple

I finally visited Buddha Tooth Relic Temple at Chinatown Singapore this Monday. I decided to pray and also to see Buddha's relic. Also I wanted to try the vegetarian food at the temple basement 1. To my shock, there were many people eating during lunch time on weekday.

At level 3 there is a Buddha museum where you can read the history of Buddha and see Buddha's relics and the tooth relic at level 4. Some tourists tried to take photo of the relic despite the sign indicating No photography. Some tried to take photo of people meditating at level 4 and they had to be stopped by the security guard.

I revere the compassionate Buddha and his selfless teaching for 45 years to both humans and heavenly beings on how to end suffering. He also taught us not to accept anything at face value but to question and investigate and relate it to our own experience. May all sentient beings be enlightened and end samsara.  

Namo Buddhaya Amitofo🙏

If you like to read more about Buddha's teaching, you can read another of my blog on Buddhism https://heartsutrabuddhism.blogspot.com/. 

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple 

https://www.buddhatoothrelictemple.org.sg/

Nearest MRT station: Maxwell MRT station

Did you know that there is Orchid garden at level 5? I will blog about it on my Blooming Flowers and Arts blog here https://bloomingflowersnarts.blogspot.com/  .

You can read previous post on the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple first published in 2019 June here. 

                       I like the crispy fried spring roll. Quite palatable.

We like this blueberry bun.

Ne Zha Bread

Saw these Ne Zha inspired bread, Wheels of Fire at BreadTalk this week. It is made from lotus and is mala spicy.

 

JAY CHOU 周杰倫 ╳ MAYDAY 五月天 [任性 Willful}

很喜欢这首歌，任性. 因为我也很任性。

Ne Zha 2 Is Awesome!

So I finally watched Ne Zha 2 at my favourite movie theatre at Shaw Lido in Orchard Road. This is a great animation movie. What is amazing is that the movie is about 2 hours 23 minutes long but I felt like time flew by so fast. There was no dull moment at all and I really enjoyed this movie. It's both hilarious and touching and it can make you laugh and cry. The most touching moment is between Ne Zha and his mother. 

It has many messages embedded in this movie. It teaches you not to be fooled by mere appearances and to verify before taking action. I won't reveal more. I highly recommend you to watch. I paid a total of $25.00 as $22 for the Imax movie ticket and $3 for booking fee. This is really an impressive movie. Highly recommended!

这是一部用心的作品！