*Joke, lah. How come absolutely Mini-Me is laffing?
Monocle's criteria for a liveable local is one with:
* large-scale, long-haul contact combined with a well-managed, cautiously meant airport;
* low massacre put and home-based burglaries;
* good fatherland education and health care;
* sincere hours of beam and interior temperatures;
* grow communications and connectivity;
* tolerance;
* pedal in realization a knock back on one occasion 01.00;
* the expend of electorate convey and taxis is low but the stretch is high;
* strong internal media and availability and strain of large-scale script media;
* entry to form and a good tome of green space;
* and to finish, key recyclable initiatives.
So, someone asked, you simulate how? Singapore can make it anot?
Aiyah, depends what it means to be liveable mah. Goggles criteria is absolutely for Goggles.
I simulate liveable cities requisite be event lor. Basic consume place to chiong lor.
So portray was an exchange of the happenings of the preceding few weeks. Safe. (Advantage I get a place to place these photos.) (Advantage someone's unwitting confessions shall be blackmail cooking for duration to come.)
Two Fridays ago, finger-lickin' black shake crab amidst the tourists at Newton engender centre,
so K-Box karaoke in English and Chinese (and a gobsmackingly heavy-going tribute of hiphop moves) at Selegie until about 4am on Saturday.
A few hours similar to, a wedding at the agreeable chapel at CHIJMES but the emergence sun shone prepared the cheerless windowpane onto the new get a ride, and portray was someone sniffing that the Sainte-Chapelle looked a great deal better, diverse catching-up with inhabit, so Taiwanese splash tea at Paradiz served up by a Malay quarters,
so breakfast at The Fruit farm Building on Dempsey Hill but the engender needs a lot elder tweaking. And from a long way away, Wong Toon Emperor, who, other than prevarication about with SilkRoute Ventures, Z-Fencing and Ben ">
Highly developed, bicentennial presents were hunted and found amongst the off your rocker mix-up of dwindling indie set-ups at Far East Cube and salmon and tuna sashimi were grabbed at Meidi-Ya,
correct in time for a bicentennial evening meal with Japanese purpose. The hosts, one of whom prerogative be a pigeonhole alcoholic, were openhanded with desserts: Insolvency some plums? Saturated in Choya. Preciseness for some cherries? Griottines wet through in kirsch. The fruits that weren't to be dredged up from with some group of alcohol had been incorporated wearing ice-cream. All good. So one day wearing the night, the barter got to the gradation but portray was a consideration about french fries and someone was saying,"Slender, portray is a absolute allure about diverse fries". Intermediary prepared having to go on the mobile phone to group out how to finish a friend of a friend, a German lass who'd met the friend, now in Hong Kong, in London. Later the drivers, life really trusty, trialled Marvel: Furthest back Confederation until they looked less sweetheart they'd tough the blusher.
Sunday, babies hugged and harrassed, German girls lost and found (conserve they turned out to be really Latvian-near-the-Black-Sea but with German passports), a good Chinese breakfast and playing with a very enjoyable Hasselblad (are portray Hasselblads that aren't nice?).
Monday, a arrogant sms announcing that Relating to diet For Indication was now open for breakfast, breakfast and evening meal. And so it chutzpah be check out seeing that portray is the vouch of indie-ness and cake together.
Diverse night, "Harry Potter and the Claim of the Phoenix", but the more of movie snacks was bak kwa and McDonalds chocolate milkshake. I am nervous of life found out, understood the (voluntary) rep of warped yield. But to the same degree we got to our sitting room, from the sea of movie-goers utter us came the dangerous rustling of oodles of warped burgers and warped fries and the coming off open of warped refreshments and the crackling of warped packets of chips. And all was well.
Thursday, The (not-illegal) Bandits were acoustic-ing it up at Tuckshop. The rundown quote of the night: They perfectly good! But I wouldn't destitution to put on their CD at home.
Friday, an old friend had conned a girl wearing marrying him so portray was a wedding at Shangri-La but portray was mega-catching-up and laughing, and ex-fencers stool pigeon about TK and B">
Saturday, a sleep-in so a in the wake of and dull breakfast at Mimolette, prepared whose extensive windows you may possibly see rigid bleak stock trotting preceding.
Later,
(Flanked by the run-up to "Gruesome Hallows", seeing that we are irreversibly partner in crime in each other's minds with The Boy Who Lived, an ex-roommate emailed from London to say he had cleared his whole saturday so as to be deep to clasp up with the book, and as well that if I so happened, possibly, out of the bountiful piety of my openhanded core, to sms him spoilers at the forefront he was done, he would run the side 13-hour trail out of Heathrow and expressly strangle me. Blatantly, my friends are distinctively intelligent inhabit.)
So it was good that a dangerous evening meal crony called viewpoint concentrated to apologise: I can't finish you for dinner! I'm on a suppose to get 7 dates in 7 days and the viewpoint one cancelled on me viewpoint night which means I plea to find 2 tonight! Argh! (Shoddy, I can't epoch you.)
Yay!
Sunday, Bible study was preordained but on one occasion a good breakfast at Seem Tai Fung but immigration strategy and the short-lived out of action of squeeze and inhabit were discussed, the most people of us succumbed to durable engender nonsensical. Highly developed, tooling utter on a grand piano called Hyundai.
Monday, we were up for read-through out the previous Relating to diet For Indication, whose engender a grill described as "Le Secure Bleu meets internal ingredients" and certainly, the Red meat Caesar Salad was Hainanese ham rice and reddish-brown and sesame oil. Donate was Mama Heng's Hot Ham but Mama Heng was the mama of David Heng the Smiley Open Boil, portray was Peter Boyer the New Boil who modest dumping stuff down sinks they shouldn't be dumped down, portray were platforms (cake stands, really) for home chefs to comprehend out of the pigeonhole onto, portray was speculating whether Mrs. Kang (of Mrs. Kang's Lightly cooked (and retro) Durian Cake) had a family on Sixth Vehicle that smelt of durian, or a kitchen that was huge and airy or very constant neighbours, or all of the first-class.
Highly developed this week, portray are stately strategy for refreshments and dinners but can't learn them all, and to add casualness upon casualness, consume as well lost the 2 organisers I got for Christmas which were thought to help me learn these squeeze. Don't simulate Rememberalls would consume been a great deal use either. Gleefully, the delivery of align jerseys today reminds me that portray chutzpah be a basketball tournament.
Imagine that, is completely chiong-able, mah, he understood. Later Singapore can lor. Hor?
Not constant.
Possibly what makes a local is beam and low amiss, parks and good healthcare. Possibly what makes a local is entry to a agile mash of new and remarkable stuff to do. Possibly what makes a local is having friends about you to chiong with. (Contacts who are as well quarters seal the get.)
Regardless, the enjoyable comfortable thing about municipal design is that it is about community, about the big picture, about the wonderfulness of rigid living sitting room for inhabit and making life better for them.
Yet, active too far, relied upon too a great deal, it is no matter which sweetheart life regular to SimCity. It is the be in front of of architecture or municipal design or local negotiations to the attitude of a gesture to all local problems and municipal ills; it is the hope of attaining sultry curb that is, at its core, flippant and idolatrous.
Idolatry is as well the ever-present worry of posture that it prerogative be elective for us to effect our own redemption by our branch of learning, our clarification. God's world is so good and God has endowed organization with such gifts that we can be tempted to choose that we are punish unto ourselves...Chant is the strike against idolatry. In prayer, we put off the Source what is due, acknowledging the set alight wonder that we look as if. Moreover, in prayer, we claim our mind as a gift, shine. The Decalogue is God's gift to Israel over and over again to teach Israel how to inhabit, not by wits, but prepared gift. (Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon, The Profound thought On all sides of God: The Ten Commandments in Christian Natural life)
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