I was rather weak in my Chinese writing. That time I was only 15 years old. And one school teacher told me this:

“Having a pen-pal is an effective way to improve Chinese writing”

To speak (I mean conversational Chinese) is not a problem, at least to me, BUT not for writing Chinese So I decided to… continue click here to this true story, my real life story about how the MAILBOX relates to me. Whenever I walk past mailboxes, this particular kind of mailbox design always captured my attention. And whenever I was in Hong Kong too (There’s still plentiful there, but not so in Singapore.)Hence now in Singapore, it is something that is about to disappear soon…

I managed to find this traditional mailbox at Vivocity food republic.

p.s. I have previously wrote a post about how Singapore is striving to become a digital nation, you may click here if you wanna read about it;) as it’ll soon be a reality that we are going to have email boxes replacing such snail mailboxes

This is my story and something that is about to disappear soon, check out the other 62 !! fellow Daily Photobloggers who are participating in the 1st November theme:

Porto -Seattle WA USA (Kim) -London, UK -Greenville, SC -Albuquerque, NM (USA) -St Paul Kate -ShangHai, China -Phoenix, Az -Twin Cities, MN -Sequim, WA -Stayton, OR, USA -Bandung (Indonesia) -Dallas, USA -Stavanger (Norway) -Singapore (zannnie) -Budapest (Hungary) -Paris (France) -Tuzla (BiH) -Melbourne, (Aust.) -Auckland, New Zealand Singapore (Raymond) -Dubai UAE (DXBluey) -Vantaa, Finland -Oshawa, Ontario, Canada -St. Paul MN Carol -Singapore (Keropok) -Delta Colorado, USA -Rotterdam (Netherlands -Queens, NY (USA) -Tenerife (Spain) -Santiago (Chile) -Nelson, New Zealand -( Japan ) -Hyde (UK) Sydney (Sally) -Manila, Philippines -Aliso Viejo, CA (USA) -Nottingham UK -Brussels, Belgium -Sharon, CT (USA) -Sydney Australia (Nathalie) -Edinburgh, Scotland -Evry, France -San Diego, CA (USA) -Santa Clara, CA (USA) -Saarbrücken, Germany -Joplin, MO (USA) -Indianapolis,IN (USA) -Trujillo (Peru) - Barcelona (Spain) -Berlin (Germany) - Vancouver, BC (Canada) -Trier (Germany) - Houston, TX (USA) – Joensuu,(Finland) - Jakarta, Indonesia - Van Buren (AR USA)- Macky (Kyoto, Japan)- Macky (Tokyo, Japan) - Wilf (Réal, France) - Kala (Honolulu, Hawai’i) -

What does GREEN symbolise to you?
To me it’s linked straight away to sunlight giving its energy to create ‘life’:) I love the sunshine, and it means plants get to photosynthesize. Thus, spiritually it means ‘life’ or Protect our Earth:D => Liveliness. See you can also roll on the tarn, see photo by Wilf

My 14-year-old cousin is packing his luggage for his Volleyball training in Taiwan. This trip, organised by his High School, is a compulsory training and these young men will have a friendly match with some of the schools in Taipei. The tricky part about this packing is, NO GREEN and also NO RED. (Green is pro- and Red is anti-). Simply becos of Taiwan’s current political situation, he can’t bring the RED backpack…, no green windbreaker, no green school uniform, no red shoebag:( aww….

Colours can be so sensitive.

I guess some of you who live in cities with the four-seasons climate are already experiencing Autumn, and Joensuu, East Finland is already snowing! Wow…however, I still wanna share some ‘sunshine’ elements with you…

macky said…

Nice green leaves and interesting information.
Green means lively or ecological for me.

Monday, October 30, 2006 10:24:00 PM

James said…

I like the comp. Green to me is money, which is typically pretty dirty. This looks fresh and clean….a great picture.

Monday, October 30, 2006 10:28:00 PM

Keropok Man said…

Green means having solar power Yeah, my colleague had to avoid wearing certain colours while visiting Taipei a few weeks ago. It seems most primary colours belongs to one party.

I just linked my Vivocity post to yours, since you did such a good job on it. Saves me typing all the description

Monday, October 30, 2006 11:36:00 PM

Denton said…

Great photo and even better tie in to current events and life in Singapore, via your explanation … An analogy might be the focus on colors during the World Cup. Of course then it was perfectly acceptable to show your support … Green means new life to me … Best wishes to your cousin.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:03:00 AM

Olivier said…

belle photo et merci pour le commentaire de ton post.
en france, le vert represente l’espoir.
beautiful photograph and thank you for the comment for tone post. in France, the green represents the hope.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:06:00 AM

Nathalie said…

This green is a beauty, what a fantastic picture. Green to me is nature, so it’s a very positive image.But I was amazed to read about the NO RED, NO GREEN story. Just incredible how ridiculous these things can get… let’s hope relationships ease off a bit soon!

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:59:00 PM

Every day I must pass by this particularly block. Today I like this moment when the sky is of this blue…I love all hues of blue and twilight is very special time of the day for me. I like this instrumental as it can express how I feel about this ‘mood’.

Waiting can be infuriating and it can also be such a joy. I pressed the bell today, but no one answered. I didn’t know whether was it because no one was at home or maybe they didn’t hear someone ringing the bell.

While waiting, I squad down and saw this, still holding on to my umbrella, I decided to take out my camera. Now you know why to me, the waiting is ‘a joy’?:)

Comments from 6 Friends:

photo-effe said…
The colours are very vivid, unusual shot the spring with autumn colours

Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:13:00 AM
Shelly said…
Zannnie…wonderful wonderful shot! I agree the color is so vivid!

Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:32:00 AM
Bill said…
The contrast of the brown leaves & red is striking!

Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:37:00 PM
Olivier said…
tres belle photo et tres poetique.
je te souhaite un bon dimanche

very beautiful photograph and very poetic. I wish you good Sunday

Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:38:00 PM
alice said…
Your shot could be a sort of twin of mine, about waiting for spring. Have a nice Sunday, Zannie.

Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:44:00 PM
John said…
EXCELLENT! Lovely colour contrast, the frangipani is terrific.

Monday, October 30, 2006 11:22:00 AM

How about a temple instead of Churches’ pix? This temple (Seu Teck Sean Tong Temple) is right in the centre of this housing estate where I took the night shot which Olivier from Evry (France) likes:) Actually this is a rather old estate in Singapore called Toa Payoh. Many efforts have been taken to ‘upgrade’ the surrounding areas like having a lift that stops on every floor, new market etc. And strangely if you were to take a shuttle bus within this town, you’ll see more senior citizens than others. Some estates just has a demographic of young newly weds, some have more couples with young toddlers and some have big families with more primary or secondary school children.

This is how the zoomed out view looked like:)

ohh, it’s really a long bus. Today I managed to capture it with my Sony Cybershot;) I’m feeling a little glad as I can share it with you all here:D

How is your city’s most versatile transportation like? I dun really mind taking buses, cos here in Singapore our transportation is rather well connected (or i should say well-organised). After about ten stops, you can easily see an MRT (subway) station, where you can choose to alight or transfer to another public transport. But actually i kind of miss double-decker bus rides in my younger days. We still have them though, just fewer on the road than before.

Now, so many dp bloggers with SHARP eyes….and you know? when I post this, I wish to see how many of you are sharp to tell whether this is a sunrise or a sunset? Some of you might already know, this is Singapore, a small island very near to the Equator and the whole year through we have summer, summer, summer:)

That’s not very useful hint, huh? heh heh…:)

I am a movie buff. Yes, totally! I love movie experiences, and yesterday was the last second day of the EU Film Festival and I went for the United Kingdom’s arts film called ‘My Summer of Love‘. This photo was taken right above my head at the box office (of the new cineplex at vivocity) while waiting in the queue for my tickets I also found out that this cineplex is screening 24hours, wow!

Quotes
Tamsin: This is Edith Piaf. I just adore her. She was this marvellous Parisian woman who had such a wonderfully tragic life. She was married 3 times & each husband died in mysterious circumstances. The last one was a boxing champion and she killed him with a fork. She didn’t even go to prison because in France crimes of passion are forgiven.

Please click to see/hear this song sang by Edith Piaf. This music set the whole mood to that intended scene:) Alot was “said” (between the lines) in this particular scene which makes one wants to go back to watch this film again.

Are you a movie fanatic too? If you have sometime , do share with me which is your favourite film/movie OR the venue that you had the best movie experience and why you like the film:)

Now this is the newest and one of the largest mall we have here in Singapore.
It is called Vivo City. And for those of you who knew about WTC or have heard about the World Trade Centre, yes it used to be, now it is the refurbished area and they renamed it as ‘VIVO CITY’. Well, I dunno why exactly. That they have to changed the name from ‘World Trade Centre’ to Vivo City.

Perhaps they dun want us to be reminded of the sad event on September 11. Perhaps it is the consumer behaviour that they are concerned about, so that means for commerical reasons. But whichever reason it is, it’s a nice wide area with a Cruise Centre where you can see ships, cruises and ferries of various sizes in the outdoor areas of the mall. Please click to see, I really love the twilight scene it sets. Do you like it too?

This is one of the views from my window:) A night view.
It is facing a primary school…so you can hear the bell rings for recess, the children’s playing, squealing with delight on the field where they play a game called ”Catching”, which is right beside the school from Mondays through Fridays. Because of the haze (PSI still between 70-120), I opened my window less often these days. It’s a little sad that the suspended PM10 pollutants will stay until early November becos of the El Nino and rain will not arrive before end October. Meanwhile we got to endure with it. I am getting dizziness as inhaling all these weird PM10 what you call, with size big enough to irritate eyes, throat, worse still I have got a sensitive nose

I managed some wonderful skies shot by the beautiful sunset by peering out of this window though (before the hazy days). One of which I’ve shared it here.

So Kris (Szentes, Hungary) you can see my ‘world’ now

No excuse. It comes in all four official languages: English, Chinese, Malay, Tamil . We are multi racial, so even a simple rule has been translated to FOUR languages. Now you see, you have no more excuses…

Somehow looking at these rules, you can imagine how many rules we need to abide just in public premise, considering these are already so many for being on a public bus. I just find these ”rules” too common sense. But somehow, some inconsiderate people will need such reminders. Look at the the extend of reminders: NO durians!
This sign will probably not appear in the europeanean cities, since this fruit is all native to south-eastern Asia cities. It has a strong fragrant and it can be overpowering to some. But hey, it’s one of my favourite fruits.

Going home late in Singapore is rather common. It is also rather safe.
Even the public transport has a poster informing you about cheaper means to get home after midnight.
This service is called ”NIGHT RIDER” only S$3

However, I also understand it is not so for some countries. Ladies better stay home when night falls.
Is it like this also in your city?