Saturday, September 27, 2025

You Can Overcome Your Inner Struggles

Every living person experiences inner struggles without exception. Take heart, you are not alone.

Image credits: YouVersion app

Besides sharing your challenges with trusted people who care for you, you could expand and stretch your mind through reading and finding out more on how to cope and live life as a survivor or overcomer.

For your refreshing, here are some resources on the internet:

Click here for Short Story About Jealousy and Kindness | Moral Lesson | Motivational Story.

Click here for How to Stop Suffering in Life | Story of a Bird | Motivational Moral Story.

Click here for How to stop suffering in life ? | A powerful motivational story | Learn english through stories.

Click here for From Debt and Diabetes to Hope: The Untold Story of Jeremy from Two-Wings.

Rest, ponder and plan for your next flight

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Snippets of Singapore and Singaporeans (27 September 2025)

The Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix 2025 is happening around the corner on 3 to 5 October 2025.

Click here for more details.

The event promotion, preparation and buildup are in full swing.





Part of Marina Bay street circuit

The seats and fencing are being assembled

For your further refreshing, here are some articles and clips on life in Singapore and Singaporeans.

Click here for Singapore artist Priscilla Tey wins top prize at World Illustration Awards 2025.

Click here for Voices For Animals founder Derrick Tan wants people to give senior dogs a chance.

Click here for Singapore racing film Oversteer nabs best feature film and director wins at Vienna Independent Film Festival.

Click here for How Singapore Stays One Of The Cleanest Cities In The World | Singapore Hour.

Click here for How Singapore became obsessed by shade.

Click here for 3 Unique Boutique Hotels For Your Next Singapore Getaway | Singapore Hour.

Click here for Why this Malaysian millionaire chose Singapore over US and UK.

Click here for The truth about Singapore I learned from 200 foreigners.


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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Snippets of Singapore and Singaporeans (21 September 2025)

If you like chrysanthemum tea and something floral like rose syrup, you would find Yeo's fusion of orchid with chrysanthemum tea right up there in your alley.


The subtle hint of orchid provides that added complementary jazz to elevate the all-too-familiar taste of chrysanthemum to a whole new level of taste and enjoyment.

Click here for Yeo’s Orchid Chrysanthemum Tea—A Floral Twist in Every Sip! 

If you are visiting Singapore, you could find that there is a lot of walking to do. Here is how you can literally and figuratively carry an extra pair of legs with you.



For your further refreshing, here are some articles and clips on life in Singapore and Singaporeans.

Click here for Chef Kenneth Foong's path to Michelin star ⭐ | Find Me A Singaporean: The World's My Stage.

Click here for Where To Find The Best Italian Pizza In Singapore | Singapore Hour.

Click here for Never Too Small: He gained 3 million followers by showing off tiny homes around the world.

Click here for What It's Like To Live Next To A UNESCO World Heritage Site | Singapore Hour.


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Volkswagen ID.Buzz -- second sighting

Further to the earlier post of 23 August 2025, this is the second sighting of another gleaming Volkswagen ID.Buzz.

It has arrived for sure and is adding vibrancy to the electric car evolution.







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Saturday, September 13, 2025

Happiness On Your Terms

There is no guarantee that you would be happy all the time even if you are Richie Rich who can afford all the trappings of life. There could be days when you experience setback or got hit by a curve ball.

Work with what you can control. For instance, if people dish you with undesirable remarks or vibes, stop being a victim by gently rejecting their impression of you from taking roots in your mind. Guard your own happiness because you owe it to yourself to be happy and resist the things that hurt or depress you.


Go to a nice cafe and enjoy a good cup of coffee or tea with a slice of cake, pie or scoop of ice-cream. Exercise, cycle, swim or go for a run. Go for walks, visit an art gallery or meet up with close friends. There is so much that you can learn and do to find your own happiness.


Whether within a social circle of people who care for you or on your own, you can find happiness.

Here are some refreshing ideas for you:

1. Cultivate a social Milieu -- one or more groups of people with whom you have close and regular contacts.

Click here for What an 85-Year-Long Harvard Study Says Is the Real Key to Happiness.


2. Get into the flow with Mindfulness

While thinking of the past and future, be engaged in the present and seize the gift of the here-and-now. Savour the nuances, intricacies and depths of each moment, and be alive more fully.

Click here for Flow State: How to Get in the Zone.


3. Be open to Conversation

Making conversation is a lost art as people are now readily retreating into the virtual world of their mobile devices instead of making that in-person human connection.

Click here for I sat next to a 95-year-old solo traveler on an international flight. Now my pen pal, she's taught me a lot about life.


4. Make time for personal Solitude 

You have to get comfortable with being alone, get to know the true you and define the person you aspire to become. You will become better at being you, change your world and inspire others to do the same.

Click here for Psychology says people who prefer being alone to constant socializing have these 12 rare advantages.


5. Expand your Empathy

Ever asked yourself 'Why am I me and not someone else in another country or set of circumstances?'?

Accept who are you and make the most of the cards that have been dealt to you. Be thankful and find ways to pay it forward by helping other people.

Click here for A Family's Turning Point.

Click here for Trading Kiwis For A Meal.


Please feel free to post a Comment or two in this blog post on what makes you happy or share your advice on how to find happiness.



Click here for Enchanted Cafe where the above photos are snapped.

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Friday, September 12, 2025

Snippets of Singapore (13 September 2025)

The birds and fowls are going about their business of scavenging for food at Raffles Place in the heart of the Central Business District.

These pigeons know what bread looks like.

These valiant Free Ranger fowls have walked the distance and
crossed many roads safely to get here. 

For your further refreshing, here are some articles and clips on life in Singapore.

Click here for From running to yoga, sportswear brands want to become your new social circle – here’s how they do it.

Click here for Commentary: Teenagers know vaping is harmful. That doesn’t mean they’ll stop.

Click here for Catholic High student buys apples with his own pocket money to cheer elderly residents in Bukit Batok.

Click here for I used to think my mum had no dreams of her own. Now I see that she set them aside for me.

Click here for ‘Mr Chicken Rice’: British teen’s love for S’pore’s national dish lands him job at popular eatery.

Click here for Singapore's Michelin Bib Gourmand Hawkers: Selamat Datang Warong Pak Sapari | On The Red Dot.

Click here for No tickets, no auditions, no gatekeeping: The open street jams putting people in one big band.

Click here for What’s Brewing In Singapore’s Coffee Scene | Singapore Hour.

Click here for This Singapore mum built a hidden urban farm in Jurong – here’s why she’s fighting to save it.

Click here for The Scavenger Hunt That Shows You What To Do In Holland Village | Singapore Hour.


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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Short Story: Sophia's Confetti

People around us have a way of placing us in a mold. While it is advisable to be open to what others have to share based on their knowledge and experience, you could gently decline what does not suit you (in your mind) with, "No, thank you." But, where the advice is proven to be sound, do eat humble pie and benefit from it.

The following short story which is generated using ChatGPT is for your refreshing.


Sophia Tan had just turned twenty-nine, and her aunties had declared it the “last call” at every family dinner.

“Ah girl, if you don’t marry soon, later all the good ones taken!” her Aunt Cecilia said, stabbing her chopsticks into the roast duck as if it were her last chance at happiness.

Sophia smiled politely, but inside she was crumbling like an underbaked pineapple tart. Every wedding invitation that arrived in her mailbox felt less like an invitation and more like a cosmic reminder: You’re running late, my dear.

Her best friend, Marcus, a cheerful lawyer with a fondness for kaya toast, tried to cheer her up one Saturday morning at a kopitiam.

“Marriage isn’t the finish line, Soph,” he said between sips of kopi. “It’s more like signing up for a marathon where you’ll be sweaty and cranky half the time—but you choose to keep running because you love who’s running beside you.”

“Wow,” Sophia said, laughing. “So romantic. You make marriage sound like National Service.”

Still, the thought stayed with her. That evening, as she walked home, the sky was blushing with sunset and little tufts of white clouds drifted above like slow-moving confetti. She stopped, tilted her head back, and for the first time in a long while, she felt… lighter.

I’m already whole, she realized. Not a half waiting for another half, not a puzzle piece searching for a missing corner. She had a career she loved, friends who made her laugh until her stomach hurt, and the ability to dance terribly in her own living room without apology. Marriage, she understood, would never be the thing that completed her.

A week later, at yet another wedding dinner, Sophia sat beside a distant cousin who spoke proudly about his wife’s beauty and his new car, as though marriage were a glittering trophy case. She smiled politely but thought: This is not what I want. Beauty fades, money comes and goes. Love that endures is about giving, forgiving, and choosing someone again and again—even on days you’d rather throw them out with the laundry.

When the bride and groom raised their glasses, Sophia clapped wholeheartedly—not out of envy this time, but with hope. Hope that when she did marry, it would not be because of pressure, age, or fleeting charms. It would be because she had found someone she wanted to sacrifice for, laugh with, and walk beside on stormy days and sunny ones alike.

Later that night, Marcus texted her: So, do you still think you’re running late?

Sophia smiled at her phone. Nope, she typed back. Turns out I’ve been dancing to my own rhythm all along. The right partner won’t rush me—they’ll join the dance.

Outside her window, the moon shone bright, and for once, Sophia felt no fear of missing out. She was already living fully—and love, when it came, would only be an encore, not the opening act.


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Dancing With Clouds

There is something enchanting about watching white clouds on a bright and sunny day which, inter alia, might conjure a cotton-packed pillow for you to rest your head or a cotton candy for you to savour that added sweetness of happiness.

Let ChatGPT leads you by the hand now as you take up this dance with the clouds in the following article and poem.

There is something almost magical about watching clouds drift across the sky. They move at their own unhurried pace, reshaping themselves with each passing breeze—pillars dissolving into wisps, heavy forms breaking into lightness. To simply look up and follow them is to step out of the constant press of time and into a gentler rhythm, one that reminds us that change is natural, that nothing is fixed, and that beauty can be fleeting yet deeply meaningful.

Clouds, in their quiet grandeur, can soften our mood. They invite us to pause, breathe, and wonder. Their shapes—sometimes whimsical, sometimes solemn—mirror the movements of our own inner world: a wandering imagination, a stirring of memory, a search for meaning. In their play of light and shadow, we glimpse the reminder that life itself is never only bright or only dark, but a dance of both.


As companions of the sky, clouds uncover lessons we often overlook. They teach us patience, for they never rush their journey. They teach us surrender, for they shift without clinging to any single form. They teach us hope, for even the heaviest storm cloud eventually breaks to let the sun through.


In watching clouds, the mind grows spacious. We remember that life is larger than our worries, that like clouds, we too can reshape, move forward, and become something new. They enrich our thoughts with metaphors of resilience, impermanence, and wonder. And sometimes, in their drifting silence, they return us to a simple truth: to be alive is already a gift, and to look up is to rediscover joy.


Dance of White Clouds

White clouds drift on a canvas of blue,
carefree dancers in the sunlit air.
They beckon me with gentle grace,
a whisper: come, there is room for you too.

I watch their shifting, playful forms—
a bird, a sail, a dream unspooled.
They charm me into lifting my gaze,
into loosening the weight I hold.

Their rhythm is freedom,
their music is silence,
yet my heart feels the beat—
a call to step into life’s wide circle.

So I rise, unafraid,
to join the dance they began long ago,
to find my joy in motion,
my voice in the wind,
my expression in the endless sky.


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