attended the opening of Celestine's exhibition on porcelain painting. Quite inspiring - 6-year-old girl (of Mensa fame) with her first solo art exhibition timed to coincide with Children's Day.. pretty cool. Should be an inspiration to all daddys and mummys out there.. as well as to everyone still contemplating on whether to work towards having their first art exhibition. Exhibition's on at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce 2nd floor.. well worth the trip.

Yet more arty stuff - visited Commonwealth Secondary School and found that they have this really impressive art gallery and their own art related website, the result of hard work and dedication by their wonderful art teacher. They have also adopted Sungei Buloh and are painting 1500 pieces of tiles to pave the ceiling of the newly constructed Mangrove Boardwalk Shelter! Very heartening..

Discoveries of the day and the day (before):

1. Lego has come up with a bunch of really sophisticated new toys under the Lego Technic series, combining building and technology -> Ultra cool!! >>

2. Shitake mushrooms may look like Chinese mushrooms but the latter has a stronger taste, tends to flavour soups more and has a rougher surface (i.e. not so nice lah!) - discovered at Joaquim Steamboat Buffet at Suntec City

3. Liver can be eaten semi raw but it is important to make sure the outside is somewhat cooked, say, blanced (so as to kill some of the bacteria.. cannot figure out logic - I mean, what about the rest of the bacteria?? must be some old wives tale : p) - anyhow, it is another steamboaty discovery

4. (from National Geog) There's this little railway stop in Wales named Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch which means "church of St. Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio by the red cave." - phew! this is apparently the longest place name in the world and also the longest registered domain name so far!

5. (again from the National Geog) We're killing them!!! Many animals are rapidly becoming extinct!! Check out redlist.org and creo.amnh.org for more info!

viva lomo villa has been postponed till next year! : (