Wishes for 2012

Healthy and Happy People

Healthy and Happy Planet

Is this too much to wish for?

Singapore Art Museum - SAM

YK’s 2-Cents: 


SAM's collection is a far cry from the impressive collection in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City - even it's acronym MoMA is better known than SAM.


Hyung Koo Kang's 'Burning Glaze' 


comprises hyper realism mainly paintings of icons.


when it's 

Christmas at the Museums

Thanks to the National Heritage Board's Christmas Day Open House, we 3 culture vultures each saved $32 of admission charges to the 4 museums that we visited today.

Since it opens at 9am, we first visited the 'Singapore Philatelic Museum'.

Culture vultures Sam, Lynn and YK @SPM


Next we walked along Armenian Street to the 'Peranakan Museum'.


After some appreciate of Tin Tin stamps and Peranakan culture, the 3 cheapskates, er... I mean culture vultures, decided on lunch at Wendy's as restaurants in museums looked pricey.


We then walked to the Singapore Art Museum just across the road. 
http://y--k.blogspot.com/2011/12/singapore-art-museum-sam.html

Culture vultures Sam, Lynn and YK @SAM


Saving the best for the last, we queued for about 20 min (you see, we were not the only cheapskates) to enter the National Museum of Singapore to view a small selection of paintings, photographs and drawings from the  Musée d’Orsay, Paris.


The 3 culture vultures certainly enjoyed their Christmas at the museums on the cheap 
- goes to show one can satisfy aesthetic needs before safety needs!

Christmas Greetings

Merry Christmas
Buon Natale
Joyeux Noël
... ميلاد مجيد 
Fröhliche Weihnachten
חג מולד שמח
Feliz Navidad
圣诞快乐
メリークリスマス

Tracking Santa with NORAD

Day 24 of YK’s Advent Blog


Do you believe in Santa?  What if you can follow him as he travels around the whole wide world?


I'm tracking Santa with NORAD this year, beginning at local time 15:00 at  

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/

Following are videos of Santa as he's being spotted:
18:00 Santa gets ready to set off from North Pole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UxCP_KBM&feature=player_embedded


19:30 Santa passes the North Pacific Islands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFJd2BGd7s&feature=player_embedded


19:50 Santa is spotted at Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrpucFCmY4&feature=player_embedded


21:50 Santa flies over one of the most livable city Melbourne, Australia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2fpm6Etzo&feature=player_embedded#!


22:40 Santa flies over Sendai, Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVUlipeY6_k&feature=player_embedded


23:00 Santa flies over the Great Wall of China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWDbSgQnh8s&feature=player_embedded


25 December 2011
00:00 Santa flies over Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE1MfHYaF1Q&feature=player_embedded

00:16 Santa flies over Singapore!  YEAH!!

I continue to track after waking up:


07:20 Santa flies over Paris, France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUeXHiJ4edI&feature=player_embedded#!






15:00 Santa flies across Maui, USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo0bsAANaPc&feature=player_embedded


18:00 Santa goes home to the North Pole




Yes, I so believe in Santa!  Merry Christmas!!