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Happy birthday, Singapore! 🇸🇬
This year’s belated National Day Parade was a testament to our resilience in adversity.
There were many familiar and well-loved elements – the Red Lions, the flying display, marching contingents, and the combined performances. But the organisers also included unique features – animated films, off-site performances to comply with safe-distancing, and AR effects for those watching from home.
I am glad that our everyday heroes, including COVID-19 frontliners and essential workers, were among the spectators. Thanks to everyone’s determination and cooperation, we were able to celebrate together as we travel the road ahead, to reopening and recovery.
The past year has presented many challenges, but we have persevered and made much progress. Our spirit is unbroken. Come what may, let’s continue to build Singapore as one united people. – LHL
#TogetherOurSGSpirit
By now, you have probably heard about my father’s red box. Minister Heng Swee Keat posted about it last week. The red box was a fixture of my father’s work routine. It is now on display at the National Museum of Singapore in his memorial exhibition.
Some of my father’s other personal items are there too. His barrister’s wig (of horsehair) from when he was admitted to the Bar. And a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch given to him by the Singapore Union of Postal and Telecommunications Workers after he represented them in the famous postmen’s strike in 1952.
I enjoyed my visit to the exhibition a few days ago. Was happy to hear that many of you went yesterday. The exhibition will be on until 26 April. – LHL
MR LEE'S RED BOX
Mr Lee Kuan Yew had a red box. When I worked as Mr Lee’s Principal Private Secretary, or PPS, a good part of my daily life revolved around the red box. Before Mr Lee came in to work each day, the locked red box would arrive first, at about 9 am.
As far as the various officers who have worked with Mr Lee can remember, he had it for many, many years. It is a large, boxy briefcase, about fourteen centimetres wide. Red boxes came from the British government, whose Ministers used them for transporting documents between government offices. Our early Ministers had red boxes, but Mr Lee is the only one I know who used his consistently through the years. When I started working for Mr Lee in 1997, it was the first time I saw a red box in use. It is called the red box but is more a deep wine colour, like the seats in the chamber in Parliament House.
This red box held what Mr Lee was working on at any one time. Through the years, it held his papers, speech drafts, letters, readings, and a whole range of questions, reflections, and observations. For example, in the years that Mr Lee was working on his memoirs, the red box carried the multiple early drafts back and forth between his home and the office, scribbled over with his and Mrs Lee’s notes.
For a long time, other regular items in Mr Lee’s red box were the cassette tapes that held his dictated instructions and thoughts for later transcription. Some years back, he changed to using a digital recorder.
The red box carried a wide range of items. It could be communications with foreign leaders, observations about the financial crisis, instructions for the Istana grounds staff, or even questions about some trees he had seen on the expressway. Mr Lee was well-known for keeping extremely alert to everything he saw and heard around him – when he noticed something wrong, like an ailing raintree, a note in the red box would follow.
We could never anticipate what Mr Lee would raise – it could be anything that was happening in Singapore or the world. But we could be sure of this: it would always be about how events could affect Singapore and Singaporeans, and how we had to stay a step ahead. Inside the red box was always something about how we could create a better life for all.
We would get to work right away. Mr Lee’s secretaries would transcribe his dictated notes, while I followed up on instructions that required coordination across multiple government agencies. Our aim was to do as much as we could by the time Mr Lee came into the office later.
While we did this, Mr Lee would be working from home. For example, during the time that I worked with him (1997-2000), the Asian Financial Crisis ravaged many economies in our region and unleashed political changes. It was a tense period as no one could tell how events would unfold. Often, I would get a call from him to check certain facts or arrange meetings with financial experts.
In the years that I worked for him, Mr Lee’s daily breakfast was a bowl of dou hua (soft bean curd), with no syrup. It was picked up and brought home in a tiffin carrier every morning, from a food centre near Mr Lee’s home. He washed it down with room-temperature water. Mr Lee did not take coffee or tea at breakfast.
When Mr Lee came into the office, the work that had come earlier in the red box would be ready for his review, and he would have a further set of instructions for our action.
From that point on, the work day would run its normal course. Mr Lee read the documents and papers, cleared his emails, and received official calls by visitors. I was privileged to sit in for every meeting he conducted. He would later ask me what I thought of the meetings – it made me very attentive to every word that was said, and I learnt much from Mr Lee.
Evening was Mr Lee’s exercise time. Mr Lee has described his extensive and disciplined exercise regime elsewhere. It included the treadmill, rowing, swimming and walking – with his ears peeled to the evening news or his Mandarin practice tapes. He would sometimes take phone calls while exercising.
He was in his 70s then. In more recent years, being less stable on his feet, Mr Lee had a simpler exercise regime. But he continued to exercise. Since retiring from the Minister Mentor position in 2011, Mr Lee was more relaxed during his exercises. Instead of listening intently to the news or taking phone calls, he shared his personal stories and joked with his staff.
While Mr Lee exercised, those of us in the office would use that time to focus once again on the red box, to get ready all the day’s work for Mr Lee to take home with him in the evening. Based on the day’s events and instructions, I tried to get ready the materials that Mr Lee might need. It sometimes took longer than I expected, and occasionally, I had to ask the security officer to come back for the red box later.
While Mrs Lee was still alive, she used to drop by the Istana at the end of the day, in order to catch a few minutes together with Mr Lee, just to sit and look at the Istana trees that they both loved. They chatted about what many other old couples would talk about. They discussed what they should have for dinner, or how their grandchildren were doing.
Then back home went Mr Lee, Mrs Lee and the red box. After dinner, Mr and Mrs Lee liked to take a long stroll. In his days as Prime Minister, while Mrs Lee strolled, Mr Lee liked to ride a bicycle. It was, in the words of those who saw it, “one of those old man bicycles”. None of us who have worked at the Istana can remember him ever changing his bicycle. He did not use it in his later years, as he became frail, but I believe the “old man bicycle” is still around somewhere.
After his dinner and evening stroll, Mr Lee would get back to his work. That was when he opened the red box and worked his way through what we had put into it in the office.
Mr Lee’s study is converted out of his son’s old bedroom. His work table is a simple, old wooden table with a piece of clear glass placed over it. Slipped under the glass are family memorabilia, including a picture of our current PM from his National Service days. When Mrs Lee was around, she stayed up reading while Mr Lee worked. They liked to put on classical music while they stayed up.
In his days as PM, Mr Lee’s average bedtime was three-thirty in the morning. As Senior Minister and Minister Mentor, he went to sleep after two in the morning. If he had to travel for an official visit the next day, he might go to bed at one or two in the morning.
Deep into the night, while the rest of Singapore slept, it was common for Mr Lee to be in full work mode.
Before he went to bed, Mr Lee would put everything he had completed back in the red box, with clear pointers on what he wished for us to do in the office. The last thing he did each day was to place the red box outside his study room. The next morning, the duty security team picked up the red box, brought it to us waiting in the office, and a new day would begin.
Let me share two other stories involving the red box.
In 1996, Mr Lee underwent balloon angioplasty to insert a stent. It was his second heart operation in two months, after an earlier operation to widen a coronary artery did not work. After the operation, he was put in the Intensive Care Unit for observation. When he regained consciousness and could sit up in bed, he asked for his security team. The security officer hurried into the room to find out what was needed. Mr Lee asked, “Can you pass me the red box?”
Even at that point, Mr Lee’s first thought was to continue working. The security officer rushed the red box in, and Mr Lee asked to be left to his work. The nurses told the security team that other patients of his age, in Mr Lee’s condition, would just rest. Mr Lee was 72 at the time.
In 2010, Mr Lee was hospitalised again, this time for a chest infection. While he was in the hospital, Mrs Lee passed away. Mr Lee has spoken about his grief at Mrs Lee’s passing. As soon as he could, he left the hospital to attend the wake at Sri Temasek.
At the end of the night, he was under doctor’s orders to return to the hospital. But he asked his security team if they could take him to the Singapore River instead. It was late in the night, and Mr Lee was in mourning. His security team hastened to give a bereaved husband a quiet moment to himself.
As Mr Lee walked slowly along the bank of the Singapore River, the way he and Mrs Lee sometimes did when she was still alive, he paused. He beckoned a security officer over. Then he pointed out some trash floating on the river, and asked, “Can you take a photo of that? I’ll tell my PPS what to do about it tomorrow.” Photo taken, he returned to the hospital.
I was no longer Mr Lee’s PPS at the time. I had moved on to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, to continue with the work to strengthen our financial regulatory system that Mr Lee had started in the late 1990s. But I can guess that Mr Lee probably had some feedback on keeping the Singapore River clean. I can also guess that the picture and the instructions were ferried in Mr Lee’s red box the next morning to the office. Even as Mr Lee lay in the hospital. Even as Mrs Lee lay in state.
The security officers with Mr Lee were deeply touched. When I heard about these moments, I was also moved.
I have taken some time to describe Mr Lee’s red box. The reason is that, for me, it symbolises Mr Lee’s unwavering dedication to Singapore so well. The diverse contents it held tell us much about the breadth of Mr Lee’s concerns – from the very big to the very small; the daily routine of the red box tells us how Mr Lee’s life revolved around making Singapore better, in ways big and small.
By the time I served Mr Lee, he was the Senior Minister. Yet he continued to devote all his time to thinking about the future of Singapore. I could only imagine what he was like as Prime Minister. In policy and strategy terms, he was always driving himself, me, and all our colleagues to think about what each trend and development meant for Singapore, and how we should respond to it in order to secure Singapore’s wellbeing and success.
As his PPS, I saw the punishing pace of work that Mr Lee set himself. I had a boss whose every thought and every action was for Singapore.
But it takes private moments like these to bring home just how entirely Mr Lee devoted his life to Singapore.
In fact, I think the best description comes from the security officer who was with Mr Lee both of those times. He was on Mr Lee’s team for almost 30 years. He said of Mr Lee: “Mr Lee is always country, country, country. And country.”
This year, Singapore turns 50. Mr Lee would have turned 92 this September. Mr Lee entered the hospital on 5 February 2015. He continued to use his red box every day until 4 February 2015.
(Photo: MCI)
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【lyrics/歌詞和訳】
Hi, how are you?
元気？
Are you calling up my phone?
電話した？
Baby tell me what is wrong
どうしたのか言ってみて
Don’t you ever let me go
私から離れたりしないでよね
Hi I am good.
私は元気よ
I am still looking for proof
まだしるしを探している途中なの
Am I good enough for you?
あなたにとって私は十分かしら？
Don’t you tell me what’s my rule
これが私のルールなんだから
This is me are you coming on the ride
今の私と、一緒にくる？
we’re going super high
高く上へ
Got to be who what I like
私か好きな私でいなきゃ
You & me, Are you ready for the fight
あなたと私の闘い。の準備はできた？
alright
alright
alright
Let’s go!
Stronger than I ever been before
これまでよりも強く
This is who I am
これが私
Nothing in the way
誰も邪魔しないで
Today and far away
今日も明日もあなたと私で
You & me
We make the part of me
私の心を作る
I give you my big RED HEART
あなたに大きな赤いハートを。
My my big RED HEART
My my big RED HEART
I’ll be true to my RED HEART
my my big RED HEART
my my big RED HEART
Hi over there
こんにちは
Thank you for coming along
ついて来てくれてありがとう
On this journey of my own
私の旅へ
Promise me you’ll won’t let go
約束して、どこにも行かないって
Yes, this is me
私だよ。
I am falling but I’m strong
落ちても、強いわ
Cause you got me in your arms
あなたの腕の中だから
Don’t you ever let me go
手を離したりはしないでよね
I want you to come with me on the ride
一緒に来て欲しいの
This is going super high
高く、高く
I am falling from the sky
そして空から落ちるの
Got to be who you wanna be that’s right
自分らしくいたい
alright
alright
alright
I am still a girl
私はまだ少女
Figuring out what’s true or false
嘘と本当を彷徨ってる
in this whole wide world
この世界で
I’m your only girl
あなただけの女の子
Tell me once more what’s really going on with you
あなたは何を考えているの？もう一度教えて。
I’m looking for the right one on the road
正しい道を探している途中
The one that’ll always take me back to you
あなたの元へ帰れるように
This can be my home, will you be my home
これが我が家,あなたが私の帰る場所になってくれる？
Stronger than I ever been before
これまでよりも強く
This is who I am
これが私
Nothing in the way
誰も邪魔しないで
Today and far away
今日も明日もあなたと私で
You & me
私の心を作る
We make the part of me
あなたに大きな赤いハートを。
I give you my big RED HEART
my my big RED HEART
my my big RED HEART
I’ll be true to my RED HEART
my my big RED HEART
my my big RED HEART
This video will show you how to make Hello Kitty bento (lunch box) - Apple Farm decoration ;)
You know how difficult to draw Hello Kitty...
http://web.stagram.com/p/329252662851249205_27811640
So, I recommend you to get a Hello Kitty mold (shaper) to make your life easier!
You can get the mold like this one!
Check out online shops or local Sanrio stores!!!
こんなキティちゃんの型があるとお弁当作りが簡単です！
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B002QQN3EG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=247&creative=1211&creativeASIN=B002QQN3EG&linkCode=as2&tag=shopping072-22
BTW, this is the book (comes with the Hello Kitty Onigiri Mold & the Nori Punch) I bought.
http://hb.afl.rakuten.co.jp/hgc/10d67967.1cb48af2.10d67968.b986b063/?pc=http%3a%2f%2fitem.rakuten.co.jp%2fbook%2f11826642%2f%3fscid%3daf_link_mail&m=http%3a%2f%2fm.rakuten.co.jp%2fbook%2fi%2f15987232%2f
私は「はじめてでもかんたん&かわいい!サンリオキャラ弁当BOOK (学研ムック) 」を買いました☆
ハローキティのおにぎり型とキャラクターのりパンチの付録付きです♪
http://hb.afl.rakuten.co.jp/hgc/10d67967.1cb48af2.10d67968.b986b063/?pc=http%3a%2f%2fitem.rakuten.co.jp%2fbook%2f11826642%2f%3fscid%3daf_link_mail&m=http%3a%2f%2fm.rakuten.co.jp%2fbook%2fi%2f15987232%2f
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How to Make Hello Kitty Bento Lunch Box
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 30-60min (depending on your patience)
Number of servings: 2-3 bento boxes
Ingredients:
((Stuffed Red Peppers))
2 red peppers *30g (1oz.) each
A
* 80g (2.8oz.) ground pork
* 40g (1.4oz.) minced onion
* salt and cracked black pepper
flour
cooking oil
sliced American cheese
Nori sheet
((Vegetable Kinpira with Eggs))
I scrambled this Vegetarian Kinpira with eggs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BkKRmbtY2o
((Kamaboko Fish Cake House))
white Kamaboko fish cake
Kanikama (imitation crab meat/crab sticks)
sliced American cheese
spaghetti pasta
((Hello Kitty Onigiri Rice Ball))
cooked white Japanese rice
salt
Nori sheet
red pepper bottom
drained canned whole corn kernels
Directions:
((Stuffed Red Peppers))
1. Put A in a bowl and mix well by hand until all ingredients are combined and smooth.
2. Cut the bottoms off the red peppers to make a ribbon (ribbons) for the Hello Kitty Onigiri Rice Ball.
3. Cut each pepper into 3 rings, remove the seeds, and dust inside of peppers with flour.
4. Stuff the mixture into the peppers.
5. Heat cooking oil in a pan and place the stuffed peppers. When one side is golden brown, flip them over. Cover and steam for about 5 minutes until cooked through. In the same pan, lightly saute the Hello Kitty ribbons, and set aside.
6. Cut the sliced cheese with a toothpick to make apple cores. Cut Nori sheet with eyebrow scissors to make apple seeds.
*I bought leaf-shaped bento toothpicks at "CANDO" 100yen shop.
((Vegetable Kinpira with Eggs))
I scrambled this Vegetarian Kinpira with eggs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BkKRmbtY2o
((Kamaboko Fish Cake House))
1. Slice Kamaboko fish cake and cut into a house shape.
2. Peel off the red part of Kanikama to make the roof, and attach it with bits of spaghetti pasta. (pasta will absorb moisture from Kamaboko and gets soft after few hours, so you can eat it by lunchtime!)
3. Cut sliced cheese to make windows.
((Hello Kitty Onigiri Rice Ball))
1. Put steamed rice in a bowl and mix a pinch of salt to taste. Stuff the rice into the Hello Kitty Onigiri Mold (spread the rice into the crevices of the mold with a small spoon). Place the lid and push the rice down. Remove the lid, then push the rice out from the mold.
2. Use the Hello Kitty Nori Punch to make eyes and whiskers.
3. Place the side dishes and rice in the bento box. Then arrange the small parts with tweezers.
You can also use a plastic wrap to form the Hello Kitty rice ball but it requires a great patience...
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http://www.cooklabo.blogspot.jp/2012/12/blog-post_6.html
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Josh Woodward
Little Tomcat (Instrumental)
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I wanted to recreate Catwoman's look. This look can work with other costumes too, like sexy cop, pirate, etc. Please enjoy this tutorial!
fyi, Batman is my all time favorite comic book character. I remember coming home from school just to catch him on the cartoon series Batman on WB and Toonami. Sigh...those were the days...
I know in the movie, Catwoman's eyes were blue, but I wanted her eyes to be green. It looks more cat like in my opinion. Either way, brown eyes will still look gorgeous with this look =)
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