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It took me too much time to design the goods and therefore I printed it late. I won't have all the goods until next week. I'm so sorry.QQ To make it up to you, I'll enclose two B5 posters as gift for a week delay. All the parcels will be sent out by 2/8 definitely, please wait for me.
⚠️Because the Nurse Toga stand's color and appearance are not as good as expected, the photo of stand is changed to this one.> <

跟大家報告因為夢夢這系列設計花太多時間> <
沒靈感改了又改所以送印晚了!有些周邊要下周才會到 對不起嗚嗚QQ 作為補償多送了兩張B5海報給大家~延後一周2/8一定出完貨 請等夢QQ
⚠️嗚嗚因為渡我護士立牌的成品顏色跟效果不如預期!!所以改這張做為立牌> <

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)

我這個禮拜收到了美國國會兩位議員的兩面美國旗。 我很高興能夠與你們分享美國對台灣的支持和讚賞！

美國在六月底捐給台灣寶貴的疫苗，我因為美國的慈善行為和台灣人的感激之情所感動。 我決定寫信給50 多名國會議員，每封信都包含 400 多條來自台灣人自己的感謝信息。 好幾個國會會員收到此封信而兩位已經回答了寄給我一個美國旗. 這些美國旗為什麼特別呢？這些美國旗都飄揚在美國國會大廈來紀念台灣和美台關係。

這篇文章中的照片來自一面美國旗，另一面美國旗下個禮拜可以開箱給你們看。 我計劃在九月將這些旗幟運送到台灣，我計畫把兩面美國旗捐贈給台灣其中一個博物館、一個城市政府地方或任何其他合適的地方，並且會像我一樣重視它。

感謝你們所有的支持，尤其是我的 YouTube 頻道成員，感謝你們慷慨的捐款，這些捐款幫助我支付了所有國會議員的寫作費用，以及將國旗運往各州和台灣的費用。也非常感謝我媽媽的協助，因為她我才能夠做得到這件事.

文件 1:

美利堅合眾國國旗 - 茲證明隨附的旗幟於 2021 年 7 月 27 日應美國參議員邁克爾·李 (Micheal S. Lee) 閣下的要求懸掛在美國國會大廈上空。

這一請求是為 Logan D. Beck （小貝）提出的，以紀念台灣在 2021 年 6 月 20 日對美國慷慨捐贈疫苗的感激之情。

文件 2:

親愛的小貝，

祝賀你們為加強美國與台灣之間的關係所做的工作。 您的工作改善了與您同住的人的生活，也改善了受益於與台灣牢固關係的美國人的生活。 這一切就證明了您的辛勤工作、領導能力和服務。 像你這樣的人讓猶他州和整個美國變得非凡。

保持良好的工作！ 我毫不懷疑你會在未來幾年對我們偉大的國家和民族產生影響。 再次祝賀你繼續取得的成就。

溫暖的問候，
邁克爾·李
美國參議員

This week I received two flags from two members of the United States Congress. I’m very thrilled to be able to share with you a token of America support and appreciation for Taiwan!

After the United States donated vaccines to Taiwan in late June I was moved by the charitable act of the United States and the gratitude shown by the Taiwanese. I decided to write over 50 members of Congress, each letter containing over 400 messages of gratitude from the Taiwanese themselves. In return two answered back by sending a United States flag that was specially flown over the United States Capitol in honor of Taiwan and the US Taiwan relationship.

The photos in this post are from one flag, the other flag should be ready to show you by next week. I plan to ship these flags to Taiwan in September and plan to donate them to a museum, Government building or any other place that is suitable and would value it as much as I do.

That for all your support, especially my YouTube channel members for you generous donations that helped me pay for writing all of the members of Congress and for getting the flags shipped across states and to Taiwan. Also, big thanks to my Mom for assisting my in the ambitious project, without her help this couldn’t have been accomplished.

Letter 1:

The Flag of the United States of America - This is to certify that the accompanying flag was flown over the United States Capitol on July 27, 2021 at the request of the Honorable Micheal S. Lee, United States Senator.

This request was made for Logan D. Beck in honor of Taiwan gratitude for the United States generous donation of vaccines on June 20, 2021.

Letter 2:

Dear Logan,

Congratulations on your work strengthening the relationship between the United States and Taiwan. Your work has improved the lives of those you live with as well as the lives of Americans who benefit from a strong relationship with Taiwan. This achievement is a testament to your hard work, leadership and service. People like you make Utah, and the United States at large, remarkable.

Keep up the good work! I have no doubt you will make an impact on our great state and nation for years to come. Congratulations again on all you continue to accomplish.

Warm regards,
Michael S. Lee
United States Senator

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- The first night of our Odigo trip we had to sleep at Narita airport, which meant staying in their capsule hotel! https://www.odigo.travel/

Capsule hotels were originally meant to be used as super cheap accommodations, however in my (admittedly brief) attempt to search for them, I usually haven't found many cheaper than a regular business hotel. I know cheap capsule hotels are out there, I just don't know where...

This one at the Tokyo Narita airport is called 9 Hours (you can stay for more than nine hours) and is of course the price of a normal business hotel, I assume because it's at the airport. To be fair, everything was very clean and looked new, which is good enough for me. In some cases if you reserve early online you can get the room for 4,900 yen (which is what they advertise at), but walk-ins are 5,900 yen. A lot of reviews say it used to be 3,900 for a reservation, so I guess they raised their prices. It also looks like prices during holiday travel seasons (like Golden Week and Obon) are higher, at 6,900 yen for advance reserving, at least at the time of making this video.

The pods are all right next to each other so if you have quiet, considerate neighbors you should be fine to sleep, but if your neighbors are chatty or snore then you could be in for a rough night. One of my neighbors used their wave noise machine and it was so loud that I'm pretty sure everyone else had to listen to it, too. I had one instance on my side of some girls coming in really late and giggling and talking up and down the row of pods and taking pictures, but after that fortunately everyone was quiet and I wasn't woken up. Jun had some snorers on his side, though.

All in all I feel like capsule hotels are kind of a quintessential Japanese experience so I'm glad I was able to try one out. It kind of felt like I was living in the future. I don't know if I would choose to do it again over a normal hotel room, though? Maybe I'm just too introverted and prefer having my own personal bed and bathroom, especially if it's the same price. (Actually since it was 5900 each for me AND Jun, a normal hotel is way cheaper for the two of us). I enjoyed the experience, though. Would've been funner with a friend on my side!

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Marcus Camby figured his night was over.

Big lead, fourth quarter, road game in Houston the next night. Camby was all set to kick back and watch the final quarter of the Denver Nuggets' 110-99 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.

But when Cleveland sliced Denver's 25-point lead to 13 with 7:23 remaining in the game, Camby was sent back in. He scored four of his season-high 26 points in the final quarter and grabbed six of his 17 rebounds.

"It's always in the backs of our minds about blowing leads," Camby said. "The guys stepped up down the stretch."

Denver needed to the way LeBron James was playing. James finished with his first triple-double of the season -- 30 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds -- and 10th of his career.

"We contained him," said Allen Iverson, who finished with 25 points and nine assists. "That's all you can do with players like that. You can't play this game scared."

The Cavaliers cut Denver's cushion to 103-98 on Damon Jones' 3-pointer with 3:15 left in the game. But Denver closed the game out with a 7-1 run.

The struggling Cavaliers have now lost four of their last five and dropped into a first-place tie with Washington for the best record in the Eastern Conference.

"We've just got to regroup," James said.

The Cavaliers received a scare when Denver's J.R. Smith fell on James' right ankle when both were scrambling for a loose ball late in the fourth quarter. James sat out all of 8 seconds before checking back in.

"It's been better," James said of the ankle.

Carmelo Anthony said earlier in the week this was a painful game to miss. He was looking forward to going up against his good friend James. The two will always be linked as James went first overall in the 2003 NBA draft and Anthony was picked third.

Anthony said he'd watch from his living room as he served his second-to-last game for the suspension he received for his role in a fight with the New York Knicks. Anthony's 15-game suspension will be done after he sits out the game Saturday night. He'll be back Monday night as Denver hosts Memphis.

James wasn't the least bit sorry that Anthony didn't suit up.

"Nah, he ain't my teammate -- no way," James said. "They already killed us on the offensive end, it ain't going to help it. As a competitor, of course I miss him, but not on the court. They definitely are going to be a dangerous team."

Smith was suffering from the flu and missed the Friday morning shootaround. He didn't come out onto the court until 6:56 remaining in the first quarter yet he finished with 14 points, the most he's scored since coming off his 10-game suspension earlier this month.

"I feel better," he said.

The Nuggets were gushing over Camby's play after the game.

"I've never seen him score like that," Smith said.

"He played like an All-Star center for us," coach George Karl said.

The Nuggets have watched third quarter leads slip away in five home games this season. But not on Friday night.

"We'll take it," Iverson said. "By 50 points or a point, we'll take it. If we'd have lost, it would have been bad. I like the results we had."

Cavaliers coach Mike Brown certainly wasn't pleased. He was clearly frustrated after the game.

"I don't know what it is yet, but I'm definitely going to find out," he said. "We keep thinking offensively we're bad, offensively we're bad, offensively we're bad. Yes, we will be bad offensively if we come down and take the first shot, if we come down and take a jump shot without moving the basketball, if we come down and take a shot after one pass. That's what we did tonight. That's the way the Denver Nuggets play. That's the way the Seattle SuperSonics play. That's how teams out West play. They want to get out and run the floor and if we fall into that trap, we will get beat every single time on the floor. ... We don't play a rat race. We don't play a high-tempo basketball game."

Hello sunshine!

It's time for another GIRL TALK episode. Today, you guys requested to talk upon the topic of dealing with high expectations of parents. DUN DUN DUN! I can do that. Let's chill together.

Expectations can be a good thing. We all need them. Without them, we will all be slobs. However, when expectations begin to hold you back, that's when you gotta make a change for yourself. After all, YOU are the one living the life. You can fool the world. You can't fool yourself.

I know how tough it can be dealing with parents expectations. We've all been there. Today, I'm gonna share my experience and how I overcame my parents expectations.

Today, I've broken out of my shell of always trying to please my parents. As much as I love them and want to make them happy, I also realise I have my own life to live. With mutual respect, my parents understand this and have learnt to trust me on my decisions. However, it doesn't mean I don't listen to them. My parents are my friends too and I always welcome their advice. People can only guide you. Only you can truly help yourself.

You guys are young adults now and one day, you will all spread your wings. I trust you will be able to make the right choices for yourself and your future. Maybe you were like me and you realised you did things the wrong way. It's ok. It's never too late to make a change for yourself. I promise.

I hope you guys enjoyed this Girl Talk episode. Sorry it's been a while since we did one. Please let me know what topic you want me to talk about in my next episode. Enjoy the rest of your week guys!!

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