Inspiration for your day...

Jim's Reflection:

• We juggle so many balls in our lives and sometimes we tend to focus on the wrong ball. We often take the very fragile balls (those made of glass) for granted.

• I feel that only by having a very clear "inner voice" (or know where you are going and why you are going there),  you will know what balls you cannot drop.

• Yes, life is tough and sometimes you have to make a choice.

Expressions on Changi Beach

Spent a meaningful Thursday afternoon cleaning up the Changi beach together with students from Metta School on 28 July. The kids were so enthusiastic and excited about the whole exercise. Of course, I brought my camera along with me and I managed to capture some nice expressions here for sharing.

 

Inspiration for your day...

pic source: http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Austria/West/Tyrol/Innsbruck/photo24859.htm

False friends are like our shadow, 

keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, 

but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. 

Christian N. Bovee

Jim's reflection:
This is so true. It is only when you are in trouble that you will find out who are your true friends. I am speaking from experience. 

Inspiration for your day...

“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Mitch Albom (born 1958);

Author, screenwriter, musician

Inspiration for your day...

pic source :http://365daysforlove.blogspot.com/

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; 

Whine less, breath more; 

Talk less, say more; 

Love more, and all good things will be yours! ”

Swedish Proverb

Bukit Timah Railway Station

All pictures taken by:

Panasonic GF1 m4/3 Camera, Olympus 9-18mm f4-5.6, Panasonic 20mm f1.7, Panasonic 14-45 f3.5-5.6

Some Stylo Milo Self Portrait...Ha Ha

Our love is like this track... there's no end

The Bukit Timah Railway Station was opened in 1915 as part of the Singapore-Kranji Railway, also known as the Singapore Government Railway. Constructed between 1900 and 1902, the line ran from the terminal at Tank Road towards Woodlands via Cuppage Road, Newton Circus, Cluny Road (where Adam Flyover is today) and finally to Bukit Timah, before proceeding to Kranji and Woodlands where it continued to Malaysia via the former Federated Malay States Railway. 

Before the causeway was opened in 1923, passengers had to take a ferry across the Straits of Johor to continue their train ride. In 1918, the government of the Federated Malay States purchased all the properties and lands of Singapore Railway for $4,136,000 and was renamed as the Federated Malay States Railway. Today the Malayan Railway is known as Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad, a Malaysian corporation wholly-owned by the Malaysian Government.

Source:http://heritagetrails.sg/content/199/Bukit_Timah_Railway_Station.html

I will survive!

Lines of Communication

When the ends meet

Crossing over to the other side...

Solid Strength

Meeting Point

Steel that connects!

The station is located not to far down the main road from King Albert Park’s MacDonald’s. There you’ll be able to find the sign leading down the small road to the station. For an even clearer landmark, look for the steel truss bridge that is frankly quite unmissable while traveling on the road. From there its a small uphill hike into the railway station compound itself.

Source: http://www.ckphoto.net/blog/2011/07/getting-to-the-bukit-timah-railway-station

I missed the train...now I have to walk!

"Honey, I'm melting!"

Leading to the foreign land

Yes, it's going to be history soon...

With effect from 1 July 2011, the Bukit Timah Railway Station went down the trail of Singapore and Malaysian history. Both governments have decided that train services between Woodlands Railway Station and Tanjong Pagar Railway Station are to cease and instead a more efficient new station will be located at Woodlands to allow for better efficiency. This is another living piece of the past you should visit if you have not done so before this historic place is being redeveloped or urbanised.

Inspiration for your day...

“The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Jim's Reflection:

• I like to read and collect short motivational quotes. They brighten my day and make me feel good. If you are reading my blog, I would assume you love these quotations as well.

• Sometimes when you are feeling down or upset, a powerful quotation can really lift you up or sooth your emotional state. Sometimes, it can even turn your day around. 

• I can relate to this quotation very well. When we see things with 'new eyes', we will see a different perspective and as a result, new discovery.  So if you are not happy with what you see, don't try to change others, try to change the way you see it. In the process, I hope you will discover a whole new perspective. It can be very life changing. As the saying goes, if you change the way you look at things/issues, it can really change your life!

Inspiration for your day...

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. 

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. 

Try to be better than yourself.”

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Nobel Prize winner