Itinerary:
Welcome to Antarctica’s spectacular scenery! View the world’s highest, driest, windiest and coldest continent from the top and be the first to see the midnight sun of 1 January 2009!
Not to take me home but to a place belonging to Sembawang, which is right up on the northern part of the island. Hub and I headed there to visit a friend this weekend.
While I was looking at the map to help navigate our way, my eyes rolled over to an area on the map with roads bearing names of countries + cities such as Africa, Australia, Falkland Islands, Jamaica, New Zealand and more! Huh, all at one place?! We had to check this out!
Some googling explained that the pre-war colonial homes like this one (above) along Wellington Road have high ceilings over the drive-way to allow horse-drawn carriages. These homes once housed the British, Australian and New Zealand forces. Now they house the US military and maybe some are rented to the general public. The white doors are really tall.
As we drove out to the main road (named Admiralty Road East, which connects to Canberra Road), we landed ourselves in Ottawa and Montreal, just beside Canada Road!
Follow me on this map and
you’ll find that we are just as close to Kenya Crescent, Sudan Road, Durban* Road, Lagos* Circle and Pakistan Road!
Hmmm, I’m seeing a connection now…Sembawang being an important British naval base in the past, I suppose these country roads were named after fellow members of the Commonwealth?! In the case of Sudan Road, could it be there because of its former Anglo-Egyptian status?
Here’s one that’s easy to remember: Move your eyes horizontally from side-to-side for 30 seconds, that’s according to a study.
Horizontal eye movements are thought to cause the two hemispheres of the brain to interact more with one another, and communication between brain hemispheres is important for retrieving certain types of memories.
This has got to be the last time I’m journaling about blade snapping! I can’t believe it has taken me so long to notice there are pen-knifes with their own detachable snappers tucked snugly at the end!
Even my spare brand new cheap pen-knife has one…though unmarked and easily passed off as just a cap, unlike such inescapable details pictured here.
Earlier on I had been looking at the heavy duty OLFA cutters until a few days ago, I stopped to look at regular NT cutters.
The code on the back of each Daimaru paper bag like the H-2 & H-5 shown above represents a specific paper bag size. I know because I had worked in this department store (me and my dad’s favorite) for a short time during a school vacation in the past. For sentimental reasons, I’ve kept a few of these as bookmarks.
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