Sorry for the long absence, I’ve been like no mood to blog lately…..don’t know why??? But anyway I’m back!

After accompanying Irene for her medical appointment at NCC, which went well by the way, we decided to head to Tampines Mall Yamaha store to look for accessories to compliment Rachel’s new electric guitar. Since I also have an acoustic folk guitar, we bought a guitar stand built for two.

You know the cheapo cable that came with the set to hook up the guitar to the amplifier? Well, that one really sucks because it always gives off an irritating humming sound when connected even without touching the strings. So, ended up buying a professional cable & wow! it really made a whole lot of difference – total silence man!

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Today, after Rachel’s speech therapy session, Irene brought Rachel to Tampines Mall Yamaha shop.

Rachel has always wanted to learn to play the electric guitar for sometime now & finally her wish came true. Fortunately, Yamaha was having a sale for their electric guitar for beginners & it comes as a kit.

The package includes a one humbucker/two single-coil guitar, the EG112, and with it you’ll find a GA-10 practice amp – loud enough to wake up the neighbours and featuring a distortion-friendly drive switch. What’s more Yamaha bundles in a bunch of handy accessories including a gig bag and electronic tuner, a string winder and spare set of strings, and some plectrums and a strap. Everything you need, in fact.

Well, now we have 2 noisy rockers here in Singapore & 1 over in Perth. I also heard from the grapevine that we have a Djembe Drum player over in Perth. Maybe I should start learning to play our “White Elephant” piano at home & together with the 2 ladies as vocals, we could have a jam session.
Oh ya, and not forgetting our hip-hop dancer from London will surely add some colour to our band Muahahahahaha!

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Singaporeans can now take a stroll from one park to another via a 10 kilometre-long connector. The connector links East Coast Park to Pasir Ris Park and is just one part of a 170-kilometre long network. The Park Connector Network programme provides additional recreational areas for activities like jogging, in-line skating and cycling. A total of 245 km of park connectors is scheduled to be completed by 2010.

So, Irene & I decided to check out this new Bedok Connector this morning. We started off from our home & walked along a jogging cum cycling track that leads us to the PIE just behind St. Anthony’s Convent. From here, there is a overhead bridge that is built for cyclist i.e. no stairs only rams that span across the PIE. It then joint to another track that leads us to the Bedok Reservoir.

Seeing that the reservoir looked beautiful, we decided to walk around it on the jogging track. As we were walking we saw that there was also a new track for walking, cycling & skating running parallel to the jogging track surrounding the reservoir. As it was more shady we side tracked onto the new path & found it to be a very nice place for a stroll. There is also a place where one can rent a canoe to row in the reservoir & we saw dragonboat rowers practising too. Looks like they are going to make this into a water sport area.

Next week, we might be trying the other way heading towards the East Coast Park via the new Bedok Connector as you can see from the map above.

As promised to Michelle, I’m trying to lose weight & this is one way of achieving my goal. Only wish that the weather here is not so humid but nice & cool as in Perth, then the park connectors will be a great place for walks & exercises.

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