today in history 2nd October

 1535:  Jacques Cartier reaches a town which he names Montreal. what post was Jacques holding at that time ?

1849: 24-year-old Johann Strauss the Junior took over his father's orchestra, just one week after his death and he encountered his first musical problem, his father's musicians weren't too happy about it, but Johann Junior told them he needed to keep the band going to support his siblings


1866: The tin can opened with a key was patented by J. Ostyerhondt of New York City . unfortunately there were also cans which were subsequently coated with aluminum, which many thought was the cause of Parkinson's disease 

1869:

Proponent of peaceful civil disobedience for social change and leader of India's Independence from Britian, Mahatma Gandhi born in Porbandar, Gujarat, India .
He later went to live in South Africa where his nationalistic aspiration began and he returned to his India to start a non-violence civil disobedience movement for India's Independence.  The Unite nations may plan a 'NON VIOLENCE DAY' in honor of him


1870: The papal states vote in favor of union with Italy. The Capital is moved from Florence to Rome.The Catholic church is commonly known as the Roman Catholic Church (RC -for short)

.1950:

The "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz is published for the first time
 Have always enjoyed his and friends innocence. The Sunday times in Singapore still published this comic on their Sunday cartoon page.
                Hope they are also doing in the same elsewhere.

1946: Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer.
But then nobody really believed them as smokers were more influenced by the macho men the tobacco advertisement would connect with, especially with many good looking actors and actress smoking them on screen, making them looked cool- that slang wasn't used then.

 1988: Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered free elections, and back then maybe every body wasn't sure how long it would last. But at least they believed in the system.

singApraise to these wonderful people who makes our lives livelier then and now

Anorexia

Read from Todays' Newspaper 1st October,2012
that Ms Emma O'neil at the age of 22,was so thin that lying on a bed left her bruised and her doctor said she was suffering the worst case of anorexia they had seen.

Now eight years on and back in full health, Ms O'neil ,from Glasgow has set up A FOUNDATION with two friends, who has also battled anorexia, to help others who are recovering from an EATING DISORDER.

sad  to know that her worried family and medics had to begged her to eat and up to four nurses had to hold her down to force feed her. only when she collapsed while trying to run across a road , almost being hit by a car that she decided to start  her long road to recovery.

 It all started when she was a teenager. She said that she had a very addictive personality and trying to see how thin she could get.
A lot of teenager does not know that anorexia may cause death. SKINNY is not beautiful,  going to that extreme actually makes a beautiful teenage girl looks like a walking skeleton.
Eat well, exercise and FITNESS is the only way to beauty.

Hi Emma , happy with yr passion to help other  anorexia sufferers and you and your  two friends 'THE ONLY WAY IS UP FOUNDATION"  is a move to the right direction
SingApraise to you three

KTM Ride from Tanjong Pagar Railway Station to Malaysia video

This is the video we took from the right window view of the train ride from Singapore's Tanjong Pagar Rail. It's a little blur and shaky because it's taken on a mobile phone, but it's pretty interesting to watch! See if you can identify any of the places - like Bukit Panjang, Railmall and so on! We already deleted most of the footage of the forested areas cos it's not so entertaining to watch that much foilage zooming past. Singapore really does have A LOT of untouched green spaces. Those footage of forests and greenery that you see is only like, 10%.

Left window view coming up soon!

The Last KTM Train Ride from Tanjong Pagar to Malaysia (Part 1) - Photos

Do you know how the station came to be in Tanjong Pagar and why it has to move?

Well, the station is one of the legacies left behind by the British empire when they granted independence to Malaya and Singapore. They partitioned this railway station and the entire railway line from Tanjong Pagar to Malaya as land belonging to Malaya.

After years of this arrangement, the Tanjong Pagar site and other KTMB land parcels in the island republic will be jointly developed by MS Pte Ltd, a company with a 60 per cent stake held by Khazanah Nasional Bhd and 40 per cent by Temasek Holdings Ltd, as agreed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his Singapore counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong in 2010.

After queuing unsuccessfully for the 8am ride (because it was sold out!), we finally managed to get tickets for the 1pm KTM train ride from Tanjong Pagar Railway Station to Malaysia. The atmosphere at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station was exciting. Instead of the usual sleepy and quiet feel that we get every time we pass by it, the station was bustling with Singaporeans, Malaysians and other tourists eager to soak up the history, sights and sounds of the station and the train ride before it closes on 30 June 2011.

What better way to keep a slice of Singaporean history than to capture the memorable sights on camera?

The directory that greets you upon entering the station.

Check out the large murals on the wall. They depict village life in early Singapore and Malaysia.
Their fresh colours and detail make them a joy to admire from afar.

Love the natural light streaming in from the windows above.

The all-famous railway food station. Their amazingly fragrant teh-halia (ginger tea) is going to be missed.

Checking out the arrival area. Super old-school.

Police station.

The tracks. Some people actually climbed down to take pictures, totally oblivious to the fact that they could be hit by incoming trains if they couldn't run fast enough. But they came up after the station master came running after them while blowing his whistle non-stop.

Shutterbugs and eatingbugs.More photos of the food in Part 2

The stalls in the canteen.

Teh-halia!

A photo with the very obliging station master.

These used to be hotel rooms. They are not in use anymore though.

Looking up...

And moving off to the departure area.

Station master No.2 punching our tickets. Looking kinda bored though.

Inside the train carriage

Snapping a picture from outside the train.

The departure platform at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station.
Last chance to buy snacks!

Another look inside the carriage. It's air-conditioned and pretty comfy, with a little table in front of each seat.

Leaving the station at Tanjong Pagar. You won't believe the amount of lush greenery in Singapore. Check out the videos in Part 2. There's really, really, really a lot of it.

This is still in Singapore! One of the old stations in Bukit Timah. Blast to the past.

Arrival at Woodlands Checkpoint.

Check: 1.30pm. We took about half an hour to get here from Tanjong Pagar.

 

Stay tuned for Part 2 for more photos and videos of the journey from Tanjong Pagar Railway Station to Malaysia on the RTM!