• Current Affairs

    Circuit Breaker v2.0

    May 14, 2021

    And we are back to Circuit Breaker v2.0, more than a year after the first one. The Government is not calling it Circuit Breaker though, they are calling it Phase 2 – Heightened Alert.

    We all see it coming back beginning of April, well except the Government, when the daily imported cases keep increasing. But the Government refused to ban the flights from those high risk countries (actually just one). This is the consequence.

    How many more Circuit Breakers that we need to go through before the Government becomes more proactive?

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  • Happenings,  Travel

    Daily Memories

    April 27, 2020

    Facebook has this feature ‘Memories’ where they show you the various posts on this day number of years ago.

    End of April happened to be the period where most travels were done. I usually take advantage of the public holidays around this period (Good Friday, Labour Day, Vesak Day) to go traveling.

    So 1 year ago, on this day, I was in Switzerland, bidding farewell to Zermatt:

    27th April 2019, Zermatt, Switzerland

    2 years ago, on this day, I was in Lake Windemere, Lake District, on the way to London by train:

    27th April 2018, Lake Windemere, Lake District

    4 years ago, on this day, I was in Otaru, Hokkaido, where I finally get to see the sakura:

    27th April 2016, Otaru, Hokkaido

    This quarantine measures forcing us to stay at home really make me think that we took for granted the freedom to move, the freedom to travel to see the world.

    Can’t wait when we can travel again.

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