Qian Hu Fish Farm Visit

Tired of squeezing with the locusts swarms of crowd in shopping malls especially on weekends? Why not head to some quieter place? There's a free shuttle bus to Qian Hu fish farm from Choa Chu Kang Interchange.

My first visit to a fish farm. I sort of envy the person/s staying at the residential guardhouse(like a landed single story house). Such a tranquil place in hectic s'pore. If i'm not mistaken this is the only fish farm listed on the local stock exchange so why not go there explore?

Notice board area with the newspaper writeups, awards & accolades & photos related to the fish farm & management. Bicycles are a neat way for workers to get around the farm quickly.


Gigantic fish shop with their tanks for visitors to buy fishes. There's another 1 in a dark room for the more costly fishes & another in an open air area.


Smaller fish poonds:


Larger ponds & one that's going to be filled soon:


Fish farm next door of the more traditional type:


Maximising space use by growing vegies. Organic vegies for the farmkeeper(guard):


Arowana spotted in the murky pond waters:


'Fengshui' mini waterfall & pond for the fish farm:


Fish related accessories are sold as well to aquarium hobbyists:


Some of their indoor rearing tanks:


Funny notice. Is easy to fill in the missing words:


Crabs are sold in their open air tank shop area:


Lobsters? Shrimps? Forgot what these creatures for sale are called:


Dining area for bosses, workers & visitors. Shuttle bus boarding & drop off point is here:

Eat with Family Day

Today's the day. When Eat with your Family Day was introduced in the early 2000s i was rather taken aback that people need to be reminded to eat with family. As the years go by with more foreign workers competing for jobs the situation has worsen with many working late in order to show they are 'hardworking' to avoid being fired.

Many people's lives revolve around work that they have little friends. Much of their social intercourse throughout the day are mainly with colleagues. People's homes become more like a hotel where they come home to have a shower & sleep after dinner outside. Isn't it any surprising that divorce rates & teenage delinquencies are on a bull run?

Sad fact is that many people meet up other family members during chinese new year reunion dinner or funerals.

I find Family Dinner Day as a feeble attempt by the govt to foster family bonds since it is on friday where some companies allow workers to dress down & being on friday is natural that many will knock off on time. Is better the Family Dinner Day is on another weekday.

How come have such a day to remind people? Doesn't the ruling party like to boast about high gdp growth? Does high gdp growth foster more family dinner days among the general populace so we can do away with such reminder?

Masses of people working overtime & sacrificing time to have dinner with family don't seem to realise that when they fall sick or die most of their colleagues/bosses can't even be bothered unlike family members.

Yellow Reflector(bicycle) & Saddle Repair Tape from Daiso

$2 items at Daiso are highly addictive especially to women. There's so much stuff in sight at $2 that people buy & buy & buy if they can't control their spending impulses. Isn't it hardly surprisingly that people's homes(incl mine) are increasingly filled with clutter especially for the shopaholics?

People who can't control their impulsive spending habits have a slim chance of making money as investors or traders.

I bought yellow & cyan bicycle reflectors & saddle repair tape from Daiso, IMM. $2 each for extra safety riding at night is worth it. The cyan reflector doesn't seem to fit snugly onto my bicycle wheel spokes so i'll probably give it to a friend if it fits his bike. Saddle repair tape at $2 seem worth it too if it can prolong the usage of my saddle if its 'skin' tear(touch wood).

Picture of my reflectors yellow & white(comes with bike) as well as battery operated red binker light mounted on seat stay.

Signs that a Big Drop is Coming

I noticed that whenever a very tall building is about to top out or a person in office publishes a book, a major correction is happening soon.

Here are a few examples:

• Whenever Lee Kuan Yew publishes a book while in office, his ruling party's popularity ratings drop & more people dislike him


• When Empire State Building in USA completed, the Great Depression follows.


• When the twin petronas tower in Kuala Lumpur is about to top out, the Asian Financial Crisis hits.


• When the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is about to top out, the Great Recession hits.

When bullishness near its peak as in the form of staggering building heights, the end is near. That's my observations.