A lovely card from my friend in Singapore

The age of internet have changed how we communicate with each other. Thus, killing the good ole snail mail which I fondly remember sending letters to my pen pals in Australia and New Zealand when I was still in Secondary School (equivalent to High Schools). And good friends who were living and studying in Australia and United Kingdom.

Now that I am living in Shanghai and far away from my family and friends, sure I can send them an email, or even Facebook or call them via Skype. But nothing beats sending and receiving a postcard or letter from your friends and love ones.

My dear friend, Ayako Goh, have been sending me postcards from Singapore, and sometimes during her oversea healing trips, she will not forget to send me a postcard or two. Unfortunately sometimes the postman gets lost and looses our mails. So a postcard which was sent from New Zealand earlier this year somehow got lost in mail.

A very hot and green start to Spring

Over the weekend the weather suddenly turned hot and sunny. The temperature on my iPhone indicated 28ºC, but as the day before it was still chilly I was skeptical that the weather is that hot, so I decide to wear my new denim jacket before heading out exploring the streets of Shanghai and checking out an eco fair. But I was wrong, after walking for 15mins under the hot sun, I was already sweating bullets under my clothes.

 

Cute little friend we made before heading to The Eco Design Fair.

We got lost while searching for the Eco Design Fair at The Cool Docks as our cab driver alight us too far away from our destination. But after wandering around we found the fair. You can't miss it as there were rows of white tents at the fair. Being it our first year living in Shanghai, exploring art exhibitions, fairs and bazaars are the highlight of our weekends.

Receive good energy from Artistic hair studio

My friend, Ayako Goh from Something Magikcal helped decorate her friend's new salon in Singapore with plenty of positive energy and vibes.

Artistic Hair Studio is a newly launched hair salon at Fortune Centre at Middle Road, the walls of  the salon was given a touch of friendship, love and positive energy. The symbols looked like lotus and Oms characters. But on another angle the symbols of the walls also look like fairies sprinkling their magic dusts on the customers. Whatever it is, it's definitely magical.

Update: Ayako just told me the motives are Oms and Ganesha symbols with hearts n stars on the wall. So beautiful :-)

 

How's Shanghai dealing with H9N7

It's been a week since the release of H9N7 outbreak which killed 2 last week. Now the latest number has risen to 6 and spread over to Hong Kong via a little girl who paid Shanghai a visit end March.

For us living in Shanghai, live goes on. Nothing much have changed except you see more people wearing face mask on the streets. A friend of mind wanted to buy a pack of disposable masks at a local medical shop last night, but was informed it's all sold out that morning. As for our food, I usually buy our groceries and produces from PINES and CITY SHOPS, two supermarket that caters to expats living in Shanghai. The produces are either imported or organic. And we try to eat in more often than out with the crowd.