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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Animal Crossing; Travel Blogger Style

 Smithankyou     5/26/2020 01:21:00 AM     animal crossing, gaming, travel     40 comments   

Me taking my OOTD at Urban Lights Los Angeles.

It seems like years ago since I last travelled. I could hardly remember those days where my business partner and I travelled so much in a year just to create content.

Now my Instagram is nothing but a pile of old photos and memories that I try to hold on. My travelling did not just stop with Covid-19 but also with my new job. I don't think I am complaining since I love my job and also not exactly a big traveller until I fall in love with taking photos.

Thanks to Animal Crossing New Horizon, I get to travel around the world without really travelling.

So here is a fictional piece of my "travelling".

*Disclaimer: Images are heavily edited using Adobe Lightroom, and not all Island concepts are original. Some are inspired by other online posts that I've seen and can't remember where. Thus there is no way I could credit.

All my bags and packed I'm ready to go...

I got on the very 1st flight by Dodo Airline where I met this friendly Dodo who talked non-stop. I alighted on this Island known as Kame. I met this guy who runs the place, his name is Tom Nook. Doesn't look like a bad guy to me but everything that he offered comes with a price tag.


He told me this building will be my place for the rest of my stay but I was greeted by this hall which looks almost identical to his office. Is this is a makeshift office? I thought this was going to be my living room?

Lucky for me the rest of the rooms were as bad as I imagined after looking at the main hall.



Basement Gameroom. The place where I spent most of my evening since there were not much of nightlife on this island.



The gym. I went in once to take this picture and that was about it. #FatLyfeGoodLyfe



The building came with a hipster cafe looking kitchen. I tried looking for food in the fridge but all I found was clothes. What?



Probably one of my favourite spot in the entire house. The room itself. It reminded me of Maldives. Strange thing though, it is always morning in the room no matter what time it was. How do you even sleep in this room?



They actually have this business centre where you get to read some books and it came with a typewriter. I guess that's the whole idea of an Island holiday where the internet is nothing but a myth came true.  Yup, they had bookshelves in front of other bookshelves. #gamelogic

The outdoors are amazing. I actually spotted 4 different monsters of different colours around the island!



Ahhh.. New York, I miss you much.



"Is that traditional $1 Nasi Lemak? Auntie, give me 1 packet please."



For some reasons, they fly the USA flag here on Kame. I guess that is also probably the reason why I saw these monsters. Just like every apocalypse movie we have ever watched. The world is ending and Aliens or zombies always start attacking the earth with USA.

I am just going to be lazy and show you some of the other parts of the Island.



I was there alone but the phone that Tom Nook sold me allows me to take a picture of myself remotely. This guy is seriously a genius.



The place is so nice that money grows on trees! Explains why people don't really have a job here.



We are allowed to fish whenever and wherever we want. However, fish is not guaranteed.




This garden is pretty cool. I actually help this crazy guy took a picture at the same garden too. And he was telling me he is not afraid of Covid-19 as he has found the solution to it. Drinking detergent wor. Genius. And I thought people who ate tide pods were stupid. I guess they saw it coming.



Said, crazy guy. Look at how happy he was.





MBS Infinity pool is that you? Oh ya, and they do not serve any alcohol on this island. #seriously?



Probably my favourite area on the Island. Which also explains why this picture was selected as the cover photo of this travel article.



There was a tribute shrine for the late Kobe Bean Bryant right outside of my house. #RIPMamba #Onions.



I found this valley. There was a lot of jumping. Lucky for me, SAF has trained me for this day with all the standing broad jumps exercises. "Encik, where got people jump like that one." Oops.



I bump into another visitor at the secret beach. She told me she ain't staying for the night. She was just visiting. I told her I've a double rattan bed that is enough for both of us. We looked into each others' eyes, she smiled at me and said, "Bro, can cata? Okay to pay in nmt or bells." #WTFCATFISHISREAL . We sat there awkwardly watching the night sky.  I was too embarrassed to make a move first.



Last thing I remember I was running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. "Relax", said the night man "We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave". #Doyouknowthissong



Like that lor. Looks like I'm gonna stuck here for awhile longer.

Hit me up if you wish to visit Kame Island.

Happy animal crossing.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

ReUnion - An Exhibition by NTUC.

 Smithankyou     7/10/2019 02:04:00 PM     event, Museum, National Museum, ntuc, photo diary, singapore, travel     13 comments   

I told myself to blog about something else out of work for my next blog post. Like my current favourite food or the shows I've been watching on NetFlix, (Stranger Things 3 is reallllly good!!) but as I sat down in front of the computer in the middle of the night thinking of what to share, my mind can't help but wander back to something work related. 

ReUnion - An Exhibition by NTUC. Although I'm relatively new to the organisation (as a legit staff), I felt a sense of pride when I stepped into the exhibition for the very first time.

Of course, the intention of this post is not to tell you the full history of NTUC and why we played an important role in Singapore's history. The intention is to show you some of the nice pictures I took at the ReUnion exhibition. Yeah, it is always about me LOL. The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of our watershed event - THE Modernization Seminar.   





So what exactly is the exhibition about? Is it just to talk about NTUC's contribution in/since 1969 and stroke our own ego? I wish I could say yes and just sum the article up now but it is far from that. The exhibition takes you back to the 1940s and through to the current day, and explains the role trade unions played then and now.

You will also get to see some of the interesting artefacts. 




So what exactly happened in 1969? In short, after Singapore's independence in 1965, (you SHOULD know this HARLO!!), many workers felt that trade unions were no longer relevant with the new labour legislations so union membership declined from 120,000 to 90,000. There was a need to re-examine how the Labour Movement should exist to better represent and help workers. And the rest is history. (That you should know and can learn by visiting the exhibition.)


Besides learning about our history, there are also other interesting activities that you can be part of.


Augmented reality application where you can put on Mr. and Mrs. Lee's watch. Why the watch? You gonna be at the exhibition to find out!


A little customized "slide show" showing you some of the very interesting archive images.


Also a GIF Photo Booth! 

Interestingly I've also signed myself up as a volunteer guide with the museum for this event, so if any of you want to visit, DO LET ME KNOW!!!

Details: 

Venue: National Museum of Singapore, Glass Atrium, Level 2. 
Date: 4 July to 10 November 2019. 
Time: Opens daily from 10am to 7pm. 
Fee: Admission is free.

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Friday, February 15, 2019

Photodiary - Influencer Seth in the making.

 Smithankyou     2/15/2019 01:07:00 PM     hong kong, instagram, seth, travel     No comments   



This is the 3rd and last part of our family trip which happened last December. I promise. lol.

If you have the habit of following influencers on Instagram, you would noticed that Hong Kong is actually a rather Instagrammable place. Given my line of work and my "fake life" on Instagram, I'm not going to give it a miss this time.

Since I'm not visiting Hong Kong with some Instagram Babes, my son would be my subject. He ain't exactly easy to shoot these days. We really had to play with him and get him into the mood. I'm actually kinda happy with these pictures myself.



- Okay bye -

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