Knitted baby vest for Arthur

 Here's Arthur wearing the baby vest & beanie I finished knitting last year - see my blog post last April.

(Apparently James doesn't like to put anything on his head)

1st Group Ride

I signed up for the 3 Reservoirs Leisure Ride (Vesak Day) organised by My Bike Group on Meetup.

I last cycled solo to Old Upper Thomson Road in mid-2020 and Mandai Road in August 2021.

Thanx to the Group Ride on Vesak Day, now I know how to go to the Reservoirs from the above 2 roads.

 

Start:Bishan Park

Lower Pierce Reservoir Park (I think)

Old Upper Thomson Road

 

Upper Pierce Reservoir Park

Up-slope approaching Tower at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park

 

I didn't follow the group back to Bishan Park. The almost 3mths old bike received rain christening on my solo ride home from Mandai.

Read Local

I re-started posting on this blog just over a year ago, to list the books I read in 2022 that weren't for the book club. This post is to list (non-exhaustive) the local books I read in 2023.

In late 2022, I started re-reading The Resident Tourist and completed reading the rest of the series in 2023. In late 2023, I laughed and chortled while reading Bricks in the Wall.

At the start of 2023, Ethos Books published Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore. The book features a contribution from Runninghour buddy Tan Siew Ling. In 2023, I attended two NLB events for the book. On 28 February, the Nature Book Club conducted a discussion on the similarities of nature and persons with disabilities (PWDs), in the local context. On 21 July, I visited the newly opened Punggol Regional Library to attend the discussion about inclusion in the workplace for PWDs.

In 2020, I took a free copy of Dharma's Chariot at Bishan Library and never read it 😛 When I attended the SingLit Book Club Squat for Tradition, Sit for Modernity event on 20 April with the writer Cultural Medallion recipient Chia Joo Ming in attendance, I took the other two One Story titles home. Then I finally read all 3 short stories in 2023.

I'd previously saw My Love Is Blind displayed at library@orchard and I finally read it in 2023. As mentioned in the afterword, the author wrote about many places in post-war Singapore which still exist now. Which is amazing considering the pace of development since then.

Since I'm a sucker for comics and award winners, reading the Winner of Book of the Year and Best Literary Work at the 2023 Singapore Book Awards, Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers was a no-brainer 😁 

On 11 November I attended the Book Event for Becoming Margaret Leng Tan at Esplanade Concourse. I bought a copy of the book then and there cos Margaret Tan & the author Low Lai Chow were signing copies of the book 😊