Weekend @ Uetliberg - the lake

There's always something new at Uetliburg :)

Uncle Tan wanted to show me the other side o Uetliberg which he had explored during his lunch time since it's near to his office. We'd pass by Sihl City shopping mall on route and well, Uncle Tan needs to visit the WC in the mall before walking there. And we snapped a picture in the empty shopping mall.

The little white and yellow flowers were no longer there. Only long green grass.

White Blouse: Fr 14.90 (H&M), Spaghetti top: Fr 9.90 (H&M)
Berms: Fr 24.90 (H&M boy's dept), White bag: Fr 14.90 (H&M)
Cap and shoes (stylist own ;p)

Finding some shade from the scorching sun...


This place is a dog lovers' place where most of them would bring their dogs to a cafe here for a cuppa.

This place looks good for a little break after the walk.

Over here in Switzerland, decisions are made via voting and the Swiss can vote for anything and everything. Apparently, it's a law that shops are not allowed to open on Sundays (except the F&B) and it requires a special license if shops wish to open on Sundays. This is to protect the workers' rights. Uncle Tan's colleague mentioned that there was a voting once to decide whether all shops should operate on Sundays. I suppose the Swiss aren't prepared to forgo their rest days and hence, we're back at Uetliburg on a Sunday ;p

I guess it would not be possible for Singapore to do so. It would have too much impact on our economy, especially when we thrive on being 'efficient' and our neighbours offer competitive labour rate.

We are so jam-packed with work on weekdays that we could only do shopping and run errands on our weekends since shops here in SG close early or rather, by the time we knock off, shops are already closed. No wonder we are tired on Mondays since we are so busy on weekends.

When I read SG news, I can't help but to worry about the rising cost of living in SG. It's becoming somewhat like Switzerland where cost of living is high. Like SG, it doesn't have natural resources (which I find weird, I thought land and their water from the alps can be considered as natural resources?), so everything depends on imports. However, the Swiss have a much higher pay (though higher taxes as well but they have the pension scheme) they offer concessions (real concessions without time restrictions) to senior citizens, children and even young adults for certain places.

Their public service is really meant for the public unlike our so-called 'public' transport which has to make sure it makes profits every year. To the Swiss, public transport aren't supposed to be money making. Ok, the fees are higher as compared to our buses and MRT but I suppose it wouldn't take up a high proportion of their pay. Their cars are cheap here, yet I don't find any traffic jams here let alone ERP gantries. Yet when I take their public transport, I can still find a couple of seats even at peak hours. Have we reached the population threshold? Would we really reach to the day where in future, the moment we step out of our house, we'll hear the familiar ERP 'beeping' sound as quipped by my friend's hubby?

I foresee the work to promote parenthood would be on a herculean task...