Happy Place, Happy Space

In better times, the Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza was a popular venue for events & fairs. Seldom did a weekend pass without something going on: product launches, company events, seasonal fairs. Since the pandemic struck, this space has been quiet.
My most memorable recollection is bringing the children when they were young to watch the Lion Dance Competitions. One year, we had a meal in one of the restaurants overlooking the civic plaza for a bird’s eye view of the exciting & colourful proceedings.
On this particular morning, the civic plaza was deserted, so we stopped to visit with the Lions, who are usually rather engaged with people taking selfies despite the Covid gloom.


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I enjoyed a quiet 54th birthday tea at home with Loving Husband, NimbleFingered Older Child & BakingFiend Younger Child.
We got a selection of mini cakes from our favourite celebration bakery: Dolcetto. And just to complete the set, BakingFiend devised a Peanut Butter & Raspberry Jam Brookie (brownie+cookie), pictured on the extreme left.
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Reading your Joyful Posts brings me to my happy place. I hope having them in one place makes it easier for you to find when you need a bit of happy therapy, too.
If you would like to join in, ping back to this post and I will include you next week.
- Antoinette Truglio Martin’s September in Florida: flies to Ft Pierce, FL to celebrate a family wedding
- Carol Ann Siciliano‘s Delights: surfs the waves
- Debβs Worldβs Sharing some love: shares her 1st 8 days of September in images
- Gary Wilson’s A Manic Mannequin Memory: relates a funny story involving a mannequin
- Heavens Sunshine‘s Sunrise on the Prairie: shares a stunning sunrise on Mnoke Prairie (Indiana Dunes National Park)
- Julie at Eat, Play Live‘s I stopped counting the years and count my experiences: celebrates a birthday. Happy birthday Julie!
- Laurie Grave‘s A Tale of Two Gardens & A Short Break: walks us through her front & back gardens as fall rolls around; she also celebrates a birthday later this month – happy birthday Laurie!
- Little Pieces of Me‘s Grateful Fridays: enjoys dog therapy
- Natalie the Explorerβs Going Back to School: visits the University of Toronto
- Reflections of an Untidy Mind‘s Soft Voices: presents a Shelley poem and Mozart clarinet concerto pairing
- Thistles and KiwisβThis Weekβs Small Pleasures: takes pleasure in walks & good food despite the lockdown
- Trent’s World‘s The Weekly Smile: enjoys a week with his parents at Cape Cod
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Notes:
- Feature photo is a Lion’s view of Harmony, twin sculptures at the pedestrian end of Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza.
- This post is my contribution to
- Weekend Sky hosted by Hammad Rais
- Photographing Public Art Challenge hosted by Marsha at AlwaysWrite & Cee at CeesPhotoChallenges
Quite a belated wish to you from my side.
Hope you and your amazing husband are doing okay π
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Happy birthday! The mini cakes look so cute!
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Appreciate the well-wishes, Julie! There are adorable, aren’t they? And certainly more manageable portions for just us.
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Happy Birthday. I LOVE the lions and I’m so happy to see you were able to celebrate, even in pandemic times.
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Thank you so much for the well-wishes Natalie! They are funny sculptures/statues (I always never know which I should categorise them under), aren’t they?
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I love the descriptions you use for your family members! π And, my goodness, those pastries look amazing. Your baking fiend daughter should apprentice there. Probably wouldn’t be long before she was a full-fledged top baker like that!
Yes, I spotted the lion differences, only after you pointed out that they existed. π Nice work with the little lions for partitions between stories!
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Happy Birthday, Ju-Lyn. The lions are celebratory, as are the lovely cakes. And I love the code names you’ve given your two children. Always a pleasure to read (and thanks for the link to my surfing delight!).
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Appreciate very much the well-wishes, Carol Ann! And I am very pleased you enjoyed a peek at the lions and at my birthday goodies!
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Lovely to read how you enjoyed your birthday, and the cakes look good!
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Thank you for celebrating right along with me!
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Wishing you a very happy (belated) birthday!
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Thanks ever so much Donna!
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Ju-Lyn, Those mini cakes look so good. I hope you had a happy birthday. Great image comparison of the lions. The male lion rests one paw on a ball and the female lion rests one paw on a lion cub. Thank you for the mention.
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I did have a quiet, relaxing birthday.
Good on you – you noticed the difference!
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Such terrific a terrific lion structure. I’m glad you to some time for selfies. Happy Birthday!
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Appreciate the well-wishes, Cee!
It was good fun to get those selfies!
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A belated Happy Birthday, Ju-Lyn
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Thanks very much Sue!
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Hope it was a good one!
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Is this also at Orchard Road? Am familiar with Ngee Ann City (as that’s where Taka is), but not the civic center.
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This is the Taka building – the Civic Plaza is just what they call the atrium space in front of it.
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Oh, I see. Thank you for the clarification!
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Happy belated birthday! Those mini cakes look amazing. I do see the difference in the lions.
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Thank you for the well-wishes! Those lions are cute, right?
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You’re welcome and the lions are really cute.
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Happy birthday, Ju-Lyn.
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Thanks so much Tracy!
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Those little cakes look lovely and hope you had a happy birthday!
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I did, thank you so much for the well-wishes!
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Even though I am officially on a break from blogging, I had to stop by to wish you a very happy birthday!
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