Keeping Fit in Retirement

Since my retirement from full-time employment in January this year, I still wake up at 6.00 in the morning.
Instead of driving to work, trying to beat the traffic jams to and back from work, I have been enjoying my morning pleasures of walking in the nearby park. Or just go cycling around the residential garden.
Its so refreshing seeing so many people, the young and elderly, taking their morning exercises in the Park.
This is an activity I seldom have the opportunity of enjoying on a regular basis.
Now I am able to to maintain my "Keep Fit" programme at least 3 to 4 times a week.

Time, however, is an elusive commodity.
I seem to feel that time just passes by so quickly each day.
An hour or two of morning "Keep Fit" programme, followed by breakfast and catching up with the news on my iPad, its already almost mid-day and ready for lunch.
How time can easily pass by.

In keeping myself active and occupied, I still do some 'free-lance" consultancies.
Without proper planning for the day, I could easily be distracted by other activities.
Anyway, with organised discipline, each day has been well-spent!

 Scenic View of the Lake 

 Its a pleasure to enjoy the morning freshness

The young and the old enjoying a good workout

 Taking time to watch the pigeons

Such great pleasure to just watch these beautiful birds

 Some running, some walking and others having quality time strolling with their chidlren

 Its a pleasure to be with nature

Becoming Grandparents

On the 2nd of October 2012, my wife and I took a trip to Singapore.
We have been to Singapore quite often to visit our eldest daughter who is working and married there.
This trip was not like all the others.
Of course the other memorable trip was last year when we went for our daughter's wedding.
This trip was going to be the most memorable and important one for both of us.
We are going to be first time grandparents.
Our daughter was going to deliver her first child!

We boarded our bus at 8.00 am for the journey to Singapore.
Our daughter was admitted at 6.30 am to the National University Hospital (NUH), Kent Ridge, Singapore.
Can just imagine how anxious, nervous and at the same time excited the two old folks were during the bus journey which was going to take 5 hours or more.
We were both praying silently for the well-being of both our daughter and her child.

At 9.30 am, we received the good news from our son-in-law that he is the proud father of a healthy boy.
We became grand parents on 2nd October 2012.
Our first grandson! We kept looking and admiring the photos of our first grandson which were sent to my iPhone.
Both mother and child are fine and in the good care of a professor from NUH.
Our feelings were so great and relieved that every moment for our daughter and her son went well.
We thanked the Almighty for his blessings.

We just could not wait to be there to see our grandson.
The journey continued on as if too slowly.
We finally arrived safely on time.
We checked into our hotel and immediately took a cab to NUH.
We were emotionally overwhelmed to see for the first time our oh-so-cute grandson.
And our daughter and son-in-law were brimming with happiness to be first-time parents!
Later when our daughter's in-laws and family came, we were congratulating each other as it is also their first grandson (though they are already blessed with two grand-daughters).

We stayed on in Singapore for four nights, with daily visits to see our daughter and her son until they were discharged on the fourth day.
We are receiving photos of our grandson almost daily.

Oh-so-Cute

 Proud Parents

 Proud Grand Parents