Passionless Collection - The Singapore Coin

Those are nicer words, I'm just a hoarder.

I've completed it!! The new series of Singapore coins, it is the 3rd design. And the theme this time? I suppose is popular Landmarks?

Pardon the poor photos, it is so damn hard to shoot them with the super shiny surfaces! Natural light cannot, superficial light also cannot! And most of all I don't have a macro lens.

Anyway this isn't a hard collection is it, there is only 5 of them and it is getting more and more common on the market, but I'm keeping this few because they are the first batch!

I read a blog before and the person is collecting the USA quarter? Because they had 50 different designs of the different states and each quarter was produced for about 10 weeks and will never be produced again.

Shiok, I would have gone collecting if I lived in the states. And the blogger said she did it for years.

Compare to hers, my 3 series isn't that hard, I did mine for a few days? in total, I wasn't on constant look out of them.

The comparison of the old and young, the 1st series is really huge! Look at the 50¢!

The Crest

And the designs

The 1st series was published in 1967, and the theme was marine.

The 2nd series starts in 1985, with floral designs.

They planned for the 2nd series to cease in 2017, that is 4 years, but I remember using those 1st coins very frequently when I was a kid, had a full piggy bank of them, but deposited when that pig was killed.

I have 2 sets of the floral series is because the crest had changed! Actually, that crest had been modified and used every where.

I wanted to keep all the older crest with 1985, but I couldn't find the one for $1, so I gave up. Later I realised that was because the Aluminium Bronze coin was publish only 2 years later. I didn't went back looking for them because, most of them are defaced like the one above.

The 1¢ coin was a fright, it mysteriously went missing! It have ceased production and almost nobody uses it already, it is so hard to look for it now, but luckily, my family is quite a hoarder too, mummy went digging and presented me a bag of them, and I took the chance and picked 2 of them. Haha, told you it is a passionless collection.

Had this book for the longest time, took it out and flipped.

Wahahaha, I have all of them! There is a limited edition of the 5¢, with a fish instead, I think I saw that when I got these but did not keep it, thinking it is not SG currency.

When I flipped to the next page, to my horror...

Up there at the top of the page is $1! I never know that there is a $1 coin for that series!

Actually most of the collection came from the belongings of a few elders who had left, especially the 1¢ of the first series. I had gone through all the coins but NEVER seen that before.

I took that book out and ask mummy if she had it and her reply was, "I saw it, but never had it before. And I didn't remember it until now." 

!!! She also thought the biggest denomination was 50¢!

She went on to ask, "You got collect these? I also have some."

Then she went to dig in her "dowry" drawer and presented me a pile of things.

Together with this

My eyes almost popped out when I open it.

It is a complete set! The Stylised Lion is sitting right in the middle PROUD, I felt the same when I saw it. Haha

When I told mum that she had a full collection and the $1 is there, she looked and say, "Oh, so this is where I saw the $1?"

I know I didn't inherited super memory from her right away.

Let's take a closer look of the extincted lion.

Later I read that the $1 wasn't commonly circulated (?), most of them are from these collective sets. But I see people selling like a whole stack of them online. *shrugs*

Below are the notes, most of them left behind by the elders.

The Orchids

It is the first of our Singapore Notes. None of them was collected on my own, the $500 and $1000 is from mummy which is why they are so wavy. The most special item here would be the $25, and sadly, I did not have it.

The Birds

I had the $1 and $10, others are the elders'.

The Ships

This was being circulated when I was a kid until 1999 the current one take over. There are 2 versions of the $2, the orange was later replaced by the purple.

Notice there is no $5 within them..... God, if I'm a real collector, I would have knocked my head against the wall already!

With all these super bad experience, I should put aside some of the Portrait series already, got 2 texture some more! The normal paper and the plastics.

Here are some specials,

 
Commemorative Notes

The $50 is actually from the Ship series, it is plastics, and the first I think.

Singapore Brunei 

This was publish about 10 years ago? SG and Brunei have this currency interchangeability agreement, in which both countries accepts each others currency.

Malaysia was with this at first but withdrawn.

millennium note

Actually I just found out about this. I was given by an uncle in the market some many years ago and he told me that this note is special, can keep it. The reason he gave was the ending number is triple 7, but it is actually the logo in front.

It is a 2000 logo which replaced the normal prefix, released in the year 2000.


So that's was about the SG currency.

Here are some BEFORE we have our own notes and coins.

The British Colony time!

Of course I didn't get them myself, they are from the elders.

Almost polish flat coins

There are some variations to the coins of the same denominations!

Straits Settlement, Malaya British, King George, King George and India Emperor and Queen Elizabeth. I don't know if they are the same.

When I see that 50¢, the term 五十大洋 came to my mind. Like those Hong Kong period dramas.

五十大洋 is always the price that they can't pay. Now I can throw it at them and ask them to stop crying already.

Well, I don't know what is this, but I saw similarities in those I saw in History textbook!

Like from some Ancient Civilisations, the Mayans or the Indians, Asoka? Can't remember the names, but no harm keeping one more. Next time do coin tracing also is fun.

I'm not a collector, it just happened that these came into my path and kept them for fun. Would I buy those I missed out like the $25? Nah, I would only want to exchange for the same price only, some of these were gotten by exchanging with the cash register last time.

Maybe leave it to my off springs.

What is your ideal photo composition?

Usually, how would you like your photo to be taken?

Because I am pretty hurt recently when people don't like the photos I took for them, strangers, tourists.

 I would like to know am I artist or are they... lousy.

Let say you have a scene like this, wow vast land pretty mountain and sure you want EVERYTHING to be in.

But life is not so smooth sailing every time and you won't be getting what you want.

So we have a restricted frame here. It's your minimum zoom, you can't move your feet either.

And here are your additional subjects, neither can they move further anymore.

So how would you compose your photo?

a. Take the maximum landscape, crop the humans.

b. Maximum human and heck the scenery that cost your $1000s for air tickets.


My practice is A, simply because I won't be seeing this view anytime soon and that is the more valuable subject. And the additional subjects are just monkeys that make the scene more interesting and I probably will be seeing them like next day, next next day and the rest of my life.

But I have people telling me that they want the full body crop!

They rather have their old dirty shoes then to have more scene, unless you are telling me that you going to Photoshop a completely new version with the 2 pictures, I have nothing to say.

Am I weird? Or it's the rest of the people?

Needs some bonding at The Group Therapy Cafe

Having Salads on The Lawn

Trying Hard!

I'm trying hard to churn out posts asap!

I heard my fans out there crying, I totally feel what it is like to see entertaining blogs went dead.

But the truth is, it is a lot more easier to post Felise's photo on FB and add a caption on it, because she won't feedback telling people that none of them is true! It's really fun captioning all those mindless words.

Though I really want to capture her sleeping but mummy won't allow, all the pantang stuff. But it is really better to be safe then sorry.

OK, back to work, back to work!

Boring...

I just hope that everytime I visit this page it will update on its own.

No chance I guess. Need to find back my time.

And de niece is entertaining my after slog hours, love it, but she is getting harder to handle.


Kids, 学好三年，学坏三天。


Even my mum is finding it hard to calm her unreasonable screaming for MILK, thats all she want everytime she start the craze. It's gona be a hard one.

Exams is just around a corner now, till then be safe and play on my behalf.

MUCHIE LOVES

Let me grunt a little

You enjoyed the previous posts so let me pour my hearts out a little.

It's the first week of difference and lots to get use to.

Got the taste of being a true OL, it's a lot of discomfort.

Outfits 衣
Previously, there is no dress code, it's jeans, shorts, tees and any shoe (wore my birks every lazy day) all day. Now, it's formal Monday to Thursday, and it sucks! The clothes aren't convenient for big actions, and keeps hearing thread crack every now and then. Not to mention about those deadly shoes.

It's dress down today, I am hereby declaring I love sneakers, I love Converse!

Seriously, what is the use of formal wear when everyone slip on sweaters and flip flop once in the office? Can't we just have them standby and put them on when there is a need?

And! The traffic today is significantly smoother! Lots of dress down today, and the crowd moves faster. Like amazing! Or is it because more people took MC?

Food suck 食
Costly and tasteless. Back then we don't have much choice, at least it is delicious. Throwing leftovers also not so difficult with the price. 

Right beside Lau Pat Sat, I hate going there for lunch seriously.

Entertainment 乐  
At the previous Coy it is entertainment none stop, I mean at least we can listen to music, openly or discreetly, we can surf YouTube shhhhhhh..... And we joke out loud, that was cosy.

Now, people hardly talk unless it's business, nobody plug on earphones at all!

1st grade sleep induce environment.

We use to leave on the dot, right smack 5.30 we are out of the door. Over here, people are here early, and doesn't leave until later.

Transport 行
Oh god, and the public transport crowd grows madder every minute. I used to be able to sleep on the bus for about 45 min. Now, I can sit for 1 stop is a blessing already, imagine the shoe.

Load 量
Work? Work only grows, like your age, until they decide to distribute it. So no comment on that, but need time for that new system.

Welfare 福
But there are ups here, more establish means more welfare. Like today, they have these family time thing and we are off 1.5 hr earlier!! Wahaha, they said it is a periodic thing, I hope I didn't get it wrong.

The traffic at it's best now I'm sitting down typing on ma phone on the train! I think I will really be changing my work time to 8-5 to curb the frantic crowd. I hope the free transport bill doesn't go through now!

And they have F&B and Hotel @ staff rates! Secretly smiling when the HR did the briefing.

For now, everything seems good, except that my colleagues aren't gossiping, doesn't walk for lunch again, supervisors are all work but not demanding yet, but there is a turnover wave now in all departments. Should call my ex-colleagues to try out then we can go gossipping again.. WAHAHAHHA.

And there are no bitch that I can go crazy with, kinda like can't find traits of my friends on my colleagues EVER.

By now I have reached home and the first thought is:

I MISS REACHING HOME BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN! And I can have a little break before going maniac with the dramas and all.

I should really submit the forms.....

OK! I try to update more works of GX1, especially the one that I freeload on. Till then.