I am so proud of her. A rather odd statement since it's usually said the other way round. But this is the exact sentiment that's making my heart swell.
My mum is a traditional person. She never imagined in a million years that her only child would not be by her side or at least on the same island. And I never imagined in a million years that she would be alright alone. With no one, not even my dad, by her side on Mother's Day. I felt such pangs of sadness when I called home to wish her a Happy Mother's Day. Even more so when she told me she was making a simple dinner of soup and watching TV on a day when we should be celebrating together. Yet, she was so filled with joy at my call I could hear it miles across the oceans. It broke my heart and made me smile at the same time.
She worried about me when I was young but the tables have turned now. I often wonder what would happen if she did not have a job to occupy her time. She has little friends and didn't relish travelling by herself. But she is stronger than I expected. When she was told to stop work for 6 months, she strolled around the neighbourhood, cleaned the house from top to bottom and to my great surprise, found a part time job. It paid peanuts but it made her happy to be busy. Consequently it made me happy too.
I'm glad we have gotten to this point together. I miss you and Happy Mother's Day.
I'm thinking "You are in love." and a little smile flitted across my face. My second thought "You are hot!". Choices are good. Confidence boosters like you always say.
Heart you. Sorry, I'm still being a tortoise. Oops. I mean turtle.
All parents know that there comes a time where your kid wants to pick out his own outfits. But what if his selections include striped bow ties, crushed velvet jackets, madras pants, ascots and a fez. Unusual certainly but 8 year old Arlo Weiner pulls them off with stylish aplomb. If you were his parents, will you be more horrified that your kids dresses like another era or that he has more stylish genes than you?
When Arlo turned 3, he asked for a top hat. How many 3 year olds even know what that is?? He's been unstoppable ever since. Arlo loves argyle, plaids, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. He even wears a fedora to school like Sinatra. And his clashing patterns and colours are not trial and error.
Here, Arlo clearly explains his fashion choices like a pro stylist.
What a precocious kid. Pretty face and impeccable dress sense, mark my words, he's going to be big. If I were his mum, I would raid his wardrobe. Shame on me.
I first saw this 3D apple puzzle on Adeline's blog and asked her to let me have a go when I'm back in Singapore. She said okay and weeks later,
I received the puzzle in my mail!!! (I'm going to be all ang moh here) Thanks sweetie, for remembering, buying and sending this to me!! Muack muacks!
Each tray holds pieces needed to fix up half an apple.
Tearing out the little crystal bits before piecing them together.
Ta Da! Don't look down on this little apple. It took me 40mins to fix!!!
I have an irrational fear that the longer I am away from home, the further I will be from my friends' lives. And as time passes, the friendship becomes diluted and I am all alone here.
I do hear about happenings and blogs are the wonderful thing cos I get to see my friends' pictures too! And some I have gotten to know better through their blogs. But I also think not physically doing things together takes away some bonding experience. I just hope that with more effort to keep in touch, we will all still be as close to each other when we meet up.
Recently I was upset about some happenings. I left a comment on MSN and next day, I got an e-card from X. Another time, I got a mail from J. Then today, a few of my best girlfriends (you know who you are!) offered to help me get my fairytale wedding gown. I am so touched by all of you! I am so so so touched you care enough about me to send me a message or think up a beyond-any-words gift idea like that!
Thank you thank you thank you!
I heart all of you!
The wedding gift that Xin 辛辛苦苦 hand carried from Singapore. Thank you babes!
Each individual components like the figures, numbers, car and balloons were personally selected by the girls then assembled.
The license plate is our wedding date! So cute right? 4 beads dropped off in the long journey. And just as I was gluing them back, the remaining 2 also dropped off. -_- All fixed now.
See how my friends chose 春 丽 to represent me and a brown hair boy for Kelly. Though brown hair boy can also be ah bengs. But I'm sure ah bengs don't wear cardigans. Then again, neither does Kelly.
Initially I wanted to use this as my wedding cake topper. But we decided not to have a traditional wedding cake so I am still trying to figure out how to incorporate this into the wedding.
Friday, is when my dearies/online pals go home for the weekend. But Friday in Singapore is Thursday in US. Fortunately Thursday, is when K comes home. So I have someone by my side.
How lucky am I.
but i still miss you all live.
I love love love my dearies in Singapore!
Kaylor, Laura, Lea & Rachel, thanks for the beautiful purple bouquet and sexy lingerie
(it took me 2 weeks to figure out this was from you all) ! ;) Muuuacks!
These match the colour of my wedding nails perfectly. Too bad they arrived way after. :)
For Snowrach
Notice it's all yellow?
I bought the one piece from celebrity store, Kitson. That was before I knew the baby's gender so chose the most neutral and pleasing colour - yellow. Isn't the wording cute? Hope snowrach's xiao guai guai will be a good baby and sleep well through the night. ;)
Much much later, I decided to buy California Baby diaper cream and lotion because I have heard so much about it. Supposedly it is the most gentle and effective for babies' sensitive skin.
Lastly I rounded up my purchase with a little chick bag and a furry yellow duckie card.
Voila! It's now a set.
I fully recover lor! Tested the floodgates with crab and shrimp curry yesterday and they held up! I can't wait to see the Christmas pictures. ;)
It's no fun to kena food poisoning the day before New Year's Eve. My stomach was still churning on Eve but K and I went down to Hollywood anyway. The streets were sooooooooo quiet! Where's everyone?! We walked for 1 hour and only saw 1 club with a queue. Disappointing! We go too early liao.
We walked for a bit more. Still no sign of people, so we decide to head home. On our way to the parking lot, we got sidetrack by a cinema and caught
Juno, a movie about a 16 year old who got pregnant. It's not as serious as it sounds lah. In fact, movie was fun and light-hearted. We like it a lot. Go catch it when it's in Singapore!
I miss all my friends back in Singapore. I felt so lonely without the usual big group and being out drinking. I will make up for it in 2009!
Happy 2008 peeps!
dears, thanks for your caring comments. After the horrible experience, I went straight home and slept from 2pm to 12midnight. Sleep, wake up, forget everything loh!
So fast one week already. This Christmas week has been very relaxing and fun. I got so much to tell you but I've been a bit lazy. Will post all the highlights soon. I got no plans for New Year yet. Since past years' celebrations have been really quiet, I am hoping to hit a club here and party like mad. I got to watch the alcohol tho'. Contrary to expectations, alcohol is not cheap here but the bartenders are generous. I KO after 3 drinks.
What are your plans for New Year? Me is so happy I got to celebrate Christmas in Singapore before leaving. The Verigy gals met up at Outback Steakhouse to exchange happenings, gossip and happy news. No pics there. The next day, I met up with another group of Verigy peeps at Brewerkz and we can always count on Simon for pictures! Time for gift exchange! Here's us holding up the gifts we bought.
I got Simon coal. Not the big black kind for barbeque. This one is called Ecoal, sold at Takashimaya. You can put in cars, cabinets, wardrobe, shoe racks ... to remove bad odours. Somemore they come in cute packaging like dinosaurs, stars and simple colourful sachets. I got the Christmas packaging that spells 'Peace', 'Joy' and 'Love'!
Simon said that air purifiers in cars spray perfume to mask bad smells and doesn't remove them. But the coal does so he's been meaning to get them for a long time. Yay, Simon likes his gift!
That is for me right?
Happy faces all round.
There was a mix-up and I ended up with 2 gifts! Taan tio!
Pat gave me a necklace with four leaf clover necklace for good luck. Yes, four leaf clovers do exist! Lea got me a nice silver chain with pink details. I like I like. :) Thank you!
Hope all of you had a great Christmas in Singapore and have a blast at New Year!!!
min & xin: I really really can't wait to catch up with you!!!
Su: dunno what has been going on with you. i hope you are still enjoying your job and that things are good with hyder.
Dai Lo, Yee Lo, Sam Gor: We really really really should meet soon. Sorry I couldn't join in for Guildhouse. and even more sorrys that i can't join you guys for Christmas! This is like the first Christmas in 3 years that I can't join in. But I know I can rely on Zebby's camera to capture all the heartwarming/scandalous moments!
Rach: Enjoying your days of being a 'housewife'?
Lin & Lea: I am so glad we managed to catch up even if it was very brief!
Kay & Boon: I dunno what's going on with you all right now but hope things are well... I should write to you all soon...
Faith: I wanna catch that girl before she gets busier and busier as it gets nearer and nearer to Christmas!
dai lo,
thanks for texting to make sure i am ok from the swimming experience. haha, i like your comment about seeing girls bounce. *giggles*
mok, i never got a reply from Sinda. not sure what happened to the indian guy. in any case, thanks for sharing with my friends what you call me. :p
welcome to the world kiddo! I am glad your parents settled on your name before you arrived. They took a long long time you know. I can't wait to see you soon. Hope you aren't giving your mommy a hard time. Let her get some rest ya? *hugs*
Hmm.. I have to find out if you are my godson. Gosh, you will be my first! *beams*
Thanks for checking in. Really really appreciate that. *Big Hug*
That day, a major part of it was PMS talking and problems at home. I am ok now.
It's great having you around. Though around here means we are in the same country! So I can visit you, go tour together, chat, ask for cooking advice and to convert a Wordpad document to MS Word. It may be all little little things but seriously, having you makes it so much better!
