Just like that, my month in Toronto is over. Though now it seems like the time here was short, I never felt that the time passed quickly. Every day was filled with all the little things that make Toronto a special place to me. I walked and walked and WALKED… almost every day! I had […]
Author: Ann Yeong
My Toronto Family
Ting & Sa Sa treated me and ZB to dinner at Sambuca Grill today. Ooh, and we got ourselves matching ribbon pendants too. Ting went to buy them after work and we all put them on at dinner (with ZB bemusedly looking on, half-afraid that we’d give him one to put on as well :P). […]
Opera once more
Almost a year ago, I watched my first opera. This time around, I went to watch what’s supposedly Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera Eugene Onegin. I have never read the Russian classic novel by Aleksandr Pushkin before, and neither have I watched the 1999 film adaptation starring Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler. I suspect I might […]
Erhu at Eaton
An elderly Chinese basker with his erhu There was something about this elderly basker playing his er-hu with an ever solemn face that caught my whim. The first time I was walking briskly past and I couldn’t help thinking, “wow, that should make a great photo…” There was something silent about the picture even though […]
My Toronto Gang
My Toronto Gang (who are still in Toronto!) The original OPL ‘Bathrobe’ Sorority Sisters We celebrated Jing Jing & Wanting’s birthdays today with our own hot-pot special! Though the Toronto Gang has shrunken a lot since a couple of years ago, it was still wonderful. Maybe it’s because this group of friends are younger… maybe […]
'Unfashionable doctrine'
From Sacred Space this week: Jesus told us, ‘When you do good, your right hand should not know what your left hand is doing.’ That is almost a description of a mother changing nappies. Her routine is such that her right hand barely knows what her left hand is doing as she skilfully and rapidly […]
Remembering Heath
When Heath Ledger passed away earlier this year, I was saddened and shocked. He was a brilliant young actor who had so much to live for. And he was only my age. I came across this video clip of the first movie I ever saw Heath Ledger in: 10 Things I Hate About You. It […]
Proud of you
The thing about my brother is that he is a dreamer. All through his schooling years right up to university, his heart had always been somewhere other than on the books he had to study. He used to dream about being a professional soccer player, but of course, my parents didn’t support that idea. (I […]
What if I had wavy hair?
I went to get a haircut in Koreantown today. The pretty hairdresser lady said to me before she was going to dry my hair, “Your hair…straight. Today make curly, ok?” I thought, why the heck not? Let’s live a little! So she used the flat-iron to curl my hair… and ta-da! ha ha ha… what […]
我很快ä¹
Jing Jing shared with me another great blog entry by Taiwanese celebrity blogger lilyqueen titled “妳è¦å¿«æ¨‚”. Reading it, I almost felt like I was reading my own reflections in Mandarin. (it’s spooky, this isn’t the first entry I felt this way about… and the blogger is just a month older than me.) Happiness, they say, […]
Journey of the Heart 