Category: Everyday Thots

Yesterday I found out that a friend’s mother has cancer and had just undergone a major operation. Reading her blog brought tears to my eyes. Her sadness, fear, love, and helplessness at her mom’s illness… her mother’s wondering if she would live to see her next birthday… her helping her mom trim her nails, wear […]

The other day Yinwei made a passing comment that has lingered in my mind. We were talking to Bea & Ivy about dramas, and she told them that the kind of heroines I like are all ‘one kind’ one… like Da Chang Jin, or Joo Yoo-Rin of My Girl that kind… women of intelligence and […]

I vividly remember my first crush back in 1987. I was 8 years old and my family had just relocated to London, Ontario for a year. I was the new kid in class, and the only Asian girl. As we were lining up to go back into the classroom after recess, the class bully who […]

On a lark, Zibin and I decided to watch The Forbidden Kingdom today. The trailers seemed to promise some decent entertainment, and we had been having too many “Jackie Chan vs Jet Li” debates to resist watching a film where they finally ‘face-off’ on screen. (Bet you can guess who I support right?) It was […]

If you recall, one of the perennial dualistic preferences hubby and I have (other than Mac vs PC) is Yoga vs Pilates. Well, I’d like to change my statement for the record: I now don’t have a preference between the two! In the last year and a half, I’ve focused almost exclusively on yoga, and […]

There’s nothing quite like starting a new day with some wonderful news. After being in suspense for 3 months ever since I got the first inkling that this was in the offing, I woke up today to the news that Wanting & Calvin are (finally! and officially!) engaged! CONGRATS!!!! I’m truly happy for them because […]

We touched down at 5:30a.m. this morning and arrived back home just in time to open our apartment’s windows to the first tendrils of dawn. Irresistibly, the upbeat melody of Good morning Baltimore (from Hairspray) played in my head… except I felt like singing, “Good morning Singapore!” The flight back was uneventful though it had […]

So I’ve been in New York practically a week now, and despite the interesting sights and sounds and the lovely time spent with family here, the thought that keeps recurring to me in my time here is: I miss Toronto. Heck, I miss Singapore too! New York is a great city. In fact, New York […]

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 […]