Category: Everyday Thots

For a while now I’ve been smiling at my neighbours without talking to them. You see, my kitchen window looks into their kitchen window, and we can often see each other cooking and cleaning, but we don’t talk because that would require shouting. Every now and then when I’m at the sink, I’d look up […]

Many, many years ago, my little friend Yinwei and I bought ourselves a pair of Mickey & Minnie journals to write each other in. We would pen down our thoughts, make silly (sometimes very nice) drawings, wrote stories, gossiped, poured out our hearts… all within the confines of its cartoony covers. We’d exchange journals and […]

Am going off to Jakarta for the weekend to celebrate my grandmother’s 80th birthday. It should be fun cos it’s the whole family going together this time. John hasn’t been there in years. It will be Cathy’s first visit to my relatives’ homes in Indonesia, and it will be both Zibin and Cathy’s first time […]

Today was my much awaited ‘Bread Date’ with Jing Jing. Simply Bread was a bread haven that Mary-Ann told me about during our JC days. Back in those days it was just a small little bakery bursting with delightful bread creations. We used to go there on our way home from Hwa Chong and load […]

Last night I dreamt that I was visiting Toronto. I dreamt that all my Toronto friends met up with me and we went out to eat and had a great time together. I must be missing Toronto more than I realize… I’ve been uninspired food-wise in Singapore. Whenever Zibin and I are meeting up with […]

I tried Hot (Bikram) Yoga for the first time at Pure Yoga yesterday. I have to say, I didn’t care very much for it. 25-30 extremely sweaty bodies cramped in a sauna-like room with perspiration beads being dripped and flung about… and with so little space in between yoga mats that I couldn’t even do […]

One of our new electronic acquisitions for the matrimonial home. It all started when Zibin said he needed an alarm clock. But then, as Chandler and Joey would put it, “we took it to the NEXT LEVEL”. And so now we’ve got an alarm clock, radio and iPod speaker system and charger in one. You […]

Who would have thought I’d listen to PM Lee deliver his National Day Rally speech with rapt attention for the entire 2 hours without getting out of my seat even once? Who would have thought that listening to his speech about ‘leveling up’ education and about Singapore’s future, I’d be moved till my eyes were […]