Category: Everyday Thots

Just like that, I’m back in my old room again. It never fails to amaze me how within a short 24hrs I can be in my other home half the globe away, where everything is so different and yet familiar. Mom, Dad and John were all at the airport to pick me up. John didn’t […]

An Alien’s Problem Seems recently I’ve been having some bad luck with travel… last night at the Pearson Airport, I briefly feared I would not be able to leave. See, apparently Singapore has an immigration law that prohibits aliens/foreigners (i.e. ME) from entering the country without a confirmed return air-ticket or an onward air-ticket. Since […]

I was drenched from knee down earlier when for a brief spate Toronto had some real rain. I stepped out from the church and I was greeted by sleets of water! Second time rain has made me laugh in the last month. Something about stepping in puddles and having the rain pounding down on me […]

Met Tingfang for brunch earlier today (thanks for the great suggestion, Tingfang!). It was raining steadily, but that didn’t deter enthusiastic brunchers from lining up in the rain with their umbrellas. That’s an indication of how popular Cora’s is. :) The food was hearty and tasty, and the place was very colourful and cheerful, as […]

Noise Yuandong’s back in Toronto. And the noise level at home has definitely increased. Makes me think of how John’s been saying that he looks forward to me returning home and ‘increasing the surrounding noise level by a few decibels’. I egg him on, just like Yuandong eggs Wanting on. Wanting was so happy about […]

Today, one of my dearest friends turns 27. Didn’t seem that long ago when I first knew of her. She was in a different class from me in Sec 1 & 2, but in Sec 2, she was one of the PUN (Prefect Understudy Nominee) level representatives. I hardly talked to her then. She was […]

Issue #1: Aches & Pain Had a conversation yesterday that reminded me of the time I went through an ergonomic phase. Before John left me his PC, I used my laptop all the time. In my final undergrad year, I started having more chronic muscle tension in my neck, shoulder and back. So I decided […]

No pictures. No names. Because apparently, I had given my word to hold my peace…*heh* I received 100 teabags today. This is the second time in my life that I’ve received so much tea at one go as a gift. The last time was in January 1999 when Zibin bought me 5 boxes (of 25 […]