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 […]
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My first Idol
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 […]
Sweating it out
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 […]
Meant to be
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 […]
Good morning Singapore
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 […]
Big Apple Week
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 […]
Till the next time!
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 […]
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 […]
Journey of the Heart 