Bkk-what an amazing break for me, too. Thank 1st-baby and lingpie again for being such wonderful travelling companions ( Read more... )

Did i tell you my father started to volunteer at Hougang grassroot? So now every Tues, he would be down at the community center doing the works. That's the reason why I tried to be home early to have dinner with my mom otherwise she would have to eat alone. Part of what the volunteers do include distributing money to needy families living in ( Read more... )

Sorry for taking such a long break .. well, I am back. Hee ( Read more... )

while i generally love it in sg but my nose certainly doesnt. Why else would I wake up in such a ghastly early hours on a NON-WORKING day to blog. Nose is so not accustomed to the elementsz here. Cold, night temperature, aircon, fatigue, dust etc can affect it. If anyone know the cure, pls share with me. I m very open-minded and willing to give any ( Read more... )

just finished colouring my hair-DIY. Stained my t-shirt and towel again. shucks. But the red really comes out quite strong. So I m quite happy with the outcome. The other day I went to try out eyebrow threading. It's an ancient practice originated in India /Middle East, where women uses cotton thread to pull out hairs from the follicles. I thot the ( Read more... )

recently, i have developed a strong love for flat, covered, "ballerina" styled shoes and junked all my heeled, opened-toe sandals. See, now there's lot more walking along suburban concrete pathways than the swanky sheltered walkways of town. So flat shoes make more sense than high heeels now, especially when the weather gets rainy (like this ( Read more... )

this week, i have been taking really long lunches with my colleagues.. in a weird way, it's kinda nice... though, in my team, everybody seems to lunch at their desk, including my boss, so that kinda makes me stick like a sore thumb. But well, interaction is good yeah ( Read more... )

i ate non-stop rubbish today, cheezels, coke, chrysantheman tea, chicken rice, bak tong gou, rojak and now i crave durians... this is not a good sign..

i smsed juat today... we are thinking of taking up facial classes together... hmmm.. if i do well, maybe i can quit my day job...

today I am struck by the realisation again that I am in a different place. I can almost imagine how Shin must have felt now living in a different country/culture. Just in the very recent past, I was so comfortably anchoring myself or my existence on the familarity of my old company, job scope, colleagues, clients and work partners and lunches at ( Read more... )

It's month-end again. Time to organise the monthly finances, as always. Last Saturday's sermon was actually very timely- the paster preached about the importance of managing our finance well. One of the mantra is to be debt-free ( Read more... )