「おくりびと」 予告編

Winner of 81st Academy Award, International Language Film.

Little. Big. Boy #1

Sometimes, it is the little things that your family says that makes you feel so touched and loved. R knows that I went to school today for my meeting with my supervisor. And judging from the way I was reading my notes the previous night, he knows that he better not disturb mommy. Today he asked me after school, "How's your day today, Mommy? How did it go?"

I was so touched by my little. big. boy. He is so old already, but to me, he is still my little boy. I think I am having some identity issues here haha!

P.S: The photograph is out of context here but I am trying to show that he is really quite a big boy now, his feet is like almost the size of mine, I recently realised!?!

Food for thought

Had craving for some Japanese Yakitori today so we headed to Shokudo at City Hall. It is like Marche, kind of like a food bazaar of everything Japanese. The food isn't that great but I like the flexibility of ordering what I like. And most importantly, this is one of the few places we don't have to queue or wait to get a seat. Good news for me, but not too good for them I guess. The waffles here are very nice, so I usually eat something light for my main and reserve tummy space for their waffles with ice cream.

On a second note, I suddenly have this feeling today that I am really going to miss the food here. I think about the Bak Ku Teh at Keppel, my all-time favourite chicken rice at Clementi (the same stall since I was young till now), Claypot Chicken Rice at Queensway and Chilli/ Pepper Crab and I know I will feel disgruntled somehow when we are in Sydney.

Please slap me if I drink again, thanks.

Okay, I am really stubborn, I admit it. I know I have an alcohol allergy since I was 18 years old (my first drink) and more than 10 years on, I still wish to defy that. This is what happens to me just 1 hour after my Lychee Liquour yesterday at Timbre. It was much worse, my whole hand was stiff and as if all my vessels are frozen. TS wanted me to go emergency. I got a tick off from him. It was like an elephant's limb yesterday, even had problems changing gears on my way back home. It subsided this morning though. And I noticed the symptoms seemed to have changed. It used to be rash all over and my fingernails would turn purple. But now, the symptoms are all confined to my left hand only. Okay, this is the last time, please slap me if I drink again. I will thank you.

Cheers @ Timbre Arts House

It was a girls' night out at Timbre Arts House, it is a very nice place to just chill, against the backdrop of Singapore's CBD skyline. The food here is surprisingly very good. I was pleasantly surprised cos most pubs serve really underrated food. Their drinks were great too, but I cannot say the same for the band that played yesterday. We missed those days (10 years ago) when we would go to Europa ANA hotel for drinks and the band then was fantastic. Dawn showed us a photo of the group of us 10 years ago, and look how far we have gone? So many changes to our lives, and well, our appearance too. Cheers to 2009 and to friendship...and to the next ten years!

Life is not all about "You"

I haven't blogged for a long time...been really busy catching up with work and completing my project that I was paid to do before I leave. As my boss puts it, "She can't go, till she finishes this!" Haha. Thank goodness it is joke. But seriously, I have like thousand and one things on my mind! The project, my publications, the moving, the clearing...

But this aside, I am looking forward to going to Aussie Land. Though a little uncertain about things, but well, life is all about uncertainty and how you unknot them, isn't it? My main goal is to "Find myself", I think at this point, I need to know who I am. Some people think I am mad to be still studying at this point, some think it is a great opportunity, but I know that a Phd without purpose is like a leaf that do not know the tree that it grows on. It is gog to be a long journey of self-identity...I know. Also, there are people in my life that I must not neglect in this process. With this mindset, I hope that I can get through this intact and sane! And at the end of the day, you can have gold and silver, paper and career, but what matters most is we are loved, and we love others.

Dawn: You might find that piece of object on Ryan's nose very familiar???