(reunion dinner at home)
(reunion lunch at the office)
You know, come to think of it, this is my 7th new year with my Parent company. It is scary to see how time flies. Seven years in a blink of an eye. I still have some of the clothings I wore that seven years ago, I still use them! And I still remember where I'd bought those clothes, the memory is so vivid it feels like last month. However, I don't quite recall the other years in between, year 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. That only goes to show that my mind retains the most impressionable of events or experiences. The rest may be faded memory. I try to be more mindful of everything, good thing I have kept a blog to lock my memories. Anyway, my sis' newly met boyfriend came over for dinner yesterday. Can you imagine I made three pots of soup base from pork ribs, scallops and prawns since morning. That was to make up for the loss of culinary skills for everything else. Because everything else was just pre-cooked, processed stuff for the steam boat. Only fresh items were fish, prawn, and veggies. Nevertheless, it was a reunion dinner and everyone was understanding. Francis, on a first impression seemed a little small built. His size is almost like Bren's so they're considered small built. But well, that's not too much of a concern as long as he's healthy. He has a nice sense of humour, we laughed quite a bit. He's same age as me but I feel older, he looks darn young for his age. His dress sense is ha ha, a tad bengish. Well, I need to get to know him more before I can comment further but overall, he feels fine. Could be more than fine. At least he showed up. So anyway, I hope to see more of him and get to know him more. Because I love my sister and would want to continue sharing our lives together so, it is important to me that she marries someone whom will facilitate us being together rather than someone whom might put distance between us. I've always maintained that marriage should give you more freedom than prior to marriage. Marriage should empower you to do the things you didn't do before. Anyway, this is just my own notion about marriage. So anyway, this new year we'll see a new face - Francis. And I'm eagerly looking forward to all the house visitings and goodies, and card playing, and jokes, and kids. And towing Rachael and Colin along will be so fun, everyone's asking for them.
A Jazz player entertaining us.
with an accompanying singer.
Jin came back for the Lunar New Year celebrations and managed to squeeze in a morning for us.
(reunion dinner at home)
(reunion lunch at the office)
When I saw this quote, I was puzzled. What's wrong with parallel universes?
Due to CNY nearing, the class is 3/4 its regular size.
She learns the word- "Tou" (Head) and the teacher guided them to make a mask.
Because the car has 5 more years to go and we've invested a huge sum of money to renew its COE, we've decided to have the car done well for its final 5 years. We treasure our old car.
Wow! (Not real!) It's a key chain that a manufacturer gave for Christmas.
Chendol reminds me of my dad as we used to share one rather often when I was young.
The first thing I did was to have our pantry's coffee and waffle biscuits.
Just look at the pile of paperwork. This is just one out of three.
My aunt came over to take measurements so that she could make an oriental dress for Kiki. She has leftover cloth from a cheongsum she made for my cousin and said not to waste the leftover.
Sunday mornings will never be the same again.... we now send Kiki to her Mandarin class at 930 in the morning. That means she has to wake up at 830 to bathe, drink milk, and snack if she can.
When her Yiyi wanted to buy her the letter "R", she said "C" for Didi Colin, one for Mama and one for Maricar. She thinks that everything is magically being paid for.
On a seperate occasion, she rattled on to choose one for herself, one for her Yiyi, one for me and one for Ah Mah. She specifies who gets what colour, mine was none other than my favourite colour. 
Only the Papa is confident using the cloth sling and he kept insisting we use it.
Showing off to me that using the sling is as easy as A,B,C. 
She took a snapshot of the father who was lying down watching yet another replay on "Tron"
Bren's Breakfast - Malay Mee Rubus.
My Lunch- A very oily bowl of Laksa..... all the fats! Gosh.
We went back to the shop to shave Colin's hair because he was shedding hair and it became patchy. Now I've realised why it is easier to just do it from the beginning.
