Today is my day off. There are a million things that I need to do before the family leaves for our vacation in 2 weeks, one of which is selecting pictures for a scrapbook that the mums in Natalie's ballet class want to do for our beloved teacher who is retiring soon. (it wasn't my idea to do the scrapbook, but by default the job fell to me, since ( Read more... )

Today is National Day, and beneath the general sense of relief that yes, another public holiday has arrived, lies the more perplexing question of what has become of my Singapore, my home, and whether in another 5 years I will even recognize it for what it has become.  Already, it has changed so much in the past 5 years alone.  I look back to the ( Read more... )

I don't know if any of you have ever come across this on youtube -- I certainly hadn't until a colleague sent it to me earlier this week.

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Go ahead, have a listen, it's a blast, truly!! :)

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I had an awesome birthday ( Read more... )

We are recovering ( Read more... )

Natalie is sick.
Christopher is sick.
Hubby is sick.
I am sick.

Sigh.