I was at Kuantan over the long weekend. One evening, we took a walk along the beach near the hotel. At one end of the beach, they had a boardwalk, where visitors can take a nice stroll along the 'cliff' and to take a look at the monkeys in the nearby forest.

It was a very easy walk, all of maybe 5 minutes to reach a pavillion, where one can look ( Read more... )

I had lunch at the restaurant at Tiong Bahru Plaza today and my colleague's husband joined us as well. They were not familiar with the restaurant, so I shared that this restaurant was originally in Outram Park. The colleague's husband, D, lighted up and asked me where in Outram Park. It was then that he said that he used to stay in Outram Park. I ( Read more... )

My fren met up with his son's playgroup, a couple of other kids from school, on Sat. As the kids played, the adults gathered and started chit chatting. My fren's son was quite a charmer and many of his girls' classmates were totally smitten by him. So the aunt of this little gal was telling my fren this story, about how the little gal looked very ( Read more... )

This is the season where parents register their kids for Pri 1. As a parent of a 2 years old,  I read about this whole exercise with amusment and also growing fear. It seems like doing volunteer work, moving house to be near good schools, joining school almuni, etc are the BASIC things that parents do these days.. and they do it when their kids are ( Read more... )

After spending 2 hours trying to make the princess take her nap, I decided to go to Vivo City yesterday afternoon. The reason for the impromptu decision was cos I was chatting with warm on msn and she told me she is heading there for a 'first date' with someone and I decided to go there and see if I can bump into her and catch a glimpse of 'mr ( Read more... )

I have always had trouble trying to back up the entries that I have written. I would tediously cut and paste to word docs each month but it's difficult to include the comments etc.

Now, I have found a great tool!! http://www.ljbook.com. It converts everything to a pdf in MINUTES!! All pictures/comments are converted and it even comes with a table of ( Read more... )

Recently,  I have been entertaining myself on msn quite a bit. i discovered the 'agents' on it. Robots that can sort of communicate in a human way. First there was encarta, who got upset cos I told 'him' that he doesn't know the answers to many things. Then there was the games bot, which let me had quite a bit of fun in the evening, when I had to ( Read more... )

I always knew that the young ones these days are pampered but I was thoroughly shocked at what I saw at a shoe shop yesterday ( Read more... )

Colleague stayed in the Bkt Batok apt, where there was an 'accident'. According to the chinese tabloid last nite,a Korean man fell off the air con ledge on the 26th floor, hit against the balcony windows on the 24th floor and got stuck on the aircon ledge on the 19th floor. The incident prob happened around 3+am and the man was only wearing a pair ( Read more... )

As my sister had moved to Osaka, most of her mail are directed to our place. A few months ago, she received this newsletter/brochure from Sopexa, an organisation that markets and promote French products such as wine, cheese etc. there was a small 12 piece jigsaw puzzle, which was meant for readers to complete and send back as part of a contest. I ( Read more... )