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bought rokiah a chomel brooch for her birthday today. wah, even buying a brooch has so many “challenges”.


gigi christened you “schuyler” as your first name because of how it is spelt and the sound of it when she pronounced it as “shoy-ler” (though your actual pronounciation is “sky-ler”). now that gigi knows it means “one who seeks shelter”, it’s an even nobler name. instead of you seeking shelter, gigi greatly hopes others [...]


took a day off work, went to the dentist in the morning. she remembered my last visit was in 2004. looks like i should visit her again in half year’s time. quraisha and firman’s akad nikah and wedding dinner was held in the evening at tepak sireh.


happy 44th birthday, singapore! not watching the parade on tv today, haven’t been watching it for the past couple of years. it’s somewhat repetitive every year. where’s that patriotic side of me?
modern dressmaking class ending next week, a lot of work to be done on this mandarin collared dress i’ve chosen to do. teacher kept [...]


celebrated ting’s belated birthday dinner at orchard cineleisure’s bbq chicken. we ordered the family combo meal, just nice for the four of us, each 2 pc of chicken each. the girls find the drumsticks spicy. i couldn’t register any taste when first ate it, but after a while, the spices kicked in. overall, not bad… we [...]


very evil of me not to give a standing ovation. i sat down, affirmed people have made their decision and kris is their choice. simon did remind voters to vote for talent. when kris sang “kiss the girl” with keith urban, i knew that performance sealed him the winner. it’s his laid back charm, the [...]


the internet’s experiencing breathing difficulties. waiting for this dashboard to appear on screen takes 5mins. some photo updates, here goes:

all of mine, chin, ting and ying’s presents combined. we parked behind one huge pillar at taka’s courtyard and took a group photo.

ting’s white bear and our little bday bears (from left: ying, chin, ting and [...]


celebrated ting’s 24th belated bday at fig olive bencoolen branch. ordered sandwich, towering fruit magarita . learnt lesson not to eat pasta for dinner. wore all black, raymond asked if mourning. chin said from afar ying exclaimed “mafia!”. ting liked the tops, can wear them when starts new job.