When meaness was repaid with kindness

I had a little unhappiness with my good friend one night. Fortunately, I do not remember what it was about. However I will always remember how she repaid my meanness for kindness.

We had an exchange of mean messages, if I remembered correctly. And I went to bed feeling very angry. In fact it must have affected me quite a bit because I woke up still feeling angry. What followed then was the classic moment. I went to the car park and did not find her car at the usual lot and immediately I sent a sarcastic message to her. She told me to wait for her and I was prepared to slap her with my blackest face when she came round. And I did.

However when she came by, she handed me my breakfast. She actually drove out earlier to buy me breakfast (I've been requesting for my favourite soybean milk and chee chong fan few days back), that's why I did not find her car in the car park. Boy, you should have seen how horrible I looked because I was really feeling horrible about myself. I was ashamed and totally embarrassed by my lack of grace. I was deliberately mean to her, yet she treated me with kindness. I was angry with her, yet she found it in her heart to still pamper me with my breakfast request. What was I thinking? What have I done? I totally do not deserve this kind soul. What is happening to me lately?

EJ, if you're reading this... I'm so sorry. I know you have already forgiven me but I just need to say it again. It's my blessing to have you in my life. It's my blessing to have you as my friend. I know you love me. I just have to start believing it.

Happy Birthday Mama.

Celebrated my mil's 68th birthday on Monday 25 April with dinner. As usual after dinner, we'll proceed to their place for the cake. That's the children favourite part. Singing, blowing of candles and cutting the cake. It's always nice to see the cousins playing together. My little nephew is really adorable. He's like a little parrot now, repeating every word and sentence after you. But he's so little and that makes him so cute. And you know what, he remembers how to call me. Smart little guy. Almost two years old now.



You can read about her 66th birthday here.

Lake of dreams

Despite my bad cough, I insisted on catching the crane dance at RWS with my best friend and our children, the night before the good friday holiday. But when we reached, we were told that the crane was under maintainence for about a week. I confronted the staff, visibly upset that the maintenance was not mention in the website even though it was a scheduled week-long period. This is the second time I encounter this crane maintanence. The first time was an unexpected mechanical fault which was last minute and I could forgive. But this time the show was out for a couple of days before my visit and will be out for the next few days. Yet it was never announced in the website. I was very unhappy, very upset and very frustrated. The staff directed us to the 'lake of dreams' show instead. I have to say that it was boring and nothing comparable to any water and laser show I have seen. But it was something I could take home from that wasted trip to RWS. Plus the sudden unexpected fireworks from USS which we caught on our way back to the beach. And the nice comforting chat with an endearing friend. These made up for lost time.

My extended family @ grandma's birthday

This is a yearly event. The entire family would gather to celebrate my grandma's birthday. This year it was held at long beach restaurant in IMM. We have three absentees this year, dave included. All in we have 24 members in the family in four generation. I think it's time I do up a family tree.

Head count as of now:
Grandma (Mary)
Frankie and Anna
Veronica and Simon with Clarisse
Calvin
Jenny and Willaim
Benjamin and Jessie with Evan
Samuel
Rosalind
Jacqueline
Angelina and Dave with Joelle and Isabelle
Ian and Keem with Jerine
Stephen and Juliana

Thank God for family. I sincerely pray that our family remain sincere and close through all trials and tribulations. I pray that nothing, especially money, could ruin the relationships between all of us. I pray that every single member of the family be blessed with good health and spiritual wealth.

"Wonderful" show at MBS

After the nice afternoon swim at ruth's place, we head on to marina with the intention to catch the water and light show at MBS. It is a two nightly show at the event square. We aim to catch the 8.30pm show. We got to marina early and took a nice slow stroll along the promenade, taking silly pictures of the kids along the way. Since we were early, we decided to check out the food trail at the flyer. It was ordinary so we bought some bites from popeye's instead and had a picnic at the show venue.






The show was alright. Not extremely spectacular but the backdrop was extremely spectacular. The view of the singapore skyline that night was brilliant. Clear sky, bright lights. The lines on the building were exceptionally sharp. I felt really good that night. Perhaps it was the beautiful view and wonderful breeze. Maybe it was the comfort of a good company.


Rainbow is a very enchanting thing. It's unexplainably beautiful and will always brighten a gloomy sky after a downpour. Recently, it has become an intimate thing for me. My days were gloomy, I have many reservations but I have found my rainbow. I know that I will never be able to "keep" a rainbow and I know I need patience because rainbows are never predictable. But rainbows never fail to make me smile so I'm always happy when I see one.

A swim with Kenan

The weather was perfect and the timing was right so we packed our gears and head over to my friend's place for a nice hot afternoon swim. The children were in the pool was about four hours and they were totally "baked". The last time we came for a swim, kenan watched us from the deck. This time he bravely came splashing in with us. He was rather apprehensive initially but became comfortable quickly. I'm happy that he was willing to trust me in the water. He just held on to me without crying or any sign of fuss. He's so cool and he really enjoyed the water. However I had to stop kenan from staying too long as he is still a baby. Got him up after an hour because I do not want him to be overexposed under the sun and in the chlorinated water for too long. It was a nice afternoon for a highly missed activity. Though I did not really swim that day (I was simply soaking in the water), I had a fun time playing with kenan and enjoying a shared activity with a close friend. Swimming is OUR game.

...and the crab made up for lost time

Since we did not really celebrate our anniversary on wednesday, we decide to have something we might be craving for a while. And it has to be a crab meal. So we head out to the crab place at yio chu kang with the girls and order our favourite salted egg crab. It is pure satisfaction and I'm happy now.

The icing on the cake would have to be the coming trip together. Dave got quite a number of overseas project bookings and he suggested that I join him for one of those trips. I'm certainly hoping it'll be during the school holidays. I do not usually join him on overseas project as most of his projects takes him to places I do not fancy. This time however, there might be a couple of places that sounds pretty exciting to me. Well, we'll wait for further confirmation.

It's been 9 years since... I was a "miss".

Today, I celebrate nine years of being Mrs Chan. For that I received a brand new laptop!

Not too bad for being a Mrs Chan after all ya?

Unfortunately, I have been down with runny nose, cough and a terrible sore throat for more than a week now. It got so bad, the infection affected my stomach causing me one very painful sleepless night with complimentary vomiting. Yes, thank you virus. Heavily sedated, we decided not to celebrate our anniversary today but opt to do it over the weekend instead. Hopefully I'm well and about by then. So my man took on a last minute job (he's a workaholic btw) and left me to dine alone with antibiotics as desert. For someone like me, this is pathetic.

I know, I know... it's just another ordinary day, if you think about it. But I'm not an ordinary girl with ordinary loves. I love anniversaries, I love christmas, I loves birthdays, I love special occasions, I love memories, I love reminiscing, I love romance. I am someone who live to see, to feel and to experience love. I guess I'm just not your ordinary girl. I am the cinderella who refused to step out of her fairy tale even after nine years in reality-land, playing "who's the boss" and "earn your keeps". Well, well, well... it's going to be just another day after all. Another day of caressing my pretty metallic baby.

Our 8th anniversary celebrated in Sentosa
Our 7th anniversary
Our 6th anniversary celebrated in KL, Malaysia
Our 5th anniversary celebrated in Taipei, Taiwan

To a fashion show we go

For the first time, I took the girls to a fashion show (2/4/11). It was the fox kids fashion show. Once we registered, we were given a goodies bag and a photography session where props were ready for free creative usage. Sad to say, I wasn't in one of that mood that day or I would have grab the eye patch and be the pirate or a top hat or the red nose!

But I tell you what I think hit my high... the free flow yogurt station with colourful marshmallow toppings on every cup. Oh... I wish I wasn't coughing that day. Never mind that, once seated, youngsters walked around with trays of sparkling orange juice, mini burgers, pizzas, nuggets and hotdogs on sticks, cakes and more! I was extremely impressed with the pre-show 'entertainment'.

The kid models were so cute and surprisingly rather professional as well. Joelle's schoolmate happened to be one of the model and she did a great job. It was nice meeting my friend again. Couldn't tell how much I missed him and his wit. I have not enjoyed such attention in a while.

I tell you, I enjoyed the experience so much I had to say... well done FOX.