Oct 09 2010
Watching the movie Marley and Me, some weeks ago, made me shed more than a few tears. I was thankful that I was watching it at home and not in a cinema. I couldn’t imagine how embarrassed I would be if I did that in the latter. But I noticed my husband Phillip who was [...]
Oct 04 2010
Not too long ago, my childhood friend and I met to have lunch for sort of a catch-up on things happening in our lives. We do it two or three times a year whenever time permits although we stay less than 30 minutes from one another. Over our lunch and enjoying our Asam Laksa noodles [...]
Sep 23 2010
Looking at our chihuahuas Roxy and Wawa again, I learned something new today. I realised that though it is good to put them together to play, sometimes it is also good to keep them apart. Reason? They need their own space. Sometimes I observed that when Roxy is up to his playful mood, Wawa prefers [...]
Sep 21 2010
Here is a fine example of how to teach and humiliate your child at the same time: scold him or her loudly in a public place. A few days ago, as I was out in my little garden watering and enjoying my plants in the evening, a sudden and fierce shout just outside my gate [...]
Sep 19 2010
Since our move to Kuala Lumpur more than two years ago, I have not been successful in restoring my siesta. The peace and serenity of afternoons that I had enjoyed in Labuan is merely a pipe dream in the neighbourhood where our home is. Here, peddlers of various kinds of goods would shatter the afternoon [...]