gifts from lubna

the last lecture by randy pausch
an hour to live, an hour to love by richard carlson and kristine carlson
three cups of tea by greg mortenson and david oliver relin

school hols are here

the concept of "holiday" is getting very vague nowadays.

are we not supposed to feel "yeah!" or relaxed or rejoiced?

i went to bed feeling the same as the previous sunday, and woke up this morning feeling the same as the previous monday. the only difference is: i clocked in one more hour of sleep.

牵我的手

very touching song.....



daph's speech at the wake

5As

it was.....quite a good feeling to be leading the run from the 2nd round onwards :)

the stations were quite easy. in fact, very easy :)

so the "investment" paid off :)

today is mothers' day

everytime we do something nice, i'll think of dad.

it's been .... (2008 - 1995 = ...) 13 years.

那天从修德回来我就想一口气把心里的话写下来。我的心好沉，好沉。

老爸走了十三年，有时候我半夜醒来，还会以为老爸会从房间走出来。有时候，在梦里的老爸依旧板着个脸，什么都看不顺眼。

他终究还是我父亲啊。

老妈和我，还有弟弟一家，现在过着怎么样幸福的日子你知道吗？我总是觉得这是你欠我的。你欠我做一个好孩子的机会。

didn't make it

r0smi's kid didn't make it.

we heard the news this morning. it is so sad.

the poor girl must feel so terrible.

raising a kid is difficult, so i can only imagine that losing one is much worse.

i had a couple of minutes to think about death and saying good bye to someone forever this morning. i first thought of dad, then mum.

sometimes i lay on my bed late at night and can't stop myself from remembering that day and then the thought would drift to that other day.

this, is really what makes life painful.

queen's birthday

last year this time we were in bali.

this year, iC's in japan, hL's in vietnam and daph's busy with her family.

shY, bK, queen, shAron and i started the 4D4N celebration with dinner at mag's wine kitchen and ended the 2008 celebration by completing the final leg of our triathlon - the swim - at shY's pool.

N1: dinner @ mag's wine kitchen
D1: tennis (1 hour plus) + cycle (25 km!)
N2: $25(-famous)-hokkien-mee-dinner @ geylang + 永和豆花
D2: cycling @ pulau ubin
N3: dinner @ 华友园 (best dish: prawns!)
D3: brunch @ 阿一 turf city 点心 + shopping for sunglasses at QSC
N4: drinks @ "gone fishing" (hume ave) + dinner at hawker centre opposite beauty world
D4: completion of traithlon - swim @ shY's pool




it was a very tiring, interesting and accomplished queen's birthday celebration.

a very "australian" day

janel from e5 called to ask about "structured questions". i told her to ask me on friday. it was either too early in the morning or i was too impressed by the fact that some kid was concerned about school on a public holiday, that i forgot to tell her off for calling and missed the chance to scream at her for not respecting my privacy - i'm not your friend!

after that, it was breakfast with "will & grace", till lunch with "will & grace" until finally it's time to leave for tennis. and so we really played today. shY, queen, bK and me. that's when the "australian" day really started. the sky was so blue.


we must have felt really sporty today cos after playing in the sun, we decided to go cycling at east coast. and we really did :) for close to two hours. once we passed the east coast crowd, the route became very "australian", and even the feel, the air, the mood. it just felt very good.

and we've decided to go to ubin tomorrow :)