Happiness is...

Having a drum date and purposeful coloring time.

Hair has reorganized the room.
(It's getting to be a dilemma to maintain that nickname when he has chopped off his hair T.T)
Now the room is so much more spacious.

I get amused at yet another discovery.
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive.
If it was placed side by side with the Coming Messiah Overdrive, I would have taken a picture. Hee.

The lady with a smile.

There's a smile that cannot be replicate.
The smile that met me that first day of recess in my new school.
Concerned I wasn't familiar with the school system.

The same smile greeted me each time.
Those days waiting for me after school, or teaching me to knit.

The smile over the years, would change into laughter occasionally and crinkle the creases around those bright eyes.

R.I.P 5ee.

I haven't been giving the 'rightful' respect she deserves.
If you consider rightful as in being there every single night of the wake and following the procession on the last day.
I just didn't want to struggle with following the rituals this year.

There was the combo birthday party that very night she passed away.
Followed by the next night of serving in church.

When I finally went on Thursday night, the corpse I saw was nothing at all like I remember her.

So I spent my Friday night board gaming.
Away and late enough that I had an excuse not to go to the funeral procession the next morning.
And finally it was over. Just like that.

Maybe I will regret this one day.
But for now, I like that the image of her, that I still have in my head is smiling at me.

At the cross...

Serving an altar call that finished late was difficult. I was anxious from realising that the speaker shared different things from the first service, taking a longer time to finish.

"I know You love me"

These words took a whole new meaning tonight.
Arrived at the cinema just in time for Dr. Strange to start, no advertisement or trailer left!

The birthday holiday

So many things to be thankful for.

First off, a birthday treat from Mi.

Kuishinbo, a Japanese buffet restaurant that I've heard raves about.

The next day was a treat of eating the local stuff there that I've never seen back home.

Like the mutton koay teow soup and chi peng.
And buying the ginormous fishball for breakfast the next morning!

Lazed around, ate a whole bag of Kettle chips as it was rainy, 

and went to Orchard road later on in the evening for some clothes and browsing.

I've actually forgotten that I should hunt a PlayMe piano down,

until I was there in Singapore.
In the afternoon I went to the MBS casino.

I strolled around looking at people betting off hundreds of $$ dollars at one shot.

And it was such a temptations not to play!

The bets on the slot machines starts off at like 2 cents.

It was so easy to have just load $2 and play.

I certainly gave a big breath of relief when I came out of there.

After all that, I went and spent some time on the Esplanade;

a practice I've been keeping on every visit to Singapore.
There was the fountain and laser show going on as usual,
across the water at MBS.

On the last day of my holiday,

there was a MARVEL exhibition on at the Singapore Science Center.

This was another wonderful treat by Aunt Mae, though I went on my own.

It was a cool geek/superhero event, 

where we download an app onto our phones,

that made us become 'agents',

logon and answered questions on the app based on the stuff on exhibition,

and only getting the various stages on the app activated as you step in through the various areas of the exhibition.

Some of the questions were tough; serious scrutiny was needed.
On top of that, there was this stimulation section that let us become IronMan and shoot the enemies off the screen by moving our hands like the beams were coming out.
And another section where we used our phones become our shooting tool.

To end it all off,

I came back to Machi Koro as a birthday present!
When there I was on Orchard Road,
seeing this in PI I was just thinking how cute it looked.
And suddenly! I am owning it.

Team lunches

I'm thankful that somehow they are always held on days where it is toughest for me and so desperately in need of a short break.