Category: Living
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Market sentiments
How about the lovely blue skies we’ve been having lately? I don’t care if it’s just me liking the idea of spending Saturday morning shopping at the market for my family. The confinement nanny has been making me go to the market to shop for ingredients to make confinement food with. Being a supermarket (read:…
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Goodbye Ah Mah
My Ah Mah, my maternal grandmother, used to sew pyjamas and quilts for every single one of her twenty odd (or is it thirty odd) grandchildren. She’d buy yards and yards of fabric every year, and when we’d go visit her in Seremban, we’d come home with a new pair of jammies, knowing that every…
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Reason to try to smile
My father doesn’t smile very often these days. It takes an effort because Parkinson’s makes control of your muscles, including the facial ones, difficult, and the sufferer becomes withdrawn and unsocial because of his inability to interact in the ways we normally do. Conversation is also a strain because of the difficulty in controlling the…
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Have we lo’d enough hei yet?
We’ve lo hei’d three times this Chinese New Year, which isn’t a lot, but there’s only so much raw fish and crackers you can manage. Especially when there are pregnant women in the family. Still it’s great to be able to make a mess at the dinner table and say we’re conforming with tradition even…
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Busy busy busy
No, I’m not on blogging hiatus or anything like that. I thought I’d better blog a bit so that I’ll meet whatever blogging criteria put up by the Association of Singapore Bloggers or whatever it is they’re called. Because I might want to join up before they implode. It’s just that it’s been an unbelievably…