sunday you're too short


in church these days we like to go to the sanctuary and sit by the side of the old building. i always like to look at the old brown brick walls and the stain glass windows with their wrought-iron window openers. and i always read the white marble plaques inserted in the brickwalls. people who came and died in the 1800s and some died very young like the organist who served at the church for six years and died at age 28.

i really love the way natural materials age - the white marble is no longer white it's grey, a hundred years old.

like the picture online. taken a few days ago from a website i can't rem which.

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husband, husband, i love you.

if i had lotsa moolah i would buy this chair from roda. roda furniture is gorgeous but not pocket friendly.

at the nursery; and i love fridays

there were guests on friday - we went to gary's house nearby for dinner and after they they came to our place for drinks and mingyao baked some cajun fries - super - while we played the card game Gary brought which was fun and so of course i bought some flowers before hand - i like the yellow crysentamums best - the white ones are only nice when they're a single stalk in the muji flask. i didn't really like the carnation and white crysentamum mix - carnations are not really my thing i guess i feel not much great love for them. the texture of the yellow ones are beautiful though.






and this afternoon after lunch at changi airport we drove to the nursery at bedok and they had the Phalaenopsis Orchids I so love, the ones in white. i realise that they're not as expensive as i thought they were - i had wanted them in my hair for my wedding but i thought they were really expensive. but i love the peony that i had in my hair anyways. i would love to have peonies at home! we put the pot in the living room - they're quite low maintenance, a small shot glass of water a week, the salesman said. mingyao got a rosemary plant and a curry leaf plant so that we can use them in our cooking and the salesman gave us a tiny bundle of aloe vera for free - but we had to pay two dollars for the pot.





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in the evening we met the family for dinner at the thai restaurant in sembawang and drove by grandparents' place to visit them.

making the world a better place.

husband at the window at eleven thirty pm blowing bubbles, one of those wedding favours - i think this is one of the best desk gifts, he says. they're not desk gifts, i say, they're wedding favours. who are you blowing to, i ask, it's so dark outside. he says, to no one in particular, it's for my own pleasure.

and then he stops and goes to take a shower.

bloody.


can't let my lethargy get the better of me. where do super on the ball people get their energy from? photo from online

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yesterday i shaved the tip of my left thumb off with my penknife while making model. i didn't think it was serious but it was freaking painful when i was trying to wash it under the tap in the pantry. later in the evening i decided to visit the doctor just in case and it was gory. i can almost see your flesh, husband says and made a face. the doctor gave me a shot just in case. the pen knife wasn't rusty. i just changed the blade - love sharp blades for cutting the wood - but uhu glu was all over my fingers. no wonder i felt whoozy the whole day. it won't grow back the same way, the doctor said, there'll be a little bump - that's just like my fourth finger on my right hand, i said and showed the doctor - baby injury.

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i'm so distracted. refreshing product from khiels/ shifted the flowers to the study room. these two are the most long lasting.

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greenday's - time of your life - on itunes and i ask the husband, are you having the time of your life? yes, he says, because of you. *super beam*

guests




last week we had dinner at holland village before bible class and we saw a new ramen shop in holland v opposite the japanese bakery. the decor was very nice and jap-like, and i like they had sesame seeds to put into the ramen - but i won't go there again. the ramen's definately not up to par even to the north canel restaurant or marutama.

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yesterday we had our first couple house guests over for dinner - yvette and shiva brought over a bottle of wine for us. tht was sweet. we prepared chinese food - mingyao boiled lotus soup and roasted chicken and i stir fried broccali with slice fish and scallops with mushroom and capsicum in lemon sauce.

dinner was really fun and we talked about bailey's and ice cream so i decided to scoop some vanilla ice cream with some bailey's for each of us topped with a macaroon that i had bought from cadele earlier in the day. actually yvette i bought a lemon meringue tart for each of us but they were smashed up in the box when i brought them home so they were too undeserving to be served :p

this time the flower theme was yellow roses, these purple somethings and green something else. in the morning the strong light in the kitchen was good and strong so i put all the vases together and let them have some sunning. i like the roses when they're so bloomed. i gave yvette a hineken bottle of 2 yellow roses to bring home - share the joy!

i first gave yellow flowers a try when i was buying flowers for my prewedding photography shoot and i'm glad i added some to my wedding for the bridesmaids. they add a spark to my grey and blue theme.

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gah. it's raining and i wanted to run. i can't believe i haven't ran in almost a month. i hope it stops soon so that i can at least go for a quick half hour.

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yesterday at lunch time i popped by this new shop in town - rockstar by soon lee; i've yet to visit the original shop soon lee at haji lane. it's a wonderful shop that sells pretty things and they had cushions that i liked. photos from soon lee website.

on thurs i had lunch with the ee jie at cedele at great world city. it was nice. i bought flowers.

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last night we had guests over. the aki group of chenghui, sianchong, charmaine and i met up for our annual reunion (when cheng returns from the states) and we had zhi char at laguna park condo's airconditioned restaurant just behind my place. later they came over to our house and we opened the bottle of wine that chenghui brought. mingyao baked potato balls in our super duper oven and we dipped them in sauces. it was fun chatting at the dining table and later we took lots of crazy photos with chenghui's cameras.

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look what monocle came up with on their online shop. the yellow bag is a beauty. it comes with a set of monocle badges and stencils you can use to customize your bag with. like that time in muji where you buy a canvas bag and you can chop words and pictures on it at the counter in tokyo. i hope they have it again in tokyo cos those bags are really good for carrying heavey stacks of drawings or samples - mf bought one and it is really handy.

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something to look foward to. psst. alila.

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okay bybye the end i am going to iron clothes. hot day.

today's too short. give me some free hours

on monday us in the office went to night and day gallery (which shares the same block as zong architects and they have a bar on the second floor) for an exhibition by nus students. while i didn't think the exhibition was spectacular save for some beautiful hand drawings and black and white photographs, the space itself with the old school glass windows and exposed ceiling was awesome.







the other day we took mingyao's mother to try the crab bee hoon at china square and we stopped by this store that sold old school treats.




and in the evening we went to ee jie's house for dinner - tandoori chicken. that was very nice and we had lychee martini ice cream and vanilla ice cream for dessert.




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air's got a new album coming out called 'love 2. i hope it's not disappointing cos i do think the previous album wasn't very exciting - i actually preferred the previous previous album with tracks like 'cherry blossom girl' and 'venus'. 'cherry blossom girl' was sung by hope sandoval who has a new album coming out as well under 'hope sandoval and the warm inventions'.



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and we watched 'yes man' on dvd and there was zooey deschanel - and i think a movie with her in it - the soundtrack is really quite nice. she's gonna have a new movie out and i hope they release the dvd as well. i'm gonna get the soundtrack already.


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yesterday i went to visit my grandparents - the first time since my wedding day when we had the tea ceremony there. i know i always give excuses in my head, postphoning visiting them, like work's too busy, and all, but the reason's cos i don't know what to say when i'm there, which is a pretty silly excuse considering i've been going there since i was young, only with other people in my family. siew jie messaged me, and said my grandmother asked where i was, how come i hadn't visited them for a long time; the underlying tone is always that, they'll be gone soon, there isn't much time. i'm so silly and self-centred sometimes. mingyao drove me over and it was alright. my grandfather can't really see me anymore - his vision is poor, my grandmother said. but i can hear who you are from your voice, my grandfather says. they've lost a lot of weight. my grandmother heat up some soup for us and we sat around the dining table with my eldest aunt. it was alright. mingyao was great. he can speak many dialects. my grandfather kept saying, to visit him more often, even when he was lying in bed before i left and he thanked us politely for coming - i'm not sure if he really remembers me. cut my heart really, the cloud of guilt.
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the end

email from husband

Lullaby of birdland, that's what
I always hear when you sigh
Never in my woodland
Could there be words to reveal
In a phrase how i feel

Have you ever heard two turtle doves
Bill and coo when they love
That's the kind of magic
Music we make with our lips
When we kiss

And there's a weepy ol' willow
He really knows how to cry
That's how i cry in my pillow
If you should tell me
Farewell and goodbye

Lullaby of Birdland whisper low
kiss me sweet & we'll go
Fliyin' high in Birdland
High in the sky up above
All because we're in love

tuesday :: husband :: love

over dinner this evening( fried hokkein mee from bedok camp) 'lullaby of birdland' played on tsf jazz over the squeezebox and the husband mentioned that it was his favourite songs to listen to when he was just starting to recognize jazz standards. in jc he used to dedicate songs to me over the jazz hour on 92.4fm. i asked him what songs he dedicated, because i had forgotten. he said he dedicated 'lullaby of birdland' to me. 'all the time', he said.

sunday mulling


yesterday a year ago mingyao proposed to me in a quiet place away from crowds and noise. we had been busy since then. today the clothes are in the tumble dryer, the fridge is stocked and my husband tells me all the time he loves me and he thinks i'm cute. sweet.
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what lovely engagement pics from here. i love the dress. and short hair.

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oh joy

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lovely wardrobe. fr. wallpaper.