Simple Wishes

Tonight, i had dinner with the farm at Seletar Golf club (yes more golf again) and there was this Christmas tree with paper slips hanging from them. On each of these slips, there was a name, and a wish. The people making these wishes were all in their 60s-80s and they live in subsidised flats in Singapore. I was very heartened and somewhat moved when i realised that all their wishes were for very very simple things with "SLOW COOKER" being the most popular then Rice Cooker, Radio, Water Heater and then Toiletries for one.

The older generation really are such sweet and simple people. To them, as long as they have food to eat, they're happy. It really shows from the objects of their desires... Humbles me a lot and it gave me a reality check for the end of the year. What are your wishes?

Comfort food, comfort zone.

yay

Little Red Hen

Nate at his school concert today... so cute. More on that later but here is a picture to fill my blog space. Am tired out from a 17hr work day no break in between.

All clear

So far I haven't seen any ants crawling around. fingers crossed.

My photo of the day

while at work today..

i found a picture to illustrate tourism in Singapore.

(but what i like is the juxtaposition in this image of the muslim women and the bikini clad girls)

Breather

Ok...to neutralise the gross ant picture below, here's a shot of Nate and Oliver hamming it up for the cameras.

Ant problem

one of the trails of the tiny ants at homeThe nest from Sentosa. Gross.

We have been having serious ant troubles this past months. Living surrounded with greenery seems to propell the problem... yikes. They come from somewhere.... leading to the cool areas in my closet, among my clothing where they will lay eggs and then crawl out to some other place. Terence and I have spent sleepless nights (actually he's more into this seek and destroy game) clearing out every piece of clothing, washing them and wiping out the whole place... 2 days later, we go through the same thing, only thing is they find a different route. Now that seems to be settled.. but with luck as tiny as ants (no punn intended) i had to park my car next to a bush while covering the Barclays Singapore Open Golf at Sentosa last week. Some big black ants ( that bite ) decided to make the mud guard of my car their new home... So i battled and drove around with ants crawling around the outer shell of my car for 2 days till i couldn't take it anymore and decided to drive down to the car wash.. I even parked my car in the blazing sun on Sunday, hoping the heat will chase them away. Forgetting that these ants are prolly the commando of ants (they did come from the jungles) i had no choice but to go with the Baygon insect repellent. Finally, i found the NEST.. oh god. It made all the hairs on my body stand... spray, knock knock knock, spray... and one by one.. they fell like fallen soldiers off a wall. Eventually the big chunck fell and i didn't even feel sorry for them. We're out of ants for the moment and i hope it stays that way.

SAVE THE ICE-CREAM!

rain delayed the Barclays Singapore Open Golf tournament... we're sitting in the media room and there's a blackout... the first thing all the photographers yell out is.. SAVE THE ICE-CREAM! (we have free haagen Dazs you see) priorities people.. priorities.. we sure got em right!

Election day

America chose. nothin like a good ol american breakfast whilst on the job Yes we can!

4am conversations

Heading down to the airport to see my dear friend off at 4am....

Text messaging which is normally lengthy and cute is cut down to mono-syllabic questions and answers.

Life just gets too real its so funny.

Maye: U on way?

Joyce: Yup

Joyce: We're here

Maye: near

Maye: Wher u

Joyce: Row 8