“Sons!!! I missed the deadline! The Purple X-Girls were in Penang last week!” So, the two older sons retorted, “But …Ma…..you are too old for Nicholas Teo, okay? Only our girl friends listen to him., okay???” They know that I have Nicholas Teo’s songs on my iMac and though I don’t care about his boyish [...]

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Lilian
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These days, I am polishing up my Mandarin. I finally can say volunteer in Mandarin. Yik kung. Yay! And Catholic is ‘tien chu chiau’. Tiok, boh? How to say faith ah? Sing li means what? I have always been able to speak Mandarin and Cantonese because I learnt them from my nieces and nephews when [...]

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Lilian
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