It has been a while since I last take my sons to the Butterfly Farm. Last Friday, I decided they are not going to school because the whole Waterfall/Western Road/Pitt Street were jammed up with coconuts. My #3 son will never be able to get home in his bus journey from Chulia Street. I will [...]

Posted on January 31st, 2010 by Lilian
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These are video clips of four of the five young men who perished in the dragon boat tragedy. More than a week has passed. Their friends and families have collected old photos and give tribute to them. I feel we should see these young men as what they used to be and what they will [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Lilian
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The sign on the entrance says it is the world largest toy museum. However, I doubt it still hold the record anymore. The place is rather run-down with a facade that suggests it has been neglected. Certainly not welcoming or cheerful like what toys connotes. Children probably gets fearful of even entering because the place [...]

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Lilian
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I really, really don’t want to blog because I have nothing good to say. Yesterday, I was busy editing the video of a unity prayer we had in church last week. Unity as in Christians united. You see, we Christians come from different denominations. Yes, we worship only one God. The Almighty God. Yes, we [...]

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Lilian
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So here I am with a laptop, refillable coffee and a fillet o’fish at McDonald’s again. This is Week 4 and the headmaster still allows us parents to visit our little boys at breaktime. This will be the last week. From February onwards, we can no longer enter the school compound. Only parents with special [...]

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Lilian
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We were in the car, after dinner. Passing by those lanes along Chulia Street. There was an old angmoh couple enjoying their evening walk. So, I told my little boy, “Next time when you have grown up and papa and I have nothing to do, we also go holiday and walk around aimlessly like them.” [...]

Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Lilian
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Weekend is here again. But weekends mean more work for me. Let’s see…There is replacement class for Chinese New Year. My poor little kid is starting to complain that school is boring and hours so long. How not to be boring when he has to make repetitive lines and write ABCs? Homework is colouring. I [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Lilian
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