It's nice...

... to know that you miss me when I'm away. Our roles are usually reversed (with me on home territory) and I can only do what I gotta do because you can handle the homefront.

Thanks for the support and encouragement in what I have to do. You are an awesome friend, partner and father.

Love you.

Lei Ho! from Hong Kong

Dai ka hou! (literal translation: everybody hello!)

I'm writing this from Hong Kong, on my maiden work trip. The weather is absolutely lovely and it has been pretty great so far. Going to keep this short, so some key highlights the weekend before I left Singapore.

My little helper parking herself in my luggage; oh if only I could have packed her in

Us at the airport. For someone who doesn't enjoy the pram, she obviously found great delight in this novel equipment

Friday, the 4th

I had a really busy day. It was fun and largely good and I was greeted with this lovely sky on the way home. The picture does not do justice to the beautiful colored pink sky that I saw with my eyes. I love to watch the sky and nature and appreciate what we have around us. It's so easy to get caught up with the this and the that so much so that you forget what is just there.

Evening sky on my drive home this Friday at about 7pm

The poor husband is hit by a bug, let's just say he didn't have the most fun of them days (in fact, he ended up doing nothing). After a simple dinner at home, we brought Kate out to the suburban mall and the husband was in one of his Daddy-moods where he bought Kate something. Make that, he said that he promised her to buy her something so he looked for something to buy for her.

Kate with her new buy, "narnee" bag

Happy Friday!

Happy times

... with the sister. Sometimes, you have to steal time (ahem, literally) to do something special with special person. So we did. A drive that would have been excruciating, made bearable with lovely (spastic) company; topped with dramatic-exclamations ($THREE DOLLARS?!???!) that started off the date just awesome. Of course we also had ditzy moments such as printing miscue (what coupon?), "takes times" and angsty cashiers (uh, you wanna go home but we need to eat. and the sign says Open.) It was all worth it and terribly fun. Thank you.

... with the husband. The curry fish-head was so-so, but the time and company with you was priceless. Thanks for the encouragement, for the support, for your love, for sharing your rice; I've missed you with you being so busy this week!

Life's good with special times and moments such as these. I'm a lucky girl.

We love you

I love how you look when you first wake up in the morning. You rub your eyes, yawning. They look dreamy. If you don’t see me, you’ll call out “MAMA”; but when you lay your eyes on me, you’re comforted then you continue laying in bed, you stretch your body and wordlessly watch me prepare for work.

I always say ‘good morning!’ and I give you kisses and when I tell you “I love you, ok?”, you nod your head; I am happy that I offer you comfort and that I envelope you with love so that you are a secure, confident and happy child.


You say “orr orr” to Ah Ma, and she holds you to her chest, rocking you lightly while singing the Hokkien song “ti orr orr”. You stop wriggling for those moments, listening intently as if you understand the lyrics, or you probably just enjoy the warmth and love you feel while being hugged tightly.

We love you, Kate.

For you

Because you so poor thing, have to work overnight, I hereby dedicate this post to you with lovely pics of your loved ones.

She allowed me to leave the pin on her hair long enough to take a picture!
"nai nai" (nice nice)

Not sure why she looked so constipated. See you tonight!

Love

Love my life, love my family, love my sister, love my brother, love my mother, love my father, love my girlfriends, love my husband, love my baby.

There's much in life to be thankful for and I want to take some moments to think about those good stuff. There's always going to be the crap bits but hey, that's life.

Love!