OK while the baby talk is getting hot, can we also talk about the mothers instead. Actually this is a little bit about the fathers too, and their stomachs....Has anyone ordered confinement food catering before? We've considered cooking it ourselves (which actually means mothers and maids) but were not completely sure about our own expertise to concoct quality food. Plus, with all the caution about the mothers getting 'feng' and their difficulty to recuperate after giving birth, we started giving a more serious thought to the claims of traditional chinese confinement meals.
There seems to be 2 main suppliers in the market now - natal essentials and new baby. Has anyone tried them or heard of some others?
Friday, March 30, 2007
Good morning HC! Announcements for today...
Sorry, don't mean to steal our secretaries' lime light, just can't resist using the punchline we were once so used to.
It's Fenfei's Good Friday hosting! Yes it's all happening on Good Friday, beginning 12:30pm. Dear ol' Fenfei, the once swashbuckling pirate of the yellow city, has invited all of us to her nostalgic Tiong Bahru lovenest for an afternoon of fun and laughter. So bring along your better halves, kids and maids too, and make it a really good friday... don't forget the balloons and party poppers!
For fear of attracting the loads of FF's ardent serial opera fans, i'll only reveal her address to you if you give me a buzz...
PS: If we're lucky, we may get to rub shoulders with Fann, Zoe and... mmm who are the stars these days anyway?
It's Fenfei's Good Friday hosting! Yes it's all happening on Good Friday, beginning 12:30pm. Dear ol' Fenfei, the once swashbuckling pirate of the yellow city, has invited all of us to her nostalgic Tiong Bahru lovenest for an afternoon of fun and laughter. So bring along your better halves, kids and maids too, and make it a really good friday... don't forget the balloons and party poppers!
For fear of attracting the loads of FF's ardent serial opera fans, i'll only reveal her address to you if you give me a buzz...
PS: If we're lucky, we may get to rub shoulders with Fann, Zoe and... mmm who are the stars these days anyway?
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Chance encounter
so coincidental, met xue'e and darren at the botanical gardens last sunday.
didn't see guohao and justin because they were busy feeding the swans at the lake.
darren is such a gentle and sweet kid. he comes across to me as very mild-mannered.
the age gap shows too, wen my 14-month-old daughter made some sounds and gave him a disapproving look, and the fact that I raised my voice and corrected my daughter, darren burst out crying. but (tears) easy come, easy go, as you can see from the pictures.
well, it's a nice place to bring family to, especially on a sunday when the setting sun emits a very warm golden hue.
it's my 1st time there with my family, and there will be many more.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Another blog when I am away from home
Well well well.....been some time since i last written something here but nevertheless, I am actually secretly reading and monitoring all your blogs. I must admit though that i did not catch up with most of the comments on the side as i find it to troublesome and can't be bothered, really, to read them.
Today i happened to read the comments by the side and found out that my joke in an earlier post about the doctor in blue shirt was read by ermmm....his wife or maybe himself!
Wansin and Chong Kiat, take no offence on a personal level! I am not sure if an apology is really warranted because it was indeed really weird to see a doctor wearing a doctor's ID at another doctor's funeral. I can't help but to notice it, and apparently, most of us feel the same way too. More strange is that the ID is just hanging on the neck that looks to me like it can be removed easily within a split of a second. And those letters "KK", they simply stick out so prominently that one can read it at almost 200 metres away....
However, in due respect, I am aware that every tear shed on that incident was real and filled with emotions. All of us feltthe same way that both of you did and I am very sure you are more attached to WQ than most of us are, including myself. So I applaud what you and your hubby has done for WQ.
If you really have noticed, the name tag joke is really a prelude to my underlying puzzling question. If you are still reading our posts, can you shed some light on why medical students like to carry the stethoscope around their neck so much? I really want to find out the reason(s)!!!!Are they too busy to remove it from their necks while on their way to canteen? If so, then why does dental students have the time to remove their masks when they visit the canteen while medical students do not remove the stethoscope on their neck? The most obvious or "trying to be funny" reason is probably the former need to use their mouth to eat but the latter can always make use of utensils instead of the instrument hanging on their neck. It is really frustrating when one cannot attached a credible rationale and explanation behind the actions of the erm...medical students and as such, I had no choice but to temporarily label them as show-offs.
In any case, I started out with the intention to blog on other things but I guess it's getting late now and i will need to get some sleep. Hope to catch up again on Good Friday.
Today i happened to read the comments by the side and found out that my joke in an earlier post about the doctor in blue shirt was read by ermmm....his wife or maybe himself!
Wansin and Chong Kiat, take no offence on a personal level! I am not sure if an apology is really warranted because it was indeed really weird to see a doctor wearing a doctor's ID at another doctor's funeral. I can't help but to notice it, and apparently, most of us feel the same way too. More strange is that the ID is just hanging on the neck that looks to me like it can be removed easily within a split of a second. And those letters "KK", they simply stick out so prominently that one can read it at almost 200 metres away....
However, in due respect, I am aware that every tear shed on that incident was real and filled with emotions. All of us feltthe same way that both of you did and I am very sure you are more attached to WQ than most of us are, including myself. So I applaud what you and your hubby has done for WQ.
If you really have noticed, the name tag joke is really a prelude to my underlying puzzling question. If you are still reading our posts, can you shed some light on why medical students like to carry the stethoscope around their neck so much? I really want to find out the reason(s)!!!!Are they too busy to remove it from their necks while on their way to canteen? If so, then why does dental students have the time to remove their masks when they visit the canteen while medical students do not remove the stethoscope on their neck? The most obvious or "trying to be funny" reason is probably the former need to use their mouth to eat but the latter can always make use of utensils instead of the instrument hanging on their neck. It is really frustrating when one cannot attached a credible rationale and explanation behind the actions of the erm...medical students and as such, I had no choice but to temporarily label them as show-offs.
In any case, I started out with the intention to blog on other things but I guess it's getting late now and i will need to get some sleep. Hope to catch up again on Good Friday.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Those Good Ol'Days...
I was at a student council investiture ceremony for Sec Sch kids this morning and it sure brought back memories of our own SC investiture 16 years ago!!! I still remembered the "gong" effect before our entrance, the 'Top Gun' soundtrack that we used for our entrance, our pledge and of course, our council song... was it something like "在黄城，我们亲如一体,
为了共同的目票,一起前进。。。" does anyone have power memory and can remember the lyrics of our council song?
Well, those group of elite students on stage were beaming with confidence and pride ...made me wonder if we looked as smart and as confident as them then. Their slideshow also almost made me tear... some of the photos they took were similar to those we posed for during those good ol'days! Group photos shot in the backdrop of the beach, under the void deck, in the rain, having fun. But one thing they can't beat us - posing for a picture along ECP! Sometimes i shudder thinking how lucky i am to be able to pass my A levels, coz I really spent quite a lot of time indulging in the SC activities!
Sorry, pardon me for being nostalgic today but my mind is filled with images of those crazy days! Like our speedy gonzales dance, Yiqiang's 莲花掌, our volleyball matches, our 艺术照s almost everywhere (remember the ones we took in the room stacked with tables/chairs?), climbing over the gates at the Bt Batok campus after our 'tao pok, chye bueh' meals, the hawker who goes round touting 'you want to chicken rice', our climbing of the cliff/'mountain' behind Bt Gombak MRT and leaving behind all those cheesy "到此一游" messages and so much more!
I wonder if the kids these days do all these funny things that their 前辈 did...
为了共同的目票,一起前进。。。" does anyone have power memory and can remember the lyrics of our council song?
Well, those group of elite students on stage were beaming with confidence and pride ...made me wonder if we looked as smart and as confident as them then. Their slideshow also almost made me tear... some of the photos they took were similar to those we posed for during those good ol'days! Group photos shot in the backdrop of the beach, under the void deck, in the rain, having fun. But one thing they can't beat us - posing for a picture along ECP! Sometimes i shudder thinking how lucky i am to be able to pass my A levels, coz I really spent quite a lot of time indulging in the SC activities!
Sorry, pardon me for being nostalgic today but my mind is filled with images of those crazy days! Like our speedy gonzales dance, Yiqiang's 莲花掌, our volleyball matches, our 艺术照s almost everywhere (remember the ones we took in the room stacked with tables/chairs?), climbing over the gates at the Bt Batok campus after our 'tao pok, chye bueh' meals, the hawker who goes round touting 'you want to chicken rice', our climbing of the cliff/'mountain' behind Bt Gombak MRT and leaving behind all those cheesy "到此一游" messages and so much more!
I wonder if the kids these days do all these funny things that their 前辈 did...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Happy Birthday!
A very happy birthday to both our Alma Mater (for many of us) and Eik Lin!
It has been quite a while since there was a new posting on Kopitiam and I'm beginning to wonder how many of us still read it. It's easy to encourage everyone to keep the blog alive and overflowing with postings, but most times I myself don't have a clue what to write about. I do still check it out on and off, hoping lazily that someone else has made the effort to post something.
Will continue hoping....
It has been quite a while since there was a new posting on Kopitiam and I'm beginning to wonder how many of us still read it. It's easy to encourage everyone to keep the blog alive and overflowing with postings, but most times I myself don't have a clue what to write about. I do still check it out on and off, hoping lazily that someone else has made the effort to post something.
Will continue hoping....
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