Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all! Here's wishing you all a most joyous time of the year with loved ones, partaking in worthwhile pursuits together that will add to quality in your lives! I just received my best present this season -- a clean bill of health from my doctor after a most depressing phase. This calls for much thanksgiving and rejoicing!

And you think you want to act

Whew! Two whole days of takes under the hot sun at a playground and then in an apartment. And at least one more day of shooting to make up for lost sunshine hours and rainy weather --- all towards a mere 5-minute film showing! Now, I'm going to look at movies - good, mediocre and bad - with a different eye! No joke. Acting, directing, cinematography, scripting and all are tough work!! But being involved in the daughter's coursework was fun, and I get to interact with young minds. Having the sons and other daughter as fellow actors/actresses/calafares made for unusual but good bonding time.

Mum's day out

Brought my mother out to get her hair cut and permed today. One of those mother-daughter moment that I enjoy very much. At my age, she still treats me like her precious kid daughter. And I do so appreciate her!

December's here again. That time of the year with plenty of festivities in the air. School's out and exams over. WOOT! Go have some wicked family time, people!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Mummy

Happiness is having your mum pamper you when you need to burn the midnight oil for exams and projects. Lucky are those who have mums reminding them to wake up in time to take exams that they have prepared forever for! Well today, one unlucky or sotong one forgot to rise in time for his Maths 'O'level Paper 2!

Change your hair colour!

If you think that I was cruel to you turning up at your Prom as a butterfly, you would slap your head a zillion times if you had seen what I was during this year's Teacher's Day dinner at my current school ---- I was Katty Perry!! Yes, complete with pink hair, cute hair band, candy necklace, pouff candy-inpired print outfit, leggings, California Girl colourful nails and giant lollipop! It was the Hungry Ghost month and I had to drive through Geylang Road to the dinner venue. Wuahahaaaa! You should have seen the turned heads and quizzical looks! I looked like an down-the-hill getai wannabe and Geylang Lorong "merchandise"! My kids did not mince their words: they thought that I looked more like the "substitutes" at Desker Road! As for me, I had loads of fun. It was MY day after all!!

7th Month

7th Month. Gets me thinking what my late Dad would have thought of the way his children and loved ones have turned out all these years while he was gone. You know, when I was a young, I used to wonder how I would have use for all the love that my dad showered me. Later on in life and even now, I fully appreciate the mileage that tender loving care and unconditional love give. It forms a very secure and huge reserve that I draw on for all the pit stops I need make along life's way.

Boeing, boeing . . .

Watched the local play, "Boeing, Boeing" directed by our very own Glen Goei, with my very nice sisters just a few evenings ago. Hilarious script and just-nice story line to lighten up an evening after work. I was tickled by the portrayal of Singapore Girls as sharp-tongued, practical and non-too-demure females, contrasted sharply with the Japanese specimens. Then there was the animated Hong Kong female variety. Haha... you all should catch it someday when it is staged again!

Ms Q

Hahahaaaa! "Taxi drivers say that if they see Ms Q flagging for a cab, they are not going to stop." Scary, siaz . . .

Happy Mother's Day!

Not that any of you are mothers yet. But Happy Mother's Day to all your mothers and I wish you a nice respite from your work and studies so that you could have a nice meal or time with your families this week!

Wow, my last post was like eons ago. Too caught up with life elswhere from HIHS. But no, you are not out of mind! Sometimes when I teach my lot at my current school, I do share with my students about you all --- that there are nice students out there who make it a point to have a life out of school and have hearts for beyond rat-race goals. In other words, I miss you all every now and then! Haha!

I am presently enjoying a heavenly long weekend before the onslaught of the mid-year exam markings. I find that age is catching up with me, and it takes so much less to tire me out these days.But I have been a good girl (as usual!!) --- not letting age be an excuse not to give the things I undertake my utmost best effort! Erhem . . .! I must mention that I even manage to squeeze in some exercise time to destress. Quite proud of myself. I have the old folks at the gym that I am working out at to thank: how they manage to pound away at the treadmills, lift weights and persevere at no-joke workouts just put me in perpective or on my want-to-give-up days, shame me into putting on my exercise shoes! Nothing like good role models!

Then this Mother's Day, I had a wonderful makan cooked up by a wonderful man for all the mothers in the family. Times like these remind me that life is good.

An inconvenient certainty

How do you deal with someone who knows that he is inflicted with some irreversible medical condition and soon will be losing the use of one of his senses? As if it is not enough, things are also messy on the financial and relationship fronts. SIGH! And some of us are still griping about piling homework and backdated mobile phone models!