Half empty or half full?

We all experience moments or days when we feel like we’re on top of the world, and when everything gets us down. But believe it or not, in most cases we can choose to still be grateful, count our...

Walking away…

A friend posted a link to this article How to Walk Away by Heidi Grant Halvorson and it can’t come at a more appropriate moment. I grew up among people who think it’s always best to finish what you...

Oma’s stories – the artistic great grandpa

Last night I played the piano for Oma – just simple pieces with nice, easy-listening melodies… some waltzes and pop songs… and I’m glad she seemed to enjoy it. Afterwards she started telling me how...

Review: Voices of Chrisilla

Tiba2 aja pengen nge-review vocal group yang nyanyi di pemberkatan wedding kita tahun lalu: Voices of Chrisilla. Jadi ceritanya kita pertama kali denger tentang VoC ini di pemberkatan wedding temen...

Busy & fruitful weekend

We usually sleep in during the weekends and see what time we wake up, get something to eat, and relax until it’s time to get somewhere. Or at least that’s what it used to be before… hmmm…. this...

Oma’s stories – My daring mum

My maternal grandma, Oma Lies, has been staying with us the past two weeks. It’s been about 10 years since her last visit to Singapore! Over that period of time, my grandpa’s health was...

One year on…

My blogging is way too irregular these days. It’s really a combination of lack of time (late nights at work and lots of activities even during weekends) and unwillingness to sacrifice even more...

Easter Concert & other updates

It’s been SUCH a long time since I last blogged. So many things are happening and Robby and I are usually not home till really late at night these days that blogging is the last thing on my mind....

CNY and Valentine’s Day

Our firsts as Mr & Mrs! CNY We stayed in Singapore for CNY and I had mixed feelings about it because while I was happy to have my parents around (they came to Singapore instead), I also wanted to...

Role models

Hmmm today I was thinking about female role models and suddenly felt like writing down here who I look up to. I wish I am… As musically & artistically talented as Julie Andrews + Scott Joplin +...

Two roads diverged in a (family-planning) wood…

I’m feeling very conflicted at the moment. While I so very much want to try for a child right now, the reality is that our circumstances right now don’t allow me to be a stay at home mum after we...

A typical working day for us

So what’s a typical day like for us? When it’s a work day, we typically have our alarms set for 7AM, woke up to switch them off. Robby switches off the A/C and goes back to lie down for a bit more...

Wedding Vendors

It’s high time I write about our wedding vendors – or I may as well not write about them at all! =p I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do individual reviews for all of them but I think I’ll simply...

Happy New Year!!

Review: wedding photography

There hasn’t been a blog post for a while now and largely because there are just so many things left to do after the wedding – the most major of which were my exams on the 8th & 9th of this month....

Texting & Status Symbols

So… you’re a twenty-something, gainfully employed and doing your best to be a mature, responsible adult all around. What status symbols will you have with you? What handbag / watch / jewellery /...

Amazing birthday week…

Last Tuesday i turned 27 and for the first time ever, i celebrated my birthday as a married woman! So is it so very different? I don’t know… I guess in some ways yes. This year’s birthday has...

Simple pleasures

It’s that time of the month again when I’m supposed to do a write-up for work. The topic varies every month, but it always has something to do with appreciating simple things in life at a different...

It’s been 3 months…

Time has been flying by so quickly we’ve been married for 1/4 of a year now! It honestly still feels like it was just yesterday and we just came back to Singapore & start work again. Wow. Anyways...

Green with envy?

I was reading this article and one sentence stood out to me: “Envy helps us know what’s really important to us.” Which is true. So I’m curious to think back and assess what things I see others do /...

On My Desk: a pot of ideas…

Look whos there! I happen to be writing about the World Shakespeare Festival 2012 and looked over at a cutout of dear Mr. Shakespeare popping out of my potted plant. So I thought: he (and the pot)...

Weight loss (2/2): scientifically slim

The Book! Funny how I seriously wanted to lose weight and started trying various things just because they “made sense”, and then find out that not only did they work very well, but also other...

Weight loss (1/2): then & now

Are you a textbook case or "medicine miracle"? A couple of weeks ago Robby and I visited the library and this book caught my eye. No I’m not trying to lose more weight but as I thumbed through it I...

On My Desk: Ticket to USS!

My company is celebrating our 10th year anniversary at the US of S!!! Yayyy….. Can’t wait to go there again especially since when I first visited the Battlestar Galactica wasn’t operating yet, not...

An eye for an eye?

Some background info on this post: Last year Singapore held a general election. Xiaxue is a very famous Singaporean blogger who’s well known for making controversial blog posts. Xiaxue supported...

On My Desk: cashmere travel blanket

Some media people borrowed our stuff for a photoshoot so i was packing away everything after they were returned. I took the chance to put layers of tissues in between these silky soft goodness that...

Wedding (2/3): Dinner reception & the in-betweens

Once the Holy Matrimony was over and we officially became husband and wife (read the first part here), I felt like a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders. Super happy that everything went...

On My Desk: Seafood char kway teow

Seafood char kway teow from Sakura I thought of an idea for a new blog series: “On my desk…” featuring any random item on my work desk that piques an interest in me at any moment. So this very...

Get Inspired: Indoor plants

plants on a wall... I don’t care very much for a garden (well not if I have to maintain it myself) but I love having greenery and flowers (live ones, not just cut flowers in vases) all around me....

Prewed Photoshoot (2/2): Singapore

After writing about our pre-wedding shoot in Jakarta yesterday, I shall now write about the second session in Singapore. And yes in English. Partly because it just felt right for me to write the...