Month: October 2005

Had a nice time with Mathilda today. I am too exhausted to type. Will write more later.

Just your standard Wednesday. Vince and Edda have been getting up really early these past few days. Edda especially has gotten up at 5:30 am for 2 days straight and I’m hoping that since she ate a lot today that she will fall asleep and stay asleep all night.

My piano lessons are going well. I’m trying to play faster and more evenly, even when I’m alternating between my ring finger and pinky. I tend to play one note faster than the other and the resulting uneveness throws off my whole rythmn.

The ice cream sundae that Vince picked out. We all shared, I ate most of it, Vince ate the whipped cream and Edda just sampled. Everything got dirty.

I had a really nice day with the kids today. We went downtown to the Raffles City Shopping Center and hung out there for a few hours. I really just needed to go to the gourmet grocery store there and pick up some raviolis and salsa. I asked 4 people in the grocery store where the salsa or the Mexican section of the store was and every single one of them said that they didn’t have such a thing in the store. Of course, after walking around for about 15 minutes, we found the huge section of salsa, chili peppers, taco shells, tortillas… etc. Got the salsa! Yah!

Then Vince, Edda and I hunkered down to enjoy our pizza lunch (basement level) and ice cream (2nd floor). I usually get all anxious that Vince is going to make a mess or is going to need to pee or that Edda will scream her head off. I’m always trying to hurry the kids to finish, but it’s not as if I have to rush to do something else. So I tried to calm myself down and I think it worked OK, I sat back and watched the ice cream melt and chocolate sauce being smeared and I think I did a good job not getting too wound up about it – all while well-dressed people having business meetings or well-dressed tourists surrounded us, the messy people as Vince calls us occasionally.

well… okay powerpoint is back up… laff. later.

So I cast on 64 stitches and split them on 3 needles making sure the “ends” of the cast on were in the center of one of the needles, but after a few rows, I noticed that I have this weird “step funtion” where the ends meet. Is this suppose to happen, or did I just not make the stitches snug enough?

So I started to knit my socks from the supplies given to me by my sweet Secret Pal. I have to admit that when I used the size 2 needles, the gauge came out to 8 stitches per inch instead of 7 per/inch as requested on the pattern. I kind of shrugged and thought that I’d just multiply everything by 8/7 and everything will be OK, and then I realized that it might be a screwy thing to do to the pattern and I might not want to mess around with fractional stitches on my 2nd project. I finally noted that the pattern said, “for a tighter fit, go down one needle size”. I figured I would just make pretty tight socks and forget the multiplication. So I started knitting in the round with these little tiny needles and little tiny yarn. It was OK going, and I think it looks OK, except that it looks really, really small. I think I’ll have to upsize the needles to match the gauge. These socks are going to take me a long time to make and I want to make sure that they fit. Jeremy laughed at me and told me that they sold socks in the mall next door for one dollar. Bleh!

We went to McDonald’s on Sunday. Vince was not at all happy on Sunday because Saturday was so exciting that he forgot to sleep and eat, so by noon on Sunday, he was a whiney kid. So we went to McDonald’s and sat there for 45 minutes while he recharged on nuggets, fries and orange juice.

Then we took him to Gymboree downtown, which he loved, but asked to go home after 40 minutes because he was so exhausted. At home, he took a nap, which was good because we went to our neighbor’s daughter’s 21st birthday party. It was held in the funtion room of our condo complex. Every weekend we see people having parties in the room and every weekend we lament that no one invited us to their party. Finally, someone did and we had a really nice time. They had a lot of food catered in and we met our neighbor’s whole extended family. It was really sweet.

I was born with feet that flare out. As a result of this, I walk like a duck. When I go to sleep on my back, my feet flare out and go past the V position and almost rest flat on the bed. My shoes always wear unevenly.

Edda has inherited my feet. Look at this crazy picture, her feet are almost in a straight line. I think this makes it harder for her to balance which is the skill that she’s working on this month. She spends a lot of the day standing up and holding onto the couch, the bathtub, the wall. And for the most part, she’s always leaning forward, her weight firmly on the thing she’s leaning on. But about once a day, I see her lean backwards and fall on her butt. I know she doesn’t like falling, but at least she’s learning more about how to balance herself.

It was a pretty busy weekend…

Friday was sleep over night at Choon and Pei Sun’s place. I made a lemon tart that I have to say didn’t look very good, and was okay tasting. The crust was definitely the best part. The filling had 2 cups of sugar and a cup of corn syrup. nice!

anyways, we grilled on Choon’s new wedding present from Lynn and Jack. The conversation revolves a lot around home buying and home improvement since, well, everyone’s married, and either just bought a house or is looking to buy a house. haha. we played some bridge, played some taboo, played some Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast. We ate a lot. Pei-Sun made some creme brulee and some other custard desert. Lynn made a coffe cake.

We stayed up until 3am. weee!

I was a bit toasted for the Saturday, going to work. Also this whole ramadhan fasting thing was getting hard.

Saturday night, i played some tennis with choon and folks. I was wearing jeans the whole time, and i had to pull up my pants every 5 seconds. hrm.. I think I’m going to get a tennis racquet soon enough and start playing some consistently.

Sunday was lazy day, as I’m at home checking my fantasy football stats. it’s sorta sad. I told myself that i wouldn’t be a slave to my fantasy sports team, but as it turns out I am. I watch too much ESPN Sportscenter now… blah.

tomorrow is move day, just going to go in a setup everyone’s computers in the new office. And then the design class i’m taking from some IDEO guy. who’s just a bit off his rocker, but we’ll see. i still need to do my reading. ha.