Month: July 2006

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Susan, Dakshi, Charlotte, Doris, Jeremy, Noel.

Photographer : Vince

I have been here almost 10 days. Everything is cool except I could not hear any bird singing – no birds at all, except in the zoo.

I sat with Edda in her school all days last week and met a bunch of special kids with lot of disabilities among them. It was heart breaking to see all that. Well, all mankinds are not created equal.

This week, since Edda does not have school, I am taking Vince to school and back. His school is just across the street. He is enjoying his school very much. After school, we were in McDonald’s twice already. I guess that was everyday. Tomorrow, absolutely, no McDonald’s.

At home, I hanged around with Vince and Edda. I also went to swimming almost everyday. The pool is shallow and fairly clean. It is a nice place to be. But, I miss Mom a lot 🙂

noel

Humans have about 25,000 genes or 3,000,000,000 base pairs.

Edda is missing just one god damn guanine.

Here’s a funny picture from Lynn and Jack’s Wedding reception the other night. From left to right, Choon, Pei-Sun, Lynn and Jack. Choon was a bit tipsy as you can see in the photo, and was pretending to take off a few buttons from his shirt. HAHAHAA.

The food was pretty good, tho really the crepes and deserts were better. They were making custom crepes on a burner – nutella, strawberries, blueberries, banana and whipped cream. yum yum. 

So Charlotte is in town, Jeremy’s taking a few days off and we are seeing the town. Charlotte is the person who married us, it’s nice to see her and think about the promises we made to each other on our wedding day – the most important was that we would eat dinner together every night. I’m happy to say we’ve missed very few dinners together since then.

We saw her last night at her hotel and this morning at the zoo and Edda sure did put on a show about how difficult she can be. Lots of crying, mainly because of the heat and the fact that she didn’t eat at the right time. But lots of crying in public always puts me on edge… Blah.

Can you stand another picture of us at the zoo? I didn’t get a picture of Charlotte. Grumble. Only me and some birds.

Hmmm, I’m not really the best dresser am I? The pants are a bit large and what’s the deal with my belly button? And the wonderful laynard with house key and magnetic card. Spiffy. Oh well, at least I look happy, that’s nice.

2:40:17 AM james_s_robertson: why you up so late?
2:40:38 AM blehargh: oh you’re opening the floodgates here
2:40:42 AM blehargh: i’m warning you
2:40:51 AM james_s_robertson: hmmmm
2:41:05 AM blehargh: you can still take it back. heh
2:41:24 AM james_s_robertson: nah, i won’t take it back
2:41:29 AM blehargh: heh. okay
2:41:47 AM blehargh: well the short of it is that Lynn and Jack had sorta of a wedding reception tonight
2:41:56 AM blehargh: and it was a really nice affair
2:42:11 AM blehargh: but somehow I ended up sitting next to Jocelyn and her BF.
2:42:18 AM blehargh: and you know that’s fine
2:42:36 AM blehargh: I’m cool with, you know, being in the same room as her and all.
2:42:56 AM blehargh: i just really really really think it’s rude when she decides to try to engage me in conversation
2:43:08 AM blehargh: when 1) I’ve made it clear that I don’t want to talk to her
2:43:27 AM blehargh: and 2) I have never initiated any conversation with her in the past year
2:43:41 AM blehargh: you’d think someone would get the hint, that I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU
2:44:18 AM james_s_robertson: i see isee
2:44:19 AM blehargh: i just wish she respected me enough to accept that
2:44:30 AM blehargh: so I take it pretty personally there
2:44:45 AM james_s_robertson: so you think it was malicious or just negligant?
2:45:01 AM blehargh: niether in a way
2:45:38 AM blehargh: i think she’s just trying to make herself more comfortable in an uncomforatble situation
2:45:51 AM james_s_robertson: hmmm, ok
2:46:37 AM blehargh: or i think, in a way, she feels like she’s done me wrong, or the situation shouldn’t be as it is, but i don’t think she understands that it’s not about how she feels anymore
2:47:19 AM blehargh: so she feels uncomfortable and wants to move away from that
2:47:30 AM blehargh: and use being on good terms is the only way to do that
2:47:53 AM blehargh: but she just charges ahead without taking my point of view into consideration
2:48:33 AM blehargh: anyways. there I’m done.
2:48:33 AM blehargh: thansk
2:48:43 AM james_s_robertson: np….
2:48:56 AM james_s_robertson: do you think you’ll ever get her to understand your point of view?
2:49:06 AM james_s_robertson: (i guess that’s hard if you don’t want to talk to her)
2:49:14 AM blehargh: what’s the point?
2:50:06 AM james_s_robertson: yeah, ok
2:50:39 AM james_s_robertson: man, is that all you’ve got? i thought there were more rivers of outpouring here 🙂
2:50:46 AM blehargh: heh
2:50:58 AM blehargh: her new BF seems nice
2:50:59 AM blehargh: ha
2:51:08 AM blehargh: how’s that?

Today we went to the Botanic Gardens. Noel was our designated dog handler. There are tons of dogs at the Gardens, Ruby usually has a tough time greeting the other dogs without barking insanely at them. Grrr, I’m the meanest Laborador Retriever ever! Don’t mess with me or I will lick you to death! Bark, bark, grrr, grrr.

I realize that this isn’t Ruby’s fault really, it’s our fault because we are such wimps that Ruby feels like it’s her duty to protect us from even the smallest schnauzer.

But with Dad at the other end of Ruby’s leash, she seemed to know that he was in charge and with only one exception, Ruby pretty much behaved. (There was a bit of a growling match at the cafe, I think I saw Ruby’s teeth, but the other dog was wandering off leash, not a good idea. I didn’t get a good look at it, I only turned when I heard the growling).

Dad, who I know has always wanted a dog, loves Ruby and presented her to every little kid walking in the park. “Come on over! Nice dog!” It was very sweet to see.

Daddy said about patiens (hope the spelling is correct), patiens. I just read a book in the Chinese paper and posted part of the book. Hope you can read it.

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Well, I would have posted this awhile ago, but there was other pressing concerns at the time. Anyhow, I’ve finally retired my old old sad pair of Birks, for this shiny spiffy pair. And black too! So thanks to Doris and Jeremy for the wonderful present!

Too bad I can’t seem to wear my brown belt anymore… sigh. 

I have been trying to keep this blog happy and optimistic because, in general, I feel happy and optimistic most days.

But today for whatever reason – lack of sleep, Edda’s last day of summer school school, the weekend without plans coming up – I was bummed. It’s when I think about the years ahead of sleepless nights (Edda still gets up 2 or 3 times a night and takes about an hour of singing to fall asleep at night) or perhaps not being potty trained or if she is in pain, not know exactly where she hurts becuase she can’t tell me, or even if she forever keeps putting her damn hand in her mouth for the rest of her life – well, I just want to throw in the towel. Kick the can. Bah humbug.

Don’t worry, I’m sure this feeling will pass. It always does.

There are a lot of people coming to visit us next week. I’m not sure how the stars lined up, but so many people are flying 24 hours to reach our humble home in Singapore that we are going to have a party. Shhhh, don’t tell Vince or else he won’t sleep for days.