Just regular folks.

Edda still loves Peter. Edda is standing with some help from Jeremy. Vince wants to show you his spikey hair which he spent at least 10 minutes styling. (I got a jar of hair wax with my new haircut…)

OK, so there is nothing really wrong with the Fair Price near our house. Fair Price is the main supermarket here in Singapore with branches located everywhere. I bet you could walk all day in 15 minute intervals and just rest at a different Fair Price each time. I like to shop at the Cold Storage which is a few MRT stops over from our house, with wide isles and shorter lines and more stuff like cheese and tortillas. However, we end up shopping at the Fair Price pretty often. You can see – first, my new haircut and second the stack of Tiger beer behind me. And next to the Tiger beer and on the floor is a bunch of boxes. Basically, they are always, always, always stocking the shelves and it is such a pain to move the stroller, keep track of Vince and push our little grocery cart around. Also, since it’s always packed, I think they run out of stock pretty quickly and so you will find different things on different days. One day, the didn’t even have Kikkoman Soy Sauce. What’s with that?

Jeremy finally got a hair clipper yesterday and got around to trimming his beard today. Vince and I hung around to watch those long, long whiskers go down the drain. Edda was in the bathroom as well clutching the edge of the bathtub.

This weekend, make up time on Saturday. Stay Put on Sunday. Just relaxing.

Presenting my self in front of people properly is always a challenging job for me, especially in front of loved ones. Without presenting oneself properly, in most instances, exchanging inner thoughts and ideas is indeed very difficult and rare. This really bothers. I don’t know why, but it has been with me for a long, long time, just too long one may say. As time goes by, this bothering thought is on the precipitous rise rather than falling steadily. With this thought constantly haunting me, I have experienced a lot of uneasy moments alone and sleepless nights, going over this, analyzing, and trying to uncover culprits, but so far, without any heartwarming tale to tell. Sometimes, of course, I blamed myself on almost every thing; sometime I blamed things that I could think of; but mostly with emptiness, I had nothing tangible to lay blame on, just watching my flaw running deep, deep and deeper into ravenous ravine hopelessly. Maybe, there is no culprit at all. But it is just all coded into my “Genes” and, therefore, it is predestined to prevail, regardless of one’s preferences. Naturally, I hope not.

One can comprehend, though without despair, I am indeed concerned. But, I believe it could be better; it should be; it can be and it will be better. Right? Time can and will tell. But, at this very moment, I really don’t know “how” 🙂

Just a thought to share.

Look at these perfect dumplings. Filled with the most delicious pork which when steam, oozes the perfect amount of water and fat and yummy goodness to make the most delicious broth that burns your tongue when you bite into them. We went to Din Tai Fung which is a Taiwan dumpling place that has a few branches here in Singapore. In Taiwan, if you didn’t show up right at 11 am for lunch, the wait was an hour at least. Today we walked in and sat right down.

Vince always manages to make friends on the subway. Here he is furiously playing with a toy cell phone attached to this little boy’s stroller. We never got his name even though his mother was constantly nagging him to say hello and to introduce himself.

Last night, during my outing to Little India, I bought an outfit which I wore all day today. Isn’t it lovely?

Yesterday, I went out with Julia and Kate to Little India and had a wonderful time. It’s so nice being outside at night in Singapore, so cool and breezy. Little India is busy at night, they have a 24 hour department store called Mustafa and Dakshi tells me that you can buy anything there except for an elephant and a Mercedes. It’s nice to hang out with women, it’s been a long time since I have done such a thing. We ate at an Indian buffet and walked and walked all around. I didn’t take any pictures of the evening, so a close-up of Ruby will have to suffice for today.