Advice for Friends getting married…

Hey folks,

sorry I don’t have much time these days to post. It’s going to be a busy week…. I’m the officiant (or priest) for my friend Choon and Pei-Sun’s wedding coming up in the middle of october, so I have to come up with something to talk about… Since I don’t know anything about marriage, I thought I’d ask you guys if you had any advice for the key to a good marriage? Do you have any specific advice for Choon (the guy)? or Pei-Sun in particular? Any advice for kids? what’s the hardest thing about marriage? what’s the easiest?

and anything else you want to elaborate on the topic of marriage too, is good…

thanks.

ps. I’m thinking about buying an $800 hugo boss suit. arg.

Another day.

Another Monday… Jeremy had to go out to dinner with his company so we were on our own for dinner. He went and ate chilli crab and we had raviolli.

Every Monday, Vince is exhausted from the weekend, so he went to bed pretty early. We had a nice playdate with my friend Annie, who used to be a Singapore airlines flight attendant, and her kids Emma and Sarah.

Books about books

So I’m trying to branch out and read books that I normally wouldn’t read so I checked out two books from the library, Book Lust and So Many Books So Little Time. These are pretty interesting, just lists and lists of different books to read. The lady who wrote Book Lust is a librarian in Seattle who has radio shows about books and such things, she actually considered going for an advanced degree in linguistics with Noam Chomsky at MIT, but decided that being a librarian is what she loved doing. Pretty cool.

Speaking of librarians, I was wondering if my little brother got together with Stella Ota, my favorite librarian.

OMG! Ruby is HUGE!

It’s great that Ruby’s home, she was really happy to see us.

They must have let her eat whatever she wanted in quarentine, I mean the feed bag must have just been full and open, because she is one huge, huge dog. Labs are just incapable of controlling themselves when it comes to feasting.

Raymond and Yvonne and her 2 kids came over. It was really nice.

Pukefest 2005

So last night, Vince just puked and puked. And then 3 hours later, he had to pretty much sit on the toilet all night. And as soon as the sun was up, he was fine. What’s the deal with the late night stomach troubles? Do they never show up in daylight. I have to hand it to Jeremy, he got puked on this week by both Edda and Vince. Somehow I didn’t even get a splash. I had to send 2 down comforters, a down pillow, a rug and a quilt out to the laundry to clean them. Disgusting.

15 year reunion.

Yup, 15 years since I’ve graced the halls of Wootton High School. Shudder. I got an email in my inbox today. I’m so old.

We spent a low key day at home today, going to the library and the mall. Vince and Edda are finally both well and getting enough to eat and sleep so everyone is doing much, much better.

I was brave and called my potential friend, Annie, up and invited her over this morning, but she was headed to IKEA today to shop with her hubby. He’s a steward on Singapore airlines so he just came back yesterday for a few days off, so I figured she would be going out with him today. I hate calling people and asking them if they’d like to do something, even though they have made it perfectly clear that it’s OK to do so. I’m concentrating on this more and trying to make more of an effort to do so.

I’m happy to report that Vince is coming out of his I hate school mode. We talked a lot about his old school this morning and thinking about writing letters to his old friends at school. And this afternoon, he filled up his backpack and his water bottle and went to pretend school for a good 15 minutes or so. It was really nice to see, he had been shunning his backpack and was willing to give Edda his waterbottle when she needs it for her school because he planned on staying home.

Take Me Back to Gooseberry’s

Hrm. I found a neat little lunch place today. It totally reminds me of Gooseberry’s from MIT. It’s an asian food truck parked outside the student union called NetAppetit. It’s 6 bucks, which is cheap on campus, and it’s a buffet. You can get whatever you want as long as it’s under 30oz, which is a hell lot of food. The crazy thing is that buffet is actually inside the truck, so there are like 5-6 people cramped inside trying to grab food. Not the easiest thing to do, especially when you’re holding a Coke and a Powerbook.

Eat me.

So keeping the kids happy means feeding them every 2 hours. They don’t actually eat enough in one sitting to make them full for longer than that amount of time. Today Vince and Edda had a meal at 8 am, 11 am, 3 pm, 4:30 pm and 7pm. Crazy.

We had to get out of the house between 1:30 and 3:30 pm today because our housekeeper, Rukia, came by and cleaned. We went to the Causeway mall and bumped into Matilda and Julia. Boy, we partied with them, made a craft and also had ice cream sundaes. Yum.

I’m exhausted, but of course, once the kids are asleep, I want to stay up and hang out!