Mr.Sun is back

I had turned a ghostly shade of white after the last few months of heavy downpour. Now that Mr. Sun is back, I can't wait to bask in his glorious warmth again. Besides, I think a nice golden tan would suit my new short hair just fine.

My DBB darlings and I shared the same sentiments. Hence, we were down in Tanjung beach on Saturday. Kelly had a travel fair and was quite upset that she couldn't join us. (*But don't worry dear, we'll arrange another outing real soon.) It must have been more than a year since all of us went to Sentosa together. Therefore this was really special to me.

Miko, Marilyn and I just couldn't get enough of the sun and practically dunked ourselves in suntan oil. Noelle was the exact opposite. She was doused with sun block instead. But she was such a great friend that she didn't mind sitting out there in the sun with us even though it risked getting her tanned.

At the end of the day, we all got what we wanted - BURNT. Haha ...... We were still lamenting that the sun was not strong enough. Imagine what would have happened if the sun was out in full force! Guess we were too anxious to get a tan. But it was a good thing Noelle retained her snowy white skin though.

Still we are not daunted but will be making plans for our next suntanning session soon ;)

Meg had an excellent time getting acquainted with her aunty Miko & aunty Noelle

A completely drenched Woofie. He might not look like he's having fun but (trust me on this) he's really having the ball of his life.

The whole gang chilling out in the sea

Gorgeous babes

Now my turn to be in the pic

Looking quite the man in my aviator sunglasses

With the real man

Life is as perfect as can be

Angel hamster

Megan found 1 of her 2 hamsters dead yesterday and she was inconsolable. This was her 1st experience in dealing with death and my 1st lesson in teaching her about death. Grief was however not her first reaction. She was more curious and excited rather than sad. I was quite alarmed by that but realised that that's because she hadn't grasped the concept of death yet.

Megan saw the hamster lying uncharacteristically still in the cage and hurriedly called for me to come. After I pronounced the hamster dead and gingerly wrapped it in tissues to be placed in a box, she insisted on examining the rigor mortis body. Thereafter she looked at me doubtfully and questioned how would I know that it's dead and not just sleeping. I assured her that I knew my stuff. And to be doubly sure she understood, I informed her that she will never see her hamster again. She seemed surprise at this revelation even though I knew she knows that the dead will never come back.

It's awful having to explain death to someone so young. It's really difficult to explain why does the dead stay dead and why do people die. Since her school taught her a lot about God and Jesus, I thought it best to tell her that hamster had gone to heaven to be with God. She then asked why does God want her hamster to die. (She's been asking a lot of, why does God want certain things to happen, kind of questions recently.) I told her as best as I can that God loves her hamster and wants to give him the best playground ever. He will have so many exercise wheels to choose from and as many hamster treats too.

She seemed satisfied with my answer and was about to let it go when it dawned on her to ask how does the hamster come alive in heaven again. Oh tricky ......... How does one go about defining souls to a 5 year old? I had to resort to using cartoons to illustrate. "Did the hamster grow wings then?" She asked. "Yup" I replied "You now have an angel hamster to look over you now."

Pleased, she flounced off happily to play, forgetting all about the hamster till it came bedtime. She lies in bed sobbing and told me in between tears that she misses her hamster 'didi' (translates: brother). She tells everyone that she has 3 'didi' - Woofie and the 2 hamsters. Poor girl.

Sadly though, angel hamster doesn't have a name. Meg had given him so many names that we're at a lost as to what is really his name. It's most likely 'Bappy' or 'Bippy'. Or perhaps I should call him ANGEL.

I read from Miko's blog that Desmond's faithful dog, Lucky, had just passed away. I truly feel for them.

May our beloved pets rest in peace and they will always live in our memories.

'Pixar's Finding Nemo' tickets for sale

I have made a huge mistake! I had forgotten all about Megan's ballet exam and went ahead to book tickets for 'Disney On Ice presents Disney / Pixar's Finding Nemo'. Now I am desperately trying to find someone to take over these tickets so that I can purchase tickets for another day.

It's a total of 3 tickets for 15 March 2007, Thursday, at 3.30pm. As I reserved them early, they are very good seats too. It's Section:A14 Rows:11 Seats:1,2,3. The original price of each ticket is $45.50 but I'm willing to let go of it at a cheaper price. Please email me if you are interested :)

Just uploaded my camera and found a couple more short-haired photos which was taken on Friday when I went to the KTV with a group of long lost friends. All the pics were over-exposed

Fiddling with Photoshop to fix the over-exposure and ended up with this

A side profile of the hair

Long-haired pics taken just before I chopped off my tresses. All self-taken in the car while I was waiting for Megan to finish her ballet class. Haha ..... Ultra-bored & ultra-vain is a deadly combination (brace yourself)! :p

Esther & her golden locks

I'm right now teaching Megan her spelling and if any of you had any experience in teaching small kids, you'll understand my frustration. If you hadn't, try teaching a 5 year old spell 'whiteboard'. *bangs head against wall*

Plus Woofie is not helping with his non-stop barking in the background either. I wish those neighbours of mine would quit walking up and down my unit! Seriously, I mean there's only so many number of family members and so many number of times that one can go in and out of the house right? But NO! I can see one walking up or down every other 10 mins. (Ok I am exaggerating but you get the idea.) And there's only one unit next to mine! Ai yiah yiah ....... *doubly bangs head against wall*

I'm not really in the mood to blog now but I had cut my hair for coming a week now and I have not blogged about it. Yup, you heard me right. I said cut. Cut as in really short kind of cut. There were many reviews about it. It ranges from "it's refreshing" to "I prefer you with long hair". With the majority going with "I prefer you with long hair". And for those who said "it's refreshing", was probably a diplomatic way of saying "I prefer you with long hair". :p

But well then again, hair is hair. It will grow. So no regrets on my part (ok maybe just a teeny-weeny bit). Actually I think it's a fairly nice change; For one, my face looks more slender and the other is that I have loads of people coming up to me saying I look like 'Ivy Lee' (well I take that as a compliment I suppose).

You can see for yourself how I look with my short hair from the pics taken in Dragonfly (my maiden visit). I was there with the FJC peeps on Saturday. As always, it's a hilarious affair in which both Ken and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

*note: As I pen the very last full-stop in this post, I just saw yet another neighbour walk past my unit and there it sets off Woofie again ..........

Ken with the FJC peeps

Ta....Da.... Can you find me with my short hair?

The guys just couldn't get it when we said we only wanted girls in this pic

Nicked this from Jamie's blog cos I think I look quite good in this pic. hehe~~Haha..... Dennis's idea to pose 1,2,3,4

Andrew caught me dancing happily by myself and wanted a candid shot but I still managed a pose somewhat. Told him I was 'camera-sensitive' :p This is quite an unflattering shot but all pics were courtesy from Andrew and beggars can't be chooser.

Lucky Andrew with a bevy of beauties

This is the start of many funny pics to come
Poor Ken - one of the many GBs that happened that night

Basically you have an idea how the night went. These were the milder photos. There were many other photos but decided that they were too wild. Afterall there are minors visiting this site and the FJC peeps might also decide to boycott me.

More of Chinese New Year

I didn't realise that there were still so many photos from Chinese New Year that I have not posted yet. This CNY sure is one long celebration for me!

My colleague, Amy invited us to her house for potluck dinner. Megan took the pics of these little girls (Zara & SiSi) while the adults were having dinner. Hee....hee.... she's getting quite handy with the camera.

We were at aunty Jac's house awaiting the arrival of the lion dance troupe. Meg playing with sparklers.

Everyone enjoying themselves at the see-saw

Megan looking extremely sweet!

Ken & the adorable Nicole

Jonathan hiding under the chair as he didn't like lion dance and there's Meg coaxing him to come out

A short clip of the lion dance (unable to upload the remainder into Youtube)

Erm.... what do you call this?

Meg's 2 new friends - Eliza & Faith

Invited the FJC peeps over for CNY dinner.

Huat ah!

Meg insisted that I plait this for her last night - ouch my poor hands :p

A very satisfied customer
Decided to take a pic to show everyone, Megan's daily bedtime routine. She has to arrange each and every single toy to sleep next to her. An extremely long & tedious process!!!