On Eagles' Wings

My parents are the cutest things, ever! Really, they are! ;) Yesterday, they went on a date for Valentine's Day. Well, they  usually  go for dinner, just the two of them. They have, ever since the bros and I were, well, old enough to stay at home alone, unsupervised. (Which is a very long time ago, I assure you.) But I don't know why, just felt excited for this one. Maybe because I wasn't busy thinking about or getting ready for my own  date for Valentine's. Aheh. (Baby, hurry up and come back from India, okay? T.T) Since I spent so much time getting my mum to try on different outfits so she'd look nice for their date, I told my dad to go change out of his plain mustard t-shirt into something nicer, or into one that at least matched mum's pink suit. So he changed into a purple t-shirt. Well, okay la.  Good boy! xD My dad so formal la  with his arms  behind his back. @.@ And I think my mum looked really pretty! Couldn't help feeling a littl...

Yesterday was my brother's birthday. He is twenty this year, which will make me 24! (But my birthday was just over in November, so it still counts as just turning 23, right? Still young, still young.... *denial*) Can't believe that my baby bro is twenty now! Big boy already! :D We all remember the story my mum always tells us about when he was born. She says he was the quickest of the three of us to um, exit her womb, so to speak. (I know I tortured my mum for fourteen hours before I did! @.@) And he was also the fattest baby of the lot, weighing over 3kg :) My mum said that when he was born, in the early hours of the morning that day in 1992, firecrackers were heard, as if celebrating his birth! (It was actually the first day of Chinese New Year then, so the firecrackers weren't really for him. But I guess some would consider it an auspicious sign, nonetheless. :P) That's him (circled). Cute? :P Know which one's me? (You have a 50/50 chance-- ther...

In less than an hour, my cousin sister is going to board a plane bound for Tianjin, China, where she will make a transit to Beijing. In a few days, she would be starting her Degree studies on Biotechnology in Beijing University, China. Soon Yi :) (Yes, unflattering picture. But I'm cheeky like that!) I hold my Phor Phor's hand as we navigate around trolleys of luggage and running toddlers. I tiptoe to look over the heads of busy-looking people who look like they're headed somewhere on important business, while others doze off on the plastic chairs, their mountain of bags beside them. Finally, I spot my aunt waving at us. "We're here! We're here!" My cousin brother asks me, "Where's Soon Yi?" I have no idea. I didn't see her. Couldn't see her. But she had to be around here somewhere. A large group of boisterous young people fall aside to reveal my cousin sister, smack in the middle, laughing. She is wearing a white sweater, an...

I had one of the best days of my life yesterday. No, I didn't ride a shuttle to the moon. No, I didn't win the lottery and swim in wads of cash, and then went on a maniacal shopping spree and came back with loads of clothes and shoes and bags and make-up. (Sigh.) But I spent the day with my boyfriend and his little four-year-old sister, and boy, was it the best! :D Though I was excited to watch "The Rise of the Planet of the Apes" with Sam that day, what I was really looking forward to was painting Mira's nails and taking her out to City Park in Seremban 2. When I met little Mira in church several weeks ago, it was actually my first time seeing her in 2 years. She was only 2 then, and rather shy around strangers. And before that, the last time I had seen her was when she was practically still a baby. I had carried her, talked baby-talk with her, but how could I blame her for not remembering? And it broke my heart a little, it did. :( But that day...

My cousins and I seldom meet besides the annual CNY and Christmas celebrations. They'd usually come down to Seremban, our hometown, and we'd just lepak  in our grandma's spacious bungalow. We'd watch funny videos on Youtube, Korean dramas, or play card games. Card games are our thing. :) Anyway , recently, we'd met up for a thanksgiving dinner given by one of our aunties for her daughters' first-prize win at the Petrosains National Science Show Competition. If you want, you can watch it here , here and here . And yes, Princess Jasmine and the Genie are my two younger cousin sisters. (Unfortunately, I've never been very close with these two younger cousins of mine. Possibly, because of the age gap. Their 13 and 15. Gorsh, I'm almost ten years older than both of them! @.@) Anyway, it was at this short "reunion" of sorts that I realized that my other two cousins might, and will be leaving the country soon to further their studies. ...

When I was younger, a baby of 11 months, when both my parents were still working as teachers, they sent me to be taken care of by a baby sitter who lived just opposite us in the Rasah Jaya flats. She was a sweet little old lady of 50+ then, who was happy to take in another fat baby (me!) into her extended family of babies and kids :) One of my earliest memories was of me being carried in my father's arms up the steps of the flats to the first floor. It would be pitch black cos it was super early in the morning. I know that because I would be half-awake, but I would pretend to be asleep so my father would carry me upstairs. *confession* (Aheh. :P) Gu Phor would be waiting for us with the gate wide open, and the mattress laid out on the floor for me to continue sleeping on. I'd successfully go back to sleep with no fuss at all. Later, Gu Phor would wake me up by calling, "Su Li, hong sin hong sin! Moi soi mok lor~ "   (Su Li, wake up wake up! Don't sleep lor~...

It's Mother's Day today ! :D Yeah, I know how they always say that Mother's Day should be every day.  I agree, in the sense that you should always, or at every opportunity, show your mum how much you appreciate the woman who has raised you all these years. But Mother's Day is when you do something a little  extra special, a little out-of-the-ordinary, to remind her that we appreciate what she does, and show her a glimpse of how much she means to us :) This Mother's Day, I thought I'd do something special--something I never  do on any other occasion, or in any other circumstance (normally). I made her Apple Crumble for dessert :D Under the guise of helping my aunt to "fix her sucky internet connection" and "dye her hair with the new hair dye she bought", my brother and I headed over to my grandma's place to use my aunt's oven. (My mum totally bought it. She didn't suspect a thing! xD) Here's how you do it (sorry, I d...