Squareface @ 31°North

I’m spending a week in Singapore . Family call.
It’s both frustrating and comforting to know that some things will never change. But anyways.
As a move to build a home somewhere else, or just trying to minimize junk, I’m doing a major overhaul to my room in Singapore. Or just a major hauling out of things. [...]

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Experiencing an amount of inertia when it comes to blogging. The notes in my phone are piling up from the random things I want to blog about, and I don’t know how else I should put them down other than yet another post about random things. (Not the 25 random things about me ok don’t [...]

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Just shut my luggage.
Wondering if the mess in my room will be untouched for the rest of this year.
Heading to KL tomorrow morning for a mother-daughter thing (?!) before proceeding to Shanghai for what we all hope to be my last semester in that university. As to what happens after, your guess is as good [...]

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Writing this at half-past three in the morning is automatically forgiven for sappiness, or fruitless whining.
1) It sucks that I can’t eat on trains and buses in Singapore. When I’m hungry and rushing off for an appointment, I have to choose between time and food, so I usually just go hungry. Which may have been [...]

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For a step-by-step of the Great Singapore Workout, look here.
In an attempt to kickstart some exercise in this freezer we’re in, I let MissY take a look at the long-unheard-of Great Singapore Workout, and she loves it! But well, she loves all the National Day Parade songs I youtubed for her to watch too haha. [...]

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If my mother saw the state of this hair (which has since been cut, though not much), she would most definitely utter “like ah lian (female hooligan)”. A few years back she was always breathing down my neck for everything I did. The ear piercing looks “like ah lian“, that pair of shoes [...]

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Thanks Joanne and Winni! Really cheered me up on a rainy gloomy PMSy hurtful day!
It would have been better if they were instant chicken rice, instant teriyaki chicken wings, instant bak kut teh and instant laksa though! hee hee.
Nevertheless, this package cheered me up so much I’m blogging right after opening the package! [...]

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Many have observed how my family takes photos standing without touching each other (Winni describes it as the “sedia!” (at attention) position), which suggests the kind of family knit-ness in my home.

Family pic 2005, Family pic @ YEF 2005, Family pic 2007

(Hey there’s an improvement over the years, now both older members stand in [...]

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How can I not blog about this: Connie the Crazy Canadian is likely to drop by Singapore this summer. Guess where she might be staying while she explores our sunny island?
The response from the owner of the intended accommodation wrote this in last year’s email when I first asked:
If you are around it would be [...]

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It’s the first time I’m on a one-way ticket to Shanghai, and it’s painful because I don’t know when I’ll be home. Previously I knew I’d be home within the coming 6 months because I held a 6-month ticket.
The views I long to see:

It’s home greeting me from the plane!
Or does having a one-way ticket [...]

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