Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Top 5 Things That Happened to the Yeos
1. I took up piano lessons as a beginner and it was a totally humbling experience. All for the joy of drawing "tao-gays" and co-ordinating my stubby fingers to play nursery rhymes. I felt retarded yet enlightened. I don't know how sustainable this would be but it may well be my second career - my colleague told me his friend earns 8K and drives a MX-5 with teaching piano lessons and being a lounge piano player. Cool! Ad could jolly well sit at home and shake leg!
2. Jotham Yeo tried to tweak with our family laptop while watching videos of "Matrix Ping Pong" and "Monkeys performing karate kicks". He destroyed the laptop nonetheless and looked really sheepish albeit without remorse (he was clowning around just 5 minutes after the episode). This explained why Ad hasn't been writing/checking mails. We were thankful for our foresight in purchasing a 5-year "insurance" on the laptop.
3. Jadon Yeo had started to grow more hair, do more head "push-ups" and began expressing himself less in cries but more in "ahs". He had grown to become cuter and more handsome - just like Jo and me (when I was young). Ad would certainly choose to disagree.
4. Ad and I decided to visit Hong Kong on a long-awaited getaway from the "prison-istic" Singapore. We thought we could have more rest but NO! We literally "jumped" off 20 storeys on the Abyss at Ocean Park and walked through the plethora of shopping centres and night markets until our feet were swollen. Astonishing! 12 am and Hong Kong was still very much eating and shopping. Ad would fill in on the photos but it was really great fun!
5. Ad and I visited Tatsuya at Crown Prince. According to the true-blue Japanese, Tatsuya was THE place for Japanese food, esp. sushi/sashimi. I'm not really a connoisseur of sushi/sashimi ("Matsuo") - all I could tell Ad was that they were fresh (she couldn't eat raw fish as she was breastfeeding, she had tempura soba instead). Well, the freshness cost us over a hundred bucks. We had recently vowed to make visiting the top 50 restaurants in Singapore our workplan for the next 2 years. We believe the total cost could be up to 10 grand but really, what can beat experiencing/sharing good food with your beloved?
2. Jotham Yeo tried to tweak with our family laptop while watching videos of "Matrix Ping Pong" and "Monkeys performing karate kicks". He destroyed the laptop nonetheless and looked really sheepish albeit without remorse (he was clowning around just 5 minutes after the episode). This explained why Ad hasn't been writing/checking mails. We were thankful for our foresight in purchasing a 5-year "insurance" on the laptop.
3. Jadon Yeo had started to grow more hair, do more head "push-ups" and began expressing himself less in cries but more in "ahs". He had grown to become cuter and more handsome - just like Jo and me (when I was young). Ad would certainly choose to disagree.
4. Ad and I decided to visit Hong Kong on a long-awaited getaway from the "prison-istic" Singapore. We thought we could have more rest but NO! We literally "jumped" off 20 storeys on the Abyss at Ocean Park and walked through the plethora of shopping centres and night markets until our feet were swollen. Astonishing! 12 am and Hong Kong was still very much eating and shopping. Ad would fill in on the photos but it was really great fun!
5. Ad and I visited Tatsuya at Crown Prince. According to the true-blue Japanese, Tatsuya was THE place for Japanese food, esp. sushi/sashimi. I'm not really a connoisseur of sushi/sashimi ("Matsuo") - all I could tell Ad was that they were fresh (she couldn't eat raw fish as she was breastfeeding, she had tempura soba instead). Well, the freshness cost us over a hundred bucks. We had recently vowed to make visiting the top 50 restaurants in Singapore our workplan for the next 2 years. We believe the total cost could be up to 10 grand but really, what can beat experiencing/sharing good food with your beloved?
# posted by Guan and Ad : 12:03 PM
