Mar Mar Oo - Bye bye

Our Myanmar helper Mar Mar Oo has left for home last Tuesday, 5 Sep 17. She left our home on Monday, 4 Sep. It has been over a week since she left us. And it has been for a good two years since she had been with our family. So much has happened to our family during the past two years. So much has happened to me too. However, I trust that these two years have been an enriching time for our helper. That she has achieved her objective of wanting to live and work in Singapore. And enjoyed those free days where she could tour around Singapore with her sister and friend. I will miss her and all the good food she cooked - her Myanmar curry chicken, tea leaf salad and bee hoon salad were some of my favourites.

My cousin YH's 55th & Birthdays

Today is my cousin YH's 55th birthday. 12 September 2017. He was borned in 1962. The same year another cousin MF was borned (18 Feb 1962). He shares the same birthday month as my sister who recently celebrated her Jubilee birthday in style - a full three days of feasting followed by another food trail trip in Penang the next weekend. My sister had a joint birthday celebration with cousin P who gave us a treat at St Regis hotel. So, we had a full four days of feasting that started on 31 Aug and ended on 3 Sep.

fleeting feelings

feelings... are such fleeting things. I have always known them to be so.

They tend to come and go as they please. Especially when uninvited.

I do wonder why I do not have better boundaries, emotional control. I am always a little taken aback when I get a surprise visit from my feelings. Especially feelings I thought I had settled with, or feelings I thought I no longer should have. They seem to have a life of their own.

They come and go as they please. Uninvited they come. Unannounced they go.