Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

During one of the class sharing we had last week, a girl brought a toy dog to class and decided that everyone have to give her little toy dog a christmas gift. As we went round asking what would make the perfect gift, a 4 year-old boy replied innocently, "I will give you my sister for christmas!"

WAHAHAHA!!!

When your inconsiderate neighbour starts drilling his house down at 9 in the morning, you can move over to her house to hide out, even just for a while. And she would make purple wheat vegetarian noodles for brunch. :D

When Constance spots a cockroach, she freezes, scream for Sherman and then grab the nearest chair and stand on it. Sherman grabs the insect spray and ruthlessly spray down the "enemy". Both leave the "enemy" to its own painful death.

(insert evil laughter) Hiak hiak hiak!

This is the second victim in two consecutive days. Are they coming back for revenge?

This is a simple dinner I made some time back and it's too good not to share. If you are in a hurry and want a home-cooked dinner in less than 30 minutes, this is perfect for you.

All you need are some onions, mushrooms, assorted ham, pasta and a whole lot of olive oil and garlic. Cook the pasta in boiling water, slice the onion, mushroom and meat, throw them into a sizzling pan of olive oil and garlic, season with salt and pepper... and there you go!
 

sluuuurrrrppp!

Three facts of the day

1) My lunchbox from Daiso melted in the microwave today.
2) I think I look funny when I lift weights at the gym. How does one look demure in doing so, I'll never know.
3) Raphael has got new ah-beng rims, no thanks to the boyfriend.

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Ok, so here's the story. The other day, a sudden craving hit - Vanilla ice-cream topped with fresh berries. Now, if you know me, I'm not a berry person. But for days, it was all I could think about! MUST. HAVE. ICE-CREAM. NOW!!!

So, over the weekend, I went to Ikea and got myself a few pretty ice-cream bowls. Then, I headed to the supermarket and bought a hugeass tub of rich, creamy vanilla ice-cream and boxes of fresh strawberries and blueberries. Put them together, and wa-la! Craving fixed.

This morning, I woke up, got dressed and made coffee before deciding that I'm in too much pain to go to work so I jumped right back into bed and slept till noon.

You wanna know what's funny? 

Spending your entire day piecing together your report at crawling speed only to find out that instead of a 20 page report, the guidelines been changed to only a maximum of 12 pages.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Lesson #135: ALWAYS read the guidelines carefully before starting your assignment.

The other day, I was in a class full of 4 year-olds. They were incredibly chatty and funny but one boy particularly, will not stop asking me questions! 

B: Teacher Constance, are you married? 
C: No, I am not. What about you?
B: No, I'm not married but my mama and papa is married.
C: I see, but do you have a girlfriend? 
B: No, I don't have a girlfriend but I have a cousin. His name is James and he talks a lot. We always play together.

Moments later...

B: Teacher Constance, are you the mother of the house? 
C: Well, I am not married and I don't have kids so I am not the mother of the house.
B: Oh.

And this just goes on and on throughout the class. Aren't his questions really mature for a 4 year-old? Towards the end of the class, I saw another boy hitting him in the chest. Instead of returning the punch or cry out loud (which most kids do), he just turned and looked at me as though knowing that it's best to let the teacher handle situations like this. Of course I made the other boy apologize but I was very impressed with the maturity of this boy! 

It's amazing to see so much of their personality at this age and I always look at them and wonder what kind of person they will become when they grow up.

My favourite time of the day - 5.30pm.

I see your red car zoom past the window and I hop on down to greet you. You ask me if I'm too tired to cook, so you brought me to the little french place we've always wanted to try. We dig into a hearty dish of creamy spaghetti each and head off for ice-cream next door. We pass by the florist, and I comment that you haven't given me flowers in a long while. You give me a hug in a return and reply that flowers are sweet only for surprises.

We both share a cup of ice-cream - berry berry and pear sake. I only have the pear sake because I don't like berries but I know you do. We play with the mini keyboard as softly as we can. We read story books on nursery ryhmes. We talk about work, school and what kind of parent we will be.

At last, you ask me if I'm ready for project and I know this perfect evening is coming to an end. I sang out loud on our drive back home. We talk about church. Then, we reach home and make ourselves a cup of peppermint tea with the fresh leaves from your mom's garden.

And now, it's back to work.

Sherman's mom is probably the only person I know who keeps a garden right here in the heartlands of Singapore. There's a little green patch right at the back of her workplace and it's just amazing to see the fresh produce she brings home from her garden! 

The other day, Sherman brought me two bananas right off the tree from the garden. Did you hear me? Right off the tree! I wondered aloud if there's any western herbs in the garden (think rosemary, oregano etc) and over dinner, I casually mentioned to his mom if she has any mint leaves that I could use for tea. Right after dinner, she went to her garden and brought home a pot full of peppermint leaves! HOW COOL IS THAT?! She offered me the plant but knowing that I've got no green fingers (also the fact that my dog might just gobble everything up), I asked if she could just keep it at her house and I will get some leaves whenever I need them.

I was so excited that I googled to find recipes using mint leaves. Well, the best I could come up with is iced mint tea (other than mojito) but hey, that sounds good, no? ;)

I also promised to drop by her garden some day and I absolutely can't wait!! Hehe! 

Ok, I'm officially freaking out. I have a 20 page report due in a couple of days and absolutely ZERO idea to start on. In fact, I haven't even got pass the staring-blankly-at-my-computer stage. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?! *pulls hair*

School sucks. :(

(Sorry, just need to get this rant out of my system!)

For those of you who left sunny, humid Singapore for ang-moh food...



 

 

...Dim Sum really misses you! :p
 

This morning, Sherman told me about a dream he had last night (and this is rare because he almost never remembers his dreams)!

"I dreamt that I went to jail and when I was finally released, no one could tell how old I was. Somehow, I realized it was the year of the monkey, so I figured I was about 36 years old with no job! But you were still my girlfriend. Will you wait for me if I go to jail one day?"

"But honey, please don't go to jail. If you do, who will pick me up from work or send me to school or buy me dinner when I'm too tired to get it myself? Besides, you wouldn't like jail because it doesn't have good food and you can't watch soccer. Wait, does this mean I'll get the car if you go to jail?"

So what do you make out of this dream? Is it:

1) A warning for Sherman - he should stop cheating on parking coupons
2) We are never going to get married (he said I was STILL his girlfriend!)
3) All of the above

Haha, you tell me! :p

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Sometimes, when I've got some free time during lunch, I like to drop by the book store near my workplace and look through a book filled with thousands of baby names.

Constance means constant, firm. It was also the name of the first lady judge in USA.

What does YOUR name says about you? :)

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I just spent the afternoon reading all your blog entries, and man! I love my geeky lil' sister! Just so you know, I get the laughing-by-myself moments too. I think it's in the genes.

And, why is it that everytime you write about me, it's about something dumb I did? Ok, nevermind, don't answer that.