“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” Eeyore to Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne) “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) American essayist, lecturer and poet “A weed is but an unloved flower.” Ella Wilcox (1850 – 1919) American…
Last Sunday I woke up with a knot in my tummy! It was all because I had agreed to do the Chinese to English interpretation for an old classmate YT who would be preaching in his church that morning. I have been serving as an interpreter for the bilingual service at a sister church once…
I spotted the little yellow flowers with beautiful scent in dad’s container garden the other day. I immediately knelt down, dug through the vines to get a better look at them. I then spent some time trying to get a good shot of the blooms before I asked what it was. Dad said, “This is…
I took these beautiful scented frangipani at a beach resort 2 weekends ago when we went for a church ladies’ retreat. It was in the morning and the sun had yet to dry off the remaining raindrops on the flowers left by an overnight of long-awaited rain. When I went for the walk, the wet…
I went to school with DD, although we were never in the same class (she was in the class next door) we all knew her. She had a very pleasant personality and was a cheerful and bubbly person. We got to know her better in recent years when she started joining us at our a-few-times-a-year…
How it all began… My old schoolmate Ellen who resides in Kuala Lumpur said in the beginning of the year, “I’m coming back to KK to attend Albert’s wedding (another old schoolmate of ours) in December and let’s make a short trip away while I’m there, you and me for the first time, to Mantanani…
Old classmate Su Chee came home from the States with her family for a short summer break and we managed to call for a small “Chinese tea party” last minute at Donny’s. We had a good catch-up, drank lots of “gongfucha” (to a layman like me “gongfucha ceremony” means brewing of tea in cute little…
What a lovely Sunday afternoon I had at Emma’s tea party. It was actually Emma’s farewell party as she will be leaving for Bristol, UK to further her studies in less than 2 weeks’ time. She’s no longer the cute little girl in pink tutu that I remembered or an excited 8-year-old who pointed at…
Colourful Threads of Life 