The colour red — reminds me of Chinese New Year, which coincidentally happens to be two days away. Almost everything relates to the Lunar New Year/ spring festival (春節) is in red, from the decorations with red tanglungs (lanterns), red peonies and red ornaments, red spring scrolls at the door, red fire crackers, red angpaus…
“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…
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 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…
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 