Monday. It was cold wet and really dreary start of the week. But thankfully it sorted itself out with a beautiful blue sky and warm afternoon.

Today, I met a fellow Singaporean who just moved to Egoli via this blog. Thank you for contacting me...hope to meet up with you real soon! :)

Its been a very trying week. With my spouse in the hospital with serious illness, trying back and forth to see him is very taxing.

But I'm there for him and I want him to get better.

Do you believe in the power of Prayer? I prayed the Holy Rosary last night and believed in the intercession of my Blessed Mother Mary.

And thus, he's much better today than he was yesterday. I think he's responding to the treatment that the doctor has put him on.

I think I have been neglecting my prayers for intercession. I will be more diligent going forward.

As we going into the last month of the year 2010, things are winding down. But yet, it seems to be a long way away from winding down for me.

I will be working throughout this December for the first time. Christmas day and New Years Day. It will be going, going gone in a flash.

I guess that would allow me to catch up with things at work.

To all those others who have the time off, good on ya. Enjoy!

My Return

Dear All

I apologize if I have been remiss in writing this blog.

It comes to a point in life where one feels that it has to be documentation and even shared.

Its been a week since my return from Singapore - My Home.

This one trip back to Singapore has been so different from my past visits. I felt more aware of my family and friends. It wasn't a me time. It was time to be with my parents, my aunts, my grandmother and my dear friends. The time I spent with them seemed so precious.

I can't put out the thought of my mom hugging me tightly when I was leaving for the airport, whispering, "I'm going to be so lonely." It is with tears that I actually blog this.

Perhaps things aren't going so well for this Singaporean in the Rainbow Nation, that my thoughts keep racing home to Singapore. Work, home, life is in somewhat of a doldrums for me now. How I long for the security of my family and friends.

Yes, Terry says Singapore is no longer home but the Rainbow Nation is now my adopted home. But I cannot put the thoughts of Kit Chan's Home - the 1998 National Day Song. I won't say much more but let Kit express how I feel right this moment. Enjoy and always remember, the grass is might always be greener on the other side of the fence, but Home is where the heart will always be.

Weekend

Porridge.  With a dollop of condensed milk.

That's what I am having for breakfast this morning.

No, my Singaporean readers, before you go off on a tangent, Porridge here is Oats Porridge. Not Porridge, as in Rice Porridge.  Although, having said that, it should be quite welcome in the coming winter months.

The only thing I miss of Singapore are my family and friends and the food.

Singapore Food.  The phrase conjures up of oily hawker food that one jostles in non-airconditioned hawker centers or coffee shops.  I think it is an institution in itself.  No where else on this globe can you find the actual concoction of my favourite Fried Carrot Cake, Char Kway Teow, Lor Mee, etc etc, ad naseum.

For a more detailed article please check out here.

Also do check out the following blogs on Singapore Food here too.

Ah, food glorious food. One of Singaporeans' 2 main hobby.

I leave you with the Chinese Saying:

"To Be Able to Eat, is a Blessing."

So EAT!

Looking Forward

We need to look forward my boss says.

Well, as I remember many donkey years back, a close friend of mine, who sat on the debating team in my secondary school, argued "Without our Past, We have no Future"

So, yes, we have indeed to look forward and not the past.  But how many of us still languish in the past, wallowing in the bygone era.

The Future is Bright, someone once proclaimed.  The Eternal Optimist?  Hardly, but with so much negativity in the society around us,  we need "Hope".

Hope Floats as the movie title goes.

So let us all hope against hope, that all hope will bring us "World Peace"

An Eventful Week

It has been quite a long week, in my opinion.

The curve ball mentioned in the previous post still haunts me.  But it is a cross that I need to deal with and hopefully find an amicable solution to it.

It is however quite heartening to hear that my much desired gadget will be available in South Africa quite soon.  But in my opinion, not soon enough, nevertheless, soon!

The Apple iPhone.

The mention of it elicits a a sly seduction of the senses and awakening of one of my, er...Terry calls it fetish. Phones.  Mobile Phones to be exact.   I have long been a Nokia fan but the Finnish company has disappointed me in recent years.  I am currently using a rather well built phone, a brand which I think is a serious contender to the Nokia's dominance in the mobile phone market. It is Sony Ericsson and my phone is the K800i.  It is a great phone, solidly built, but I think the trend is now hurtling towards smart phones. 

And the King of them of - the Apple iPhone.

I am a convert.  For years innumerable, I have been a PC user.  But I have since Dec 07, ditched PC for Mac. And never looked back.  But that is another story for another post.

Vodafone has announced that they have been given the license to sell the iPhone in 10 of their world market and South Africa's Vodacom being majority owned by Vodafone will be releasing a statement next week apparently to announce the date in which they will release the iPhone here.

I am ready.  More than ready for this coverted piece of gadgetry, voted Invention of the Year 2007 by Time Magazine.

i am ready for the i.