love is blind

Hehehee..no, they're not happy boys. Helping a neighbour, that's all. That's us.
But it's good to see the smile on their faces at the beginning of the 30km hike.
painful, and ice jelly never tasted better after it.
I'm not writiting much. I need to find some food...

ophir team 2

training begun tonight.

charade time!

2 words..

Both words, 2 syllabus..

give up?

fishing alone!

sorry..inspiration hasn't arrived. will edit later. just need to post pictures.

Bear with me

What do you call a bear with no teeth?

A gummy bear!!


I love that cartoon! It was my favourite.
I still remember the song...

Gummy bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere.
High adventures that's beyond compare,
They are the gummy bears

of childhood memories and a few good people

It was almost painful hearing them talk.
It's like a chicken and duck trying to communicate
One was a sun-baked harden Chinese blue collared worker
The other a suave Kerala Indian who pilots a ship
Never mind the Chinese man was half drunk
Even if he wasn't, his vocabulary won't get him anywhere
The conversation wasn't going too far
It was just "happy..., healthy..., eat..., drink...,cheers!"

They had nothing in common. Absolutely nothing.

Except, for the fact that their paths once crossed almost 40 years ago
Their homes once shared a street call Mar Thoma Road
3 Indian brothers befriended a band of Hokkien-sprouting Chinese cousins
It was more than just a street they shared, it was a childhood worth treasuring
They hurled stones at birds, went fishing by rivers and drains, played "go-li"(marbles)
and what else i wonder

They really weren't going anywhere with the conversation

But they were holding hands, patting each other's back,
throwing their arm over the other's shoulder, toasting and filling the glasses
When Uncle Beng went back to his seat, i asked Uncle James how they communicated in the past
"I could speak Hokkien then and he could speak English."

Uncle Beng(Dad's cousin) came back(still tipsy) and he told me that i must learn how to be a good man from Uncle James

Uncle James told me, that my father "was a gentlemen in the past, and still is today." That he looked up to and followed my dad around as a kid.

I have NOT, never heard a good remark about my dad from others before

Maybe that's why it struck a chord
Maybe that's why i kept trying to interpret for them

"All the people who lived in that house were good people."

"i lived there, in the old zinc roofed house! I was born there!"
i wanted to announce.

It didn't matter.
It wasn't my night
Grandma turned 88
and memories of yesteryears turned sweeter

Joke Time

  Discovered the jokes in an old email sent by a friend.
 Some of them are really excellent.I really like the one on stolen credit cards.
 Have a good laugh, husbands! (if you dare)
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 My wife dresses to kill. She also cooks the same way.

        -Henny Youngman

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        My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.  

        -Rodney Dangerfield

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        A good wife always forgives her husband when she's 

        wrong. -Milton Berle

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        I bought my wife a new car. She called and said,

        "There was water in the carburetor."

        I asked her , "What do you know about carburetors? Where's the car?"

        She replied,"In the lake."

        -Henny Youngman

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        The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

        -Henny Youngman

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        After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You

        know, I was a fool when I married you."

        The husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and

        didn't notice."

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        When a man steals your wife, there is no better

        revenge than to let him keep her.

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        I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months - I don't

        like to interrupt her.

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        My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate.

        So I got myself two girlfriends.

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        A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to 

        report it since the thief was spending much less than

        his wife did.

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        Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is

        finished.

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        A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does

        it cost to get married?"

        The father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."

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        Young Son: Is it true, Dad, that in some parts of Africa, a

        Man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?

        Dad: That happens in every country, son.

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        Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real

        happiness was until I got married; then it was too late.

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        A man placed an ad in the classifieds: "Wife wanted."

        The next day he received a hundred letters.

        They all said the same: "You can have mine."

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        A woman was telling her friend, "I made my husband a

        millionaire."

        "And what was he before you married him?" asked the

        friend.

        "A billionaire." she replied,

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        Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

        Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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        It's not true that married men live longer than single men. 

        It only seems longer.

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        Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was 

        almost impossible.

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        Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go

        through life thinking they had no faults at all.

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        Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for

        marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewellery.

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        The most effective way to remember your wife's

        birthday is to forget it once. 

The Amazing Run...of weekly dinners

This is a first.
As of Oct 15th, i began my amazing run of 9 dinners back to back, every week.
I have to get this down.

15/10- Joann and Roy's wedding- MC.(not the paper that gets you an excuse for not attending).(See pic above)
21/10- Stella's wedding-JC classmate. Like a mini class reunion. Really fun catching up
28/10- BB 75th Anniversary Dinner-Good time to appreciate all our officers and get together.
6/11- Grandma's Birthday. She's ninety. The only other occasion besides CNY where the cousins meet up
12/11- Moses' wedding. The band will be made up by our cell members. Should be fun.
19/11- KC's wedding@Wesley. Singing 2 hymns, to Him. ahahaha
26/11- B N W. Winz Bau and "Wendy-i-pluck-my-eyebrows-pls-don't-comment-Lee's" wedding. Reservist would have started.So no MC role. Hope to attend it.
4/12- Danny's wedding. Sum wedding's die die must go. This is one.
10/12- Xiang Ge's wedding. Was supposed to lead worship, but reservist again. I hope can make it to this one. Not everyday that my extended family packs in into a church.

And i already attended 3 weddings earlier this year.
Mei Mei and Dan's- MC
Loon and Sharon's-MC
Lyn's

Someone said to me , "Poor thing!"
He's absolutely right!
And it's not amazing anymore, why i need to run and run and run.