monoceros blogs1. My mom and I had lunch with Chris and Amy on Saturday. They drove in from Auburn Hills to have lunch with us at the fairly new Indian restaurant whose name eludes me for now. Saturday's menu was a lavish buffet in honor of Divali (Deepavali to us Singaporeans), the festival of lights. Eating Indian food in Ann Arbor on a well-celebrated day that is shared by people back home unearthed a spring of good memories of when Chris and Amy were in Singapore, and Lin Kiat and I took them to try all kinds of food and walk the streets of Little India, Arab Street and Chinatown.
2. Speaking of home, I'm trying desperately to get a ticket for the holidays. I've been so busy of late and didn't expect the seats to fill up so quickly. Even flights from London are a problem and Singaporeans there are having difficulty getting home for Christmas. Northwest Airlines doesn't even have a waitlist anymore. I drove my mother to Somerset Mall in Troy the other day, and purchased a pair of pencils with the pig characters Toot and Puddle perched on top. They both carry little Christmas trees, and printed on the bodies of the pencils is the phrase, "I'll be home for Christmas." If I don't get my ticket, I'm throwing those pencils out and downing bloody marys to grieve.
3. I'm tired of grading mid-term papers, especially the ones where the handwriting requires great strength and patience to decipher. I'm a grader, not a reader of hieroglyphs!
4. I'm also tired of receiving emails (a dozen at least in a day) asking if I want to have my penis enlarged. I'd much prefer a brain augmentation, which would be more useful to me.
5. More on fatigue - my eyebags have expanded to a point where they can hold baby goldfish. I am developing a bad case of eczema on my lower back and stomach, probably due to stress. I doze in church (during a baby's baptism, no less! Well, the baby was dozing too). I have little or no time for my personal reading and writing, which is depressing.
6. I miss my old life in Singapore. I don't regret coming here, I just miss the objects and rituals of the past, and the people I left behind.
For me who goes,
And you who stay,
Two autumns.
~Anonymous~
Vanny
You will make it home my dear! The people, objects and rituals in the past will always be here waiting for you.....
Always in my prayers
Love
Ai-Mai
yeah Vanny, you'll be able to get that ticket home! I'm sure you will! I'll be back in Sg by X'mas and we'll have to meet up with the rest of the girls to have a laugh over the wedding vcds!
And try to get more rest! We don't want any adult goldfish. haha...your baby goldfish description made me laugh. hee.
Posted by: joan at October 28, 2003 7:21 AMHope you'll get the flights!!
Posted by: tiggie at October 28, 2003 8:49 PM