On this day - 20th June #Reminders from FB#

20th June 2024

Went out with my old LV bag, going home with this cheap cheap eco bag 😆. Walked past LV then remembered I needed to repair a part. Dumped all my bag's content into my eco bag.🤣

I can't rmbr how much I paid for the pochette more than 24yrs (?) ago but it's selling for $1800 now according to the staff and always hard to find. 

Appreciation of ?% ?

Wah..I really got all the classic old old design bags. Cabin bag somemore! Sometimes so tempted to buy new bags but own too many bags for what? Then each bag also got sentimental value, all purchased in different countries which I went thru jetlagged and served coffee tea fish and chicken to earn them. I didn't practice the throw/get rid of 2-3 items to buy 1 new item then. So even if now I want to buy a new bag, I'm adding more stuffs into my small house coz l can't bear to give up my bags to change to a new one. Maybe I should just switch to owning eco bags

😁 #poorcustomerinexercisegearsteppedintoLV#

#myhairwasinamess#

#gottasendmywalletforrepairtoo#

For the time being while waiting for the repair, I'll use this. Anyway aunty never go to atas expensive places so this Kiki bag can do, won't get turned away at the supermarkets and nearby malls.

Lucky just now aunty never walk into LV in slippers and shorts.

20th June 2023

Omg! Tidying and cleaning the top cabinet and realised I actually had a bag of clothes to pass to lil' one from che-che. There were a couple of new clothes too! Hilfiger, Oshkosh all new ones! 🤦🏻‍♀️ How did I miss this bag?!

Most of the pass-me-downs were really sweet dresses, purchased from US. 

I love these 2 dresses. Should I keep for momento?

And the relatively new Guess set, che-che didn’t wear them long coz she outgrew too fast 😂

30th June 2023

Time to peng satay 😂

Brush every 20mins.

20th June 2021

Nottie girl so sleepy …. and she’s finally wide awake now at 3! 

No fever nothing at all. So far only she and daddy took their first  💉(on different days tho). It’s a good decision that the man n I did not take 💉 together, only one man down at a time 🤣. 

Now thinking abt her second jab. should I send her to school. Somemore I chose a nice nice timing at 8.30am. This mummy is so bad.

20th June 2021

I think the plant flies 🪰   love 🎶

If I just sit in the couch, there's nothing flying about (not that I know of). BUT the moment I start playing the electone or piano, the bloody 🪰 keep flying around me.

#maybecozitisattractedtoTRASHmusic# #rhythmicflies##feelingbleh# #notplayinganymore#

20th June 2020

My grocery app never had so many sub-lists before.

20th June 2017

Nottie girl with her fav noodle. We haven't had this for ..2mths? 3mths?

20th June 2013

I'm just wondering how the opposite block residents can leave their windows so wide open. Don't they feel uncomfortable? My windows have been closed for many days, last evening after I got back home to a 190PSI reading, I closed up even that tiniest gap in the toilets.

20th June 2012

* added some photos to the Sydney & GC album

20th June 2012

I didn't get to go on those rides in Dreamworld and Movieworld. Pretty sad! No one to accompany me, and not nice to have MIL and hubby waiting.

Che-che asked me why do I like to take roller coaster rides. I like the thrill and should do it when I'm still young (though I'm not getting any younger too.). At least when I'm older and look back, I can say l've done it before.

Footnote written in 2021 : 

And I'm still waiting for one trip with daring che-che to Six Flags. I hope I don't hv to wait until I cannot take rides 🤮 anymore. But hor....now I dare not take front seat anymore. Heartbeat faster also 😂.

Go away covid, we want our lost US trip back.

20th June 2011

I had been wondering for weeks what stupid song my girls made up ＂我不会走看见的是..."

Now as I turn to look at the Chinese flashcards for Aricia, then I realized 8 characters r from there.

20th June 2010

Wah…...hubby told me that coming Tuesday is Bring Your Kids to Office day. Duh! And I've already planned a playdate for that day.

Cello #3

Che-che seems to be able to find more time practicing her cello now (and playing the piano too!). Perhaps coz all she does now is work, unlike years ago when she’s a student struggling with school + tuitions + piano, thus more pockets of time. Perhaps too coz she’s the one paying for her own cello lessons, she feels the pain if she doesn’t practice properly and progression is slow. 

That eureka moment ! 

I was in the dining area when she was practicing in her room. 

The scale and songs (especially for Lightly Row has so much more dynamics, feelings to it now). Definitely 10x so much better sounding now, no wrong angle causing funny squeaky sound. At one point I had to go into her room to pass her the laundered clothes I saw she had her eyes closed. She had a shock few seconds later as she probably sense a movement in the room “哎哟！吓死我！” So she’s been bowing with her eyes closed! This is a good method coz there’s no visual distractions relying just the auditory senses. Listening to herself, adjusting the bowing angle if she hears a slight squeak and getting the dynamics and correct emotions. Her bowing is stronger firmer sounded more confident now. And to hear it only after 4 lessons is amazing. I must 不要脸的夸自己的孩子. 🤨 She was still squeaking after more than 8 lessons playing the violin (因为不是她还钱🤣) 

Was surprised when I heard her playing a short classical piece which I believe is not from the tutor coz she played it for the first time today. And it was not bad, no squeaks. When she had that eureka 开窍 moment, this song “You Did It” from My Fair Lady came into my mind. We all know that as long as someone has music background it’ll be easy to pick up any instruments. They just need to practice and improve on the technicalities. I’m just surprised that she was able to improve that fast. 

Next mission

Maybe it’s time I pick and practice a piano cello duet piece and we can try to play together one day. Wishful thinking on my part? What happens if my old 玩不动 fingers and brain slow connection/thinking cause me a very s.l.o.w progression? May take months to play properly on the piano. Or I practice in secret first, then give her some time to practice while I continue practicing, after which we can come together and do the duet. Hmmm…💭…. Canon in D? Or my favourite Air on the G String? 😁

On This Day - (19th June) #Reminders from FB#

19th June 2025

I was telling girlfriend that I thought I would be able to buy more cleaning stuffs since I'm travelling alone.

(Usually with family it's difficult as we don't travel 1 bag each.) But .... it turns out their snacks and ramen still took up space.

Go to frequented city, I get a list. Go to new places, I buy to let them try specialities. This solo trip was mainly new places and flight into a city we went before. So guess that's where their items amounted to so much. My luggage was filled up at last stop 🤣. And drumroll ..... I only bought 4 ah-soh items!!! How can like that 😢? I wanted to buy more leh! I needed more refills.

Does that mean I can go another trip solely just for shopping in ah-soh aisle?

Ps: I'm such a good girl. I didn't buy umbrella this trip.🤣

19th June 2024

After a long break I resumed brewing lil' one's soup.

BUT without the last pack of peanut root coz it smells tho it's vacumned pack. Guess should have checked it before I flew off.

Need to buy n start cleaning new batch. Sigh.....what to do? She likes to drink this.

19th June 2023

Just feel like drinking matcha latte, so this is my unsweetened version 😄

The treats are just for 📸 only, I'II only steal abit of warabi mochi. Already resisting temptation leh...but like my super encouraging girls tell me with a sheepish smile "mummy you can forget about going keto lah!", "you can slowly introduce sugar to your food now ...." My girls 'bor tua bor suay' 😅

19th June 2023

I haven't seen this for quite a while. The girls used to like this.

Will be che-che's breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper for the next few days 🤭

#彼女はただラーメンが大好きです#

妹妹 I will try to keep some for you 😜

19th June 2023

Beginning to miss that nottie lil' one. House is quiet without her. Few more sleeps before she gets back home, back to reality.

She doesn't want to come back 🤣🤣, don't miss

home at all. Of course lah！做工又好像没做工。有的吃喝玩乐。最重要不用读书。

19th June 2023

Mylene Fagaly thank goodness we weren't stuck in this position during our ride 😬

Footnote written in 2026 : We made wonderful memories with Mylene in Disneyland. Getting stuck in one ride was really funny. It was also the last year (up till to date) we stepped into US for our family hols.

19th June 2022

Still beautiful but lost its colour 😢

19th June 2020

Did my errands at PP before picking lil' one up from school and boy! It's more crowded as usual. To think that Spaceout stated <50%, I wonder how reliant this is.

I didn't run out of the house just coz it's Phase 2 today. It just so happened that I needed to get stuffs and I can only do so when someone is in school, if not I'd be happy staying in at home. You won't see my shadow out of my house when it's HBL next week. (Oops! apart from 2 days where che-che is required to be in school, I'll just do my ah-mat job.) Eateries busy today, everyone's happy to be eating out. Well, personally I'll rather hold on first. No need to rush out to eat. People happy to be meeting their fellow humans after some time, I'll hold on first. I'd rather pack n go. Pls don't be mistaken my friends, I'm not telling u u should follow what I do/feel/think.

Do so if you really can't wait to meet your friends. We all need the human contact. Maybe I've become an

• alien 👽 after 2+mths.

Phase 2 doesn't mean it's still safe. It's done so that some can go back to work, the economy needs a little vroom 🏎️ vroom.

It just irritates me when I try to practice safe distancing coz I feel responsible towards my family members at home, but some people just stand too close to me or walk right infront of me n stand infront of me when I'm reaching out to the shelf. And some 20something ppl, can still feign ignorance and ask "oh must check-in here also?" Come on! Even if you are blind today cannot see the big square right infront of you as you step into the shop, you should be aware of this when PSAs have been playing at home for the past weeks. Unless u were busy watching Netflix lah! That same lady, happened to be at same place twice. Can geh-siao until like that? And she was the one who stood infront of me at CS!!

And so.. I'll just be out of the house when I need to be.

Far East Flora can wait, I can't wait to step inside after so long but it's not urgent.

Spotlight can wait, I need to get item but it's not urgent.

I can't wait for the day when I can dine out with my family n do our usual routine. But will wait.

I need my life back to normalcy soon. I need to be able to find things that I want, to be not so inconvenienced when I need to run multiple places just to find that item. (Now I'II do it only when I'm out.

Won't die if don't have it but ...y y y who's hoarding the Peanut Butter Chips 🤨 To be able to do a drop cheque at PP, without leaving the mall and then queuing to re-enter again. When will that be? I hope I won't have to wait that long.

19th June 2013

Shellie May is preparing for ha t days

19th June 2013

What!! 290?!

19th June 2013

Although the haze has been a recurring problem for many many years, l've never felt so uncomfortable with the smell until now.

Can I inhale the lemon air freshener instead?

Which one will cause more harm to body? Haze or air freshener?

19th June 2013

Usually, the girls will be wasting time; scolding each other for not taking whatever from their seat etc..

Getting home is a noisy affair.

Earlier on, the girls cooperated and put on mask and I had to wet a tissue before we all open the car door at same time. No talking n no running. All walked into the lift; into the house and closed the door behind us with no fuss.

Masked ! 

19th June 2012

Signed the kiddos up for ice-cream making workshop and this is their end product. Hahaha! Turned out all the kids ice-cream turned watery, so nobody brings anything back. To console them n myself...bought a B&J ice-cream.

Footnote written in 2023 : Haha! When cannot make one, you buy one

19th June 2011

Finally hv the time to do this, before mould grows on ribbons.

Their first hairclip made by moi.

19th June 2011

Lil' girl told daddy "On Children's Day, u n mummy must make card for us." LOL!

On This Day - (18th June) #Reminders from FB#

18th June 2025

Wahh....it will surely be difficult on my head 😆

18th June 2025

Met up with 美女 girlfriend, my batchgirl to pass her the things she needs. Funny right? She flies more often than me, supposedly I should tompang her to help me buy things not the other way round. But such is life as a cabin crew, you never know when is your next flight to a certain station. Anyway, it's alright I didn't mind helping her out since I'm already there.

When I was in Japan, we messaged rubbish to each other and then this helpful girl had to recommend me more things for cleaning. She started her recommendation since last year when I was told crew bring luggage even for 1N flights to Japan station.

Yup! She was the one who was on the same flight as che-che n I in 2024, and the person who said "torlong lah Lily..." I still feel I was overdoing it with the bags for our short trip. I feel she's my buddy when it comes to buying cleaning stuffs. Her house must be cleaner and tidier than mine. But she's only tempting me to buy more things, luckily she stopped recommending after that. If not, I would have to block all her messages 😂. 

It was a lovely meetup for 4hrs, so nice to chat with her from hotels ghost stories to rubbish to fengshui.

We talked alot! Still at some point in time we had to part ways. Till the next time we meet, safe flights always Ho T Xuan. If I bump into you onboard, please pass me satay and pralines. Thank you 😜. 

Footnote written in 2026 : Ho T Xuan one year already. Enjoy your time in CDG now. Loh Moo Han n I will see you soon.

18th June 2025

What a trip it has been! Finally my long overdue had-been-harping-over-20plus-years solo trip. For a person who loves travelling (ok who doesn't), who had been held back for so many years, a solo trip has to be done sooner or later.

It has been a fruitful trip, did what I wanted to do, ate what I wanted to eat, took 3003 pictures with nobody stopping me or me chasing after the family who kept walking ahead, can rest properly in hotels (normally I'm still a mother and a maid during our family hols.

Yah! While Everyone's resting I'm always the one washing undergarments n socks after being the last to shower. It truly sucks to be the only one busy while the rest of them can lay down on bed fiddling their phones. After that i still need to look thru next day's itinerary leh!)

I've never felt so liberated like this before! As one vlogger I met during one of my hikes told me "you truly deserve this coz you've put in alot for the family over the years. I'm single and I can't imagine how you must have neglected yourself over the years." Wah... ah nia heard what she said and it truly resonates how I felt, really want to cry and hug her. Altho I had done small bits of pampering here and there with facials these years, there's something mentally that I did neglect myself all these years, I had forgotten what i had loved to do not what I loved to do for the girls.

Weeks before : Friends who knew I was going on solo trip either asked me "you can meh?" (Ah-nia has always been the one planning our holiday itineraries, of course I can. And l've done majority of my sightseeing when flying on solo) OR "nobody to talk to" (I don't need to talk to anyone. All I need is music. likely I'm quite the anti-social person. I messaged a friend while I was there. If she or anyone had talked to me during our hike when I'm breathless, I would have kicked her down the slope before the bear got to her/us.)

Special mention - the funny interesting videocall with Nanette Zehnder I had when I was there.... Maybe I'II do that in another post

The trip started with meeting my favourite CS onboard. Meeting funny Japanese people along the way. The people who announced I was from SIN to their kampong ppl 😂.My conversation with a small cafe owner who rolled his eyes when he mentioned the homestay owner (where i was putting up) and his wife can talk in the morning, then in the afternoon then at night. I got what he meant and said "ゴシップ ? His body language was hilarious. The 4 cute old ladies who mistook the place where they stood was the 📸 place until i brought them to the correct one and offered to take photos for them. They shouted a loud sayonara from afar, waving to me excitedly, when they saw me walking away. Quite shocking behaviour of the soft spoken Japanese we all know 🤣. But I guess they were in a group so they kindda let themselves loose. Kindda makes me wonder if we had a bunch of old ladies KC girls, will we be rowdier than them? Still I admire their care for each other when they helped each other out of the car. Met a volunteer who pointed out the area to me at the observatory deck and then gifted me a paper ball. He thought I didn't know what it was and demonstrated from a distance that I had to pull it out and inflate it. But in the process he donated his saliva on my hand 😂, I dare not say anything. Lots of chicken and duck talks with Japanese in the country + small chats with fellow tourists. All the way until my trip ended with meeting my batchboy onboard. Wow!

Back home ystd and had to quickly unpack and wipe luggage, ready for next usage. Tmrw the girls will fly for their siblings trip. Had I intended to follow them, I would be packing again 😂, but then it wouldn't be called siblings trip. I need to recuperate.

EX-SIN : When Cpt announced IFM name, I was wondering if it could be him. Because there's not so many xxx in the airline when I was there, unless this IFM is super fast-tracked. And when he walked past me, I was so excited. I've totally lost contact with him after I changed my phone. Obviously must talk to him right?

A photo of us for keepsake. Me and my messy hair

On return sector : I didn't know he was onboard until I heard a familiar voice over the PA "cabin crew door closed" and until he walked past me I confirmed it's him.

But prepping cabin for take-off so I didn't reach out to him.

Mid flight, he came back to me beaming after I asked the JFSS to help me convey a message to him. I bet he would have looked into the PIS to figure out who wanted to see him 🤣 . We started out as batchmates back in 1995, he's the only one that fast-tracked his ranks.

When I was LSS, he was already a CS. He must be the youngest IFM.

I went with my white hair coloured, and came home with whites growing. Haha! (Nvr mind grow out more and I'm still holidaying I don't mind.)

Came home tanned and messy hair again, as shown in this photo.

18th June 2017

The day our fire started so slow.....that the

'neighbours' who came after us had theirs 🔥 🔥 started so quickly, came to our help.

#airfryerisbetterright#

Just when we got the fire going...it started to drizzle...

Don't ask me why but Father had this in his car and came to our rescue

18th June 2013

Craving for durian.

18th June 2013

Where to run to? Where to run to?

Got haze, I stay at home.

Next door neighbour renovating their place. Now the drilling noise is too much to bear. Ear plugs! Ear plugs!

But speaking of which. I thought contractors were suppose to paste a piece of paper stating renovation work duration on the door

18th June 2012

Simply love the nice crisp sound coming from a tuned piano.

18th June 2012

Overlapping of maid duties now.

Handing over n on the job training

18th June 2012

Today's Aminah #2 duty. She's one of the 2 helpers I've hired! No need to pay levy n salary somemore.

Footnote written in 2026 : Oh my! She was so cute then.

18th June 2011

1st session using her own card. The youngest customer for ear candling.

18th June 2010

2 more days! 2 more days!

(2 more days for KZ to return from her 5wks home leave)