I can now begin to understand why some single men like to borrow babies in order to chat up with girls. When I walk alone, no one stops and looks at me. But when I carried my niece Bethany, inside the Botanic Gardens one fine Saturday, all the women around me smiled at – collectively [...]
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My Little Sister Is Pregnant – And Photos From The Botanic Gardens
October 18th, 2009 14 Comments
In fact, as you can see in the photo above, she is very pregnant. So, why am I keeping mum about this significant news for so long? I don’t know, can’t really pinpoint. I mean, she is my little sister and the thought that she is carrying a baby seems so out of my wildest [...]
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For My Parents With Love In The Beautiful Landscape of The Singapore Botanic Gardens
March 8th, 2009 10 Comments
My 74 years old dad said the funniest thing. He told me that these days when he went fishing, along the harbor of Hong Kong, young photographers often take him as their photo subject. And in his tone of reminisce he said, “When I was a young photographer I was doing the same. Now that [...]
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Me No Shy About Me Birthday
July 10th, 2008 16 Comments
Thanks for all your warm wishes! It is the thought that counts. So, text messages are same-same to me. I have two traditions when it comes to my birthday. One, it will be a holiday. Look, if we have holidays to celebrate the birth of the kings and queens and anniversary of what not, why [...]
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Can You Keep A Secret?
February 14th, 2008 13 Comments
I was caught on camera smiling while reading a book at the Botanic Gardens last weekend. How embarrassing! I’ll get to that later. Couple of months ago, I was also caught on camera as a school project – so I was told – while I was reading a book. It was a lovely afternoon at [...]
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At Botanic Gardens Part 2 of 2 – Nomine Si Nescis, Perit & Cognitia Rerum
October 5th, 2007 6 Comments
It all started with a milestone that our team has completed. Monday morning was declared as a half day holiday that was off the record. Nice! And since I needed to send Cynthia off to work anyway, I have decided to head to the Botanic Gardens (commonly misspelled by many including myself as “Botanical Garden” [...]
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At Botanic Gardens Part 1 of 2 – Finding Mr. B a New Home
October 2nd, 2007 15 Comments
One morning, right before I started the car engine and began a rather unusual morning of enjoying myself at the Botanic Gardens on a working day, Cynthia pointed at the passenger seat window and said rather calmly, “Look, there is an animal outside”. The French calls it an animal. Apparently the Indonesian refers that as [...]
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