Category Archive: Such Life
I don’t think, from my memory, I have ever been looking forward to a winter season so much like this year. I feel like I have the warmest shelter from the cold, though my perception might not be what the truth is. I am just completely swooned by this little metal box. To me, it [...]
Our recent reading is Pamela Allen’s “Are your grandmother a gonna?” and “Grandpa and Thomas and the green Umbrella”. V seems never get enough of them, especially the Thomas series. Now she can pretty much recite the grandma story herself. She could say “Chuffa…chuffa…chuffa…”, then “Thoo Thoo…off they went”, which is so cute. When we [...]
I do love dahlias, though for many years, I love all the dahlia-liked patterns without knowing what their names are. I suppose in my mind, in a not very conscious way, I always want to plant two kinds of flowers in my garden, one would be Hydrangea, and another, of course dahlia. They would both [...]
Do you play tricks with your children to make them believe that the world is in their control rather than others? It’s like a lie with good intention. My husband is a master of this. The very recent trick that my husband is playing with Vivian is to make her believe that she can put [...]
If autumn comes, can winter be far behind? I love every single element of this beautiful season. It is so colourful but indicating the fading of the life (or the beginning of a new cycle)…. Sadness, but with the hope for tomorrow, to come.
I am sorry that this question recently came across my mind recently so much that I have to vent it out. For many of you, Ikea probably is not a biggie at all. Like one of my colleagues who is actually a regular of Op shops, she said she doesn’t mind IKEA, but she would [...]
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