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Last few months have been eventful- more than usual. In this place called Singapore, we faced challenges, met new friends, met good friends, met some idiots, had lots of fun, too much food, gain pounds, cried some and laughed out loud.

In September one of the most memorable times was going to the Singapore National Day Parade. It’s memorable why? Because it’s our first time going to any national day parade. No, we’re not Singaporean (just PR)… but it was fun just to join in the festivities and see what the whole parade was about.

In Malaysia, I usually sleep in during Merdeka expecting the same old same old parade to happen. I don’t even bother to watch the TV. Suprisingly in Singapore, ppl here actually do come out and do the patriotic thing. There are Students that was actually ‘excited’ to sing the national ant

For me, the highlight was to see an Apache Longbow attack helicopter. But you know, the fireworks later on was very nice too ;)

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… and in the midst of all the crowd, some ppl were playing cards – chor dai dee. At that level, all you see is Ases.

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Surprisingly tasty, especially when paired with mutton satay. The tangy pineapple complements the gamey meat very well.

We had this at the Serangoon Garden food court. The food court is also well known for fried prawn mee – we have to agree that it was one of the better tasting one that we’ve had, full of wok hei.

It’s raining!!!!

For the last month, we watched our aircond temperature fall from 25 degrees celcius to 20 degrees celcius with no end in sight! When the news reported that a thunderstorm hit west of Singapore, I was JEALOUS…until I smelled ionized air blowing thru the house, with the darkest, ugliest, grey-est clouds gathering above!

And I sang…

Haaaaaa-le-lujah, ha-le-lu-jah, ha-le-eh-lu-jahhhhhhhhhhh!!

We clean, clean and clean!!!! :(

We finally had a reason to tidy up the guest room.

BEFORE

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AFTER

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Unfortunately the boxes have nowhere to go so they got stashed below the table for now.

MINDEF?

A mail came for Eric recently…

Letter from MINDEF

Letter from MINDEF

I was like…what’s MINDEF? He mumbled Ministry of Defense and his usual grinning goofy face turned solemn.

We both had that same thought…but but but…you’re suppose to be exempted.

The Enlistment Act? *Gulp*

The Enlistment Act? *Gulp*

Notice of Exemption!!!! Phew!

Notice of Exemption!!!! Phew!

The last line to the letter says to ‘kindly retain this notification for your future reference’. Do you think they would ever change their mind and this would be Eric’s only salvation? Look I have a letter….it says I’m exempted you tweet!

We drive to JB for

Ipoh white coffee…

Bentong durians and mangosteens….

and fei-lo-ship around seafood noodles and wantan mee!

I’m glad some things don’t change!

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Meet Evan, our makan guru - best in Singapore, and some say in JB!

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Lewis loves all things Malaysian, especially a good cuppa!

Our durian binge-ing session:

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Margaret gives thumbs up to Bentong durian!

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What do Malaysian and Singaporean politicians do when they get together? They eat durian!

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We all wished Jesus was born in Malaysia, then instead of breaking bread we can break durian!!

We forgot to take pix of the seafood noodles and wantan mee. Got to wait until the next trip!

Midweek bible study by Pastor Prince!

…and judging by the people that went, thousands of people agree with me!

A few weeks ago, Pastor Prince decided to have a midweek bible study – the first in 2 years. So all of us were looking forward to learn more about Christ. The bible study starts at 7:30pm but our caregroup host, Richard decided that we should all go at 5pm instead. The early birds gets a seat in the auditorium.

So off we went at 5pm and we reached there at 545pm. Not bad you may think…. but we were late late late! The que lining up to the venue was already snaking across suntec. We heard someone started lining up at 11:30am! Wow!

That’s, that’s, that’s cheating!!!

I’m simply amazed by the people’s hunger for the word.

So in the end we ended up in the ‘children’s foyer’ on the walkway towards the auditorium. All the overflow room was overflowing with people. And these are huge exhibition halls in suntec! (I went in one of these overflow room – the biggest – last week and counted 15 projection screen for about 3000).

From where we were seating, it looked like this:

Young and old all on the floor

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All watching ‘DVD’

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All over people were packing in.

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