Take leave just to go to Sentosa!
October 20th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
We forego the drive-in and acted like tourist.
“Mummy, there”
Okay, we are the kind of parent who bring our kids to a bar. Our kid has been exposed since young, there won’t have such a thing as ‘out of curiosity’.
In case, I haven’t updated anything about her, she is now able to walk, run, jump, climb, swing… basically anything a monkey is capable of.
We were trying our best to look like tourist.
Ah ha! Who can resist taking with this surreal globe sighting in Singapore.
Okay, why would I say surreal? I feel like I’m a foreigner in my own country. Universal studio in Singapore? I am still trying to digest that.
H&M in Singapore? While looking up at the big neon sign H&M at the cross junction of Orchard Road. I can’t help but linked the sign board to freezing cold weather. But now, it’s in Singapore!
You know, I have always a little philosophy for my self, ‘behave like a local in another country, act like a tourist at your own’ It really gives lots of fresh perspective to life.
Nellie’s favorite past time is to bring me to his old estate which had since been demolished and posh new development is on its way. Every time he will animatedly describes his child hood stories to me. I breathed into every words he said. It is a bitter sweet feeling.
No matter which era we are at, everyone will talk about the good old days.
Good old days are sickening. Let’s just embrace the present, as before you know it, it will soon become one of ‘those good old days. ‘
