
Flowers outside Forbidden Palace, Beijing.
 The summer days are gone too soon   
You shoot the moon   
And miss completely   
And now you're left to face the gloom   
The empty room that once smelled sweetly   
Of all the flowers you plucked if only   
You knew the reason   
Why you had to each be lonely   
Was it just the season?   
Now the fall is here again   
You can't begin to give in   
It's all over   
When the snows come rolling through    
You're rolling too with some new lover   
Will you think of times you've told me   
That you knew the reason   
Why we had to each be lonely   
It was just the season
  Norah Jones -- Shoot the Moon
\ So, sue me if I say that Chinese New Year this year is about as interesting as watching paint dry. I spent my morning playing Civilization III and trying to make Japan build a tactical nuke by 1920. (I failed) But the food was excellent, as usual. Looks like one thing never changes around here - my mom and my aunt's amazing culinary skills that make you look at their daughter and niece respectively and go "WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO HER??"
Was helping out with Sierra Wing's steamboat preparation on Thursday and I managed to drop/break crabsticks while peeling them out of the plastics, prompting Lta Chan to label me a kitchen hazard. Hey - what's wrong with cutting tofu diagonally? It's more kitschy than having the usual tofu cubes no? Ok fine, lets keep things short and sweet, my future husband has GOT to be an Officer who can cook because Penny and I have decided (after Lta Peh's description) that we want a military wedding, and also because.. I can't cook. Don't know about Penny though. Heh.
Tommorow will be more exciting. (I hope) Maybe if my family stuff ends around two-ish, then I'll get my dad to drive me over to Mr Yong's house to join the team there. I want to take photos with Justin, Junxu etc. You know, since they're all hairless. Then I can tell them how OCS is pretty okay, while Tekong's prolly like the gutter. Fwahahaha.
 
 Vanessa Lim 10:03 a. m.