Inspired by mom’s recent blog entry on Traditional Pastimes, images of my childhood flashed across my mind… Eating hot pisang goreng after swimming at KGC Exploring the abandoned construction site near our house ( we called it “the mountain” ) Barbeques in our house backyard with dad as the head chef Helping mom to ice cakes and decorating it with ‘smarties’ Bathing Snowball ( almost ) every Sunday afternoon Walking down Gaya Street after church on Sundays Cycling home from the playground at twilight with Snowball running ahead of us Climbing down into the “longkangs” to catch tiny fishes Making sandcastles at Tanjung Aru beach and poking a dead jellyfish on the shore Chasing hermit crabs and trying to cover up the crab’s hole with sand ( we were so cruel! ) Counting and jumping over waves in the sea at Tanjung Aru Picnics at Kundasang and driving up the steep hill to Perkasa Hotel to see the view Building our own fire at the fire place at the chalet in National Park Snorkelling at Pul...

I am seeing stars!!! Today we had a Mediacorp filming at our cafe for a local talk show series. They wanted to feature our cafe as a good place for family fun... food... and games... So I had the honour of shaking hands with a local Singaporean celebrity who was hosting the show. I shall not reveal the name of the person here for confidential reasons (ask me in person if you want to know who I'm talking about). Anyway, I had the opportunity to have a close up look at a real celebrity. And it was interesting to see the whole "lights, camera, action" sequence in progress. We had a group of kids come in to sit down and play games in front of the camera. Wah! These kids really can act! Except for one screaming brat who kept on misbehaving, messing up the cards and refusing to cooperate, all the other kids were well behaved and put up a good show of having fun with the games. We removed the brat in the end -- much to the disappointment of the mother who was probably keen to ha...