Happy memories =) <3

I’m blogging about a few events that have happened through the week that are either 1) really nice, sweet and create happy feelings when I recall them, or 2) very special and new to me. I have some photographs from some events so this might turn out to be a very photo-heavy post. Oh well! The more the merrier right? =) I shall begin!

1. Welcome home silver =)

Silver finally returned home after a three day two night stay at the pet hospital where she was kept under tight observation for any new signs of seizures. She seemed completely normal when she came back, but her panting was still really quick, and I spent about an hour just being with her that night. She really is extremely extremely friendly, just like beagles should be.

She now gets to run around the front of the house in the morning, and it’s made her much happier. I think mum’s finally given in and doesn’t want to be too strict with her! =) She flipped the bin outside at least once again, and I’m thinking of telling mom to be less stubborn and to relocate it.

Something really cute happened the day after she came back! Baobei came over, and he played with her and cuddled her and just let her pounce and step and do everything to him. It gave me a nice feeling everytime I knew that they were having fun with each other, and it makes me happy to see her so happy. =) He was trying to do this strange quick-step action to give her a shock and everytime he did it she would pounce on him! Cute =) Happy =D !

Haha, it makes me really happy. =) We’re still monitoring her to make sure the symptoms don’t return, and that she’s completely healed.

2. Mango(oooooo!)steens! =)

I never knew we had a mangosteen tree in our backyard until I saw these things lying around on the table in the living room.

Sounds pretty amazing doesn’t it, for a tree that’s only about 5 and a half years old. The tree was first planted when we bought the land, and now that it’s mature and producting fruits, mum collects the mangosteens when they’re ripe and we get to eat them! I shared one with baobei the other day and it’s so so sweet, much sweeter than those you buy from the markets even and even though they’re small, they’re really quite a blessing. =)

Silver eats them too (against mum’s wishes of course) =P. Even she can’t resist them! ^^ I find it so cool, because it makes me feel so domestic, and I think I shall grow reliant on them to produce more for us! Heehee.

3. Basketball session in school

Baobei had two sessions of basketball with a few friends during the holidays, and though I didn’t join them, it was fun to just sit at the steps and watch them play. It was also fun to photograph them under the bright lights, and watch baobei do some really amazing lay ups and have the time of his life. =) I said it before, and I’ll say it again… I’ll never get tired of watching you play on court or off court because you’re spectacular! =)

Anyway, diverging from my self indulgence (heehee), I think it’s possible to analyze a person’s skills through mere observing, but you can only completely see or ‘feel’ someone’s capability when you’re playing with them, which makes me think that this sport is pretty overwhelming because of the amount of variety of skill and technique that differentiates a player from another. It just feels that way to me. So intense, so fiery, competitive, and glorifying with every scored basket. Are most ball sports like that? I’m not sure.

I realize that I’ve always had a thing for it, even before secondary school. I used to shoot with my dad/mom almost weekly since I was what, 8? and I remember my PE teacher in NYPS saying I could consider joining the sport CCA (but I didn’t want to) since Pri 3. In sec 1, I bought mangas about the sport, and felt everything about it to be just absolutely stunning and cool etc, and some classmates and I would spend hours just shooting at the courts near our classroom after class with a ball we stole that belonged to the school tea… (you get the idea). =) I can say that I’ve had a history of feeling passionate for the sport, but only after meeting you, did I learn that it’s not as simple as it seemed to be.

It’s a sport, but it can mean much more, because you simply can’t teach heart, and I think that’s what makes you playing basketball so life changing/ special to me. =)

4. Cafe Cartel, TYSVM (thank you so very much!)

Being big fans of Cafe cartel’s pork ribs for a long time already (since march 2008 when baobei first introduced it to me ^^), we visited the outlet at Bishan once again, craving yummy food. This time, like all the other few times, we ordered their speciality pork ribs, with iced peach tea, free flow of toasted bread with butter and soup of the day, and tucked in happily…

Nom nom nom nom nom… *chews*

Yaaaarrrrrmmmmmeeeeeeeeeee~ ~ ~

But one thing was different, because we had finally filled in THE CARD ….

with enough stickers!!! =)

This card is part of a Cafe Cartel promotion since Oct 08, where you are entitled a sticker from each order of Pork Ribs and when you’ve collected enough/7 stickers, you can have a plate of their new honeybaked crispy pork ribs for FREE! As you can see, since the promotion started, we visited the shop twice in oct (first month), one time in dec, twice in jan, once in apr and the last time this month!

And here’s a picture of the yummy dish, which proved to be as perfectly rendered also.

=D ! =D ! =D !!!

I still have a liking for the original pork ribs though, but this was delicious too! Everyone should go try it when they have the chance to. We cleared both dishes, along with a basket of bread (we used to do 3 haha), soup, butter and tea, and were stuffed to the high heavens afterwards. I guess I’ve had quite enough pork ribs for a month.

Til the next!!! ^^

5. Fun with boxing gloves

This was really cute, really really cute.

Darryl got baobei a pair of boxing gloves from the UK trip last year as a present, and I still remember how he looked like when he first put them on – SHUAI! ^.^ And so we happened to be walking around in one of the sports shops at Velocity some time back when dear noticed a pair of boxing gloves that were much bigger than his lying on the shelf next to him. He proceeded to try them on, saying they were bigger etc, and I couldn’t help but snap a picture first…

There. Boxing champion #1 from cutest punches festival in Lalaland! =D Ahaha

And then we proceeded to browse through other sports shops, until we saw another pair of boxing gloves, and dear proceeded to try them on too.

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MONSTER GLOVES!!!

They were some 5 times larger than the normal gloves !!! The sponge on a single glove is larger than his entire face. It was so funny !!! =D Hahaha, and definitely worth remembering, because I haven’t seen anything this dramatic for a long time already. =) Baobei… you look so tiny. =) =D

6. The furry little stray

Baobei and I were waiting for tuition to start one evening in the holidays, and we noticed that the boss of the centre had bought food for a little stray cat, and put it into a tray outside to feed him. She left after a while, and I went out to play with him, and boy was he friendly! The moment I had stepped out, he purred at me and started brushing himself against my feet repeatedly, walking back and forth. I knelt down to stroke him and before I knew it I was so caught up with everything that I was tickling him and just playing with him. =)

Dear helped us take some pictures. =) I especially love the second photograph because you can tell he’s looking right in baobei’s direction and he’s raising his little paw! And the last photograph is priceless because I gently squished up his face and it’s all small and adorable and though it looks a little uncomfortable, ^^” but he looks so cute right! ^^ Aww! Like a little bunny… =D 

I think he’s so cute, and I hope he’ll be there tomorrow when we go for math. =) I can’t wait to play with him again!!

8. Rainbows on earth

I love these.

It’s not photoshopped, and I didn’t alter the contrast or sharpen the colours, because I wanted it to remain this way. It’s all 100% natural goodness, captured by my trusty camera on a good hot sunny saturday morning at the bus stop outside baobei’s place/aljunied park.

It’s lovely isn’t it? How rainbows like these just run themselves over the seats or the ground as the light shines through glass panels (in this case, at the bus stop). I see them quite alot, and I still think it’s beautiful. It almost, almost looks like it’s coming out of my hand… =)

Somehow they appear more often around Aljunied than in any other place I know.

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So I secretly think it just might be you. =)

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