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I have to admit that I am usually not a baby fan.  A few years ago I had a "memorable" experience having my friends who brought their 9 month old baby to London.  Staying with their baby for almost 2 weeks scared the hell out of me.  The baby cried so much in his high pitched and piercing tone that made me shudder in fear.  Everything revolved around the baby.  Even at night when I washed my hair, I couldn't use the hair dryer to dry my hair because his parents insisted the noise would wake him up and the crying would start again.  I was like "seriously??"  We all had to tiptoe around the house in fear that he would wake up and cry.  I felt like a prisoner in my own home!  And since then, I haven't been too keen on babies.  Especially crying babies - no thanks.  Even K says he thinks I am not a baby person. And then... I met Sammy who took my breath away.  He is so different from the scary baby I mentioned above!  No ...

Blessed CHRISTmas everyone! :) I have been here in Stuttgart spending Christmas with my second family, and of course meeting Baby Sammy again who has grown so much since I last saw him.  He is totally able to melt anyone's heart with his big brown innocent eyes.  I don't think I've met such a happy baby like him. Happy Sammy looking cool in the birthday ensemble I bought for him And admittedly this year's photos are all about Sammy and nothing else ;) Mesmerising eyes Cuddles with his grandma.  Such rosy cheeks. A koala backpack from Aunt Sabrina GAP hoodie present from me "What's up yo!" UGG boots - what a fashionable baby Will blog more when I get back to London. :) Hope that you are having a good holiday break wherever you are!

Been a while since I shared about my life so here is a look at today, 2 Sundays before Christmas 2012 :) In the morning we went to church where my fav Pete Wilson was preaching about God's love.  We were late (oops) and so were seated right on top of the balcony. In the Dominion Theatre where it shows the We Will Rock You musical on other nights We had lunch at Busaba, a Thai restaurant a few streets down along Tottenham Court Road.  We then waited for another couple, Mike and Maryane, whom we met at the recent Marriage Preparation Course.  We did a questionnaire before the course started (more than a hundred questions!) and they wanted to go through the results with us.  I like the fact that on the couple sheet, we were both in the same square for Flexibility and Closeness, and they went "you guys are fab!" Hurray! All 4 of us had a good chat and it was 4.15pm when we left Busaba and it was getting dark.  K and I agreed to go down to Sloane Squar...

Another year has passed, how amazing is that.  Where did the time go?? We girls just had our Christmas dinner last Saturday.  This has been an annual tradition since... 3 years ago?  I remember our first one was at Carluccio's at St. Christopher's Place where I ordered a wrong dish (in my view) because the risotto looked scarily yellow and totally not risotto looking.  I didn't know I could ask them to take it back and so I ate a few spoonfuls and pretended to look very full haha.  When our meal ended, the waitress asked if there was something wrong and I gave her my feedback did she agree to take it off the bill.  Whew- thank God! The next year we had it home - at Frigate House when I was flat-sharing with Marketa.  I remember her making a roast lamb dinner for us and I was due to fly home to Singapore the next day.  Whilst M was the cook, I was the "Christmas DJ" playing all the wonderful Christmas songs in the background while we ate. ...

It has been pretty quiet here in this space.  I'm still around, just extremely busy working day in, day out.  In the midst of the busy routine, I'm still excited about Christmas and so over the weekend I bought some little things to put in the flat.  To be Christmas ready. Saturday was a relatively quiet day for us (whew).  Somehow with such a busy work routine I have not much time for anything else and catching up on sleep is my main priority.  Maybe we are getting older but both K and I just look forward to spending a quiet weekend at home these days.  Maybe coz it's too cold and we shudder at the thought of leaving the apartment.  That said, I still do meet up with friends (keep the social life alive) and hence arranged to meet Kine for coffee at Costa.  It's been a while since we had a catch up.. on life, on her house move, on our connect group.  After our meeting, I went to Waitrose to get dinner.  This weekend is the big weekend ...