Time...

This has been a strange week. I suddenly find myself with lots of time. Teo is away on a business trip. My gym membership has ended. No school events/activities except for a meeting on International Day. I was expecting a lot of things to do. Then some things got cancelled or postponed.


Time seemed so tight before. Now, it's lying bare in front of me, and I don't know what to do with it. Which means I have lots more time on blogging.

But there's nothing much to blog about.

Shanghai Shanghai

To all my friends in Suzhou and family/friends back home, in case you don't already know, we'll be moving to Shanghai in two months' time. Teo is moving to another workplace (same company still, in case you're wondering).

We're now busy searching for the place to stay, and the boys will be joining SSIS Shanghai in the new school year. It's been at least one trip to Shanghai every week for the past 2-3 weeks.

Will update and keep in touch more often using this Chinese blogging website. I'm too lazy to access foreign websites. This sina blogger's really quite cool and fast too! Too bad there's no English interface. If you can, leave a comment using "评论"　function. Good luck and hope to hear from you soon!

You can browse through the newly-uploaded and long-overdue pictures of Taiwan and Singapore trips. Or tune in and listen to a selection of songs by Jason Mraz. Keane introduced me to his "I'm Yours" and now I'm hooked too! This Mraz chap has great vocals. Here're the lyrics to his song "Life is Wonderful". Have a wonderful life. Ciao!

"Life Is Wonderful"

It takes a crane to build a crane

It takes two floors to make a storey

It takes an egg to make a hen

It takes a hen to make an egg

There is no end to what I'm saying



It takes a thought to make a word

And it takes some words to make an action

It takes some work to make it work

It takes some good to make it hurt

It takes some bad for satisfaction



La la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Al la la la la



It takes a night to make it dawn

And it takes a day to make you yawn brother

And it takes some old to make you young

It takes some cold to know the sun

It takes the one to have the other



And it takes no time to fall in love

But it takes you years to know what love is

It takes some fears to make you trust

It takes those tears to make it rust

It takes the dust to have it polished



Ha la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is so full of

Ah la la la la la la life is so rough

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is our love

Ah la la la la la



It takes some silence to make sound

It takes a loss before you found it

And it takes a road to go nowhere

It takes a toll to make you care

It takes a hole to make a mountain



Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ha la la la la la life is wonderful

Ha la la la la la life is meaningful

Ha la la la la la life is wonderful

Ha la la la la la life it is...so... wonderful

It is so meaningful

It is so wonderful

It is meaningful

It is wonderful

It is meaningful

It goes full circle

Wonderful

Meaningful

Full circle

Wonderful

Leaving

It's finally here. That feeling..the feeling of leaving.


It feels strange, and yet so familiar.

Maybe it's because I've been moving house all my life.

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now but no, it's new everytime.

A bit of sadness, tinged with anticipation, a bit of sentimental nostalgia, mixed with high hopes.

Suddenly, you begin to see the things around you with new eyes.

Everything you may have taken for granted becomes something you wish you could have for longer.

Like the view from my living room, the view of Jin Ji Lake. I would look at it more, in the hope that I can imprint it in my mind. It's really, frankly, quite beautiful.