Off center
My folks just departed for Singapore yesterday after a five and a half day whirlwind tour of Melbourne.
I decided to call home this afternoon just to check if all is fine and dandy. Thank God all is as we have prayed for.
There were also a few things which happened to them upon touch down that turned my lips the right way up.
My aunt related to me an incident at the airport:
They got off the plane at 8.56pm Singapore time but took so much time to get out of customs that by the time my relatives caught sight of them, it was 9.40pm. No one really knows what they did in that frame of time (yet) but we suspect it must have been the lures of duty-free shopping.
Catch of the day - their luggage ended up in the unclaimed luggage counter which was considerably far away.
During the call home mum told me xhua's reaction to what we bought for her:
She saw the pair of pyjama pants [very slender stripes in pale blue and white with a wide satin wine-red drawstring ribbon] and went Hehehe.
Then she saw the t-shirt [pale mint green with the Flintstones' babies and a slogan Go at it girl or something] and went Hehehe.
Then she saw the ribbons [one in green, another in purple, both a metre long] and went Hehehe.
And then she went off to school.
A few years down the road all these incidents will seem very inconsequential, and they do seem a tad inconsequential even right now. However the degree of relevancy and importance is not the reason why I recount them on this blog.
I decided to call home this afternoon just to check if all is fine and dandy. Thank God all is as we have prayed for.
There were also a few things which happened to them upon touch down that turned my lips the right way up.
My aunt related to me an incident at the airport:
They got off the plane at 8.56pm Singapore time but took so much time to get out of customs that by the time my relatives caught sight of them, it was 9.40pm. No one really knows what they did in that frame of time (yet) but we suspect it must have been the lures of duty-free shopping.
Catch of the day - their luggage ended up in the unclaimed luggage counter which was considerably far away.
During the call home mum told me xhua's reaction to what we bought for her:
She saw the pair of pyjama pants [very slender stripes in pale blue and white with a wide satin wine-red drawstring ribbon] and went Hehehe.
Then she saw the t-shirt [pale mint green with the Flintstones' babies and a slogan Go at it girl or something] and went Hehehe.
Then she saw the ribbons [one in green, another in purple, both a metre long] and went Hehehe.
And then she went off to school.
A few years down the road all these incidents will seem very inconsequential, and they do seem a tad inconsequential even right now. However the degree of relevancy and importance is not the reason why I recount them on this blog.
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