Then we were making cheese omelette for lunch when it started snowing! Very little but very real. Earlier, there were on-off little showers of hail. Then suddenly there was this gusty wind and the snow started falling. Like lunatics, we whipped our dusty coats on and scampered outside for our first experience of falling snow.
Brrr! It was cold but we were delighted and waved our arms wildly to catch the ice from the sky. It is cliche that people from the tropics whoop when they see snow but we just could not help ourselves. Not only Lester , who had almost given up hope on seeing them at the warming weather, was excited but all of us because the most we had seen of snow was from TV or else a real-life small, little dirty patch during short holidays.Very quickly, the sky started clearing up. The strange clouds that brought us a long-awaited for present was being blown away and the sun came out again.
Looking at these pictures and those taken so far, I think a lot of beautiful things cannot be captured on film. The falling snow looked like drizzle and Beacon Hill looked dry. Still, we take photos to relive those moments of thrill at delighting on something wonderful but fleeting. I like to photograph things but not to be photographed (because I look dowdy in them... see, it can't be captured on film! okok, joking). Although I am no narcissist, I was a wee bit pleased to hear from Zibin that a photo of others and me in Chingay was at some photo exhibition in Suntec. There was only one other time when I was in some sheares hall photo exhibition pictured running. Well, I've got better pictures to take at Eujin and Yingying's house:
Refreshing punch+orange, stir-fried noodles (made from packaged beehoon from Singapore) and bread...
to go with piping-hot curry
dessert was rich tiramisu and erm, the not-so-rich marble cake
below, they kept a large fish...
and lower down was Eujin's collection of WWE (formerly known as WWF) action figures
Eujin is a great collector with a box full of Star Wars models, real badges of courage (not souvenirs) from WWII and rocks -- the one I found brilliant. They aren't just any old stones but fossils. He goes around beaches in UK and hunt them up. There is the positive, where the ammonite (kind of shell-like organism millions of years ago) is hardened, and the negative, the imprint on the other face of the stone. Some beaches have dinosaur fossils and some ammonite and so on.
Refreshing punch+orange, stir-fried noodles (made from packaged beehoon from Singapore) and bread...to go with piping-hot curry dessert was rich tiramisu and erm, the not-so-rich marble cakeNot only did we stuff ourselves but had a good glimpse into their lives. To know their times back home, they had...
below, they kept a large fish...and lower down was Eujin's collection of WWE (formerly known as WWF) action figuresEujin is a great collector with a box full of Star Wars models, real badges of courage (not souvenirs) from WWII and rocks -- the one I found brilliant. They aren't just any old stones but fossils. He goes around beaches in UK and hunt them up. There is the positive, where the ammonite (kind of shell-like organism millions of years ago) is hardened, and the negative, the imprint on the other face of the stone. Some beaches have dinosaur fossils and some ammonite and so on.The other natural history lesson we had was watching documentary when having dinner. BBC documentaries on whales by a lady who holds the world record for deepsea-diving and on meerkats by a group of Cambridge scholars who have tracked them for ten over years. It's really interesting and presented in a story-like way with the meerkats named and everything. Finally, we saw the photographs they took in Berlin and Prague, and I can't wait for Easter, when I will be there!
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