Working from home part 1

Setting up my home office.  Went TPY Courts 10 mins before opening hours, there was already a short queue.  It was hot to stand in queue, so I waited nearby. By 11, the queue has built up to more than 10, so I gave up.  Walked to nearby furniture shop, and saw 2 folder tables on display outside the shop. One small round one, one big square one. The owner (uncle) was in his shop, busy screwing (some furniture) away. He quoted me $48 and $68 respectively.  I called WK to come help me select and carry home. Then uncle brought out a small rectangular one.  Then I realized that he was screwing this table in his shop. He told me he sold 10 such tables yesterday, then he continued screwing somemore- the wooden tops to the metal legs.  We bought the rectangular one ($48 also). By the time we left, he has finished another one.. 

I wonder how much lost revenue (shop closure) he can cover from selling folderable tables..

I think I will be posting some more about working from home, so I shall call this post “part one”

Dress up for D&D 2019

Company Family Day at Sentosa (Jun'19) and D&D (Oct'19).  I'm so happy that I finally get to wear SQ uniform!!

CNY 2019

(Written and first posted on 27th Jan 2020; reposted to 20th March 2020)

It’s CNY 2020, but this post is about 2019.  I finally did a housekeeping of my mobile photos after a long overdue backup to my comp.  As I delete hundreds of photos from the album, I realized that I should keep track CNY events on the blog rather than ig.  Well here’s the only few photos left of 2019 CNY on the phone album:

Home sweet (and sour)  home 

Eldest uncle celebrated 70th BD before CNY. Next year (2021), it will be the year of the Ox, which will be his zodiac year (72), youngest uncle Eric’s year (60), and mine too!

Like many families in Sg, our family photos show the trend of reducing family size. Out of 6 Lim siblings, there are only 3 senior Lim spouses, 7 cousins and 3 grandkids.  Hopefully in the years to come there will be new additions. 

My cousins and spouses and Lynn,

The Lim seniors


The first reunion of each CNY is usually my family, the Chan family. Maybe somewhere out there, another “Ms Chan” is also celebrating her CNY with her extended family.

The second reunion of the year. This (2019) was the first year WK’s aunt joined us.  Credit goes to the various Ms Yaps who made the reconciliation and thus the reunions possible!


Our little bundles of joy;  can’t wait to post this year’s (2020) photos, my goodness how tall they have grown!!


It had been more than 20 years.. While the kids grew, we also matured and the relationships kept evolving.  Love them (the kids) all, love you (mummies) all💋!!


And every CNY eve for the past about 10 years, I spendt with my beloved Lim family. In Dec 2018, I used a small styrofoam board to make a Christmas lighting deco. So for  CNY aunt  gave me an even bigger piece of styrofoam to make a lighting deco too. It turned out rather tacky, ha!


And for the first time eldest aunty in law joined us for this night (after the passing of her mum).




And again for the first time, WK mum and aunt joined us in visiting Qiu Yun.  Wow, didn’t realize that 2019 was such a special year.




Wk and I also met up with our Deloitte colleagues.  Hopefully Ginny can join us this year (2020).




Finally, 2 last photos of CNY with present colleagues. We did handicrafts, this the pose with the fan we made.  This year (2020) we made some too.


Returning to work after the holiday break, in my most body hugging cheongsam.


Ha! I hope I don’t post about 2020 CNY only next year!!