Trip

It's been a dream being here with malar and baby.
Wonder if sutha feels a bit left out.
I'm torn.
I want to go home and help her make lunch.
I want to stay here and help malar with baby. Want to do two things. Both don't really need my help of course. All the mothers here are on their own. In sg people always come in pairs with baby. Mum and dad. Mum and grandma. Mum and helper. Here all just come on their own. Make milk with one hand while holding baby in the other.

Things we did. I arrived on Thursday night having watched delightful films all flight through.

Met sutha at the airport. Dinner then sleep. Next morning Anne frank house. Then lunch. Then a tram ride out to van Gogh museum and back. Then around the red light district.
Then the train to Eindhovan to meet malar.
Sat sun with malar and jeroen. No idea what we did on Sat. Sun aft we all went to the   yogurt barn.
Monday we all went to the tulip gardens
Tuesday we had homemade lunch and went to Nuenen..van Gogh village
Wednesday we went to Maastricht. A town by the river Maas. So picturesque. Where we went to a library in a church and a sensory garden with an amazing Mediterranean dinner.
Thursday sutha and I rented bikes and cycled out to the St Catherine Church - 16th century medieval church! And a little farm where we bought fresh cheese and played with calves.
Friday we cooked lunch again at home after Mira' s vaccination and I went shopping!
Afghan dinner at home and black mirror

So now after malar's home some ideas
1. Get net flix
2. Buy a coffee maker
3. Have cornflakes with soy milk
4. Buy a hair thickening conditioner
5. Stop buying dirt cheap clothes. Cut down. Travel light.

Lines from sutha

I didnt see the sun for 6 weeks after i miss to Ireland
And then it put in only a 9 to 5 workday appearance . Weak light and not much heat

I need to write

I have a lot of thoughts crowding my head right now.
Not the least of which is how annoying spellchecker is. But nevermind about that.

1. Seems like reading can indeed solve lots of problems. I wish i had more power to dictate how el should be taught. Hehe.

2. I plan to continue flooding my house with books books books. The kids will grow up well adjusted happy well read intelligent. Books. All we need.

3. I should be working. It's sat.

Regardless of race

30 years ago
A boy i didn't know
Called me paki
through his window

Late one night, when i was 20
Feeling tipsy, i hailed a taxi
Uncle said kleng kleng
I sobered up quickly

As a working mother at 30,
I felt quite guilty
You're the best Indian mum I've ever seen"
My boss said to console me

Yesterday in the kindy
4-year old Johnny
Wouldn't hold my daughter's hand
Said she's 'dirty'

Today at gym class
6-year old Stace
Laughed at my son
Called him poop face

The pledge has not changed
In my 40 years of grace
We still say
regardless of race. 

Saaral

Saaral.
There is no word in the English Language
Quite so precise
As saaral
To describe that cool misty spray of water you feel on your upturned face
As you lean out to close the window
When it starts to
Rains
Or the gentle spray that drizzles
on your eyelids and cheeks
as you stand giggling with your eyes closed in front of the waterfall
at gardens by the bay.

Learn by going

I learn by doing what I need to learn

Hurt

Yesterday i felt a bit hurt.
I found out the ex lit sls team met up and had so much fun
They never called me. I was not part of the team I guess.
But still. It feels like only I miss them. They just see me as ad or boss or something. They probably bitch about me too who knows who cares.
.people I still miss. Rani . Jean.
And June and janet.

Feels like June led a more close knit team than i did. Sigh.

What of 2

What if my teacher had a gun?
And the backstreet boys don't bring their homework again and smart mouth him again
And his temple starts throbbing
And he reaches into his bag for his ruler
And he feels the holster
And
The boys shooting off their mouths would shut up pretty fast

What if my teacher had a gun?
Rugby Randy would tackle him for it
And train it on me for sure

What if my teacher had a gun?
Thriving Sally would nick it off him in a jiffy

What if my teacher had a gun?
He's so forgetful he'd leave it in the john for me to find

What if my teacher had a gun?
The next shooter will take him down first and then the rest of us

What if my teacher had a gun
And I had a gun
Pretty neat to watch

If he's getting a gun... I'm getting one too.
What if we all had a gun
The world would be a peaceful place

What if

What if my teacher had a gun?
The Backstreet boys shooting off their mouths would shut up pretty fast

What if my teacher had a gun?
Rugby Randy would tackle him for it
And train it on me for sure

What if my teacher had a gun?
Thriving Sally would nick it off him in a jiffy

What if my teacher had a gun?
He's so forgetful he'd leave it in the john for me to find

What if my teacher had a gun?
The next shooter will take him down first and then the rest of us

What if my teacher had a gun
And I had a gun
Pretty neat to watch

If he's getting a gun... I'm getting one too.
What if we all had a gun
The world would be a peaceful place