How Was Your Good Friday?

It is a longer weekend than usual this week. Because of the Good Friday holiday yesterday. The kiddos have no school and Spypapa has no work. We went out for our prayers and then had lunch outside. It was going to be a day without any rush since the kiddos will not be having any of the classes for the day since it is a public holiday in Singapore. Nice.

Did you all had a good Good Friday holiday? I am not sure how many countries get off days for this. And with today being a Saturday, the kids are looking forward to the Weekend Easter for sure!

And I'll be busy trying to help them hunt the eggs...lol

Found Spymama Here?

OOPS!!! you've found Spymama here.

This blog was created because
1. I cannot comment on your blogspot blog (only for blogger comments)
2. I overestimate myself and think I am able to maintain all my blogs
3. I wanted to try out blogspot because wordpress is a little boring
4. I like the friendliness of blogspot
5. All my friends have blogspot blogs
6. I didn't know few things about blogging so blogspot helped to rectify lots of stuff
7. I wanted to have a shop, hence the title: Spymama Shop
8. I wanted variety
9. I thought blogspot was cool
10 It's fun to expand to a greener turf
11. I don't have to pay for a domain
12. Hosting also free here

etc etc etc

Love,
Spymama

Hot and Cold

Is it hot where you are? It is in Singapore... Don't tell me it's because of the global warming. Gosh it is scorching especially in the mid day! And sometimes the unexpected passing shower is not helping because the day gets humid and still hot! We need at least half a day of rain before the weather cools down, not an hour!

The family is getting into hot and cold spells. Running nose and coughs. Then heaty and sore throats.. Or perhaps it is my baking? Too much cakes for them!

I'm gonna get some soy bean curd later. Perhaps this can cool down the heat. It's nice when you cool it in the fridge and eat it chill. But do not leave it overnight. It's not really good. Want some?

Update, no worries..

It is February month. Time certainly flies. I cannot imagine what I have been doing this Jan and now February. It was just New Year celebrations (a quiet one for me) and now we are in February! And I am hearing from many moms and dads about the new exam schedules in March before the school holidays! sigh.. as if life has no stress...

So Chinese New Year is just one day to the closing. Those who are single may decided to throw Mandarin Oranges into the sea (if permitted) or do they still exist? Some probably release balloon wishes. These are all traditional wishes for a good partner that was very much practiced at least 2-3 decades ago. But now with the 'eyes' of the official, be careful you don't get fined for littering!

You don't want to be wearing the 'correction work order' jackets and sweep the roads of Singapore for littering punishment! And of course, i am not sure if these punishments still exist! Okay Okay, Spymama is really out of date with everything around her... never mind la.. as long as I am alive and breathing, getting the latest information or not does not intimidate me...

So Have a happy 'rest of the Chinese New Year' for today, tomorrow all my dears!

2009, Time for Reflections

So did you all have a good Christmas and Happy New Year? I had a quiet week reflecting about lots of things. And I count my blessings too. Many a times, I read or hear about the bad economy, the weaker currency, the high prices of food and other things.

I had a conversation with a good friend of mine. She had moved to China after a failed marriage with her Australian hubby in mid 2007. They had a big argument in Melbourne where they were staying (while on Sabbatical leave) and out of anger, she left him and took a flight to Singapore, where her home country is. It must have been a heated one. Since then, the hubby refused to have her back.. sigh and she panicked, thinking that it was only another marital squabble.

She had a hard time facing it and soon after that departure and a month of being away, the hubby wanted a divorce. There was no third party but he said he wanted out. Since then, she was in and out of depression, blaming herself and feeling low. That was 2007. It took about 6 months of hibernating at her home in Singapore. She told me how she misses the husband and still loved him but he was having nothing to do with her. Just imagine a 9 year marriage ended just like that.

In 2008, she slowly adjusted her own life back and got back to work. She applied for many overseas posting as she didn't want to be reminded of many bad memories in Singapore. She accepted a job in China for a change of environment and space from busy body relatives in Singapore. With so much heartbreak in 2007 and 2008, I pray that 2009 will be something different for her.

That is why I didn't celebrate much on Christmas and New Year. It was a time for me to count my blessings. A time to appreciate my family and my children.

Have a Blessed New Year too.