went to the cousin's place yesterday to visit the niece and nephew... the cousin has an AMAZING house. 3 levels plus a basement. 1.2 mil. at gilstead road. one of those new designer houses... angular design on the outside. lots of windows... balcony in the living room flows out into the pool... mini jacuzzi by the side. the outside of the house is very resort like. stone/pebbles pathway... frangipani trees.. footpath lights... it's a pity i didn't bring my cam... cos then i wldn't have to think of ways to describe.. just let the pictures do the talking.

anyways... had a damn fun time with the niece and nephew. the nephwe is like the cutest lil thing since well.. since my bro. ahhahahaha he's like this lil terror running about. you can't laugh at him when he falls if not he'll beat u.. like he almost did his grandma. cute yet absolutely spoilt. (they are always cute when they are not yours) he's like a daredevil for his age (5 i think) kept jumping/diving into the pool and kept spinning around while swiping water at us at the same time. the niece is like this lil grown up person in an 8 yr old body. pretty scary... cos her powers of comprehension quite zhai and the way she speaks isn't like that of an 8 yr old. but of cos.. the child in her comes thru a lot... so it's not like she's an adult trapped in an 8 yr old body.

anyways i digress... why do pple generally think that having studied/lived overseas for a period, u'll automatically be more 'open/liberal'??? does it mean that while we are being exposed to a diff culture or diff mindsets that we shd forget how we were brought up? our values? our beliefs? does it mean we have to adopt the existing culture of the country in order to fit in? by saying that, if we do so, then whatever we have been brought up with - values/beliefs then becomes something very trival to be taken up and discarded when deemed necessary/unnecessary. but that shd not be it. and no my values/beliefs didn't change drastically since i came back. yes it has been tweaked... but only because some of them were too idealistic. the foundation of whatever has been taught to me still remains. (okie this whole post was SUPPOSED to be intellectual.. but well.. )

on other news.. i think i might have pissed turtle of with my 'ai mai' thingy about running.. and yes i know he making effort to make himself available for runs on top of whatever he's going thru now.. so yeah a big SORRY goes out to him. (the mind is willing but the spirit is weak...)



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