It's been a busy week and I have been compelled by circumstances to work quite hard.. Next week would be an equally bad week! Highlight of work week was perhaps the relatively entertaining MM dialogue on Wed evening at Suntec. And being able to savour my favourite Wild Rocket strawberry cheesecake... Was just sitting around just now when my sister decided to practice Chinese New Year songs on her recorder -- so that she can teach her kids next week. Was suaning1 her how her new year song sounded very cheerless when I suddenly wondered why all pri sch kids learn how to play the recorder... Seems like quite a useless skill leh -- nobody seems to play recorders out of school. Why not teach kids to play other instruments, like guitar, keyboard or something, as part of the main music curriculum and not like out of classes? Maybe recorders are just affordable musical instruments accessible to all.

p/s: my dear friend in the States, what musical instrument did u learn in sch?? ;)

A banished piece of soap

Most of the FabIndia (it's like a fabric/home furnishing/clothing chain) soaps I got from India were given away as gifts, but also kept a few for myself. Yesterday, I finally decided to use one of them - a Jasmine-scented one. To my mild surprise, the unwrapped version of the soap smelt pretty strong - Jasmine-ish, but perhaps a more "Indian" version of Jasmine bah. Anyways, I thought it was still ok and used it once (only cut one-third of the entire bar for use, since soaps usually get really gross after a while). Unfortunately, the scent emanating from this little piece of soap was so overpowering that sis complained abt faintness when bathing... And 'cos no one was at home when I placed the soap in bathroom, mum and sis were unable to identify the stinky culprit... And mystery was only solved this morning when mum narrated the 'havoc' the innocent piece of soap had created... And so very sadly, this piece of jasmine soap had to go into the rubbish bin. Hmm, I'm wondering what to do with my rose-scented one now :P