Surprise house guest - Chloe Luthi

My ol pal from Melaka came a knocking yesterday...I have known Olivia (aka Liv for short) since HP Msia days and we have kept in touch despite even being across the continents at one stage :). She's moved back to Melaka as Stefan managed to wiggle a 2 year work stint and now we get to meet more than once a year so that I can see how big Chloe has grown (Above pix). Pix below shows Chloe at a few months old.

She's such a cutie..2 years 8 months and very well behaved. A real cartoon addict and I think she was dissapointed when she asked me this morning for the cartoon channel and I had to sheepishly tell her that her "Ayyi Cindy (Aunty Cindy)" did not subscribe to the cartoon channel on cable :p. Thankfully, I managed to dig out "The Incredibles" DVD which kept her occupied for the morning *I hope* !

Too bad I am soo busy preparing to take my open water scuba test this week..leaving me no time at all to spend with Liv and Chloe :(. Last night's theory class saw Jun and me sitting in the room from 7.30pm till 11.45pm!! My fanatic instructor, Ludo from Mauritius is a slave driver! No drinks and I practically had to beg for a toilet break at 10.15pm. Am quite the upset with Jin cos he assured me that learning scuba was easy as a pea..*blah* ;)

Anyway, Liv has promised to try *TRY* to arrange for a gathering in Melaka to celebrate Chloe's 3rd birthday. Hopefully it transpires..otherwise, I will just hope to see Chloe in October where we will go to the Spore zoo together..I can't wait :D

June - a month where sports rule our lives

Its started. French open, world cup and NBA finals. Jin's going crazy not knowing which channel to watch and I am going dizzy with all the channel changing! My preference is tennis cos it's just 2 good looking men to focus on instead of a whole field of men ;)

This week has been slooowww..thank goodness for my lunch planning..I managed to visit Shunjuu ( a jap restaurant) on Monday with wai koon, jun and wee hoon. Afterthat, we had coffee at Rivercafe. Then on Wednesday, it was lunch with Charmaine at Simply Bread. She brought along her little pincher doggy named Paddy. He is cute! We have been invited to attend Paddy's 1st bday next weekend..I can't wait. My first doggy bday invite ;)

Tonight, we visited Mamma Lucia restaurant for Italian food..I actually wanted to splurge at Humble House but they were fully booked :p. Had lasagne at Mamma Lucia which was so-so but the head waiter was really friendly so I guess service compensates the mediocre food. I will however go back for their ridiculously cheap bar drinks and food. Feeling highly unsatisfied with dinner, we decided to treat ourselves a cake from Canele and that ended the night well :)..my mission is try at least 50% of their range of cakes by year end. Today we had the "Opera", which was a yummy 7 layer(i lost count) chocolate cake.

After dinner, we headed round the corner to Chambers to make reservations for tomorrow night's world cup dinner and show. The weekend ahead already looks interesting. :)