Kiddo with her best friends from the Mount Waverley North Primary School. Fom left – Ishwari, kiddo , Betti and Annie. Betty is especially close to kiddo and they frequent each other’s homes. Annie would not be joining them for high school, probably going to Vintona Girls’ instead.

It’s great kiddo has such close friends. She is a loyal type, and would stick by here friends no matter what – sometimes to our chagrin. It is a challenge to strike that balance between encouraging life long friendships and blind loyalty. I guess the latter has very limited place in true friendship. I know one of these days she would be hurt (again) but I guess that is a price one pays for wearing one’s heart on the sleeve. What did they say – better to love and lost than not to have loved at all? That applied to friendship too, I am sure 

We visited the Tulip/Jazz Festival out east in the Olinda/Dandenong area. The flowers were gorgeous and there were canon moments galore. I recently purchased a pixma printer and tested the printout of this one here, and it was great! Theresa, Elysia and yours truly here. Asian as we are, we did not for a minute, think of letting the tulips take centre stage in a photo…

This was taken way back in early spring. I am only now posting it because (1) I miss my dear wife and kiddo BADLY – they are in Malaysia now and will only return next weekend and (2) I finally upgraded our PC (from a 5-year old notebook) and things are much faster and smoother now.

Although the upgraded PC is mainly for kiddo, it is a better experience all round, to use a more decent machine as opposed to an old, clunky and tripping olf machine. The flat LCD screen isnt too bad either…