Equal Wings

Ping April 13th, 2009

A month has passed since our return to Singapore and we’re well-adjusted to the warmth and humidty here. We spent the first 2 and a half weeks settling into our home and helping with my sister’s (Thing Ming) wedding. The wedding was both a joyous and heart-warming event for the family. I thought that my sister looked really beautiful and blissful that day. It was great meeting new relatives and catching up with those whom we’ve not met for quite a while.

For the last week and a half, we made a 10 day trip to Guilin and Yangshuo, both of which are in the Guangxi Province of China. We will write more about our travels to these 2 places in our next post. As for now, Ajeet will be moving from the B747 to the Airbus 330 and will be undergoing training for the next 2 months. It will be very intensive but I’m sure it will be pretty exciting too. As for me, I will be looking around and researching my options.

Here are some pictures that we took at the wedding:

3 sisters at the Chinese dinner

The happy couple

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Ping January 4th, 2009

In the last two weeks of December 2008, Ajeet and I spent some time in Singapore and India visiting our families. We spent two nights in Singapore first before we left for India. On the night we arrived in Singapore, we had a family dinner followed by a game of ‘Taboo’. The sisters were against the husbands and it was great fun! The sisters won the game eventually-I guess we have the advantage of having some common knowledge in our growing years that helped to make some guesswork easier.

We left for Chennai 2 days later and took a pleasant overnight train to the little town of Chipurupalli. We shared the train cabin with a very friendly Indian family who had lived in Kenya for fours years. After about 16 hours on the train, we finally reached our destination and were warmly welcomed by my parents-in -law.

Since we visited India only once a year, my mother-in-law made sure that we were well-fed. Every meal was a feast of curries, rice and Indian sweets! So by the end of one week in India, both of us definitely gained some weight. Ajeet’s brother, Ashok and his family joined us for 2 nights and it was nice being amused by our niece of 1 year and 4 months. Her comical imitations of her parents and grandparents just made everyone laugh. Apart from catching up on each other’s lives and visiting family friends, we made a few trips to the nearest town to buy some things and also visited a reservoir. On some evenings, we would take short walks around the neighbourhood before heading home for a sumptuous dinner. Time passed quickly and before we knew it, it was time to board the train back to Chennai to catch our flight back to Singapore.

After a week of enjoying Indian food, we were ready to enjoy Chinese food in Singapore. Before taking our return flight to Shanghai, my mum, ajeet and I had lunch at Changi Airport. We had ‘Chicken Rice’,'Fish Slice Soup’, ‘Char Kway Teow’ and ‘Cheng Teng’. It was definitely a satisfying meal. 

We returned to Shanghai on the 30th of December in time to bid goodbye to 2008 and welcome the New Year. On New Year’s Eve, We had a yummy Cantonese dinner with one of Ajeet’s colleague and his family, followed by a quiet count down for Ajeet and me.

We are happy to be back in Shanghai-our home for the past 1 year and 7 months. Although the weather  here is much colder than what we had experienced in Singapore and India, we are cherishing these winter memories before we head back to Singpore in April this year.

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Ping November 5th, 2008

 Seeing two people falling in love and making a committment to each other always brings joy to me. What more hearing from my dear sister that she will be getting married to the man of her life!

Ajeet and I are very happy for my second sister and her fiance, Hamada and we would like to congratulate them on their engagement!

To the couple: As the preparations begin and the craziness kicks in, remember to  cherish and enjoy the process of making that defining moment happen-when you become husband and wife! Here’s a poem I found from the internet for the both of you.=)

On the brink of married life you wait with wonder:

The coming moment, mystic and mundane,

Brings law and love incongruously together

To form a bond both passionate and sane.

For now it has to be about the party:

Guests must be fed, clothes bought, proceedings planned;

But underneath there is abiding beauty,

Redeeming what the decencies demand.

Praised be the pillars on which we place our lives,

Standing more secure than else we might;

And praised be those in whom such sense survives,

Whose love becomes for all a source of light.

So do we celebrate, as the moment nears,

A love that counts its happiness in years.

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