Fate and the elusive rubbish bin

The first question that popped into my mind was, "how on earth do the japanese keep their streets so clean with no bin in sight?!" I mean seriously, if after walking for over 200 meters and there's still no bin in sight, that piece of trash would likely already be on the floor by then. But the streets were so absolutely spotless that I would feel insanely guilty if I threw my gum wrapper on the street.

I honestly wonder how they do it. The fabric seats are so spotlessly clean on the public trains that you want to lean your face against the seat and caress the fabric. Even the supposedly stale heated air smells good...

Oh and by the way, the 6 degree of separation rule? It's NOT a rule.. its a LAW~!!! And 6 degrees is way too much... I think 3 should jolly fit the key, some one seriously needs to relook the total number of degrees.

Tell me, how do you go about looking for a friend in the vast city of Tokyo without his contact number, email and when he doesn't respond to facebook messages? Honestly, it's probably easier to just try NOT to meet up.

But ah hah! Here FATE plays a major role. It's incredible and entirely unbelievable even, but as luck may have it, my hubby's Japanese counterpart knows this friend of mine personally~!! Over breakfast at the hotel lobbey, the Japanese lady Yumiko mentioned that she was going to visit a Singapore scholar from a Singapore Uni who is studying at the university. I drew the connection but of course, we are talking like 1 person out of the entire Singapore population of 4.4 million who is a student who happens to study at that same university as my friend. I mean honestly, what are the chances that she knows him right? Probably next to zilch and nada. Still, just trying my luck, I asked if the student happened to be <>.

And guess what? It was~! We all got so excited that we almost all jumped up to hug each other. But in the end, Yumiko san passed the message and we all got to meet up. My friend then told me that he intended to meet Yumiko only in the afternoon of the day I was leaving so if Yumiko did not have breakfast with me that day and if my friend decided not to meet her earlier, we would all not have known that everyone knew everyone and we wouldn't have been able to meet.

And then, dear hubby went on to visit a place. As luck would have it, the no. 2 of that place was my hubby's primary school and secondary school senior. Yikes! We seem to be meeting up with fellow Singaporeans more than we do in Singapore~!

Somehow this year, I feel like celebrating Christmas

Yes, amazing as it sounds, this person who simply hates to celebrate anything has finally been bitten by the Celebration bug. I think it probably comes with the baby...

Ever since Wally arrived in my life, somehow every single day I am itching to find something to celebrate.. whether it's his first Halloween, first bite of solids, or even the first time he is wearing a new romper! Somehow I wish that Wally was there to celebrate my wedding for me even... If he had been born before I got married, Wally would have been there to see Daddy and Mommy put their signatures down and become lawfully wedded people.

This has got me thinking that maybe I should go and take wedding pictures again. This time with Wally in them. And if sometime later I had another kid, it would be yet another excuse to go take wedding pictures with BOTH of them too~! Haha~ That would be fun wouldn't it? I've already bought Wallace his very first tuxedo.. AH! yet another thing to celebrate.

Soon, Wally will be able to celebrate my 2nd wedding anniversary with me and also our very first Christmas together. I dunno why but really I really really want to celebrate christmas with my dear little boy together with the darling hubby wubby... What present should I buy for Wally?