National Day 2009

Once I would have felt shy but this is what happens when you grow older. You are so comfortable with yourself and you have so much new found confidence that you are bold enough to.......well...... step out of the house as a family in red outfits.

Mike and I wore red outfits (including his red sneakers) the whole of our nation's birthday. In the morning, first for breakfast at some crowded coffeeshop whose fan was blowing hotair, I kid you not (actually, I thought I was imagining things until Mike asked me if I felt that fan over our heads was blowing hot air!). We weren't the only ones in red clothes but we got some funny stares from people anyway. Why ah? I don't understand. It felt really good to see more people dorning red this year.

Then in our red outfits, we went over to Courts Tampines to suss out the left overs of their warehouse sale (with me punching Mike's arm over and over for not letting me buy that 'usually $600' carpet for $50 the day before ~ no more lah), then over to IKEA next door (where we cheekily told a lady that the money plant she was admiring was selling cheaper over at Courts next door ~ wah, you should have seen her smile and gratitude and the speed at which she walked off towards Courts!). I digress but IKEA if you're reading this, sorry lah. I do so love you, IKEA but could you possibly lower your plant prices?. We know where got cheaper ones already, hor!

Anyway, still in our red albeit sweaty outfits we went for lunch at the new Sengkang swimming complex and then later for evening mass at church and then to makan dinner.

Yep, even if my red shirt didn't really look very flattering on me, it felt good to show in our own little way* that we are proud to be Singaporean.

(* It will always be a little way for me cos nothing short of an instruction from God will make me want to take part in the annual National Day Parade. Red shirt ok. Sweat, no k. To those people, I really take my hat off!)