{"id":2041,"date":"2010-11-19T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2010-11-19T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T20:36:11","slug":"parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Parting is such sweet sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the quote above is sooooooo overused by me.. but.. parting was indeed sweet sorrow!Sweet as in BH and I can&#8217;t wait to be back to our usual routine but on the other hand, we&#8217;ll miss our family and friends<\/p>\n<p>Our families met up at Dian Xiao Er T3 for dinner. My sis rushed down from work &#8211; there was some screw up with her company&#8217;s shuttle bus so she took a cab down ( which was v ex considering it&#8217;s peak hr!) I was v touched! If you know my sis..\u00a0 she&#8217;s quite\u00a0good at entertaining guests! I know that it must be super weird for her to talk and entertain my in-laws ( who are quiet pple) BUT she did it awefully well! I mean.. it&#8217;ll be soooo weird if the dinner table is very quiet!\u00a0At least\u00a0for my family, it&#8217;s nv quiet when we\u00a0are together\u00a0and food is always MORE than enuff.. that&#8217;s what I miss abt home.. my home!<\/p>\n<p>I had a wonderful time\u00a0catching up with\u00a0my family in SG, even when my sis is working shifts , and is hardly ard during weekends. I guess we mk up on her\u00a0off days. This time she drove us ard instead of I drive her ard \ud83d\ude42 She&#8217;s grown up!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Erm.. with BH&#8217;s family &#8211; it was ok..no offence but i\u00a0don&#8217;t feel comfy with\u00a0his family\u00a0some how.. their family is very much more reserved.. v v different from my family! I sure hope that MY OWN family is the open type &#8211; you know.. those talk alot and laugh out loud type&#8230; I attended BH&#8217;s extended family&#8217;s dinner and I thought of getting to know his relatives personally\u00a0&#8211; his cousins actually said &#8221; iyah.. no need to know our names.. just call us no. 1 , no. 2 and no. 3&#8243; I was like WTF??!! I was being friendly&#8230; it&#8217;s so different from my own family \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>ok.. so.. finally, it was time for us to go into the gate.. i gave my family and dear friends a tight hug.. thanked BH&#8217;s mum for buying stuff for us\u00a0.. held back my tears.. u know.. i&#8217;m quite a emotional person.. ohh.. my mum looked so tearful!! \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Crossed the customs, waved our goodbyes.. till 6 mths later!<\/p>\n<p>Bye SG, Hello Tofu-land!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the quote above is sooooooo overused by me.. but.. parting was indeed sweet sorrow!Sweet as in BH and I can&#8217;t wait to be back to our usual routine but on the other hand, we&#8217;ll miss our family and friends Our families met up at Dian Xiao Er T3 for dinner. My sis rushed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Parting is such sweet sorrow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}