The programme for the month of April sounds promising. It's a time of leave-clearing, and short breaks here and there. A good friend is getting married too, and the girls have a hotel room booked to do naughty stuff that girls usually do to celebrate her last days of being a bachelor girl. And then later in the month, my boyfriend is bringing me to Penang for a short trip with his family. This is the first trip that I'm doing with the whole family, including the sisters, the future brother-in-law (his, not mine), the mother and the niece.

Even better that Mum's agreed to the trip and not being sulky at all about it. I think she's coping very well with the empty nest problem now. But I'll have to thank Eric for making most of the effort. Like arriving at my house an hour before I reach home just to chat with Mum, or getting her that massage mat, and buying vanilla ice-cream to make A&W Root Beer Floats.

It's the little things that matter, and I'm fortunate that he knows which will nurture the flowers.

Oh, oh. My friend April will be celebrating her birthday in April too, besides making her first step into the realities of working. WELCOME TO MY WORLD, GIRL!

And then suddenly you realize it's the fourth month into 2006. Sigh.