I bought the balloon for Aliya six days ago and I’m surprised that it’s still floating around in our bedroom. Normally, a helium-filled balloon would have lasted a day before all the helium escaped from it. Anyway, I think the balloon is pretty expensive because I forked out seven bucks for it. I bought the balloon because she behaved pretty well while I was at the dentist. Aliya sat quietly and watched me from the corner of the room while Dr Chan attended to my tooth implant.

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After my dental appointment, we walked down from Lucky Plaza to catch the Sesame Street show at Takashimaya. We had some junk food at KFC before the show. I couldn’t really eat as the right side of my mouth was still numb. We managed to get a good view of the stage and Aliya enjoyed the show. I took some pictures of her favourite Sesame Street characters and Aliya had a group photo with them too. I wondered why Elmo was so huge. I thought he should be smaller than Cookie. Oh, well.

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After the show, I met my classmate, Eliz who was happy to celebrate her last exam paper. She wanted to have lunch and buy some presents for her friend’s children. We sat for half an hour at McDonald’s to chat before she left for Plaza Singapura. A neighbour and his family were sitting just opposite us and he waved in our direction. I waved and smiled back at them. Later, Aliya and I went shopping and I bought her some new clothes. I didn’t really get anything for myself except a nice leather belt for my jeans.

As we were walking around the mall, someone called out to me. I turned around and it was my colleague, Simon. We chatted for a few minutes and he gave me a table calendar. By then, Aliya was tired and requested to go home. It was raining quite heavily when we walked to the Orchard MRT station. On the way to the station, I bumped into Derrick, one of my team members who was with his very pregnant wife and they were out celebrating his birthday and wedding anniversary. What a small world.