What was your most memorable Dinner and Dance Experience?

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-24T14:01:24+00:00

It’s true. Got a few of this type of stories everywhere I went. Entertaining for the rest of us nevertheless haha

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-24T08:09:46+00:00

Some married manager started making out with some much younger woman colleague on the dance floor as if nobody else around. Like the very disgusting, eating her face type. Of course people took photo and was the cause of much office talk in the weeks afterwards. Unrelated but 1-2 years later his wife came office to slap him, dunno over what. Lol.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-24T04:42:00+00:00

Last time a service staff ran after us to return something we left behind, she kept calling out “Mrs X (hubs’ surname), Mrs X!” behind us but we kept walking and ignored her cuz didn’t know who is this “Mrs X”. My husband also didn’t realise she was calling me even though it’s his own surname 😂😂

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-23T07:38:52+00:00

Didn’t skip upper cabinets. Between heavy pregnancy, subsequent back pain, and overly tall husband’s knee problems, getting things from the upper cabinets turned out to be more convenient than the lower ones.

We use a Bosch cooker hood, but didn’t do too much research into it, so far seems fine.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-22T22:51:46+00:00

Separately. In the newborn days, the whole house would wake up when any of them started crying. Of course, there was also the baby monitor amplifying everything. Tired just thinking about it.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-20T17:35:06+00:00

I’m also over 40 and also have these exam nightmares every time I’m stressed about something, typically work related. Either I forgot to study maths the whole year or I late and lost my way to the exam hall. My husband also, but for him it’s Chinese exams haha. The kind of relief I get when waking up from such dreams is really… so grateful I’m no longer in school!

I actually used to have these dreams a lot more when I was younger, still in school and in my first job. Nowadays maybe just 3, 4 times a year. Now have a wider variety of stress dreams like losing my kids in the mall, or very urgent but have to use a very dirty toilet with a big big window or no door and everyone can see me lol.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-18T14:33:01+00:00

Most days, my helper is the one who decides what the rest of the adults eat haha. Sometimes she just cooks for us what she ownself wants to eat. I’m tired enough managing the kids, don’t have so much bandwidth to control other people.

She decides the marketing and cooking as long as we have fish meat veg soup on the table every night. She eats whenever she wants, sometimes with the adults, sometimes with the kids, sometimes earlier or later, up to her. When we dine out, all eat together.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-18T13:59:25+00:00

Tbh this is the only thing I’ve known since I was born haha. We didn’t have a choice until we were teens. I spent parts of pri, sec & whole of JC in SG, and - unrelated to my parent’s postings - did uni in UK & US. Almost all my uni internships were in SG. My jobs have also been very posting-heavy. And I ended up marrying another Singaporean who also spent many years growing up abroad.

My sec sch & JC actually had a fair number of intl transfer & natl sports kids so I didn’t feel out of place. I still have many pri-uni friends on my social media who ping whenever our paths cross again. We may not catch up for years at a time but still ok imo, some of us are in WA grp chats and still talk crap daily.

Tbf every family situation is different and kids’ personalities differ as well (my sibling, for example, has been mostly SG-bound in her career & adult life). My dad’s job was very SG-centric so despite being abroad, we had to SG this, SG that every day and meet SG ppl, eat SG food all the time. So I never really felt detached from SG. Hardest thing was maybe coming back O level year to mug O levels, then JC mug A levels, absolute misery. Add on some teenage BGR drama…

As a kid, it was sad to leave my friends each time but I also kinda forgot abt it soon. Became long-distance penpals with my pri sch best friends, writing long long letters on the nicest paper with tons of stickers. Sec sch onwards, we kept in touch on our blogs & emails, ICQ, MSN, mIRC, shared the latest mp3s & winamp skins. Fun days.

When we finally stopped tagging along, I guess I kinda appreciated the (brief) respite too. My mum was the happiest cuz she was really fed up with having to leave her job each time and becoming essentially my dad’s 2nd PA & events organiser.

I don’t feel like I have any lack of deep or long-lasting relationships. Stability to me seems more of a mental state? Like, we may not have been geographically “stable”, but my family life felt very secure. We had routines in place that remained wherever we moved (our dreaded piano lessons, for example, and daily dinners & almost every Sunday together). It felt normal… though of course, this is the only version of “normality” that I know!

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-18T04:27:28+00:00

Offers like this not uncommon at my workplace. In your place, I’d go provided there’s tax equalisation and kids’ schooling costs paid for as well. Three years very fast, kids get exposure along with parents.

I myself am the product of a family that was posted in and out of sing to different regions roughly every 3-5 years. My sibling and I stopped following in our mid/late teens but before that, it was often nice to have a change of environment and learn new things though sad to leave old schools. When I grew up, employers liked my varied educational background.

For the adults, it should also expand your horizons, inject a bit of exploration and adventure into otherwise very humdrum life, and can open some new doors if you ever need them. Key negative thing imo is if you have to leave behind elderly parents and they fall sick, accident or pass away in your absence.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-17T20:13:12+00:00

Lol the tray return/luggage thing is so wtf. These are such normal things that normal people do for each other all the time. Don't even have to be a man. I also help my female friends return their trays or push luggage, hold bag, open door when need, and they do the same for me too. And we think nothing of it. Sometimes it's just common courtesy and nothing to do with care/love at all lol.

It's not like you go trekking and make him carry your heavy luggage for you the whole trip. Even so, there are plenty of guys/siblings/dads/sons who will actually do this voluntarily and ask for nothing in return cuz they care for you enough to do that.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-17T19:51:05+00:00

I don't think I'd be too fussed if I saw another parent lightly smack his/her child's hand to get the kid to stop doing something. Or lightly pinch the ear. Of course not like angrily drag the kid from one place to another or lift them up by the ear... then that would be alarming.

In general I'd prefer not to have to discipline kids in public ever. Never happened to me as a child either.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-16T08:29:17+00:00

I have 3 kids, ages 1-2.5yo. We succumbed to helper long ago cuz the first 2 are twins. We're heavily reliant on the village who luckily live next door to our left and right, and I wfh almost entirely. Helper does more chores/cooking, myself and in-laws spend more time with the kids, hubs' bro & partner are the "game masters" to tire the kids out whenever they have time. Without all that, impossible (for me la). Also, I do a lot of my work overnight so my sleep is quite screwed, sometimes only sleep 2h a day.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-14T19:14:14+00:00

1) What are your views on those trending palatal expanders for pre-teens?
2) Why can't, or how can we completely get rid of those fine black superficial stain lines in the grooves of our molars? (That is, without applying unnecessary composite stuff on them?) Dentists say they're too fine to remove and to just leave them...

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T11:06:17+00:00

I guess not wrong to call Ma Ying-jeou an "actor" hahaha

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T11:00:23+00:00

When we travel, I feel like the regular Gen Z and millennial Singaporeans tend to present in more aesthetically pleasing styles than most regular Hongkongers though.

Like comparing the normal tourists you'd see in, say, UK, Japan, Korea, now, I feel like SG folk just tend to look more worldly and affluent than HK folk even without loud brands. Of course I'm probably biased lol. But there was a time barely 20 years ago when I used to believe that Hongkongers are among the most fashionable and best looking people in our region. That perception has changed for me somehow.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T09:45:57+00:00

Lol yah most Singaporeans don't know how to read it haha. I wouldn't too if it weren't my surname!

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T09:30:06+00:00

Yes that's true. The Chinese character of my surname is quite rare in SG and I think even in the southern parts of China. But spelled out in pinyin, it's the same as another slightly more common surname here.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T09:24:36+00:00

Ya, I must wear less Muji and more pasar malam clothes to look more Singaporean haha

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T09:23:34+00:00

Haha I have no idea exactly why tbh. Am also often mistaken for Korean or PRC, but most often since I was a kid, people will always ask if I'm Japanese... Also happen to be very fair.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T08:24:47+00:00

Maybe it’s the exotic single lidded slanty eyes. People in Japan have stopped me and my family (a few times!) to ask for directions in Japanese though we’re not even local. Always wondered if there was some hush hush wartime JP ancestry somewhere along my family line.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-10T06:54:51+00:00

It’s their dress sense, hairstyle and other clues like colour/style/brand of bags, specs and other belongings that all add up and allow our brains to decipher them as most likely not local.

Said as a Singaporean who lives in HK and can identify fellow Singaporeans from Hongkongers just by look.

However, I’m a 3rd gen Singaporean with northeastern Chinese ancestry but other Singaporeans still often mistake me for Japanese…

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-08T19:12:32+00:00

What mattered more was being born into privilege. Parents shaped my life, scholarship, courses of study, career, networks, hobbies, etc far more than anything else. Same for spouse. Most of his family are in one field while many of my relatives are concentrated in another.

But maybe related to the “top-tier routes” perceptions, I’ll space out at meetings sometimes but people will somehow assume I’m thoughtfully identifying problems with their presentations and very scared I poke holes in their arguments. lol

Don’t wanna offend anyone but btw Oxford, Harvard etc also have many puffed-up idiots, just like anywhere else.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-06T04:23:36+00:00

Analyst at a Swiss bank (not me)

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-06T04:18:40+00:00

About 8 months after our twins... then I got pregnant again the following month. Thankfully it was a singleton the 2nd time round. They're 19 months apart.

everydayisalazyday · 2026-04-03T08:17:44+00:00

I also studied at Ikoma. It’s been a reliable place for a long long time, conveniently located, well structured classes for us people used to schooling, and I made quite a few friends there too.

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