Loy, Elaine, and Penny meet Stripey!

The wonderful experience on New Years' Eve was seeing friends Loy, Elaine, and their eight-month old daughter Penny. Loy and Elaine are from Singapore. Loy's finishing up his PhD in Philosophy at Berkeley. His major advisor went to the University of Toronto, so they've been there for about the last year and a half. Elaine is on leave from her teaching job in Singapore. This was the first time I met Penny!

We had tea in the midst of soggy towels, worry, and more and more rain. Tea with lemon poppyseed bread and scones with clotted cream (thanks, Linda!).

Penny is a happy little girl! It was wonderful seeing them, talking about life in Toronto, Berkeley news, more cross-cultural stories between T, B, and Singapore, food, of course!


Loy introduces Penny to Stripey. She took a bite out of his head! A great start!


Elaine and Penny and an avocado

Loy, Elaine, and Penny are back in Toronto...Stripey, it seems was good company on the way home.

Loy and Elaine have a wonderful blog! I'm adding it to my list of blogs on the right nav bar. Actually, this is the food one with lots of recipes. But there are links to their other ones on this one!

Yummy...Singapore food!

Wish we'd had more time together!