Sunday, January 31, 2010

Pre-CNY Reunion DInner

Our family had pre-CNY Reunion Dinner tonight...  ala-carte buffet dinner, my favourite...  It was a little early for the dinner, but all of us agreed it was better than doing it on the eve since all of us will be travelling first thing in the morning on the first day of CNY...
the cousins are really happy to meet....
a happy kongkong and mama....
our all time favourite...  salmon yu-sheng....
lou hei....  huat ahhh!!!.....
red wine to go along with our fine food...  wine with compliments from vincent...
say cheeeeeeseeee.......
family photo....
poor peking duck... but it sure was delicious...  heehee....
suan pan...  abacus....froggiesss.....i love this dish...  some meat stuffed into lychee and then deepfried...  i ate 4 of those...  ooohh....  so succulent and the lychee juice just oozed out into your mouth...  yums....
butter crab was great tooo...
cheers!

It was a great dinner...  lovely glorious food and great family bonding time....  We are so looking forward to spending more time with the family during Chinese New Year and to meet all our relatives....  :))

Weekends!

Weekends are here again and we are back to our weekly routines....
secret recipe has somewhat become our weekly hangout...  it's teabrekkk timmee!
table-tennis....
amanda playing with my trikke 3WB....
supper at ah mei's, rail mall...

We attended Baby Clara's 1-month old celebration on Sunday...  Amanda was sooo excited about the baby and she was going like "oooohh.....  soooo cuuuutteeee...."
isn't she cute??....  baby clara i mean....  haha!!....
amanda acting the big chay chay....

We could only stay a while and had rush home as we are meeting our family for pre-CNY Reunion Dinner....

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Fun-Filled Weekends!

Weekends are meant to be fun and exciting and most importantly, a time for relaxation and family bonding.....

tea break at secret recipe again...
amanda wanted to drink from the bottle instead of from a glass or with a drinking straw...  probably she was imagining it was HOOCH!......
my hot cuppa...  a flower design today instead of apple....fish and chips......


This weekend, Amanda also tried Rock Climbing for the very first time...  She was brave and climbed right to the top almost within a minute....  easy feat for her!!...  haha...  anyways, the wall wasn't exactly that high la.....  :)))

she's quite agile.. not bad!....
disclaimer!!!!

top of the world (ahem... wall)....  :D
getting down wasn't as easy as going up....

We also went to East Coast Park to take a look at the TRIKKE Carving Vehicle (3 wheel bike)....  Thanks to Serene through her FB that I got to know about this bike.

I find it very interesting as we can get the bike moving just by using the momentum of our body....  So I suggested to Daddy that we go take a look and try it out.  I had already planned to buy it as Daddy and Amanda love to in-line skate and I could hardly move with the skates...  hence with this 3 wheel bike, I am able to move along with them and keep up with their pace yet at the same time balance myself....  By the way, I am not good with the bicycles too....  So I thought this was one of the best solutions.....

amanda fell in love with it almost immediately....  this was available for rental too....
daddy fell in love with it too....  he borrowed this and rode to the carpark to get my handbag for me and everyone he passed by was saying like "cooool"......and i bought it eventhough this is my first time seeing and trying it...  must be love at first sight....
fixing up my carving vehicle (3 wheel bike)....
amanda tried this while waiting for them to fix up my 3WB.....
wheeee....  she enjoyed this so much...  i wanted to get this for her birthday but daddy was against it for safety reasons....  he felt it was too low to the ground and might get a little dangerous for her height as there wasn't much visibility.......

daddy tried this too...  but this wasn't easy to balance...  2 wheels and you've got to keep stepping up and down to balance and move....  tough!
my 3WB was ready and we were all so excited about riding to the carpark...  both of them were fighting for it...  hey!  whose 3WB is it by the way??!!......
they took turns to ride to the carpark....  hmmm....  what a magnanimous mummy...  fancy allowing them to play with my 3WB before i even rode on it....  anyway, i tried on the way to the carpark too... but it wasn't moving too fast...  need more practice....  heehee...
my new toy.....

a beauty, isn't it?....

amanda likes this so much now....  so typical of her....  new broom sweeps clean....  :)  looks like the swaveboard i bought for amanda last week is gonna go into cold storage...

Our whole family is so excited about our new toy and we are looking forward to the coming weekend where we can get to play with our new toy in vast open space....  ooohh....  how nice...  but I wonder how we are gonna fight for this....  Probably Amanda will be the first to rush for it....  May consider buying another 2 more...  but then again, it's a little pricey and we are not even sure if our interest in this will last....  Hmmmm.....  time will tell.......  It's bedtime for now....  zzzzzzz.....  goodnight world........