Renovation Updates - Day 14 & Dinner

By Day 14, we were almost done... The contractors just needed to fix up the ceiling fan and lights, add the finishing touch to the roof, paint the walls and wash up the flooring and we are almost done!



Dinner at Rong Guang again...

Weekends

28 May 2011 - Buona Vista Boneless Duck for lunch, Spinelli's for tea time and Mellben Crabs for dinner... Both the Chilli and Claypot Beehoon crabs were extremely fresh and delicious... This shop has never failed us so far....

29 May 2011 - Banana Leaf Nasi Bryani at Samy's Curry @ Dempsey...  Amanda's very first experience with Banana Leaf Rice and she thoroughly enjoyed it....

the food was really good, rice was free flow, but the pricing was on the steep side... daddy's tiny prawn cost almost S$10 while his fried fish cost over S$20...  by the way, we met mediacorp actress michelle chong at the restaurant too...  restaurant is very popular among expats too... 

Day 9 & 10 of Reno and Kungfu Panda 2 Movie

Day 9 of renovation - Walls up and smoothened...

daddy looking so safisfied with the work... 

Day 10 - Roofing was up...

Dinner and Kungfu Panda movie with the Siau family...

dinner at empire state...

before entering the cinema...  oops, i just realised that i had accidentally deleted one photo on the left... haha...



Day 8 of Reno & Secret Recipe Lunch

Cementing the floor and smoothening of walls by Day 8... Now... is this considered fast or slow?....  Hmm, I don't know... haha!!

our delicious lunch at secret recipe... both amanda and daddy ate crayfish pasta whilst i ate laksa... amanda ordered a fish soup bowl too... the soup cost S$8.90 but it certainly isn't worth the money...

Japanese Garden & Day 6 of Reno

22 May 2011 - An early KFC dinner followed by an evening stroll in Japanese Garden... A perfect way to destress and prepare ourselves for the new week ahead...

23 May 2011 - Day 6 of our renovation...

Day 4 of Reno

It is really interesting to keep a little diary of the progress of our renovation...   By Day 4, the walls were up, much to the joy of Daddy...  :))

sitting back to relax in spite of the ongoing the reno at home...

and supper at old town white coffee...

First Day of Renovation & Arrival of my iPad2

We have decided to extend our backyard to utilise the space.  Can you imagine we've been staying here for 13 years yet I've been to the backyard for less than 10 times!  Renovation starts today.  We have deliberately chosen 18 May to start the renovation as it was also 18 May 13 years ago that we shifted into this lovely home of ours...

ground breaking ceremony.... lol...

yippie! my ipad2 arrived today... it's a mother's day gift from daddy to me... a pity the parcel couldn't arrive on time...

Rise Restaurant at Marina Bay Sands

Random

brekkie at ah mei's and a simple dinner... 16 may 2011...

buffet lunch at rise restaurant, marina bay sands.... 17 may 2011...

followed by dinner at rong guang... yes, again... wow, i realise that we've been dining here quite often... time to boycott this place for a while...  hehe...

Weekends & USS

14 May 2011, Saturday - Universal Studios

followed by tea time at buona vista boneless duck and dinner at rongguang...

15 May 2011, Sunday

lunch at ah yat...

followed by omni theatre movie, swimming and then kfc dinner...

Randoms & Last Day of Exam...

Randoms...

a lazy afternoon...

a very hungry amanda, pestering us to drive her out to get chicken wings...

Last day of exam....

celebrating last day of exam at sakae sushi followed by a trip to the library...

GE2011 & Happy Mother's Day

After 9 days of rallying, it's finally time for us to cast our votes on 7 May 2011. As Amanda was very keen to know how voting takes place, we decided to take her along after numerous pleas... of course kakak had to tag along too since Amanda wasn't allowed to enter the polling station.

a slow morning stroll to the polling station...

Happy Mother's Day - 8 May 2011

a treat from kongkong to all 3 mummies...  at sakae sushi... and little handmade gifts from amanda... 

mama and kongkong...

RANDOM

on a sidenote... amanda was not able to make it for emily's birthday party last week... so we decided to get her a gift and pass it to her when she meets her... of course, i got the same thing for amanda as well... hehe...

328 Katong Laksa & More Rallies

Since Amanda didn't get to meet Nicole Seah in person last night, we decided to try our luck another time at her rallies.. this time, at Mountbatten.  We had 328 Katong Laksa at Katong before heading to Mountbatten for the rally. 

interesting way of eating laksa here as we were given only spoon, and no chopsticks...

at the rally...

Rally was exceptionally crowded as usual, and this time, we didn't manage to get the front row. Hence we stood watching from a distance. After standing for an hour or so, we decided to make our way home since we didn't hear NS's voice... Note, I said "hear" because we were just too far from the stage to see anything.  We took a really long walk to our car and just as we were turning out of the carpark, my friend told me that NS appeared....  Arghh! What luck!

my iPad cover arrived much earlier (on 4 May) than the iPad2...

our dessert...