Lea's Birthday, Mellben and Randoms

16 July - Lea's Birthday...

don't they look cute? 

17 July - Dinner at Mellben...

below right - japanese goodies from my neighbours japanese wife...  it was yummy...

21 July - Randoms 

lunch at 328 katong laksa followed by dinner at sakae sushi...

bought these 2 tees for amanda... mummy loves me and daddy loves me.... totally love it!

Darren's Birthday and the Last Fling!

24 June 2011 - Celebrated Darren's birthday together with Mama, Kongkong and Ee Poh's family...  it was a small celebration but all of us enjoyed ourselves....

The last weekend before school reopens... 25 & 26 June 2011...

drove to bedok food centre (the one opposite bedok camp) for some tea time... our first time there and the food was surprisingly very good!

Our Very Own Little BBQ at Home

This BBQ at home to celebrate Father's Day holds very much sentimental value to us...  Firstly, this BBQ set was given by my good friends Rosie, Christoper, Patrick & Jenny 13 years ago when we first shifted into this house...  but can you believe we are only opening the box now, after 13 years!!!  Sentimental also because this is the first time we are having a BBQ in our house after so many years...  Hence we decided to have the "opening ceremony" just with the 3 of us...  All other BBQs can come later....  :))

By the way, this BBQ was an impromptu one which was decided only at 2pm the same day when we were brainstorming where to go for Father's Day dinner, when Daddy came up with this ingenious idea of having a home BBQ.  We quickled fixed up the set, rushed to Fairprice Finest after fixing to shop for the food, charcoal and tongs...  and returned home at 4pm all excited to prepare food for BBQ...

figuring how to fix the bbq set.... and it's finally ready...

amanda helping to marinate the chicken wings while kakak prepared other stuff... daddy was busy starting the fire, while mummy was busy taking pictures.... hahaha!!!

It was quite a feast considering that there were only 4 of us... We had chicken wings, satay, otah, lamb shanks, mussels, sausages, corns and sweet potatoes... the lamb shanks were delicious but quite expensive at S$7 per piece... 

daddy took a while to start the fire but in vain... thank goodness we had kakak who has experience starting a fire... by the way, we bought the special charcoals which didn't require any starters at all...  interesting how charcoal has evolved...

amanda and kakak were responsible for the bbq and both of them stood there watching over the fire throughout the whole bbq...

eating and BBQing at the same time...

daddy and i idled throughout the entire bbq leaving all the work to kakak and amanda... anyway, both of them enjoyed doing it... hehe...

(left) daddy enjoying himself....  (right) taking a break for her food...

and finally, BBQing the sweet potato and corns...  can you see the ash collected at the bottom of the pit? we later used it as fertilisers for the plants...

We had a really enjoyable and meaningful very own family Father's Day celebration this year...  It was fun and relaxing having a BBQ in your own home and the entire BBQ lasted 5 hours as it ended around 10.30pm...  Ahhh....  Sense of satisfaction....



An All Ladies' Father's Day Lunch (except for kongkong)

It was a weird Father's Day lunch today.... Weird because only 1 MAN was present while the rest were ladies... Now, isn't that funny?  LOL!

ah ee nancy loves the pendant deb and i bought for her... amanda giving kongkong her very own made presie... and she had pressies for all the men who were absent... how sweet of her...

as usual, meals at ah yat has never disappointed us....  thumbs up!

We had an enjoyable time chatting and laughing throughout the lunch... what a great lunch it was today!

Family Bonding & Happy 端午节！

After so much rushing to and fro the hospital, it's now time for a little family bonding...

amanda having fun cooking... she was learning to fry rice...

playing table tennis in the backyard... see what i mean by having a light and fuss free table so that we could move it aside?

some personal time for daddy and me...

amanda had almost recovered from her fever so we brought her to ikea at tampines for some chicken wings and at the same time to shop for some furniture...

celebrating rice dumpling festival in our new backyard... rice dumplings with compliments from our neighbour... now you know why we don't want to seal the wall between us huh? hehehe...

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...

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...

Outing with the Kids and Mama's Birthday

Since it was the 1 week school holidays, I decided to bring the 2 kids out for some fun.  The sun was scorching but they still enjoyed themselves nonetheless.

fun and laughter followed by kfc lunch (at darren's request) and bubble tea for dessert....  :))

Happy Birthday Mama!!!!!!!!

i made red eggs and mee sua for mama in the morning of mama's actual birthday and specially delivered it to her home...

A lunch celebration with Mama, Kongkong and the kids a day before Mama's birthday... Venue : Chillis at Resorts World Sentosa....

the food was awesome, especially the ribs... we ordered a combi of 2 flavours (cannot seem to remember their names now)... appetizer was lovely as well...

cheers!

the crew bringing out mama's birthday cake which we collected from marina bay sands...

a happy mama....

mama holding her red packets from daddy and me....

the complimentary cake from mbs was delicious... but mama and i felt slightly drunk after eating the cake... not sure if there was any alcohol in it... we were hoping the kids would get tipsy and stayed quiet in the car, but no, it never happened... haha! 

the cousins... all wet after playing at the fountain...

taking the buggy to our car...