Our Vesak Special

Vesak holiday was on Friday and so it was a long weekends for the family.

Friday morning, I was reading the newspaper during breakfast and noticed there were loads of sales and fairs happening. So after some discussion, we decided to head for the Singapore Book Fair at Suntec city.

We arrived at the convention hall around 11am. It was still early and many of the booths were still setting up. We walked around and the children were looking for books of their preference.

We found a booth that had Geronimo Stilton books at $7 per book. Immediately Anthea bought 3 of them. Anders bought for himself a Dino book.

Then we went to the food court for our lunch. After lunch we went for a bit of shopping at Carrefour before heading home to rest.

Dinner was with my extended families at Peach Garden. My In-laws were going to Hong Kong with my 2nd Brother in law’s family for the next few days for their holidays.

On Saturday morning, Adrian brought Anthea and Anders to my youngest brother in law place for a swim. I was busy with my Mariah’s duty at home.

Then in the evening, we went to Orchard Road for our dinner cum window shopping. Adrian likes the Mala Pot at 313@Sommerset. So as and when we were eating on our own, this would be our favorite hunt. We had Mala pot while the children had noodles.

After dinner, we took a slow stroll in Orchard Road and it was crowded. The Great Singapore Sale is on and people are busy buying away. We went to Takashimaya as the children wanted to go to Kinokuniya. Yes, seem like they had taken a liking to books and Adrian commented that he has companionship to bookstore now.

At kinokuniya, Anthea bought an Enid Blyton book and Anders bought a sport book. Both of them were very happy with their new books. At the same time, we managed to change our Malaysia Ringgit at the money changer in the mall.

Then we went to TCC@ Wisma Atria for our supper. We had drinks & cake and Anthea commented that – “this was a night out for our family, I really enjoy it.” Yes, there were TV Ads she had seen on TV that promotes Singapore night out and she always wanted to do one.

We called it a day around 10pm and headed home via the MRT.

It was a relaxing Sunday, Anders had his usual swimming lesson and Anthea went along to do her laps.

In the evening, we had dinner at my parent’s place. It was a spread of home cooked Beef stew and duck. As usual, the dinner was sumptuous and delicious. After dinner desserts were bird nest soup and my home made durian puddings. I was really happy that they enjoyed the puddings.

This has been a Zen and relaxing weekends for us. Nothing beat having the families around you and enjoying each other companionship on such occasion.