Happy Children Day & Hari Raya Holiday

完美自我

My last visit to the salon to rebond and colored my hair was on 1 May 2008. Since Adrian is working oversea, I hardly had any ME time, less talk about “overhauling” myself.

After F1 encounter, I know I must keep myself up to a good standard. Looking at those SingTel PYT (Pretty young things), I can't help but told myself; I must maintain myself...haha.

Just jiving lah..Since it is a Hari Raya holiday, I can engage my MIL's help for a few hours to look after Anthea and Anders while I went to color and trim my hair.

My Dearest will be home this Sunday and I want him to see a 美美的我.

While I was at the salon, I received a sms from one of my long time “sister” Andrea. She asked me about the Chinese wedding customary. Her youngest sister is getting married tomorrow. She even asked me to go to her place for the wedding lunch. Now I am seriously considering taking a day off to attend to her lunch and also running some errands... : P

Counting Down Days

Today is the 1st day of October and it is also the countdown of my working days with my current employer. I have decided to leave the company and my last working day is 31 October, Friday.

After which I may do some temp jobs while looking for my Part Time opportunity. My colleague has questioned me about losing my AWS but I told her it's opportunity cost. Also I am not earning a lot and I will claim my AWS from my Home Minister...haha.

Now I am in ORD Gear, the feeling is actually quite good and I am looking forward to doing things that I like. These 2 months of Nov/Dec lines up quite a fair bit of things to do in preparation for Anthea Primary 1 in 2009.

Bento Collections

Dinner was at Sakae Sushi in Wheelock place with my PIL and youngest BIL. As usual, we had a great meal and good companionship. The reason for eating there is actually for me to go Borders to pick up a book that I had reserved yesterday. I had borrowed this book – Kids’ healthy lunchbox by Care hobday and find it very useful for my preparation of lunch box for Anthea. I decided to buy the book and called Borders to check if they have this book and indeed, they had it and I BOUGHT it.

Then we went to shop in Tangs before having dessert at Mac Café. Both anthea and Anders had a good time with their apple juice and chocolate sundae. Like what Anthea say: “it's Children day, so we must be Happy”. How true and wise her words are...haha.

Indeed, it has been a Happy Children Day and Hari Raya holiday for us.

Zoo Outing & my 1st Bento

This morning I woke up around 5.45 am. It's the childcare centre field trip to the Zoo and I felt quite excited about it. This is Anthea and Anders 1st time to the Zoo with their childcare centre.

The other reason for my excitement was – I am preparing my own lunch box. As the children meals are included in the fees, parents were advised to buy their own meal. So I thought it would be a good chance for me to gauge my preparation timing because comes 2009 Anthea will be in morning session.

I had a simple lunch box ingredient in mind – onigiri / hardboiled egg / Vienna sausages.

I started cooking the rice and boiling the eggs. As for the sausages, I just needed to steam them hot in the cooker. All in I spent about 30 minutes, not bad since I didn't plan to do any deco, so my lunch box look a bit dull...haha.

Both anthea and Anders woke up at 7.30 am and had their breakfast. Then we set off to the school. Upon reaching the school, we presented the Teacher's day gift to their class teachers. There were total of 4 gifts - Ms Kelyn and 张老师 (Anders teachers). Ms Valentine / 罗老师 (Anthea teachers)

The principal had a short briefing with the parents who were there for the Zoo trip. I was quite happy to see a large turnout and some even joined in as couples. Each parent was given a bottle of mineral water and a hotdog bun.

We set off from the centre at 9am and reached the Zoo around 9.20am. The children were all excited upon arrival and kept saying what animals they wanted to see... : )

As it was just a ½ day trip, the itinerary was all set up by the school and from the schedule; I knew that there will be limited time/chance to explore the Zoo.

9.30 am – 10.00 am: arrival at the Zoo

10 am – 10.30 am: Educational Programme (Take 5 @ ZOO)

10.30 – 11 am – Proceed to Animals Show

11 am – 11.30 am – Splash Safari Show

11.30 am – 12 noon – Proceed to KFC

12 nn – 1 pm: Lunch

1 pm – 1.30 pm: Return to centre

Anders was a bit disappointed that he can't see all the animals that he was expecting to see. I told him that we will have chance to come again, that's for sure. Anthea had a good time with her classmates.

I brought along bread and biscuits for them to munch while walking on the way. Some of the other children also asked me for the snacks, luckily, I had enough to go around...haha. We had visited the Zoo before and from experienced, I know the children enjoying eating light snacks.

We reached the centre around 1.20pm and I brought Anders and Anthea home for their bath and afternoon nap.

In the evening, Anthea did her MPM lesson and I brought Anders to the library to read some books while waiting.

At night around 9.30pm, we had a chance to talk to Adrian. He was on a tour to Jerusalem and Dead Sea.

It has been a tiring but very fulfilling day spends with the children.

E-Poll Day & A Birthday Celebration.

We woke up to a rainy and cold Saturday morning. Thanks goodness, I bought breakfast, so it was just simple preparation. We had our usual ham & eggs breakfast.

POLLING Notice for Lift Upgrading – after the last round of general survey, now it's the real thing. It's time to VOTE for the LUP. The polling dates started from 21 August to 25 August. So I decided to cast in OUR vote this morning. It was a simple procedure – I submitted my IC and the officer in charge lead me to an E-polling kiosk. I just needed to answer 2 simple questions and that's it. Done in less than 1 minute time...haha. The committee even gave us a small souvenir.

Then we went to AMK HUB to buy a birthday cake for Aunty Eve's birthday celebration this evening. I decided to try the ever long Q – Four Season Durian Cake. At the same time, we bought a small present for Aunty Eve, hope she likes it.

Lunch was simple home cooked soup, steam fish and special “pork floss rice”. I bought this sushi rice maker last evening at the hardware store and decided to try it today.

Anthea and Anders had their usual afternoon nap after a good fun time with the neighbor gor gor.

Dinner was at Hua Ting in Orchard Hotel in celebration of my 2nd sister in law, Eve's birthday. As usual, the food was delicious and the companionship was good. We had a bottle of complimentary red wine to go with the sumptuous dinner because of my MIL privilege card entitlement.

(Anders & Faith)

Cake cutting ceremony was after the dinner and the feedbacks on the Durian cake were positive. Both Anthea and Anders had about 2 servings of the cake...haha. When Adrian is back, we will buy one for him to try.

After dinner, my PIL fetched us home. Yet another fruitful day for us.

Aces family wishing Aunty Eve – Very Happy Birthday and May her wish comes TRUE... : )

CHEERS!!

20082008

YEARS COME AND GO.......
BUT TODAY IS A SPECIAL DAY. . . .
20082008
DOUBLE MATCH........
IT HAPPENS ONLY ONCE IN A LIFETIME,
SO I WISH YOU
GOOD LUCK, GOOD HEALTH,
HAPPINESS AND PEACEFULNESS.
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!!

on such a special day, i bought this ....

When i showed it to Anthea, she said "mommy, it's too big for my bag."

I said "ok, never mind, mommy can use or next time daddy can use it when mommy prepared lunch box.."...haha. : P

Updates on Daddy - Adrian has been keeping in touch with me via email daily and he will call and talk to the children on weekends when he's not working. Because of time difference and long working hours, it's tough for phone calls during the weekdays.

He had completed his 1st course and is now waiting for the 2nd course to start next week. The 2nd batch of his colleagues will be leaving this Friday to join them and his pair of Addidas shoes will be hand delivered by a very trustworthy mate - WH.

The hotel area that he is staying is similar to our Orchard Road, so getting food and daily needs are not a big issue. His hotel is by the beach and he will do his regular jogs.

It is defintely not easy for him to be working so far away from home and feeling so much for the family here. We know that this experienced that he's getting and what he is learning in the courses will be a very valuable asset to his career.

"Dear, like i say, you are building a better nest for the family to rest on, in future. Don't worry for what's happening now, in life, changes are inevitable and so far, i know it's for the better.

Have a wonderful 2008-2008 !!

三人行 的 第 3 个星期 天

Today is a super fun packed Sunday for us.

Trial Bento - today morning I prepared breakfast for Anthea and Anders. Last evening I bought the heart shaped cutter for Daiso and decided to use it on the sandwich. Anthea was very happy when she saw the sandwich and said: “mommy, it's very nice.” She said next time she can bring it to school for her tea break. She even chose her 1st bento box from NTUC Xtra when we saw it. Now I am even more committed into Bento..haha.

Volley Ball session – ever since we watched the Channel 8 Drama series “babes,beach,ball.” Anthea seem to fall in love with this sport. Every day she will come home and tell me that she plays volleyball in school. Last evening, we bought a ball from Daiso and she was very happy with the new toy. This morning, we went to the open ground downstairs and played volleyball. Our neighbor gor gor also joined us for the game session. Both Anthea and Anders had a wonderful time and were perspiring so much... : P

I prepared a simple lunch for the children and they happily finished up their lunch.

Teacher Badaria wedding – Teacher Baida was Anthea ex-childcare teacher. Ever since Anthea change childcare, I still keep in touch with her. She is a very good childcare teacher. Today is her wedding and she had invited us for the wedding lunch. So I brought Anthea and Anders along, her wedding venue is just walking distance from our house.

We had a good time at the lunch and managed to catch up with some of the parents. The only regret is we did not get to see teacher Baida at the wedding. We missed her as we went quite late. Still we want to wish the Very Best in her marriage.

The children had their nap late, so we did dinner on our own instead of the original plan of eating at my In-laws house. At the same time, I am following the Olympic Woman Table Tennis GOLD medal contest and Singapore had won its SILVER medal... : )