婆婆 Birthday Celebration

Yet another birthday celebration! Its 婆婆! How old is she this year? hmmm lost count le..she has always remained as 36 in my mind! 婆婆 is born in the year of Horse! Counting...wow she is 56 years old!

Gosh, how time flies...i still remember the days when she needed to go to work in a factory near Geylang. And i had to travel with her to my grandma's house who was looking after me at Geylang and it was always so early that the sky was still dark when we left the house. And when she fetched me home after work, it was getting dark again as she knocks off like 6pm/7pm. I remembered that i was always so very happy when mum came to fetch me home leaving my young sister behind. Happy becos i got to go home...my sister would always cry when she saw us leaving... That was the years of my childhood.

Happy Blessed Birthday to 婆婆!

First Light Festival

We crawled out of the bed at 3.30am, before the crack of dawn to catch the sun rise from The Singapore Flyer for the first time. We made it to the venue at about 4.30am in time for the inaugural edition of the First Light Festival, a new arts and cultural event. We saw some buskers performances, 'hawker stalls' selling food... it was already alive with activities.

buskers performance...

checking in...

night scenery from the Flyer...

sky dining..having a breakfast...

pic taken from the lift..heehee..nice background ya...
a souvenir picture...

Family Photoshoot 2010

We went for a family photoshoot! yeah! The photographer managed to catch lovely shots of my little girls.

Bonding Time at Bukit Batok CSC

Today is bonding time!

Let a little w.e.t. cool all tempers. So D drove us all the way to Bukit Batok CSC for a dip in their pools surrounded by trees and resort feel scenery.

Nat enjoying the scenery...

Tiffy sashaying to the pool after changing into her swimming suit...

nice wave pool..therez a kiddy pool nearby too..and a lazy pool!

Tiffy laughing herself silly at the lazy pool...

Melody enjoying herself after overcoming her fear of water...

D and the girls ...Commitment is the foundation for a strong and functional family-Live, Love & Play together. Have you made your pledge? http://www.nfc.sg/index.php

Held annually, the National Family Celebrations rejoices and reinforces the importance of the family that strong family bonds can be engendered through shared activities. Some family activities/tips can be found http://www.nfc.sg/index.php/login/familyTips

CNY Dinner at Teck Ghee

This tiger year, 婆婆 bought a table as per last year. However, this year we had 爷爷, 奶奶, uncle and auntie joined us.

A sleepy Melody and 奶奶...

mummy and the gers...

PM Lee Hsien Loong and Natalie and 婆婆...
婆婆 trying to let Natalie have a taste of our yummy food...

our family with MP Seng Han Tong...

Happy Birthday to Alton

大年初一 (Feb 14) happened to be my cousin's 1st birthday too. Uncle invited us all to his house to celebrate Alton's birthday.

Birthday boy preparing to blow candle...

cake cutting...
notice the cake? Melody 'damaged' the cake, she poke her fingers into the cake...lucky its only the edge *phew*mummy's 5th uncle with Natalie...

大年初一

First day of CNY, mummy dressed the little girls in traditional clothes. They looked so adorable in it. And as per tradition, the first persons that children 拜年 to, will be their parents. So my little darlings 拜年 to eddaddy and mummy in exchange for the 红包.

family photo photo taken with 公公 and 婆婆

see Melody's gloomy face cos she was getting cranky...

Yummy Feast @ Lobster Place

Dear eddaddy brought us to the Lobster Place at Simei ITE for a small feast cos mummy was feeling down bah. The food was not bad. Its specialty is lobster..yum yum. Eating good food sure up the mood level heehee

Sharksfin soup (my fave)

Lobster porridge (the highlight)

Mongolian chicken (should be tis name-one of the specialty dish)

Fried rice...

Greens...

Tiffy enjoying her portion of sharksfin soup

Melody sipping sharksfin soup too.. :)dear eddaddy and baby Natalie..Natalie loves the lobster porridge too keke

Blessed Christmas!

This year, our family had a christmas dinner and present exchanges at my home as usual (keke hope it will continue year after year and become a family tradition). This is a very special Christmas as we added a new member - Natalie - and it's her very first Christmas!
Whatz a feast without a spread! This year, instead of ordering or catering, its a all home-cooked favourites.

1) Steamed Crabby Crabs

Preparation: Wholesome without any additional flavourings just a dash of ginger.

Verdict: Yummy, meat is super sweet and juicy.

2) Fruity Roasted Chicken (1st time trying out the recipe)

Preparation: Marinade chicken overnight and roast it with green apples and strawberries.

Verdict: Tender and juicy meat. Yumyum.

3) Terriyaki Salmon

Preparation: Marinade in Terriyaki sauce, pan fried Salmon and drizzled with Terriyaki.

Verdict: Good!

4) Ebi Tempura

Preps: De-shell prawns, dip prawn in tempura flour and breadcrumbs and fry.

Verdict: Sinful yet delicious and very crispy (finally break my jie-kou to eat seafood after 4months)

5) Enoki Mushroom with Bacon Wrap (1st time trying this recipe too though we had a similar recipe where we wrap bacon with aspharagus the year before)

Preps: Clean up mushroom and bacon and wrap. Grill the wrap in oven till done.

Verdict: Tata! Nice combination. Crunchy, juicy and very tasty. Again, we din add any other flavourings.

6) Angel's Hair spaghetti with white clams and prawns

Preps: de-shelled prawns, clean the clams and cook together with spag sauce.

Verdict: yummy. spag was just nice, not too soft not too hard. Sauce too, just nice. :)

7) White Christmas Ice Cream Log Cake (bought from ICE3)

Everyone raved about the choc ice cream, not so sweet. Yummy! Edaddy had a hard time chopping up the cake *sweat*

Haha we all had a very yummy and satisfying meal and a great time unwrapping the pressies!