A short getaway 2 to 4 June 2011

Mummy and Daddy managed to get away for a short trip. The girls are all so happy to be 'camping' over at their 奶奶's house. So we happily hoppped over to a beautiful little island in Malaysia called 'Redang' ~ Laguna Redang Resort. The day before Day 1...

We took a night bus and after a long travelling time for about 11 hours, we reached Merang Jetty.

Day 1

Finally, we board a ferry at 9.45am headed for the little island, it took nearly an hour before reaching. We gathered at the hall for a briefing - the snorkeling trips, the facilities and the activities available at the island. Hmm...sounds exciting...

at Laguna Redang Resort's jetty...

collapsed in the cosy and spacious room...beautiful pool view from our room... after sumptous lunch at the Terrace...still soaking in the beautiful sights

After lunch, we head our for our first snorkeling trip of the our lifetime...at 3pm....location - somewhere out there (haha cannot recall the name) in the deep blue sea...

our first underwater photography..don think my eyes were open.. hee..trying hard to hold my breath and not to be overwhelm by the sea...

hmm..cannot see anything the first time..don even know that therez a coral there..only pose becos the photographer said so....keke...hmmm..."nemo's house, pose!" and down i went..

I took a while to adapt to snorkeling...but after a while, it was wonderful :) Wonderful to see the lovely marine creatures..the colorful fishes swimming by...the 'hungry' fishes which nimbled our fingers thinking that they are bread!

the sea of people snorkeling with us...there were 7 boats seating about 50pax each! But amazingly, the sea is able to accomodate all of us without us bumping into each other much.

After a tiring day out, we had another round of bbq buffet dinner...

It was time to enjoy the lovely sunset and a round of drinks at the beach pub...

enjoying the live band and i was having 'Redang Island cocktail' and Daddy having '..on the Beach cocktail'...

Day 2
We started the day with a good breakfast, and we head out to Marine Park. It is a very nice beach..but amazingly, the waters are filled with as many beautiful marine fishes. I think i see some parrot fish too! So pretty!

At 3pm, we headed out to the deep blue sea @ Pasir Akar...for another round of snorkeling!

There was nothing much to do at night, except we went for a foot massage, a round of drinks at the beach pub with live band, shopping at the sourvenir shop again...but that night, i saw a shooting star in the clear dark sky!

the famous More More Tea Inn..

I will forward to the day when i can come back to this beautiful island with all my darlings...this time..

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!

Our Batam Retreat

It has been nearly 3 years since we had our overseas vacation, not counting in Genting in Mar 2009 with family members.


Finally, we went to a 2D1N retreat at a nearby beach resort - Harris @ Batam. It was a refreshing, relaxing and lazy 2D1N. We did everything from spas (twice), swimming, bowling, lazing around, swimmings, strolling along the beach, jet ski, shopping at Nagoya Hill shopping ctr, eat & eat. Hope we could have another round of retreat soon.

Harris Resort @ Batam

afternoon tea at D Cafe...

jet ski after tea...

shopping at Nagoya Hill shopping centre...

lunch at A&W..

walking around...lazing around...

spa before our yummy dinner...

dinner at Harris cafe... entertainment during dinner time...
a stroll at the beach before home sweet home...

My surprise birthday...being part 3

Both dear sis and hb gave me surprises on the same day we celebrated Tiffy's birthday. I was showered with pressies and cakes. I must confessed that i was super touched by the gesture...thank you everyone...

A super huge mahjong cake!

Here is Tiffy being the big sister helping with the candles and all

With our aunties witnessing the little ceremony...hee i get to receive ang paos from them too! :p Btw, there were so muck cakes at the end of the day that we had them for breakfast for many many days haha..and before the clock struck 12am on 29 aug, we had another birthday ceremony with my darling girls singing for me.

Busy August

This month of Aug was a period of highs and low...

Highs cos of birthday celebrations, eXplorer Kids, Tiffy celebrating Nday at School, National Day Celebrations at Heartlands, National Day Dinner, Opening of YOG rehearsal, baking class for parent and kid, clubbing/karaoke/movie with hb as part of my birthday celebrations and watching a musical-Fried Rice Paradise with mum and hb....

Low was Nat's diagnosis and her visits to PD and orthopedic.....tramatising for me at least....

Tip Toe Treatment

Natalie was diagnosed with tight archilles tendon on 3 Aug 2010, she is not able to flex her ankle fully 90degree, resulting that she has to tip toe even when standing. :(
I have been devastated when i first heard the news. I know that i have not been paying much attention to her, have been 'throwing' her in the walker for more than neccessary....had it not been our auntie who alerted us to this problem, I would probably not notice anything wrong with that and delayed treatment.....It has been nearly a month since the diagnosis...and the terrible guilt still lingers.


She is now 3 weeks into the treatment (1st serial casting started on 13 Aug 2010), we just pray that tmr's review will bring good news, that she will get well very very soon.


Little Nat Nat lives her life normally, still crawling, still cruising around, even attempting to stand leaning against the wall. And still as naughty as ever, snatching toys from her sisters, 'scolding' ppl, tapping on our face or wherever to get our attention, commanding that we do this and that for her.

A Date at Singapore Garden Fastival

eddaddy brought mummy to see the Asia's best Garden & Flower show -

The Singapore Garden Festival. A date...maybe...

Level 4 to 6 walkways were decorated with flowers and plants...we can have a whiff of flower scents everywhere we walked.
this is one of the display using a container!

one of the interesting one - which entitled 'The Man who plan trees', on closer look we see a farmer doing planting on bended knees

eddaddy pretending to pen his thoughts

i particularly like this display cos the plant is shaped into a heart. there was one auntie who asked me to help take picture for her but she wanted a close up with the preying mantis at the background. But after i asked her to help us, she wanted another shoot with the same background! heehee

There were participating displays from many different countries. Like this unqiue one from China.

as well as those from our own Community in Bloom gardens.

D's Birthday

Happy Birthday to D! D is 34 this year! Gosh, time flies and mummy lost count of the candles when i was ordering the cake heehee.

This year, mummy had thought hard what to buy for D. And one dear friend suggested spa. It was a great idea cos we hardly or never went for couple spa before and it is great for D to have nice place to rest and relax. And so mummy booked a spa for 2 at Aramsa Spa, suppose to be a garden themed spa. For their signature package, we got a couple suite, a tumeric scrub, a yogurt wrap, a massage and an outdoor bath and being a weekday we get to enjoy extra 30mins stay at the couple suite.

a serene place at Bishan Park...

the rustic restroom/changing facility...we were following our therepist to our couple suite...our suite...

a dip in outdoor bath tub, filled with rose petals...after massage...spotted a cat spying on us...

we were served ginger tea and cheese cakes...yummy!
mission accomplised - a satisfied smile..

Happy Birthday to papa, lots of love from Tiffany, Melody and Natalie!