Sail...Sail....Sail....

I started the day early today to make sandwiches and chinchow drinks for our sailing outing with Mike & gangs. My earlier worries that YingHong might be bored, or BoonChong feeling left out were unfounded. Yvonne was so nice to accommodate Ying Hong and played all sort of silly games with her in good fun.... the girls surely had great fun. We even dipped into the sea for a short swim.
What a great Sunday outing.. thanks to "Dugong Mike"!

Love is in the air....

Met our neighbour in Pasir Ris Park playground this Saturday morning, and she related an episode where she got a client's email on Friday afternoon 2 hours later she heard that he had passed away. She was shocked and recalled reading an article about the importance of expressing your feelings to our loved ones everyday so you won't have regrets when unexpected events strikes and take your loved ones away forever.... I believe we all have been reminded at some point in our life about this, but I must say I am guilty of not expressing gratitude and love everyday. So often, we are so busy and get led away by everyday tasks and events.. but we can certainly make an effort to remember to be nice and expressive towards our loved ones.
Then in the afternoon at Nerissa's church wedding, Father Terence again touched about what Love is -- is to Care, Share, Bear... this is soooo true.. and a promise to stay together needs lots of efforts to hold true. Communication and reviews are so important.
It was a wonderful wedding, and I am SO truly happy to see 2 young people being sure, brave and committed enough to make their vows to each other.. Congratulations and Many years of love-filled happiness to Nerissa and Brendan!

Interesting Steamboat place for lunch

Peiling and I went to "Guo Fu Zhen Guo" chinese restaurant at China Square Central for lunch.. for the first time!!! And it was a good experience and pleasant surprise. We ordered the ala carte buffet set and found the portion to be larger than our expectations, quality is satisfactory, and the complimentary side dishes such as pumpkin cakes and xiaolongdao are quite tasty.
Really don't mind going there again...
Friday's after-work drink with Eepin and Haresh was quite fun too.. have not done that for a long time. Joined Amanda and Caroline at a Japanese Barbecue restaurant in Chijmes afterwards, and was just in time to order desserts together. Great that they have my favourite mochi with macha ice cream and red bean.. and it was a novice idea to grill the rice cake myself over the barbecue!
Good start to the weekend! Indeed... the culinary experience continued this afternoon... we had our own home-made Chocolate fondue with fruits and walnut bread..well.. will revert to healthy eating tomorrow...

A nice house-warming party

Joyce's house-warming party last saturday evening was a pleasant gathering. Well, it was not meant to be my gathering... since she invited most of her colleagues, but was a pleasant surprise to see a few familiar faces. Not to mention her well-renovated apartment is warm, cosy and real cooooool.. Even YingHong had a great time playing in Clara's room.
Was also interesting to look at Jame's Lego collection of his Star Wars mini-fig, and the big LEGO Eifle Tower.Forgot to take a picture of the kitchen which has a well fashioned island in the middle...which looks like a perfect place to knead pasta dough!!!
Looking forward to a cooking party there soon..... hee.e..