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..

Back in Singapore..with NO FLU!!

Back home from HK, free-of-flu! In the streets of HK, we did see many people and children with masks, but people were just being cautious and taking precaution, no sense of panic there. We were lucky to have sunny weather throughout our stay there, had we been there a few days earlier, we would have been caught in rain and been at risk of catching flu.
I am glad yinghong had the chance to meet up with my 2nd aunt and my cousins ,less my 3rd cousin who's a "madam" (CID). Ying Hong really likes 2nd aunt, and had a good time playing with her dogs and cats, and also had a girl-to-woman private chat with her in the bedroom.. she even cried and say she misses "er yi po" when we were travelling to the airport to catch the return flight.
YingHong also spent the whole afternoon playing in Clarice's home...for a surprisingly long time..and we all had a great time having dinner at the NIHON MURA restaurant. Both Celine (Clarice's mum) and I were surprised that the girls spent so much time together without a single quarrel! Maybe being away for a while made them miss each other....heee...
Too bad my SD card in the camera is corrupted so I lost all the pictures taken on day 3 and 4 of our trip... sigh.. Nevertheless, some pics here to share with my friends...

In Hong Kong with Ying Hong

This is our 3rd day in HK, having lots of fun! Catherine brought us to a new shopping mall -"Elements" for dinner. This new mall sits right above the "Kowloon" MTR station. Marvellous place with many up-market shops, and there is a ice-skating rink in it which Ying Hong is keen to return for a session of ice skating. Think we will try to come back on Thursday.

A full day in Disneyland yesterday.. the usual.. - rides AND shopping!!

Today we did the most.. starting with a walk along the Avenue of Stars, along the promenade, and took the Stary Ferry to WanChai Harbour, followed by a tram ride to the Mid Levels Escalators --- the world's longest outdoor escalator (800m). Then we walked through the Pottinger st. to reach "The Landmark" to look for the 3-Michelin star cafe I read about...."Le' Salon De The's La Boutigque" ...... a truly remarkable place in terms of food and service!!! Took a picture of the "Le Coueur" (a heart-shaped dessert with white chocolate mousse with raspberry and chocolate biscuit bits inside) .... but will have to post it later..
The next place is... here.. Pacific Coffee Company at the Victoria Peak!

Going to head back down town soon to catch the 8pm city light-show back at the Promenade at Kowloon side. Ciao!

Something different..

Because of the rain on saturday morning, we didnt do our usual roller blading. Yinghong still insisted we pack our gear and go try roller blading by at the beach when the rain was still a drizzzle. The little girl quickly changed her mind and suggested we go to Lili-Putt indoor golf at the Big Splash at east coast park. She had quite a good time there, the effects at each hole are different and fun. Our favourite is the MRT station set, where the mini MT really carried the golf ball to a different place....
The afternoon was spent with my mum, sis-in-law and niece& nephew hainv high tea at Equinox. The kids discussed and decided to all stay over at my mum's place for the night So I stole some time to do a pedicure...
That was when boonchong sms me that he bought me a surprise present....hmmmm.
Turned out the next day that its an ASUS mini laptop... the one that I told him I would love to have since last year's pc show.... quite cool! I can hold it on one palm.. and updating my blog on this small thing now... hee.. must show SingChuan,...he would want to have one too...that's my weekend. Now its time to enjoy the usual sunday night movie on tv.. bibi.