Celebrating Sumin's Birthday (14 Nov 09)

Yet another bdae celebration! It's Sumin's birthday and we all had a potluck dinner at Shian's parents' place. We also bought the cake as a surprise!

Baby Evangeline's 1st mth (8 Nov 09)

How time flies! We were just sec sch classmates then and now Tabitha's son is coming to 2 years and Michelle has a baby and it's her Baby's 1st mth celebrations! Congrats!

We had a great time catching up!

Great Eastern 10K Run (1 Nov 09)

After the 5KmShape Run in July, I was feeling an all-time high and with great confidence, i signed up for the 10Km GE Run for 1 Nov. Little did i remember that i would be tremendously busy with work and business travels throughout Sept and October. I was so busy with work that i hardly exercised from Aug till October and so i got nervous a week before the run and decided that i probably won't go because i don't want to go and faint on the spot!

The night before the run, just as i have decided not to go. I took out the race pack to glance. I figured i need not go because they actually gave us the entire race pack even before we finished the run, unlike the Shape Run. As i was reading the instruction, it says that there will be a medal given out to those who complete the 10K run. I was hesitant but yet I thought of all the joy and pride and self-accomplished feeling i would have if i had gone ahead with the run.

Sheena encouraged me and told me it is going to be ok. Dear also told me that he will actually be there to physically support me and that he would walk with me if i can't run! I decided....what the hack! Just go lah! At the most, i shall walk throughout the race! Hehe....

Early next morning, dear made his way to Padang with me to report for the run. I started out on my own but was soon joined with Dear in the run with me. In fact, he ran by the side of the barriers throughout the 10K to cheer and encourage me to complete! Thanks Dear!

I did it! ....with Dear and with Sheena's encouragement! It was pretty tiring and in fact, i injured my toe and my toenail actually came off! But well...i had a wonderful experience! I glad i completed the race~!

Shian's Dad's Birthday (28 Oct 2009)

It was Shian's dad's birthday. As it was a weekday, we decided to celebrate out and we wanted to find a place that is kids friendly and easily accessible for everyone after work. We decided to go to Shodoku at Raffles City again due to the good location, variety of food and reasonable price. Most importantly, there is a kids playground there that can also entertain the kids. And, i must add - it was such a coincidence that we got the exact same table as the last time my family went!

Here's the Swensen's cookies and cream cake:

The grandparents and the grandchildren:

And once again, the must-have group picture:

Sheena's Birthday Celebration (10 October 2009)

It's yet another birthday celebration in the family. This time it was Sheena's birthday. We went to Shokudo at Raffles City for dinner for a change.

Sheena got her all-time favourite Macademia Nut Ice Cream cake from Haagen Daz. The boys looked just as happy with the cake...except gal who looks a bit blur :)

There was a pretty good variety of food there and we got a good promotion due to the birthday celebration. Worth visiting again :)

Yi Chian & Jong Ku's Wedding ~ 3 Oct 2009

It was Karen's SIL's wedding. A cosy but grand affair at Equinox Private Dining Room. Shian and I were honoured to be the emcees for the evening. First time we were emcees at a wedding. Quite an experience. Shian spoke in mandarin and i spoke in English. Thank God the couple and everyone else was happy with our hosting :)

The food was pretty good. The special part about this wedding was that the groom is a Korean, so the songs were Korean, the couple also put on the traditional Korean costume. Unfortunately, we didn't manage to take pictures of the couple :p becos everytime the couple came on, we were busy on stage as well.

After the wedding dinner, we started taking pictures amongst ourselves since we were all dressed up. The 3 kids went to bed early in the hotel room, so we didn't mange to catch them in their cute and form attire.

Princess Claire's Birthday Party (26 September 2009)

We seem to be having a cake and a birthday celebration within the family every 2 weeks. This time it is Princess Claire's birthday. For a change of photo backdrop - we decided to have it at my house this time.

Princess Claire requested for a Princess Cake....so here's Cinderella :)

The must-have family photo again:

Everyone took turns to present birthday presents to the birthday gal.....here's Shian and I with the cute little gal:

Here's a close up of the gift we got for her....once again, requested by her. Kids these days....they really know what is available in the market and they can really tell you what they want....and we adults go hunting for the gift. hahaha.

KL Trip (19-21 Sept)

It was Jason's wedding. Shian and I decided to go over to KL for the weekend since its the Hari Raya long weekend. Few of my other colleagues, Linda, Stella, Melvin were going over to Jason's wedding as well. We decided to take the Aeroline Coach bus since it stops very near the wedding venue.

Shian with his breakfast on Aeroline:

Us feeling satisfied after our first meal at Chillis, Mid Valley in KL..thereafter off to shopping!:

We went back to the hotel to rest and get ready for the wedding dinner.

Group picture at Jason & Angie's Wedding:

The wedding banquet was held at Maya Hotel, and we had a good view of the Petronas Twin Tower as we were leaving the hotel:

Early next morning, we had breakfast at KLCC, followed by taking the KL monorail just to experience it:

Here we are at Pavillion - the new and classy shopping centre at Bukit Bintang area. It was shopping followed by lunch at Old Town - nice coffee and local food there :)

Thereafter, we watched the movie - The Ugly Truth there. It was quite funny and well, watching movies in MY is always very worth it for us due to the cheap rates we get there. It was more shopping thereafter.

Finally, we went back to the hotel to get ready for the night out! The groom came to pick us up and off we went to Lunar Bar!

Great view of the city and even the Petronas Twin Tower there. We got a seat at the non-smoking area but we went over to the open roof area for some picture taking.

We had breakfast at KLCC again the next morning since we stay just opposite. Thereafter, it was more more shopping followed by lunch at Mdm Kwans's! Awsome local food at affordable prices.

With that, it marks the end of our short KL Trip. We went back to the hotel to do some last min packing and Dear wanted to take this picture to remind ourselves of the pathetic ironing board we had in the hotel..haha...

And then off we went to board our Aeroline Coach back to SG.

Gavin's birthday celebration (12 Sept 09)

It's Gavin's 8th Birthday. We all got sick of take-aways and deliveries, so we decided to have a pot-luck party and wanted to exempt Mum from cooking, so she can rest. Shian and I did the Honey Roasted wings. Haha...we are not seasoned cooks yet, only done some simple cooking at home for the both of us. First time we are cooking such a big portion. We decided to go to the wet market for the first time since we are buying so many chicken wings. We went to Tiong Bahru Market, and scouted around as to which stall we should go to. Finally, the store that we wanted to buy from - i repeated my order twice, and the Uncle said he didn't understand me! Finally he got his daughter to take my order. Gosh....am I that bad?

Anyway, i think we are not quite used to seasoning such a big portion of Chicken Wings, turned out it was not as nice as when we cooked just enough for the both of us at home. Nonetheless, our family supported us by finishing everything :) Our chicken wings looking good in the oven :

I bought the cake for Gavin this time, also from Swensens. Since it didn't cost much difference to request for one of those kiddy decos, i decided to get it for him:

Haha...another family photo taken at my parents' place:

Presenting the birthday present to Gavin:

The boy is happy, the gift was what he requested for - remote control speed boat!

Gareth's Birthday Celebration (29 Aug 09)

It's the time of the year again! Gareth's 6th Birthday! How time flies.....he is such a big boy now...very intellectual as well....he can really hold conversations with adults. Smart boy :)

Here's the cake that Gareth chose - Blackforest ice cream cake from Swensens.

The must have full family picture:


We all took turns to take pictures with the kids, here's Shian and I with the 3 kids:

Present time! We all took turns to present the gifts to the birthday boy and here's Shian & my turn! Claire joined in the picture as well.

See how happy and excited the birthday boy is as he opens his presents :

Gathering at Tabi's Hse (22 Aug 09)

We were discussing about meeting up for the longest time. I guess everyone's busy....but we were saying that we must meet up before Michelle gives birth! So finally, we met up for lunch at Tabi's place.

The guys playing with Kendrick:

Ex-sec school classmates....gosh how time flies:

A must-have group picture before we left for the day:


Great time catching up and looking forward to the next gathering!

Catching up with the JieMeis (6 Aug)

It's been some time since the JieMeis and I met up so Shuyu and Wenshan organised this gathering. Too bad Adeline and Andrea couldn't join us! It seems that we haven't had a gathering with all 7 of us in a long long while.....everyone is busy, just so hard to get everyone together!

We met at Heaven't Loft @ Orchard Central. Sounds like a cool place, in fact, i suggested it cos i thought the place looks cool the first time i went to Orchard Central and wanted to try out the food there. They even have Ben & Jerry's there!

The menu doesn't have much variety, and it is really expensive! The cheapest item in the menu was like $18.90++ . The food wasn't great either. No wonder there isn't much of a crowd there.

Nonetheless, it was still a quiet atmosphere for us to chill and chat. I bet we were the most noisy table....with our "ooooooohhhhs and aaaaaaahhhhhs" of gossiping! =)

Till we meet again....and hopefully the next gathering can see the full attendance =)

Goodbye Sarah (31 Jul)

It was the last day of work for Sarah, our intern of 3 mths. She has indeed been a great help to me and i must say she is really smart, creative and proactive.

Few of us went to Timbre @ Old School that evening just to chill out and to wish her the very best in her future endeavours!

Here's 4 of us - apparently the youngest 4 in the department :)


Taking turns to take picture with the star of the evening :)




My first time at this outlet actually. Food is just as good but the band that evening didn't quite measure up. Jack and Rai still the best! Hmmm somehow the service at this outlet is also not as attentive as the one at Substation. I will wanna try the one at Arts House one of these days!