Happy Anniversary?

One day, I suddenly realized that it's Dear and my 15th anniversary... I turned to him and exclaimed, before giving him a surprise peck on his left cheek. 

His reaction?

"What happen? We won toto 4D is it?"

I knocked his head and reminded him it's a very special day for us and his second reaction?

"Chey! I know ar... Now then u recall!"

Good try, Dear...

Riceball Mission

It's been raining almost every afternoon/ evening since the last couple days. As we are stepping into Dec in the next few days, the weather is turning cold (although in Singapore's context, cold is not exactly cold but at least not that scorching hot).

This kind of weather made Dear and I to start craving for riceballs. Dear craved for those off the shelf  peanut riceballs with canned peanut soup, while I was craving for the traditional homemade plain riceballs with spicy ginger soup.

This afternoon, I decided that I shouldn't wait any longer to sooth my craving, so I went into the kitchen, gathered all the simple ingredients and made some with the girls.

It's the first time these girls got to roll riceballs like what I did when I was little.  Renee and Phoebe kept thinking that they were rolling playdough... 

They postponed their nap time milk just to wait for the riceballs that they rolled to be cooked and served...

Renee ate one, said that it's yummy but spat out the entire (tiny) ball without swallowing it. Phoebe only finished the mild spicy ginger soup and refused to try any of the tiny balls... Sigh*

Dear and I finished our bowls of riceballs (not like he had a choice), while BB W should be satisfied now! ^^

Mummy, 为什么？

We watched The Incredibles tonight and within a short 2-5mins, the two girls who were watching the movie leaning on me asked me like a million questions...

I recalled how sad I was when I was brushed off by my parents when asking too many questions during a movie when I was little...

So I avoided to bring that setback to my girls though it took great patience and super high EQ... Haha! I tried to answer their questions which didn't seem to stop pouring down on me, one after another... 

I ended up telling them to watch and find out more because I didn't know some of the answers... Because it won't be fun if I told them the answer directly... 

Despite being exhausted from answering questions in between scenes, I was proud of them for probing about the storyline.

keep it up girls ^^

四马路观音庙拜拜天

今天，18热。。。

走到哪里，“焙测”到哪里。。。

坐到哪里，汗流浃背到哪里。。。

延迟了一周的拜拜计划；终于实践了。

人潮过后，我们在白沙浮一带四处逛逛。买了姐姐的特价米奇白校鞋（才十元），看了看超贵所以没能买的女孩新年衣，找不到断货的男士钥匙包，没什么载而归。。。

至少拍了一张圣诞树的合家福。哈哈！

Poo-poo chart...

It's embarrassing to share but I'm very proud of the girls when they completed to be potty trained (during the day).

Renee completed her potty training at 3 years old while her sister Phoebe benefited from the co-training and accomplished this milestone at 2 years old, with occasional leaking at times. Haha!

The next milestone will be to slowly remove diaper from the sleep... This is challenging but it'll benefit everyone greatly once accomplished.

I came across a cute whiteboard calendar and thought of using it to cheer Renee up during her daily school routine... However, it turned out to be a poo-poo chart.

As self-explained by its name... This is a monthly chart to track the pop-poo routine. Unknowingly, it helps too!

With this monthly statistic board plotted by the girls each time they pooped, we could easily tell if they need more water, need any reminder or need more fiber. Haha!

It's so embarrassing to share about this weird practice but it really works for us. I kind of like it, so they the girls who get to use the marker to scrubble their initials to the day whenever they did their 'homework'.

Keep it up girls! I'm counting... Wahahaha!! ^^

Mad crave for dim sum

I had been eating a lot of cuisine lately but this is the first time that I would crave for dim sum so so so badly.

Last night, near 11pm, I started to google for good and cheap 24hr dim sum places... Dear almost wanted to get change and bring me to dim sum suppering... Upon some cooling off, I decided that I should just sleep.

After polling from my friends, we shortlisted Yum Cha, Mongkok Dim Sum and Red Star Dim Sum... Between these few, we headed for Red Star for its old school dim sum restaurant feel (and smell). 

This is Dear's first visit to the Red Star, my third. Hee! We reached at 9am and were seated almost immediately without any queueing. Wahahaha! 

Then we stopped a couple of dim sum push carts and began our gobbling sessions. I tried to control myself from ordering more the moment I spot the price of the dim sum, had to strategize the variety to fit my stomach and budget.

Finally, a beautiful perfect closing with its mango pudding. I was satisfied, so was BB W ^^

我们尝到的有：叉烧酥、叉烧包、流沙包、凤爪、烧卖、炸虾饺、鲜虾肠粉、皮蛋粥、芒果布丁配上香菊茶。。。

我遗漏的有芋饺、香蕉鲜虾酥、锅贴、小笼包、荷叶糯米饭、港式萝卜糕、龟苓膏，等。

Happy 33!!!

Picnic, kite flying... Lazing on the grass to gaze at the blue sky with cottony cloud...

This is the best outdoor activity that my kids love, besides digging the sand on a beach. Hahhaa!

Many many thanks to Dear for taking leave to accompany me and kids on my sweet (but old) 33 ^^

Moments of life, priceless!

After a long nap, we had a simple bento dinner at Umisushi. A quick shopping for cupcake wrapper and mini M&Ms for tmr' year end potluck party... Then Dear passed by the Polar to collect my Bday cake. He wanted to get me the Wonder Woman but they didn't have it for 500gm...

The nicest happy bday song sang by my girls, clapping their tiny hands and fought to blow out the candles... LOL*

Big hugs from the girls before tucking them in bed. Love you deep deep and sweet dreams!! ^^

Dinner for Two, @Ju Shin Jung

I'm turning 33 years old very soon... 31 weeks pregnant and always craving for Korean BBQ...

Dear brought me to an authentic Korean Charcoal BBQ cuisine - JU SHIN JUNG ^^

This was recommended by a couple of my friends. Quote Dear, "if it's not nice, we will 捉 Jinfu 来打！" Indeed, it was really good!

We ordered 2 sets of unlimited adult buffet. Frankly speaking, how much can we stomach? 

We were relieved that we did not order it's spicy rice cake, else we would burst in the restaurant. Dear was pretty stunned that I ate much much more than he could. Well, that's because I was always slow... I only started to feel extremely bloated after our "romantic" stroll down the Robertson Quay river way. Muahahah! 

We tried its sliced BBQ beef, pork belly, marinated pork, chicken, prawns, many sides... And our favorite was the marinated pork wrapped in cabbage with a slice of kimchi. Almost been to Korea! Wahaha ^^

Thanks, Dear, for this wonderful dinner date!!

And not forgetting to thank my parents for taking great care of my two girls for the evening! Yipee! ^^

They love Peppa pig! Hahaha ^^

Updated... My surprise gift from Dear. He said I will love this no matter what and it'd be more useful than a pair of track shoes which I requested.

Chef Tay's first wok life ^^

I cooked a bowl of mee sua for dear on the eve of his lunar Bday, thinking that was the actual day...

This time, chef Tay volunteered to cook me a bowl of mee sua for my lunar Bday. Let me emphasize, chef Tay wanted to cook me something... Finally!!!

And it looked like this, simple and nice.... Or should I say, simply nice. Hahaha! Thank you, dear!

Week 30

68.6kg after a hearty BK bkf...

探望

今天是公共假日，我终于去了一趟安老院，探望了（亲家）老嬷。

感触良多；但是真的无需多想。

环境清幽，朋友多了，看起来都瘦了一圈；但是感觉上精神和气色都不错。

老嬷患有失智症；所以只记得很久很久以前的事；对我这个十多年前出现的人物一概没了印象。目前的短暂记忆就像金鱼；只能维持3分钟。

我们从到她的床边至离开，前后不到20-30分钟的时间。以下对话内容重复了至少三、四遍。

“阿兴有几个孩子啦？”

“三个，肚子这个是第三个。”

“妳（我婆婆）没有跟我讲！”

终于看见老嬷了。希望她好好的，快乐的！

此当非比当。。。

我：“作为一个男人要有担当。”

老公：“你在讲什么？我不是小叮当！”

对牛弹琴。。。

How did dear spent his 33rd Bday?

When my birthday is approaching, dear asked how did I celebrated for his this year... None of us have an impression... 

I only recalled that I wanted to bring him to Merchant Court Ellenbrough for a buffet dinner... But it didn't happen.

Then, I looked thru my blog entries but couldn't find anything on his bday...

Finally, he recalled, we didn't exactly go anywhere to celebrate it but why? Because he had to attend a friend's wedding dinner on his bday. Haha! What we did was everyone stayed awake until he returned at near 11pm to cut his superman cake, which he collected from the mall by himself in the noon. Hahaha!

What a miserable bday... Sorry, Dear! Anyway, I got you a beautiful Wallet to replace your torn, cracked and smelly old one... Hohoho!

Guess my bday present would be that microwave oven, which you bought to replace the cracked and smelly old one... Duh!

~,~