BFF SAHM My Birthday : Oct-11

For Huili's birthday in September, Sharon and I sprung a little surprise by getting her a little cake during one of our daimoku gathering.. For Sharon's birthday in earlier October, Huili and I together with our kids turned up at Sharon's place for an 'impromptu' party, flash mob style.. So on my birthday, I was expecting their visit.. They arrived in much style and load - Isaac fresh from school and my buddies fresh from the mall i think, with all their food and food and food and cake!! They brought me a strawberry fresh cream birthday cake.. the kind that my household would never buy because Victor would never eat!! (^_^)


the most adorable gifts i receive.. from isaac and linus.. (:

Qi's Ribbon Routine : Oct-11

Ever since a year ago when Qi got suddenly interested in rhythmic gymnastics (laundry-basket-girl) in the midst of her PSLE preparation and we subsequently enrolled her into a gymnastics class, we have yet to seen our ROI.. until now!!


I would say she is rather graceful.. what do you think?

Singapore Flyer : Oct-11

Mama got this 'lobang' for cheaper tickets on the Singapore Flyer, so I got us 5 and up we go to take some great photographs.  It was the first time for Shin Yang, En and me!

the girls and THE flyer..

qi trying to mop the floor with hair.. with little success

en & xuan soaking in the magnificent view..

an awesome view of our CBD skyline under clear blue sky..

our beautiful gals, all in different stages of their childhood..

Enen's Papaya Tree by 公公 : Oct-11

Their 公公 definitely has green fingers, and ever since Qiqi's time when we shifted over two papaya plants that outgrew our pots, Papa has also started to take care of our trees as well as grow new ones. He named them as Qiqi's papaya tree, Xuanxuan's papaya tree, and Enen's papaya tree.

This most recent Enen's papaya tree has been doing Papa very proud with its big luscious leaves and big fruits. This tree certainly looked very cute and healthy with big fruits for such a short tree! We can't wait for the papayas to ripen.. hope it's as sweet as it looks!! (^_^)

BFF SAHM Sharon's Birthday : Oct-11

Always a most hospitable host with even Ya Kun kopi and kopi-o for us, of course we must at least cut a cake and sing her a birthday song for her birthday, right?

So on this PSLE-marking-day school holiday, mothers and children had a brief impromptu gathering where we made noise, had fun, sang song, blow candle, ate cake, had some more fun and disappeared; almost flash mob style.





Hello kitty plushy and pink pencil case were Enen's presents for Aunty Sharon. After knowing that we would be going to Aunty Sharon's place because it was her birthday that day, Enen found these gifts specially for Aunty Sharon. To be honest, I was very surprised and a lil' embarrassed too.. Surprised at Enen's sweet gesture and embarrassed at my lack of a gift for the birthday girl other than the cake.

Alcohol from Huili was Isaac's idea as he recalled Aunty Sharon to be "very happy after drinking" and he wanted Aunty Sharon to be very happy on her birthday!! (^_^)

Children's Day Party : Oct-11

After slogging it out in daimoku with all the PSLE mummies in that intense PSLE week, Sharon was the first to propose a children's party on the weekend immediately after the PSLE, which also happened to be Children's Day. To reward the hardworking mummies and kiddos, Nancy's uncle Beng Hui offered to hold a BBQ at his place, and all of us were to prepare some food to share. Though that being said, Nancy was doing marketing and cooking and cooking from early that morning. Beng Hui also prepared his trademark dish of clams in white wine for us!

Nancy was very kind to me and suggested that I prepared what I do best - fruit salad, and even shared an interesting watermelon recipe. Armed with that verbal recipe, I went to buy the heaviest watermelon I ever bought from Alice; it weighed at more than 7kg!

After googling and consulting YouTube, I managed to decently dissect and emptied the contents in the watermelon fruit. With Xuanxuan's and a lil' of Enen's help and Victor's touch up, the end result was pretty impressive!

Although it was raining and we could not barbeque our food, the children had much fun playing with one another and watching tv in the house while the auntys and uncles yak and eat and yak and eat basking in one another's company! (^_^)