Qiqi turned 13! : Nov-11

Blink of the eyes and my eldest daughter is 13 years old this November. Qiqi's birthday is a special triple 11 this year, 11-11-11. Qiqi has now grown to 1.57m, see how time flies...

Qiqi blog shop : Nov -11

During this year end holidays, with her sheer determination, Qiqi setup her little business, a blog shop in Facebook called SweetLil Buyz.  She sells small accessories like nail polish, ring connectors, ear rings etc.  Surprisingly within a short span in time, she is able to secure some orders and starts her business transactions.  Honestly i'm impressed, I had always wanted to set up a business too but cannot go very far but Qiqi is able boldly start off within weeks!  Hopefully she will be profitable very soon. :-)

Qiqi Blog Shop

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! (^_^)

Hong's Play 阿Q 后专 : Sep-11

Hong took part in a mandarin 8-member-cast play which was running for almost two weeks. Qi, Xuan, Victor and I watched the second last show on a saturday night. The cast in this more-than-two-hour play were all multi-talented, including our dear ah Hong. Hong's enunciation was much improved in this play.. possibly because of a very outstanding member of the cast from China. Hong was not only acting, but dancing, 'singing' and even playing the suo-na in the show! Hopefully the Hong Kong director is successful in bringing this show to Hong Kong and even China.. (^_^) So worrisome.. while Jiun was so afraid that Hong would forget his lines, the rest of us enjoyed the show thoroughly! Victor even lamented that if we had watched it earlier in its run, he would surely recommend and ask all his colleagues to come watch it too! Hong was the guy squatting on the right side of the pole, attacking his bowl of rice vehemently for more than 20 minutes before the show proper began. Saw this gigantic Doraemon at Iluma and could not resist not taking a picture with it!

BFF SAHM Huili's Birthday : Sep-11

Ever since En enters Soka Kindergarten, I have been trying to chant more daimoku as I wait in TSC for her school dismissal. Much as my time is willing, many a times my spirit and stamina are waning and lacking. Hence when Sharon and Huili invited me to join in the pre-PSLE daimoku chanting at their places, they don't have to ask a second time! We always have a most enjoyable time chanting and chatting and chanting and chatting.. and time is long enough to complete all we want to chant and chat.. This would be one of those moments I want to freeze in time. Huili's birthday happened to fall on one of those days, and we gave dear Huili a surprise! (^_^)