Yeah, I love (some) Mondays

I remember an article that reports various statistics with further studies to show that human minds are the weakest on Sunday night and Monday morning! Such behavior are resulted from work stress and typical Monday blues.

So, its good to occasionally take a break and I feel especially good when Im off on Monday! Tomorrow will be one of those! I recall one wonderful Monday in Mar...

We, family of 3, spent our monday morning in West Coast Park. A pity that all the playgrounds (except for 1 pathetic one) were closed for renovation. But we still had great fun with the sand. Companions are most important. :)

Below: Rachel all geared for the sun, sand and sea! Look at her havesack!


Below: Rachel posing for me while waiting for Daddy to grab something from our neighbourhood.


Below: Rachel had milk. Time to fill Daddy & Mummy's stomach...

Below: A quiet perfect Monday!

Rachel & Fay

Some pics of us and friends taken in our home studio. :)

(Above) Rachel & Fay

(Above) Rachel didn't like to have her hair clipped :(

(Above) Rachel busy with her giant sunflower

(Above) Handsome daddy... I think so la

(Above) Rachel's signature pose? Nay, coincidence. :)

(Above) I especially love this pic of Fay

(Above) Happy Fay with doting parents!

(Above) Love oozing out from Daddy Seng

Daddy turns 61

Typical way of celebrating birthday is makan makan makan.

But instead of getting a cake, I had my 2nd attempt to decorate a cake in The Icing Room (by BreadTalk). I must say the design is simple but far nicer than my first. :) What you think?

Above pic - center bottom: See Rachel's reaction to the flashing light.

Cake done on Mar 27, 2011

Cake done on Christmas, 2008

Mood for Surprises

Ever since I knew Shawn, he had seldom managed a lie because he was just too lousy at that (lucky for me). However, that means that I could almost always guess what he was up to, including surprises. Same goes for this year's V day. Knew something was going on but I did not probe since I wanted to enjoy the suspense but he just had to hint 2 of my 3 gifts... *roll eyes*

Surprise #1 - 13th Feb

From our conversation regarding appropriate attire for our date, I thought we would be going to a musical. My guess was pretty close as we went to GV Gold Class which I had never been. :)

The seats were really comfy and our package came with lunch and champagne. I strongly advise to skip food and wine though. Eating in the dark was not enjoyable and obvious reason for the wine.

Surprise #2 - 14 Feb

Knew he wanted to prepare dinner for me because he was on leave and he had always wanted to cook for me. I had the yummiest pumpkin soup, fave arugula salad with herb grilled chicken waiting that evening.

Something for him - 4 Mar

Shawn has always been 'complaining' that he don't get surprises from me so while he was away on his biz trip, I decided to surprise him with his long awaited Lion King musical! I must say I'm quite an actress. He didn't suspect anything and it was only when we were running late for our 'fake' movie at Marina Square and he wanted to skip shopping at MBS that I unveiled the surprise.

He enjoyed Lion King so much, he wanted to bring Rachel. I thought Zoo would be a better place.

Surprise #3 - 19 Mar

It was just one of the weekends where we would drop Rachel off and have some time to ourselves. He suggested lunch in town and lunch was in my dream restaurant where he already made reservation!! Best lunch ever! Shall post photos later...

It's Bunny Year 2011

*Hop* *Hop* Yes, it's bunny year. And happy new year to all!

I love CNY for many reasons including the long holiday, late mornings (depending on Rachel's mood), catch up with family & friends, infinite goodies and new clothes!

This year, I enjoyed most of the above except new clothes. There werent any flattering ones and moreover I could squeeze into my pre-pregnancy clothes! Yes, literally squeezed my flesh in but I look quite decent though. *Ha*

So in my old clothes, I went visiting here, there and everywhere...


Day 1: Church > Parent's place > In law's place > Tampines Mall (took neo prints!!) > Aunt Mary's place




Day 2: In law's place > Uncle John & Aunt Yvonne's place.




Day 3: At my mum's place. (Below) Rachel's ah gong took her out for a ride.

Our typical weekend

Perhaps with age, work stress or lack of sleep, our weekends have become pretty predictable. Sat will be running errands in the day and dinner with family. Sun will be to church, mother-in-law's place and then dinner with family. Despite such routine, we try to spice up our weekends by exploring new places (if running errands outside) or try new food!

Just recently, I convinced my entire family to have Zi Char in Serangoon (yes, all the way from Jurong) especially for their flossed soft shell crab which was strongly recommended by a celebrity chef in a gourmet variety show. Of course, the place was crazily crowded and waiting time was 1 hr. Still, it was a form of 'spice'!

On one typical Sat...

We started our morning with toss & turns in our bed. Rachel loves this activity particularly because of our bedsheet. Perhaps because of our smell or the high thread count bedsheet? We tested and suspect it to be the latter. Oh no... :P

Lunch was with my aunt in her neighbourhood mall and it was in the mall that I finally found a hairband with curls that is big enough for her! Yeah!



You must be wondering why I'm so obsessed with hairband with curls. Many passerby thought Rachel was a boy. Likely because Rachel has visibly less hair now compared to when she was a newborn. Picture below shows Rachel @ 7 weeks with a full head of hair. So I thought such hairband would make her look more girlish. :P Maybe I should try Brandy instead?

Back to my Sat, dinner was at Aston @ Mapletree Business City (MBC) with my family. This new premise opened late last year and it has modern buildings which lit up the area literally and have nice restaurants and a park.

Dinner was fantastic (above: bro Sebas had yummy iEat Super Burger) and we like the quiet restaurant (during weekend only). With full tummies, I showed my family MindChamp @ MBC. MindChamp was one of our preferred pre-school for Rachel because (1) Rachel loves it (2) we love the location and its facilities (3) we trust the sound curriculum but the fee deterred us from placing deposit.

(Above) Everyone peeping into the school

As the weather was excellent, we loitered around the area and enjoy the breeze and scenery!

(Above) Stroll in the 'park' in the breeze

(Above) Rachel on one of the 'trumpets'

Ooohhh... Pain Pain

"Ooohhh, pain pain" was what Rachel said to me few hours ago while waving her right hand. I took a look at her hand and spotted a tiny black line in her middle finger and dismissed it as a pen ink mark. Before that, she was playing with a pen and came to me twice with 'ink-ful' hands. She loves to wash her hands so I suspect that she does it purposely (sometimes) so that she can wash them.

However, she continued to stand in front of me, looking at her right hand and mumbling "pain" while Shawn & I were watching 'Ai' aka Love - a super long Taiwan drama (to clarify, I'm not the fan, Shawn is. Ha). So I had a second look and thought that it looked like a dried up blood stain (she hurt her right hand recently). I then kissed her cute little finger and told her that it will heal soon.

But my determined girl kept saying "pain pain". Hmmm... something must be wrong. So I got Shawn (who has eagle eyes) to 'diagnose' her problem and he found the black line to be a splinter!

We then got a touch light and nail clipper, intending to take it out but Rachel wouldnt allow. Which kid would? We then waited for her to knock out after her night feed to start the mini 'op'. After 5 long mins with the nail clipper, the splinter was still buried in the skin. Its no wonder because Shawn merely used the clipper to touch his precious daughter's finger. We were worried that we will cause more hurt. What to do? I then got a thick sewing needle and took over. Slowly, I managed to expose 1 end of the splinter. Yeah! I continued to dig, dig and dig (it was not as scary as it sound :P) and finally, I got it out! attached with tiny bit of skin. Opps. But no bleeding and her finger still looked so cute and perfect. Phew.

For all these trouble, I reckon its worth getting the splinter scotch-taped and dated. I know I know, parents usually keep first tooth, first hair... but why not a first splinter? After all, I have a big treasure chest to safe keep them all. :)

length: est 1 mm