Joven's 1st Birthday

Once again, we rush from a hotel stay to another birthday celebration. These weekends are turning out fun but rather hectic.




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Another Staycation

I got word of this offer from Feed at Raffles membership. $200++ for a night stay at Fairmont Hotel, inclusive of breakfast and dinner!

What a deal, how can we not take it?!! So off we went for our 4th hotel stay this year with Baby A.

Initially we were given this rather cramped and dark room, with a long walkway.




However, CP and I had stayed here before and we know the room was much better. Baby A also started to whine the moment he stepped in. So we requested for a change of room. After some hassling with the front desk, they managed to give us another one.

Much better now!


No complains with this. I really like the spacious bathroom with raindrop shower.



Dinner is complimentary, at Plaza Market Cafe. Service was quite bad. No one clear our plates and we had to wait about 30 min for the baby chair, even though we had a reservation. I doubt I'll ever go there again. Food is local asian, with a bbq grill section.


Breakfast is at Prego. Again, we waited very long for a baby chair. What's with this hotel ... they had a lack of baby chairs ...


Huge pot of coffee ...


After breakfast, Baby A had a swim. He was scared of the water still. Halfway through, he simply gave up struggling and lay on the float to sleep.


After that, it's checkout time and a rush to another birthday party!

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Building Blocks

The turn out rate for the staff convention was good, most unexpectedly! It was a refreshing change from the past and I quite like the round table seating arrangement.



The last segment was block building which we had to submit and present if selected... and I was hoping to bring them back home for Baby to play!


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Scratched knee

The rain this morning made me slip and scratch my knee!

My protective parents wanted to shield me from the rain, so my dad drove into the carpark and my mum brought me brolly. Who knows, I stepped on the mud on the grass patch and slipped! Their thoughtfulness has actually led me to my fall... Fortunately, they had water with them. Mum helped me wash my knee and shoes, otherwise it would have been a pathetic sight to reach office with messy knee and mud trails!



As you can see from the picture above, fortunately, the scratch was not serious!


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Dad's Birthday Celebration

Immediately after a wedding celebration, we had another celebration. A birthday this time, my Dad's.

Lunch was at Capital Restaurant along New Bridge Road. This restaurant is well known for its hairy crabs. Well, it's my first time eating one and I don't really know how to manage it.

Food wasn't too bad and it was inexpensive. $45+ per pax with no service charge.



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Saying Happy Birthday and I Do On 23.10.2010

Double happiness today! An easy to remember date for my bro as his ROM anniversary will fall exactly on my mum's chinese birthday!

My heartiest congrats to the newlyweds and of course, happy birthday to my dearest mummy! :)

DC was the backup photographer for the event but he was elevated to the main photographer because the original one was hospitalised due to the lousy and hazy weather. DC was no better cos his ailment came back and he was throbbing with intermittent pain from his knee. Fortunately, he was miraculously healed and his sore knee did not act up at all throughout the event! :)

Some photos taken on the Big Day:

The couple

The Sisters

The Gentlemen

Toast!

The 3 of us :)

My makeup was done by the makeup artist recommended by the one who did the makeup in the recent LV cocktail party. :)


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24 Oct 2010, 12:10 AM CP: This weekend is again packed with celebrations. :) Toasts and good wishes to Bro, Mummy and FIL!


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Business Breakfast Briefing

Went to a breakfast event to understand more about the product and I saw someone I know there! He was from the organizing company.



We just met at the beginning of this month, didn't expect to see him there (I didn't even know he was from the company). He commented that we seemed to have always meet at hotels. I was thinking quite hard at this remark... did we? Then I remembered... Yes... he organized the recent hotel stay at RWS! :)


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Accessorise up with LVOE

My brother-in-law's wedding is coming up. Well, to me, a belt, bag or any other fashion accessory plays an equally important part to the overall outfit. So where else do CP and I decided to go? :D

For Mum-in-law - Thames (Formerly the Tate)


For myself - LV Cut Long Damier Graphite belt


For CP - Sobe Clutch Epi Black


[CP: This clutch was the one and only left in Singapore! The LV staff reserved it for me and we collected it from Raffles Hotel, just in time for the wedding! :) ]


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My 15-month old Baby

Here's my 15-month Baby. Every time I think of him or see his pictures, I can't help but to give a big smile! He's such a cutie! :)


In the photo, he was playing with his musical jungle toy. The blue ball in the photo was on the way rolling down the slide...

He has two new teeth growing out from his top gums (total 4) and probably that was the cause of his loss of appetite for his meals and first milk intake last month but he seems to have recovered from it these few days. *Relieved*

MIL hurt her foot early this month and we took a couple of days leave to take care of Baby. This created chance for us to spend more time with our darling. It is actually quite a breeze taking after him now that he can play on his own and understand instructions. We sit him next to us at the dining table during meals now. He likes adult food, always wanting to have a share of what we are eating. So, we allow him to taste a little of everything we eat.

Baby had fun playing with his toys since Children's Day, celebrating his cousin's 3rd birthday, enjoying his first buffet lunch, attending his first cocktail party and capturing attention wherever he goes! :P

Day by day, it's fun to play with him and watch him play by himself:
- He loves music and loves to press the button on his toy guitar for songs and then shake his body to the rhythm.
- Sometimes he flaps his arms (as though a bird flapping its wings), then claps his hands and expect you to clap with him. :)
- Other times when he wants to get some things and he knows he couldn't get it, he will hold our hands in that direction and expect us to get it for him.
- He is more willing to crawl and he crawls faster and longer distance now. He loves to seek for his Mummy and Daddy esp when we walk into the room, out of his sight.
- He can hum melodies! (DC was pleasantly surprised when he heard it for the first time!)
- He mimics me wiping the table after his meal. Cute!
- He throws the objects on his hands as instructed and it's so amusing to see him dropped them on the floor and he was expecting them to go far! Ha, doubly cute!
- He make sounds that sound like words e.g. moo moo, mao (cat), there and he is beginning to pronounce Dad-dy. How exciting!

and... just discovered today that his open palm and closed fists actions means "Come here to me" or 来! All along I thought that was "Bye" Hehe...

Another discovery today: I bought a new suit for him today. I showed it to him, pointed at the button and said "Button". To my surprise, he looked at his own button on the pajamas he was wearing and pointed to it! And I was expecting him to play with the buttons on the new clothes! Oh, and he could stretch out his hands into his pajamas when I instruct! I love pleasant surprises! :D


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Night Light Causes Weight Gain

Unexpected!

Scientist has now proven in mice experiments that weight gain is correlated with a number of environmental factors including the extent of light exposure at night!

Warning: "...Something about the light at night was making the mice in the study want to eat at the wrong times to properly metabolize their food!"

If the true is for humans, you who want to ward off weight may want to turn off the night light and eat at regular hours!

No wonder! Now, I'm resolved to turn off the lights earlier and sleep earlier and more! Best if I could sleep at the same time with Baby! :)


Extracted from the Straits Times:

Oct 12, 2010 (Click here for the full article)
Lights at night, weight gain link

WASHINGTON - TOO much light at night appears to lead to weight gain, according to a report released on Monday, based on studies of mice that provide fresh clues on obesity.

The researchers found that mice exposed to a dim light at night over eight weeks had a weight gain that was about 50 per cent more than other mice that lived in a standard light-dark cycle.

'Although there were no differences in activity levels or daily consumption of food, the mice that lived with light at night were getting fatter than the others,' said Laura Fonken, lead author of the study and a researcher at Ohio State University.

The study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, said the weight gain could be a sign that light has an effect on the metabolism. 'Something about light at night was making the mice in our study want to eat at the wrong times to properly metabolise their food,' said Randy Nelson, co-author of the study and professor of neuroscience and psychology at Ohio State.

If these results are confirmed in humans, it would suggest that late-night eating might be a particular risk factor for obesity, Mr Nelson said. In one study, mice were housed in one of three conditions: 24 hours of constant light, a standard light-dark cycle that included 16 hours of light and eight hours of dark, or 16 hours of daylight and eight hours of dim light.

Results showed that, compared to mice in the standard light-dark cycle, those in dim light at night had significantly higher increases in body mass, beginning in the first week of the study and continuing throughout. By the end of the experiment, dim-light-at-night mice had gained about 12 grams of body mass, compared to eight grams for those in the standard light-dark cycle. -- AFP


Timing of eating 'critical'

Mice in constant bright light also gained more than those in the standard light-dark cycle, but Mr Nelson said the mice exposed to dim light was a more important comparison for humans.

Although the mice exposed to dim light did not eat more than others, they did change when they ate, consuming more food at night.

Since the timing of eating seemed significant, the researchers did a second study, with a change: instead of having food freely available at all times, food was restricted to either the times when mice would normally be active or when they would normally be at rest.

In this experiment, mice exposed to the dim light at night did not have a greater gain in body mass than did the others when their food was restricted to times when they normally would be active.

'When we restricted their food intake to times when they would normally eat, we didn't see the weight gain,' Ms Fonken said. 'This further adds to the evidence that the timing of eating is critical to weight gain.' The researchers said the findings offer clues for causes of the obesity epidemic in Western countries.

'Light at night is an environmental factor that may be contributing to the obesity epidemic in ways that people don't expect,' Mr Nelson said. 'Societal obesity is correlated with a number of factors including the extent of light exposure at night.' He said prolonged computer use and television have previously been linked to obesity but because they are associated with a lack of physical activity.

'It may be that people who use the computer and watch the TV a lot at night may be eating at the wrong times, disrupting their metabolism,' Nelson said.

'Clearly, maintaining body weight requires keeping caloric intake low and physical activity high, but this environmental factor may explain why some people who maintain good energy balance still gain weight.' -- AFP



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It's the mouth watering dessert!

First photo: The staffs crowded around him to play with him and gave him a balloon! The picture shows him holding the balloon. :)


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LV's Le Cafe Litteraire

We were quite surprised to receive this in our mailbox.



It was an invitation to LV's cocktail event at their store in Ngee Ann City. Not knowing what to expect, we went down with Baby A looking for some party fun.

Well, seems like it was an occasion to reward their customers and also to familiarise them with some of their personalisation services. Here's the hot-stamping machine that is used to initial that wallet, bag or tag.


At each of the designated stations, we collected passport stamps on our little LV journal book. There is tarot reading, shadow-cutting. Here's my shadow, expertly cut out within a minute.


Behind us is the queue to the shadow-cutting station.


Tarot-reading station.


There is photo-taking too. I wonder if we'll be able to get the photos ...


The three of us.


The passport stamps.


LVoe the Party and the chocolates! :D

They have pretty and handsome models too!




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Special Date, Special Gifts

Another year of memories between CP and myself. For the past 1 yr, we had a little rascal to keep us busy. It really changed our lives. We hardly went to the cinemas, no fine dining and hardly any shopping, except for baby stuff :)

Last year, CP and I celebrated at Jaan. This year, we included Baby A! We had lunch at the Bar and Billiard Room, Raffles Hotel.



The moment we stepped in, the staff begun fussing over Baby A. Well, he's cute, isn't he?


They have quite a sumptuous spread with nice desserts. Didn't know CP like oysters ... hmm.





Baby A also had his share :)



After that, we had a walk at our favourite store and proceeded to ION. How can we forget Baby A, right? I knew Burberry would not disappoint. We found a cool nice shirt for Baby A!


So, what's my gift? It's again my favourite :D

Louis Vuitton Check IT bracelet


The flip side.


What's for CP?

Gucci sunglasses


Apple iPod Nano


Life is indeed more meaningful. I look forward to see Baby A each morning and evening after work. I am also very blessed to have a wonderful, patient wife and mummy in CP! Indeed, God has blessed us bountifully. Thank you, Father!

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