Who does B take after?

A typical day at B's music class would end with the teacher asking me to get the instrument for B to practice... after I've gotten the instrument, she'll want me to ensure B practice at least 10 mins every day at home. Today was no difference except she commented that B pick up quickly during class despite her not practicing at home, she had the potential.

The music teacher also said that at her age, B's notation was perfect and that she must have been very clever. She enquired if she was doing well in school to which I replied okay.

She further questioned if her intelligence was from her parents. I was quite taken aback to receive such a question from the teacher but humbly said it could be her daddy and left to chase after B who had left the classroom already.

Back home, I told DC what happened and we both fought for the credit (LOL!), both claimed that B takes after ourselves! Well, although DC achieved the top few percent of his cohort, I was quite a model and promising student back then at school too!

Never mind who won the fight in the end, it was a proud moment for us!

Photo of her taken on that day, on the way to her music class. :)


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V-Day Collages

I'm recently a little active in IG (new pastime!).

Posted some collages this Valentine's Day in IG, here they are... Hope you have a good one! :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Maybe you can't see it... both DC and I were in pink in this pic. :)

  ART - You can't spell HEART without ART!

Can you see the hearts in the picture above?

Life's better in PINK!

Pink - the color of Valentine's Day. All the Pinks that I saw in a week!


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A Tembusa Tree Fell in Botanic Gardens

A tembusu tree toppled in the Botanic Gardens yesterday afternoon and left 1woman dead and 4 injured including the deceased twin 1yo children!

We also discovered that very night that another tree also toppled at our estate, and blocked our way!

A remembered hearing the sound of the tree toppling, so did DC during nap time... while B and me were sound asleep! He was worried about the tree falling again and couldn't sleep at night... and we allowed him to sleep with us that night, much to his relief! :)

The fallen tree:

The next morning (today), we saw some men clearing the tree. Boy, that was sure a lot of work and that tree wasn't even the size of the fallen tree at the Botanic Gardens!

Knowing that the tree was removed, A slept well that night. :)

RIP Tree!

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A Happy Day

Today, after their enrichment school, we took the kids to somewhere we hadn't gone in a while.

The chewzies were questioning if they were going to their Sunday school when they realized that they were going in the direction of MBS.

"Yes, we are going to MBS."
"But, no there is no school today!"

That made their day, mine too! :D

And so, we all went to LV Island Maison in MBS. A place we used to hang out before the kids were born, ok to be exact before B was born.

It was heaven to them, they were having joy and fun there, as if they were at home! Chasing each other around, running around, exploring every corner and taking pictures everywhere (haha this which I was guilty of).

We were glad to see a familiar face there, still as friendly, and we took pictures with her. :)

However, we were disappointed to know that the belts that both of us wanted were either sold out (just a day before!!!) or not in the correct sizes (we requested to have it transferred from another shop but to find on the day after that that was in bad condition!!!).

Nevertheless it's still good to be back. The island was really a nice place to laze around on a sunday afternoon.

Next, we went to a jap café in Suntec and tried their newly introduced brunch sets. Their coffee was still as aromatic, just what we need to handle our energetic kids!

After we had our fill, we headed to Sentosa to do some collection at the RWS Invites counter. And, B thought that she was going to check in a hotel today! haha...

Much to the kids disappointment, we went back home after the collection.

Happy day still, for the kids and me! :D


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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Cast:
Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Ruby Rose, Eoin Macken, Rola, Lee Joon-Gi, William Levy, Iain Glen

Director:
Paul W.S. Anderson

Genre:
Action/ Adventure

Release:
02-02-2017

Running Time:
107 minutes

Language:
English(Sub: Chinese)

Synopsis
Based on Capcom’s hugely popular video game series comes the final installment in the most successful video game film franchise ever, which has grossed over $1 billion worldwide to date. Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.


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Wow! It's a 107 minutes full of suspense and surprise!

Both DC and me agreed that it was a nice show, regardless of what the critics said about it! The local audience were with us on this! Full popcorns for this!


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Love how this picture taken during CNY 2017 by DC turned out!

My mini me and Me :D

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CNY 2017

A very full-filling Chinese New Year this year! Everywhere we went, we're sure to eat around!

On the eve of CNY, we had a great reunion dinner with DC's parents, it was sumptuous as usual. We had our first lo hei too! This year, again we're missing the brother's family again as they were in confinement with their newborn boy. It was strange that when we're back at home, A asked me why his uncle did not turn up for the dinner! I didn't know he would be bothered by his absence.

The loving chewzies:

The good food:


That night, the kiddos helped DC wash his car, and in turn we allowed them to sleep later (till midnight) watching their favorite cartoon to their hearts' delight.

Look at the diligent helpers! :)

Us in our matching outfits on CNY Day 1:

The CNY started off with the vegetarian 罗汉斋 at the in-laws, where A finally met his uncle and cousins there.

As usual, the first stop was to the uncle's place. A and B found prawn crackers there and couldn't stop eating them! :) DC and I had our fill with the fried bee hoon, yam cake and the CNY goodies like ba kwa, pineapple tarts and love letters!

Next stop was to the aunt's place. Over there, A and B kept running around and eating crispy seaweed and prawn crackers. Sensing that they were tired, we tried to force a short nap on them at the aunt's place. Well, it was better than nothing... they were refreshed enough to move to the third place of the day... and that's the cousin's place.

At the cousin's place, by then A and B already know where to find sweets - the table tray - they consumed lots of Ribina gummies and chocolates! The kiddos also found themselves a favorite spot at the place!

At 5:30pm, we went back to the aunt's place for dinner and we had Lo Hei (our second) and delightful home cooked food. DC and I were in love with the mini Buddha jumped over the wall! The kiddos love the chicken cutlets.

Us in pastel colors on CNY Day 2:

On day 2, we went to my parent's place and we had lunch there. Mum cooked the most delicious fried bee hoon and porridge! We also had the CNY must served red date tea:

Shortly after, we all proceeded to my uncle's place. Good food awaited us there! We had another round of feasting of our all-time favorite crispies! This year there were mushrooms! A was very appreciative of the food there and ate them in big bites! B loved the crispy prawn skin too! :) DC commented that the chicken wings were perfect! Food was so good we just had to pack them home. We managed to have our big group photo and family photos there too.

We took the kiddos back home for a nap, before we began our visiting at another aunt's place. This year, the cousin and his wife was around and they helped entertain the kiddos. A and B got to watch their favorite animated series - Mr Bean - while eating the strip crackers (again!). Surprisingly B was ok with the cousin's wife, and she was willing to sit on her lap while watching TV! We had A kept asking to go gai gai after the visiting, not wanting to believe that shops were all closed on CNY, haha...

Our Family Photo on CNY Day 3:

On day 3, we went to B's nanny's place and B had a wonderful time running around the place looking for new changes. :) Again, the kiddos grabbed a lot of sweets at the sweets tray. They also had milo and some cakes there.

Next was to their grandparent's place where MIL whipped up lunch for them, and after lunch we proceeded to another aunt's place. The kiddos drank coke and again had seaweed crackers there before bidding goodbye to day 3 visitation. The rest of the day was spent at home, where they had a good rest while it was pouring outside.

Tomorrow will still be a rest day for DC and me, we have taken leave as the kiddos are on school holiday. We have promised B that she could return to her nanny's... as for A, we'll have fun bonding with him! :)


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New Spectacles Collected

DC did a pair of spectacles recently and suggested I did a pair too at the same shop when he went back to adjust his new spectacles. I did just that and only managed to collect it tonight. It's been almost a month, I almost couldn't find my receipt... (I had DC rolling his eyes at me!)

At home, I showed it to the kids and was amused by their reactions towards me wearing spectacles! I wanted to tell them to take good care of their eyes... otherwise they'll end up like me. Haha, THEY, especially A, looked at my nerd look and rolled on the bed laughing! LOL!

And, it (the laughing) continued over the next few days!

[Updated: For the next few days, A constantly requested for me to wear the new specs and without forgetting to laugh at me heartily! Thanks to him, my new specs was not a white elephant! :P]


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CNY Ang Pows 2017

This year's CNY, which was on 28 Jan 2017 was way too early for any preparations to be made!

I didn't really have the time to explore new PS techniques and the creative juices didn't flow as well compared to last year (last year I had 2 designs!). So, this year's handmade ang pows was done pretty quick, with the aim to conserve time and energy for the bigger CNY to do things e.g. spring cleaning.

Introducing this year's red packet design for the Year of Rooster:

If you were to notice, the template was reused from last year's and I only had to fit in a photo in as the cover for the red packet. I made sure I chose one photo with enough gold (or red). I even removed the wordings this year!

Of course, like previous few years, I also added elements to allow the kids to participate in the making and to add their creativity strokes on the red packets. The balloons were to be turned into colorful roosters and the kiddos clothes to be tinted with sparking colors for the CNY! Each packet is still unique on its own! Haha, in the end the kiddos were more interested in watching their cartoons to help out...

Special thanks to DC who specially bought a special coated paper! He also got a new colour printer, haha come to think of it, the ink cartridge used to be replaced every year this time, it became a yearly thing to do before CNY unknowingly! Hopefully with the new colour printer, this step will not have to be repeated every year! :)


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Returned!

Returned to the art show the next day!

Not because I missed the art there, not because I wanted to buy any of the art there but because I thought I lost my cardholder there!

The organizer was very nice to hand me a return pass, however it was quite a frantic experience, trying to search for something that I didn't know where I've dropped!

And my feelings then was like this! Lol!

I also made my way to the conference and exhibition security counter to report my lost and found item. I didn't understand why the procedure was made so difficult just to report a lost item and was terribly annoyed by the poor customer service the security officers had over there! The customer service hotline and the mall security was much better!

On the way there, I cancelled my credit card... the new card will be sent to me in 3-5 working days.

It was only when I reached home that I found it! Still in my bag! Wonder why DC and I failed to find it in the first and second place! haha...

I tried to cancel the request for the new card, but was told it couldn't be done... Now I had to wait for the new card to come, and re-apply for ezlink topup. Quite a lot of work because of blunder!


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