Celebrating my Dad's birthday

We celebrated my Dad's birthday recently by having dinner at the restaurant in M Hotel. It was semi-buffet style and I certainly enjoyed the food. Yummy! Only thing was Kendrick is getting really active nowadays. After eating his dinner, he did not want to sit in his baby chair for long. All he wanted to do was to walk about everywhere!

Anyway, was glad the evening turned out well despite Kendrick's activeness! Happy Birthday to my Dad!!

Happy Niu Year!

It's the Year of the Ox and yet another Chinese New Year celebration. Just a year ago, my confinement period was just over during the Chinese New Year period. However, I still could not eat much seafood related food then. This year, I was so happy to dig into all the goodies and food! Indeed the whole Chinese New Year period really felt like an eating binge! But I guess once a year, just indulge ya! As I'm writing this entry, Chinese New Year is about to end in a few days time, so Happy Niu Year to everyone again!

The cousins - time flies and all the gals have all blossomed into pretty babes! Feel kinda old already. Haha...

A shot with the ladies in the family...but Little Kendrick tags along too :)

Our 3rd year Wedding Anniversary

We celebrated our 3rd year wedding anniversary recently by taking time to be together as a family, followed by some personal time on our own. In the earlier part of the day, we brought Kendrick for his first zoo outing. The weather turned out great and we certainly had a lovely time together. In the late afternoon, we left Kendrick at my in-laws place while we went home to rest and get ready to head to Chinatown. Usually every Chinese New Year period, I like to go down to Chinatown for a walk just to soak in the atmosphere and see if there was anything we wanted to buy. Last year I was still in confinement so I missed that. This year, I'm glad I can be out and about! However, as Kendrick is still young, we felt that it would be too troublesome and tiring to bring him for a walk. That was why we we chose to go on our own.

After walking at Chinatown and buying a little bit of Chinese New Year stuff, we headed to our dinner place. Dear suggested to try out this new place since we were in Chinatown area. The restaurant is called Sweet Indulgence and it is tucked in the corner of Stanley Street (which is near Amoy St area). Simple decor with quite nice food overall. I guess the main thing is to be able to spend time together and that's the most enjoyable of all :)

Our corn soup and bread

Appetizer - some mushroom sauteed with garlic. Pretty tasty just that it was a tad salty. It would have tasted better if we ate it with something else rather than the dish by itself

Finally our main course - I took their sphagetti alio olio style with beef tenderloin and asparagus while Dear had the Dory fish with mash potato and vege. Both tasted nice!

Just want to say Happy Anniversary to my Dear Hubby again and thank him for the lovely meal and present! :)

Gathering at June's Place (20 Dec 2008)

We were invited to June's new home for a simple lunch gathering recently and although there were just a few of us, it was still a cosy time to catch up. It's the first time we went to her place and I must say it was nicely done up and looks good. We brought Kendrick along too and he too had a good time crawling and playing on this platform area in the living room, despite a slight fall as well! In fact, Kendrick was generally quite well-behaved and 'displayed' funny actions like clapping his hands when all of us clapped with him :) He also had a nice time playing with Michelle's hubby, Cyril. Here's some photos....

Michelle and I with Kendrick

June, Michelle and I with Kendrick again... you can see he is struggling a bit here
Here's the group shot :)

Phyllis Birthday Celebration (13 Oct 2008)

We celebrated Phyllis birthday at my PIL home as it was a week day. So after work we all had a nice dinner at home and then it was birthday cake cutting time. Look at how mischievious Kendrick looked in the shot with his aunt and uncle.... :P

Dinner Outing (10 Oct 2008)

Dear and I were on a few days leave the last few days and on Friday, we dropped Kendrick off at my PIL home in the afternoon while we went dating. Hehe...actually nothing much la, just spending some alone time with each other. Headed to Vivocity and caught the movie WALL-E. It's been showing for quite some time already so we quickly caught it before it ends its run. I quite like the movie and I'm pretty impressed by the animation involved. Feel good movie indeed. After that, we did a bit of shopping before finally settling on dinner at Tajimaya restaurant for some nice Yakiniku :) It's not very cheap, but we decided to indulge anyway since it's been some time since we did! It was also a way to celebrate our belated '7 year dating annivesary'!!

In the end, we were very happy with the meal...the beef was really delicious :) Luckily, did not feel that oily or smelly even though it was charcoal grill style eating. With that, we headed back to pick our Darling baby home and savour some Ben & Jerry's for dessert (Giant was having some offer for 2 tubs which we bought) :P

We decided to order Alacarte instead of their set and here's the really tasty Wagnu beef plate!

My Mum's Birthday

Celebrated my mum's birthday in advance by having dinner with my parents this evening. We went to Grand Shanghai restaurant and boy was it fully packed. Anyway, Kendrick was quite well behaved while we ate. He sat in the baby seat and played his toy till finally he got tired and wanted his milk. He He... Anyway, the food was pretty tasty, plus the 'live' music really adds to the Shanghai feeling :)

Singapore Garden Festival (25 July 2008)

I managed to get free tickets to the Singapore Garden Festival and so we decided to head there on Friday when Dear and I were on leave. Although we are not into landscaping and flowers, we still went anyway just to have a look and I must say, looking at the lovely orchids and interesting landscape designs, you sort of feel more tranquil and calmness. Fortunately, Kendrick was pretty well-behaved throughout. Perhaps he was also absorbing the view around him :)

Interesting 'tree of life'

This landscape design won some gold award and was like the centrepiece where everyone was snapping their cameras at.. haha..

Can you tell who is that?

Jodi's Birthday (21 Jun 2008)

It's been quite a few months since I updated this blog and gosh, time flies. It's already July! Yup, I've been too busy being Mummy to my dear Kendrick and also updating another baby blog of mine. Anyway, Kendrick is hitting the 6 months milestone next week!! It's been a real interesting journey so far and much more challenging to come I'm sure.

Anyway, recently my cousin Jodi celebrated her 16th birthday, so we finally had a chance to take a cousins picture together. This time, little Kendrick joins in too!! :)

My Birthday Weekend (13 - 15 Apr 2008)

I celebrated my birthday this year with both my family and in-laws together. We brought Kendrick out to Westlake restaurant for dinner since we have not gone there for quite some time. Kendrick seemed to end up the star of the whole dinner...inevitable I guess. Everyone said he was dressed so cute in this suspenders and top that my cousin Christina had bought for him when she came back in January. That was the first time I let Kendrick wear it too. Anyway, he was fairly well-behaved during the dinner although at one point he got frustrated and wanted to me to pat him to sleep. At least after that I managed to eat in peace for a while.

Then on a Monday, Dear and I were on leave. So we spent the evening at Vivocity along with Kendrick. Dear treated me to Italian food..something which I seem to have a craving for these days. Kendrick misbehaved a little though and we had to feed him his milk in between our meal. After that, he was better but still quite fidgety. Eventually he napped a while and by the time we reached home, he was awake again. So it was cake cutting time with Mummy!

And finally, my dear hubby surprised me with this lovely bouquet of flowers at work :) It certainly made my day.....