Celebrating Dear's Birthday

Back in February, we celebrated Dear's birthday with his family and also on our own. With his family, Mother cooked up some nice dishes and fish steamboat (yu tou lu) at home and we then celebrated with a cake. Kendrick as usual was really excited and happy to sing along to the Happy Birthday song and help blow the candles and cut the cake :)

Dear and I also had our own celebration on a separate day where we went out to watch a movie and had dinner at Ippudo Ramen in the new Mandarin Hotel Gallery. In order to try out this renowned ramen, we queued around 20 - 30 mins! I would say that it's quite worth the wait, but it would definitely be much better without having to queue so long!!

Anyway, wishing my Dear Hubby a wonderful and Blessed year ahead!

New Flowers!

We bought a new pot of flowers recently from Far East Florist. It was more like a festive mood thing actually! Ha Ha...well, we can only hope that it will last a little longer this time as the past few years that we bought, the flowers did not last for too long. So far this Carnation breed seems to be blooming, so hope it can last till Chinese New Year is over bah?!

Cheryl's Wedding

We attended Dear's cousin's wedding dinner on the Sunday. The dinner was held at Capella Hotel, located in Sentosa. This was the first time that we went to this hotel. According to Dear, the hotel location was formerly one of those colonial houses. But now they refurbished it into a really sleek and nice hotel. The dinner turned out ok, but I must say the service was rather slow given that it's a Sunday night. By the time it was already 10 plus, we were only into the 5th course! As a result, quite a few of the relatives left early as they all had kids who need to go to school the next morning. That included our family. My PIL then drove us home and we reached home around 10.45pm.

Well, it was nice to see Cheryl happily married...congrats to them and here's wishing them a blessed marriage!

Family shot while at the reception area

Although this picture of Kendrick looks funny, I still think he looks rather handsome in his outfit :P

Us at the dinner table. The baby chair is really cool..so comfy looking like a car seat!

My Dad's Birthday

We celebrated my Dad's birthday on the weekend by buying him a birthday cake as a surprise! He wanted to have lunch at my grandmother's place so we decided to buy him a cake for dessert. So after lunch, we sang the birthday song and Kendrick stood happily in front of the cake. He wanted to sing along too, but this shy boy started to smile awkwardly and bent down instead of singing loudly like his own birthday when we all started to sing! Ha Ha...

Wedding Anniversary

This post comes rather late but we celebrated our wedding anniversary around 3 weeks back. The earlier part of the day was spent bringing Kendrick out for some family activity as Dear was not able to take leave on Kendrick's actual birthday. In the afternoon, after dropping Kendrick at my in law's place, we headed home for a short rest before going down to Chinatown to look see. Ha Ha. Seems like a yearly ritual now. It was still a bit early to look for Chinese New Year stuff at Chinatown, but we still managed to get some decors to spruce up our home :)

After that, we had a simple Italian dinner at this restaurant in China Square. It was indeed nice to have some couple time and chit chat about stuff without Kendrick around to make us busy! Ha Ha! Well, cheers to many more years of our marriage!!

Happy New Year 2010!

We did something slightly different this New Year's Eve - we booked a room with a harbour view at Swissotel The Stamford so that we could catch the fireworks display from our room! So it was a 1 day 1 night 'stay-cation' for our family :)

On the day itself, we checked into our room some time in the afternoon, then brought Kendrick for some kite flying at the Singapore Flyer area. After that, we all took a nap before having a late dinner and settling back into the hotel room preparing for the countdown. My parents came down to join us for a while too. With the late afternoon nap, Kendrick was able to sustain all the way till 12.30am eventually! Yup, he managed to catch the fireworks and even remembered them the next morning when he woke up!

Well, Happy New Year 2010 and may it be a blessed and smooth year ahead....

Family portrait on the hotel bed

Marina Bay view at dusk

Raffles Place skyline at dusk

We took this before the fireworks started as we knew Kendrick would be too distracted to take a shot when the fireworks started. So here's the view from our balcony

One of the nicer fireworks shot!

Christmas in Office 2009

Christmas came a little earlier this year in office. As we close from 24 Dec onwards, 23 Dec became the new Christmas eve. That day, everyone was in a party mood, giving and receiving gifts from each other. My department also went out for lunch at this Japanese restaurant at Turf City that serves ala carte buffet. We had our fill then headed back to office around 3pm. By that time, most of the other departments more or less declared an 'unofficial' off work timing. People started to clear out of the office slowly and by 5pm, most have left. We're all off for a long break and will be back to work on 4 Jan 2010!

Lunching at the Japanese restaurant - Anthea, myself and Amelia

Lee Lian & Wendy (The rest had not arrived yet and we forgot to take more photos after this as we were all busy eating!)

Just some of the starting food we ordered

Back in office, just a quick shot of some of my gifts

My team and I posing with the cute bears given by one of the Sales Group

My boss joins us too :)

Christmas at Orchard Road 2009

We headed down to Orchard Road one of the weekday evenings before it was Christmas just to soak in the atmosphere a bit and take some photos of the decor this year. We had our little family dinner at a Hokkaido Ramen restaurant in Ion Orchard, then started our walk down. With Kendrick in toll, we didn't venture too far down actually. Ha Ha. As it was also rather crowded, we ended our photo taking around Mandarin Hotel area. This year, I would say that I only like the big Christmas tree outside ION Orchard.

These are the highlights of some of the photos we took....

Kendrick and Papa

Kendrick and Mummy

The big Christmas Tree outside ION Orchard

The interesting lights inside the huge tree. The actual effect is actually very nice bright lights and when you look up, feels like you are looking at some galaxy or something!

Lots of reindeer line the streets of Orchard Road. This is just one of the shots we took

Family shot

Christmas tree made of Ferrero chocolates outside Ngee Ann City

View from Isetan Scotts with ION Orchard in the background

Michelle's Baby Girl First Month Celebration

We attended Michelle's Baby Girl's First Month celebration last Sunday. It was certainly a happy occasion to see my good old friend having her first daughter...welcome to Motherhood!! Since it's a girl, maybe next time Kendrick can hang out with little Evangeline too ya... :P

Catching up with Michelle & Serene

Catching up with Jeanette & June too!

Ivy and Mother's Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Ivy and Mother's birthday last week by having dinner together at home. Mother cooked some great food, including really fresh fish steamboat. After a nice meal together, it was cake cutting time and Kendrick was really looking forward :) He was able to sing Happy Birthday a lot better now so it was really cute to hear him sing along with us all.

Cheerful Kendrick with his Xiao Gu and Ah Ma

Kendrick looks on as they blow out the candle

Kendrick joins in the cake cutting

Happy Birthday to the 2 ladies born on the same day!

Chris Poh & Ling Sui's Wedding (25 Oct 2009)

We brought Kendrick along to attend Chris Poh & Ling Sui's wedding lunch recently in October. Well, it was certainly an experience as Kendrick misbehaved at certain points. Before the wedding started, he was already getting grouchy and kept wanting to go outside of the banquet room. After calming him down, he settled in but every now and then, we had to take turns bringing him in and out of the banquet room. Not the best way to enjoy your meal, but no choice! In fact, those of us who brought our kids were certainly busy with our own little ones every now and then. Amazingly, Kendrick managed to sustain through the lunch without falling asleep. But the moment we left for home in the car, he was snoozing all the way :)

On the way to the wedding, looking bright and fresh!

A photo with the wedding couple!

Kendrick makes friends with Kaifeng's daughter, Clare

A family shot at the end of the luncheon

My Mother's Birthday

We had a little celebration of my Mother's birthday a few weeks back by surprising her with a cake. Kendrick was really excited when he saw the birthday cake and candle and he was all ready to clap his hands. At this stage, Kendrick has learnt to say 'Happy Birthday To You'. So after we sang one round of the birthday song, we tried to get Kendrick to sing too and he managed to do so very softly. Ha ha. Guess he was kinda shy :P

Gathering at my place (22 Aug 2009)

Last Saturday I organised a gathering at my home with some of my good friends from Secondary school. We had a mini pot luck lunch and took this time to catch up with each other. Michelle is expecting her first baby and will be due in October. So at least we got to meet up before she delivers! Kendrick also had his fair share of fun playing with Michelle's hubby, Uncle Cyril who became his 'new best friend' for the afternoon. In fact, Kendrick actually preferred playing with his Papa and the uncles. He was even willing to give them a hug and not the Aunties! Ha ha..thought that was quite funny :)

Playing Lego with Uncle Cyril

Jeanette, Michelle and I

Kendrick lies down and says 'shui jiao'

The Guys

The Gals and Kendrick

Group shot!

Gathering

During the recent Labour Day public holiday, I met up with June, Andrea, Karen and their babies and hubbies. June suggested this gathering since we've all not met up for some time. So we headed to Marche at Vivocity and that day, the restaurant was really full of families with their kids. Even the section where we sat, 2 other tables were also families with their babies or toddlers. At some point, it got really noisy with all the kids making lots of noise!

For me, it was the first time meeting up Andrea since she gave birth and her daughter was really chubby and cute! Karen's baby boy, Jonah was not feeling too well that day, so they eventually left earlier and we did not manage to get a photo with them. As for Kendrick, he was quite well-behaved that afternoon even though he missed his morning nap. It was only after some time that he wanted to get active and walk about :)

Andrea and Baby Natalie, Me and Kendrick

Andrea, June and me with Baby Natalie and Kendrick

Group shot with our hubbies! Baby Natalie was really interested in looking at June...hahaa..