Halloween 2009

We brought Shannon to Auchan for a free face painting in the afternoon to attend a Halloween gathering at our friend's house. She was so excited when she saw the booth and requested for a purple butterfly to be painted on her face. We taught her how to say "Purple Butterfly" in french and she started to recite "Papillon Violet" when she was queing up for her turn. Hehe

After the face painting, we tried to look for a costume for her because I didn't really see any that fancy me previously. As it was the day of Halloween, all the costumes had almost sold off, thus I decided to go home and dressed her up with whatever we had at home. :P



In the end, I used our Chinese Qipao bought during Chinese New Year. I pinned a few spiders on her clothes, tied a long devil's tail on her waist, put on a devil hairband and messed up her hair. Voila! A Devil in a Chinese Qipao...LOL



After taking some food at the gathering, we brought the kids to neighours' house for Tricks or Treat. The first house visit was a disappointment as the french neighour literally ignore us. However, we continued to look for other neighours and decided to visit our Singaporeans' neighbour instead. Well, after visiting a few houses, we decided to go back as the streets were really dark and quiet. We distributed the sweets to the kids and let the kids played in the garden instead.

Overall, we had great fun that night. This is the first time that I really dress Shannon up for Halloween night and I can see that she enjoyed the night too. ^^

Lantern Festival Celebration 2009

Last Saturday, we had a Lantern Festival Celebration at my house. We invited 6 other families to join in the fun, every family brought some food to our place for potluck dinner.



Right after dinner, we had riddles for adult to guess prepared by Meizhen & Clara. Everyone went to the lanterns hanging outside and chose a riddle to answer. Well, the riddles were kind of difficult for us.. we had a hard time solving it. For those who solved the riddle, they got a small gift from Meizhen & Clara.



After the riddles, Serene hosted another game called "Deal or No Deal". Everyone had to contribute $5 to enter this game and the player who was picked gets to win a prize of $0.01 to $60 euros. Our professional Serene Leong even bought a set of props for this. I was picked 2 times and won a total of $16. It was fun but unforunately the game could only be played 5 times cuz it had to end as it was getting late. The remaining cash was given to Roy who was luckily picked by the host at the end of the game.



After the games ended, all the kids put on their jacket and carried paper lanterns in the garden. There were no fantasy/electronic lanterns sold over here. All we had were paper lanterns we bought 2 years ago but the kids still enjoyed carrying their lanterns round the house again and again. :)

How was your lantern festival this year? :)

Assumption Day 2009

It's Assumption Day in France yesterday. As usual, we went to Archacon Beach with a group of friends for the annual Fireworks Display.


As we were early, we had a walk on the beach and took some photos with the sand scuptures we saw at the beach.


At about 7pm, we took our dinner at one of the restaurant along the beach. This was the second time we had visited this restaurant. I always wanted to go back for their food but was really disappointed this time. The food was served within 10 minutes after we placed our order which means it was kind of pre-cooked.


After dinner, we spent another 2 hours on the beach waiting for the nightfall. The kids enjoyed themselves running around and playing with the sand.. Finally at 1030pm, the fireworks started...

The show ended about 15-20minutes later and we could see that everyone stood up immediately and headed back to their car. As usual, we only managed to reached home 1 hour later due to the heavy traffic.

Happy Birthday Singapore

Today is Singapore 44th Birthday. J's company had celebrated this big day in advance on 31 July 2009. There was a serious of games and competitions going on. As for the kids, there were coloring contest and J had signed Shannon up. Well, she didn't win any prize from her coloring but 3 cheers for her for finishing her artwork. ^_^

Carnivals

Look how she walk!!!


Princess Shannon playing hopscotch!!



Two weeks ago, there was a series of carnivals going on in France. It was some kind of celebration to wards off evils before Easter Day?? I am too sure even though I have searched the internet.@_@

Anyway, Shannon and her friends were asked to dress in Costumes and celebrated the occasion after the school hours. I believed the kids had enjoyed the day with the dancing and food shown on the videos and photos above. :P

GoodBye 2008 Hello 2009

Time flies, another year had passed. Shannon and myself spent our last day of 2008 and the very first minutes of 2009 with 2 of my good friends at Pasir Ris Park. The kids enjoyed themselves roller blading, skate scooting while Shannon tried her best chasing the 2 kors kors and 2 jie jie around. In the end, we got Ryan and Kai to buy some bubbles back for her to play instead of chasing them around. AT brought along some food and Brian bought some food back from Changi Village for dinner. We sat on the grass drinking sparkling wine and had a nice chat. We listened to "not so bad" live band as we were just sat beside the pub and waited for the countdown. The kids even danced along with the disco music!

At about 1130pm, we started to bring our kids for a wash up and waited for the countdown. We went home about 30minutes after the countdown and Shannon fell asleep immediately after the car started to move. ^_^

Lastly, Happy New Year to every one and may 2009 bring many opportunities your way to explore every joy of life!

Merry X'Mas

Lantern Festival Celebration

Last night, we had a Lantern Festival celebration at my house. You wouldn't be surprised that our atmosphere here is much better than the one we had back home. Hehehe

We decorated our garden and house with Lanterns.


Scrumptious Food prepared by indivduals family.

From 3 yrs 6mth

Not forgetting our Snowskin Mooncake made by Meizhen and the Traditional Mooncakes bought from the Vietnamese Store in Bordeaux.



Kids happily playing with sparkles


These 4 photos were taken by Shannon. Not bad huh! ;p

I would like to THANK all my friends who made this CELEBRATION a successful one. The next coming event will be Halloween!!!