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? :)

Mooncakes Making

Last week, we went to Stehpanie house to make some Snowskin Mooncakes. Ingredients were provided by Dawn who just came back from Singapore few weeks ago. It was successful this time as we had the right ingredients and most importantly there was Meizhen Shifu to guide us along this time. :P

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. ^_^

Father's Day Celebration

We had a Small Father Day's Celebration yesterday. In fact, it was a surprise for all the fathers.. Well, thanks to our friend, Serene who came out with this idea! We had a potluck lunch and everyone of us had prepare a gift for the fathers. We had some fun games during the gathering too. The first was getting the kids to recognise their own father's voice. And the second game was getting fathers to act out what animals for mummies & their kids to guess. We really had fun yesterday!






In fact this game is for daddies to act out what is the animal and the kids will guess. But in the end I was the one who was guessing..hahahaha

Kudos to you!


Guess who is your father by listening. We had a good laugh over this game as the kids couldn't really differentiate the voice of their fathers...

I would really like to thank Serene for her effort to think of all the games for the families and the kids. We really had a great time! ^_^

Long Weekend....

This was what we have done for the long weekend...

Saturday, 30 May 2009

We went to Lye Kim Hup in Bordeaux and bought some chinese vegetables, fishballs and fishcakes and we proceeded to L'Entrecote for Lunch. Frankly speaking, I missed eating the Entrecote here but was reluctant to come as the queue was always very long. But eventually we came and this is our 3rd time.



After lunch, the waitress offered the kids a lollipop and we saw the following...

Then, we went to Ikea and left the kids with the "balls" for 45 minutes while we shopped...



After Ikea, we went to Auchan Supermarket to get some bbq food for Sunday and went home to prepare...

Sunday, 31 May 2009

We woke up early to prepare the bbq for the night. Cleaned up the house and garden a bit and had one round of mahjong with Irene and Chew before the guests came. LOL ..It was a small BBQ gathering among a few families. We had a great night chit-chatting away and the kids playing together. The only regret is that I forgot to whip out my camera for some photo-taking...hehehehe

Monday, 1 June 2009

Holiday in France - Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a movable feast in the Christian calendar)



Strike A Pose, Shannon!








We went to the beach with some friends in the morning since it was a sunny day. J finally pumped up a "boat" which was passed over from his friend 2 years ago. Initially, we thought it was a small boat but in the end it was really a long boat. Anyway, we brought it to the beach and the guys and the kids had fun with it.

We didn't stay for long as the water was still too cold for the kids. We went for lunch @ McDonald's and let the kids play for another hour in the Indoor playground before all of us headed home.

Happy Birthday, Avril

Today is Avril Birthday!!! Happy Birthday to YOU!!!

Actually we went to her birthday celebration which was held last Wednesday. Her grandfather came to France to visit them last mth, therefore they purposely celebrated earlier before he left for Singapore last Saturday. The party has excluded all fathers as it was held on Wednesday whereby the kids have no school on that day.

It was a fabulous party as Uncle (Avril's grandfather) cooked one Singapore dishes that we missed.



Yes!!! HOKKIEN MEE, NGOH HIANG AND HEI CHO

Well, the kids enjoyed so much as there was so many activities going on. After finishing the cakes, they started to dance.





Great Dancer ya! ^_^

Happy Birthday, Shannon!!!

Today, our dear precious Shannon turns 4. As usual, we had a birthday celebration for her and it was held yesterday.



We started preparing the food on Saturday and woke up at 7am yesterday morning to cook the food. J was in charge of the Roasted Pork and Cha Siew while I fried the rice, Bee Hoon, Vegetables and deep fried the fishballs, hotdogs, nuggets, Ngoh Hiang and Longon Jelly. We bought some cold prawns, oysters and Roti Poulet(Grilled Chicken) to complete the buffet. Frankly speaking, we are quite amazed that we did all that ourselves. :P (anyone needs food catering?)



We were quite disappointed when we saw the cake. The decoration of the cake wasn't per our request. We even gave them the picture below and thought that they will do something similar



I had specially purchased the 3 princess topper online to put on the cake as the cake decoration over here are really normal. Luckily, the cake tasted really good so we weren't so pissed off ^_^



Our dearest Shannon was dressed like a princess and looked really happy during the celebration. The following 2 slides are photos taken during the party. Thanks Eddie for being the photographer of the day.

I would also like to thank all our friends for the gifts and for attending, making the party so memorable.

The Reunion

Finally, J was back yesterday.

We took 1 hour plus MRT ride to fetch J at the airport. Shannon was delighted when she saw him. She ran to him and hugged him really tight and refused to let go and J's eyes were filled with tears too. As for me, after I had got my big hug and big kiss, I was abandoned by both of them for the rest of the day. Hahahaha.. And Shannon transformed herself into a Kuala Bear and stick to her daddy whenever she could.

We reached home at about 7pm and J went to washed up and we went to a friend's gathering which was arranged 1 hour ago. He had brought something really special back for them and all our friends were called up instantly for a meet up. Initially, I was still worried that our friends couldn't make it as it was really a last minutes call up. Luckily, J's face was BIG enough to have all of them gathered or else "something special" will be really wasted. It was a really great and fun filled gathering which ended at 1130pm.

When we reached home, I brought Shannon upstairs for a washed up while J parked the car. After I had cleaned her up, she started to cry for her Daddy even though I told her that he will be back.

That is how much she misses him.

*photos will be uploaded later

Gathering

Last Friday evening, my friends invited us to their house for a gathering. I met this group of friends in France. We became very close and we maintain our friendship via msn and occasionally gathering. We had a great night chatting and so were the kids! The 2 older boys were the commanders giving task to all the little girls and boys in their "policeman games"

Oh.. I just realised the 2 "big boys" were not in the photos!! As they grow older, they became camera shy....lol

Most of the kids except Shannon were all made and born in France!!! I was trying very hard that time to join them but only succeeded when all of them were 2 years old... hahahaha