旺旺过新年！

01 March 2018


Hello March!

祝大家新年快乐，过个旺得福的一年！

狗年初一；和氣吉祥皆快樂、四季平安過新年！#week215

狗年初二；招財進寶、好運旺旺來！#week215

狗年初三；心想事成，财源滚滚、万事如意！#week216

狗年初五；五福临门、岁岁平安、工作顺利、步步高升、开工大吉！#week216

狗年初九；友情长长久久！ Invited HDX over our pad for lou hei! #week216 #hxda

2017 Christmas Celebrations

30 December 2017


Of 2017 Christmas celebrations!

29 Nov - We're ready!

(our sturdy Xmas tree that is been with us for the past 3 years' celebration) #4weekstochristmas #xmas2017

27 Nov - Do-Re-Me!  Mandatory shot with the Takashimaya Xmas tree! #week203 #4weekstochristmas #xmas2017

 

15 Dec - Christmas celebration in school, all dressed up in Christmas colors!  With our little Santarina! #week206 #1weektochristmas #xmas2017

 

16 Dec - This duo are all decked out for Xmas party with the HXDA clan! #week206 #1weektochristmas #xmas2017

 

16 Dec - Family shot at Ng's 2D Xmas tree!  Very creative, very nice! #week206 #1weektochristmas #xmas2017

24 Dec - Papa, Nat Nat & Mama! Hosted Christmas dinner with the Yeos and family! #week208 #1moresleeptochristmas #xmas2017

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

鸡祥如意！

11 February 2017

祝愿鸡年；

身体健康， 合家平安，鸡祥如意！

Year of Rooster masterpiece created by Nat Nat Van Gogh!

Making our way for reunion round 2 at 婆婆's house!

 

 

鸡年初一；金鸡报喜，喜气洋洋！#week160 #familyportraits

鸡年初一；Nat Nat 与 dua-ma 拜年!

 

#OOTD - 初三，初五 & 初十四！ #week161 & week162

鸡年初十五；元宵节！Lou hei with HXDA! #week162

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2016 Christmas Celebrations!

25 December 2016

A quick post before Y2016 Christmas ends...

Merry Christmas!

Wishing all a merry merry Christmas and wonderful time with your dearest!

 

Our yearly affair with the HXDAs - this time the family extended to more and more "underage" members into the clan!  #week155

 

Invited the family and Yeos over, but unfortunately Livie was down with HFMD therefore Lut's are not able to make it this year...

 

A group picture before the Christmas gift exchange starts...

 

Second year celebrating Christmas in our home, with our curly fries!  #week155

 

Just me and ah Thiang... who got me the limited edition Hello Kitty G-shock watch!

Year 2016 hasn't been a smooth sailing year for me... lotsa downs (health, family matters which I am still trying hard to fine tune it...) than ups (work life still very blessed with a good boss)...

I hope in Year 2017 to come, she will treat me better and be kinder to me... #prayforme  #godblessme

2015 Christmas Celebrations!

31 December 2015


Last blog post for Year 2015!


Some snippets of our first Christmas celebrations at our new home!


Invited the family and friends to feast - ordered ham and lamb racks, home made pasta and party sets to serve the guests.  Nathaniel has been a good boy, napped for 2+hours so Papa can do his roasting, Mama can prepare the pasta and other stuffs and 奶奶 can do her shopping at nearby Sheng Shiong supermarket!  LOL

Santa Claus' getting ready for Christmas!

We have iberico pork and honey glazed bone-in ham and lamb rack roasting heavenly in the oven (really put our oven to good use!)...  Luther prepared his special beef recipe and MIL made home made steamed Christmas pudding which was very nice I must say!  Maybe get her to steam some for CNY.  ^_^

 

Group shots with Yeos and the family!

 

我们一家三口！ *hearted-eyes*

Nathaniel was elated to open his present - a drawing easel from aunt Jade!  #pricelessexpressions

 

With the HXDAs!  I received the nominated "best" gift (http://www.ostrichpillow.com/) of the year which I don't know how to put to good use.  Seriously.

 

We were unable to visit Gardens by the Bay Christmas Wonderland before 27 December, therefore we missed the Christmas carousel.  Such a pity bcos we have the priority Q tickets from our AIA agent which we failed to utilise.  The lightings were very impressive and nice... only if the weather could have been a little bit cooler like 20 degrees will be naise-er...  :P

 

Ho ho ho, happy holidays

&

Happy New Year!  #2016



Growing up with Nathaniel; Day565-Day609

05 September 2015

Week 87 (20 months...)!

We have completed 6 rounds of house-warming part-ty with the family and friends!  (... still have other friends group haven't send out invites yet, maybe take a rest and do it some other time!)  Manage to clean up the entire place over the 2 weekends of hosting friends... Family members were to huge to host within the adobe so we had the buffet catering setup at the sky bridge #33.  Food was good - will officially appoint Chilli Padi as our buffet caterer!  HAHA  We catered party sets and mini buffet for the rest of the friends' group which was not too bad - Select even provided utensils to scoop the food.  Very thoughtful!

Some random rants; I really cannot tahan is self-feeding kids in the house (especially at other people's house, common' spare some thoughts for the poor mothers who have to overhaul the whole house after a long day of hosting).  Let me elaborate.  I thought having kids over my place is OK, but it is not so OK.  Especially during meal times when kids self-feed themselves.  I will not let Nat self-feed at people's home, restaurant is OK la, different mah (if you know what I mean...) - just imagine you have to clean up the mess, furniture and walls after their meals, adults feed directly into their mouth not the floor, you know... 1 is not enough, I have 3 of such cases.  Faint die me.  Imma so OCD, every drop of rice or food on the floor is too crazy for me to accept but this is house-warming party sure to have mess so I have to close my eyes and clean up after the party ends.  忍!  I do have friend that are inconsiderate enough to have their baby's diaper changed without using a changing mat - literally on my carpet!  Excuses me!  Hygiene.  Hygiene.  #whylikethat

Having said that, I am not sure when I willing to start Nat to self-feed... because I am so afraid of the mess and clean-ups.  Maybe I will start train him when he is outside restaurants, and I will spoon-feed him as long as I can within the house premises.  Who cares if they say that my son cannot learn to eat by himself at his age... it's such a pleasure feeding a kid who is willing to be fed and eat happily for as long as I can!

Okays enough of my ranting... a long update of Nat for the past 2 months' milestones nao!

Milestones from week 81 to week 87...

1. he can say pampers, one, bright, finish, touch, house, watch, wear, mine, monie (money), sit, brown brown (eyebrow), 暗暗, mos (mosque), miloo, grass, tuck (truck), MRT, pok (boat), spicy, lurv you (love you, only to Nainai)...
2. he recognised ABCD on the book - 24/7/2015...
3. he kicks on his own in the swimming pool - 25/7/2015...
4. he feeds his bear or us with his imaginary food...
5. he digs his nose by turning his fingers round and round...
6. he will 放空 and pretends to think think then 翻白眼 when we ask him something - 31/7/2015...
7. he becomes a parrot; repeats the last word in your sentence - 1/8/2015...
8. he will requests for his own seat during morning bus rides (and refuses to share with anyone) - 3/8/2015...
9. he can plays on his own while I rush out some house chores when we get home in the evenings - 3/8/2015...
10. he likes "the wheel on the bus" video and can pretend to roll his hands when he see the video/listen to the song... very helpful especially when he fuss during meal times...
11. he knows where eyebrow, eyes, knee and toes are - 13/8/2015...
12. I told him "Mama loves Nat Nat, Nat Nat loves Mama?", he replies "Mama" (and I assumedly he answered Yes) - 13/8/2015...
13. Papa teaches Nat to address where we stay... "Mah-graet-drive" - 14/8/2015...
14. he recognised his Maxi Cosi baby car seat and says "sit sit" unwillingly when ah Thiang's colleague came for collection - 14/8/2015...
15. I teaches him "cheers aka 干杯" and he drinks water very enthusiastically - 14/8/2015...
16. he weighs 13.6kg - 16/8/2015...
17. Nainai teaches him to answer "Boy" when people ask him Boy or Girl - 17/8/2015...
18. he can say 3 words (short sentences) like "pat pat poil" (iPad spoilt) when one of the days we off it or no battery and it only shows an apple logo after turning it on - 20/8/2015...
19. his jealousy strikes when he saw my Mom or Dad carries Jade's son; he fuss and cries - 23/8/2015...
20. finally willing to say "Yes" (out of desperately) - 30/8/2015...
21. he will stop walking and stands in your way, pretending wanting to hug you so he gets to be carried after a session of walking - 2/9/2015...
22. he was having slight fever in the afternoon (maybe that explains why he is very cranky the night before he slept...) and when we try to feed him medicine - very naughty, he don't eat medicine never mind, he even knows how to spit out the medicine after being forced fed to and even know when we stick the fever patch onto his forehead after he KO-ed and fuss until this was taken down...  *shakes head*  Thank you guan yin-ma, his fever went away on the same night - 3/9/2015...

#day566 - Today's ABCD!  Now he knows more than ABCD...!

#day567 - Little lifeguard training in progress!  He now can kicks freely in the waters.

#day571 - Little Chef Nat's stir-fry beef + vegetables for breakfast!  #natcancooksocanyou

#day574 - It's August already!  Always enjoying this beautiful view when he wakes up in the morning.

#day574 - Excursion to the zoo with 奶奶！

#day579 - Morning's pig-face!

#day580 - Achievement unlocked; swimming by himself!

#day583 - Being entertained by iPad.  You gotta love that smile!

#day590 - Wanted to FaceTime 公公 and 外婆 but none of them picked up the call (because they slept in early...).  First 2 pic was enticipating that either 公公 and 外婆 will pick up the call, manatau the call was picked up by SIL and he was stunned like ve-get-table!  #pricelessexpressions

#day594 - Because "Bed Head" hair looks cool!

#day595 - The day we brought him for Chicken Pox vaccination.  He was running around the polyclinic and smack his face right onto the floor, and still can look so happy!

#day596 - Truly Singaporean!  #nationaldayrally2015

#day603 - The father and son moment before the guests arrival.  This is the 6/6 session of our house-warming party with the friends!  After that was a major haul cleaning up the house...

#day603 - It was then... the mother and son moment before my MIL's birthday's dinner feasting starts!

*ps: #day609 ends on 05 September 2015

Of 2014 Christmas Celebrations!

29 December 2014

Fasterly update my Christmas celebrations before 2015 comes!

Wasn't planned to have so many celebrations as I was due to fly to Italy for some training from 11-22 December... but long story short, I resigned on the 10th (for better career advancement...) therefore suddenly I have so much time to spend with my loved ones during this festive seasons!  Very happy!  (... that explains the many weeks of unemployment, idling around until my official start date on 2 January 2015!  heh heh heh!)

"Somewhere over the rainbow... Skies are blue... And the dreams that you are to dream really come true..."  Nice rainbow spotted above a pretty Xmas tree at Vivo City!

 

 

Giant turkey with compliments from the Quahs!

 

 

HXDA Christmas celebration at the Quahs pad!

 

 

Festive feasting continues with the Yeos!

 

 

 

My Pandora journey begins....
Thank you for the contributions to this beautiful Pandora bracelet!

 

 

Merry Merry Christmas again and have a great 2015 ahead...  Ho ho ho!