Hot Pot For Dinner

Thanks Pei for the dinner. Adults got to get-to-gather and the kids are having fun, it was great!

Burp!  We have a great dinner but are too full!  8 adults and 5 children can't even finished the amount of food prepared.


Here's our kiddos.  They had their dinner together and they played together.  They really enjoyed and having great fun!

I loved this photos that I have taken with two lovely girls.

That's my home made baked cheesecake two days ago and brought over to Pei's house.

I am glad that everyone loves the cheesecake, especially my boy, he had two serving.

Here's the three hot mama with two lovely kids!

CNY Gathering

We have celebrated our 3rd CNY together, and I am so honour that our CNY gathering hosted twice at my place - last year and this year.

We have YuSheng bought from Marriott as appetizer, Hot Pot as our main dish and home baked cheese cake for dessert.

On the spot, we can't remember meaning of the YuSheng ingredient, so we just say various 'auspicious wishes' out loud while tossing the shredded ingredients into the air.

After doing some google, here's the auspicious words to say when putting the YuSheng: -

Raw fish - 年年有余

The pomelo/lime - 大吉大利

Pepper - 招财进宝

Oil - 一本万利,财源广进

Shredded Carrots - 鸿运当头

Shredded green radish - 青春常驻

Shredded white radish - 风生水起,步步高升

Peanut - 金银满屋

Sesame seeds - 生意兴隆

Deep-fried flour crisps in the shape of golden pillows - 满地黄金

Snap! Snap! Snap! No idea how many times I have clicked. I just want to capture the best shot for them. I enjoyed capturing every moment of all the little ones, as for the most challenging is to have all the kiddos do the posting in front of my camera. Mission impossible!

Did some cropped and collage, the final result quite satisfied and here's the group photos.

新年快乐! - 'bai nian' (拜年) from our kids to their parents. We want them to learn the Lunar New Year custom whereby the younger generation pay their respect to their elderly.

Family Photo

Lunar New Year greeting from TTKfamily.

GO Xi Fa Cai

恭喜发财

Festive Reunion

I have a great day, with great food served for the day, but I can't sleep with a stomach full of festive food, ended stay wide awake blogging.

Saturday night received a text, TTKfamily are invited over for CNY reunion dinner at my cousin's house. My plan for Sunday have to change, so Hot Pot for lunch and dinner at my cousin place.

Wow! Really had a heavy meals for the day.

Here's the TTKfamily Hot Pot for lunch!

Reunion dinner at my cousin place. Managed to meet up my other cousin (they are sibling) and chat with three of my cousin's son, I don't know what the exact relationship terms, confused me more after reading the family relationship chart.

A Day At Singapore Science Center

Last minutes plan for this holiday, Hari Raya Haji, brought my kids to Singapore Science Center. They are so excited when they arrived, especially my boy when he saw the Waterworks.

We only managed to visit: iSpace, Sound Exhibition, Discovery Zone, Living with Viruses, The Mind's Eye, Mathematics Everywhere & Everyday, Ecolab, and Waterworks.









My girl managed to explore around at Discovery Zone before doze off. Here she is, too exhausted, just doze off after her milk.



Here are some photos taken outside Singapore Science Center before leaving.






Saw this Dinosaurs-Live exhibition, started from 21Oct2011 and end on 26Feb2011.

Couldn't managed to include this in our visit, we will bring them here again, Singapore Science Center, for only this exhibition.

Bedtime Story

My kids refused to go to bed, wanting for daddy to tell them story. I have no choice, to agreed with them.

I have no idea what am I doing, allowing my kids to stay so late. This will not happen anymore, have to be more firm and make sure they are in bed before 8:30pm.

Bedtime story - 2 books from mommy and 1 book from daddy.

Look at them, cute little monsters! They love bedtime story so much.


Book Name: Daddy Napped

They are rather tire after long waiting for daddy to return and to have bedtime story, they doze off just within a minutes, that's pretty fast! That's also maybe is late, has past 10:30pm.

Chaotic Life

Life has become so chaotic thereafter I decided to return back to work life and signed the agreement letter with the company. Within same day, I received a call from my aunt that my dad had a stroke. So my mum has to be there to look after him. He is coping well, recovering.

While my mum's absent, MIL is here to take over 1/3 of her position, only looking after my girl's daily needs, whereas the other 2/3 will have to depend on me.

Days without my mum around, no more home cooked food, really miss my mum's cooked food so much. MIL can't cope with the cooking, so have to order tingkat delivery (catering) for weekdays and eat out for weekends.

Days without my mum around, I tend to be extremely busy till I hardly have a time to stop for a deep breath. Don't need to mention about checking my personal emails and Facebook. I can feel the stress and even during the days, speed of my heart beat increasing.

Days with MIL, here comes the chaotic life. I have to rush to my boy's childcare to pick him up, I can't instruct her to help me out with some other stuff, she starts to nag, a bored look appears on her face and so on and so on. I do appreciate her help, during this period of time, while I am away, she did take good care of my girl. With her help, I don't need to consider a nanny or sending her to childcare. Only thing that I wish from my MIL is, try to smile often and have a happy face, I notice my girl frown a lot recently, this expression definitely is from her.

I feel so fortunate to have my mum around, she has been helping me out a lot, not only now I notice, this always has been in my mind, only now then I blog it. I am looking forward for my mum returns.

Our weekends basically occupied with unpacking (looks more like never ending things to me), house chores, family outing, and search for furniture that can fits in my new house. Hope everything resume back as per normal, so I can read books to my kids, spend my time with family and gather around for chit chat. Is so wonderful!

1st Birthday Bash

Happy Birthday to all April2009 babies!

Happy Mothers' Day!

Before the session starts, have a group photo of 3 angel with their little wings on and their pretty mommies.

Memorable moments captured.

Wow! Total of 27 mommies turn up today to celebrate their baby's 1st Birthday, at the same time we celebrated Mothers' Day together

The group was too big, can't squeeze everyone in one group, here comes the baby boy and baby girl group. Still found missing babes and their mommy.

Some of the moment we spent together.

Left Behind Messages

While clearing off some of my junk data from my mobile phone, I found some video recorded by my boy. He recorded his love for his mommy and daddy. He is so sweet and lovable, with his messages and kisses really melt our heart!

Here goes the video... ....

I love daddy, that was recorded on 27Dec2009, expressing his love to his daddy.

Found another video message that was recorded on 31Dec2009, I love you mommy!

Love you forever!

from Mum & Dad.

2009 Post-Christmas Celebration

Hohohoho... ... We celebrated pre-Christmas, Christmas and post-Christmas this year! TTKfamily missed out some Christmas tree and the Christmas carol lights for photo session on our Christmas Eve, so hubby come out with this idea - to have a post-Christmas celebration.

We were at Orchard Central this afternoon, having our lunch at Ootoya Japanese Restaurant. We were lucky, reached there early and managed to get a table.

Here's our order:-
Main Course
Anmitsu Sumibutodon $14
Torotoroni $17
Dessert
Maccha $4.50
Pudding $5
Drink
FOC for green tea

Total spent on a bill $47.65 (included 10% service charge + 7% GST).

My boy's dinner, not ordering from the set menu, his serving portion taken a bit from both of us!



Here's my cheeky boy, while taking photo of him, he just post his cutlery in front of him!!!



TTKfamily with Christmas tree taken at Orchard Central.



Done!!! Managed to capture both of my kiddos with their Christmas outfit and a family photo with the huge Christmas tree.

Leisure time at Coffee Bean. We had our usual drink - Mocha ice blended, plus a mini Mocha log cake.



Christmas Song - Take I



Christmas song - Take II

2009 Christmas Eve

TTK family decided to spend our Christmas Eve at Orchard road, having our dinner at Marché, 313@Somerset. Marché is one of our hang out place to go for lunch or dinner, we just simply love the environment and the delicious food, especially prepared on the dot when you place your order with them.

This was the most challenging part where I have to travel down with 2 kiddos to meet hubby at Orchard MRT station, luckily everything seems running smoothly. Phew!!!

First thing after putting down all our belongings and before order our food, is to look for a high chair, next put her in, lastly will need to settle her meal!



I love the high chair that Marché has provided, just looks so cool!!! By chance saw it at Mothercare outlet @ The Centrepoint, they are selling at $500+, that's really very expensive to invest one at home.

Not having Marché's signature dish, the Rösti, where hubby wanted to try out other dishes. They are having mushroom soup and steak for this visit.



Crêpe is my usual order, my favourite dish and a must have it while we dine at Marché.

Hubby took a photo of me with the lovely background while waiting for our desert - waffles with ice-cream.



This was the last photo for the day as the camera battery gone flat. My mood on Christmas Eve gone when come to know the battery goes flat after few shots. Sigh! What a waste with no Christmas tree and no beautiful carol lights taken at Orchard! So sad and disappointed!

2009 Pre-Christmas Celebration

I feel that with kids around, we are not able to meet as per scheduled, either reach too early or late, but most probably are late. We had a very tight schedule today, rushing down to Robinson, Centrepoint, to have my blouse change. I bought that blouse few days ago during member sales, not worth of money with that material used for the blouse.

Another delay added-on to our schedule, a last minutes purchase of Christmas gift, as the one that we prepared left at home, plus there were crowd everywhere, toys department and even at the casher!

Thought we were late for our baby's pre-Christmas celebration, as everyone has arrived, but our catering food yet to set up. What a big mistake that the caterer has made, food delivered not as per ordered, and the price are cheaper that what we had paid for, so can't accept it.

Here's our food delivered after 1 hour!

Thirsty! Thirsty! Thirsty! Very nice and good area to place our drinks, this is the corner where everyone looking for, especially the weather is hot.

Ops! Where's the place we had our Pre-Christmas celebration? ok, we have it at a function room, Pravina's place.

A small complaint as there are too many windows, sun shines in and makes the environment hot and stuffy! I think everyone do agree with me. Beside that, overall of the function room and environment is good.

Captured one of his expression having his last serving of food where he is looking forward to open his goodies bag fill with lots of chocolates and candies.

This was a good time to enjoy my lunch where my little girl having her afternoon nap in her daddy's arm.

At least I have a 45minutes break, away from carrying her. After that, everything back to normal and here she is, with mommy again.

Here's the Christmas tree.

All gifts from Secret Santa were placed under the Christmas tree and we got our lucky number 8.

Thanks to my little man for so kind to help, to search out and deliver gift to all mommies, but at a same time he was busy with his supper yoyo too, that was bought and given to him this morning.

Good job! Best outfit among all babies!

Last 2 photos taken before we left the place.

Our group photo with 11 mommies + 5 daddies + 11 babies and 1 toddler attended!

Snap! Snap! Snap! 3 daddies out there busy with the cameras!

Here are the best outfit babies with their mommy posting in front of the Christmas tree.