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.

After Two Weeks Of School

I fall sick!

I have fever!

I have diarrhea!

I vomited!

I have stomach flu!

I have to stayed at home!

I am not fit to school for 2 days!

I miss my school!

I miss my teachers!

I miss my friends!

I can't play!

I have to rest and sleep most of my time!

Gifts Received

My gal brought back a CNY gift bag last week Friday from her Preschool - two mandarin oranges and a bag of red packets.

Another gifts received from my neighbour yesterday, some CNY deco for me, the deco just came in time as I planned to buy some. Lanterns and toy for both kids, they loved it so much.

Thanks you!

My First Chinese New Year Card

I know trough time, my talents will surface

And true artist I will become... ...

Soon my CNY greeting card will now have meaning.

I will learn to be creative with the exposure given

Support, love and guidance

cut and glue and paste

A true masterpiece, who knew?

Time and effort glue each piece

No reason, nor thought of waste

Cautiously, the work evolves

And for the moment, time stands still

I will create what I hold dear

A priceless work of art

This is my experience doing this greeting card at home with my mom guidance will stay forever in my heart

Art And Craft Time

Peeling out the paper shapes and sorting moment!

Glueing time! Glue all the parts together to form an elephant.

Here's the paper bag puppets that my gal has completed.

I Have Confidence

Given a list below to rate on how he feels for tomorrow Orientation Day.

1) Excited

2) Afraid/Scared

3) Worried

Given 1 - 100 to rate, here's how he rated them: -

100 for Excited, 10 for Afraid/Scared and 5 for Worried.

A: How come you rated 5 for Worried?

W: Because I am brave! (looking at me, answered with confidence)

A: Wow! I am so proud of you! (response with a smiley face)

Yes, there is nothing to worried about, mommy and daddy will be with you at all time.

School Holiday Week

Yes, is school holiday week.

No school bus service and hubby is away for business trip, therefore this week I am extremely busy.

Although they are in a same school, I have to send both of my kids to two different branch till end of this month. Finger cross! Hope everything is fine and manageable.

Here they are, photo taken while they are on their way to school. Good memories and moments been captured.

I am glad they get along well and love company each other. Their love and care for each other always reminded me, helped me to understand that loves and cares should not stop.

Thanks to both of my kids. Thank you for entering my life, making it wonderful and the best of my life!

Warmth Note

My boy wrote a note and left it on my table this morning.



Warms my heart after reading.

Christmas Celebration and Farewell Party

I am celebrating Christmas and farewell party with my classmate today. The dress code for the party is our Primary School Uniform.

So coincidence, I found out one of my classmate and I having same school badge, we are going to a same primary school next year.

This was my last celebration and group photo taking in my preschool. We are moving to P1 soon, and I will miss all my dear friends.

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.

Children's Day

How would you celebrate with your kids on Children's day? Or would you celebrate with your kids?

When I was a kid, my parents don't really celebrate with me, they are busy. Most of the time I celebrated in school with my classmate and teachers. Only things that my mum will prepared every year is a pot of curry chicken.

During children's day, there is a list of program planned by the school, first we will gather in a hall. Started with National song, followed by school song, dances, choirs and so on and so on. Thereafter, we will return back to our class. Can't remember much, things that I can recall are, we will decorate our class with some colour papers, balloons, and the tables will re-arranged for placing food.

This year, I planned to have some quality time with my kids, instead of bringing them out, we stayed at home. Things/activities that we spent together - read books, watched TV, played toys, and cookies decorating.

Dancing my lady!



I baked a batch of cookies a day before, used bumble bee cutter to cut out the shape. Prepared 2 sets of piping filled with colour icing for both.

My boy loved decorating cookies, amount of cookies given to him still not enough, requested more to decorate. I really enjoyed watching him decorating his cookies, he looks so serious! Oh, not to forget, he enjoys tasting the icing too. I think most kids did that, can't resist to taste the icing - SWEET!

Captured all the lovely memories of him while decorating!
There goes the final piece of work, all the way in his mouth before finished decorating. Cheeky you!



My gal loved exploring the icing rather than decorating her cookies. She tasted the icing, feels the texture with her both hands and busy squeezing out the icing. With curiosity, she squeezed and watched the icing flowing out from the piping bags.



I have a great and precious moment. Hope they enjoyed!

Here's the cookies - bumble bees, that I had decorated for them while they having their nap.

Mickey Mouse Hot Cake

Inspiration from my gal yesterday evening when I have no idea what to prepare for breakfast.

A: What do you want for your breakfast?

E: Mickey Mouse

A: =_='

I have no idea when did this Disney cartoon character - Mickey Mouse become one of her favorites character. Luckily I have this character mould.

Using the ready made pancake mix that I bought from NTUC. Is quite easy, there is a step by step instruction given on the box.

Mixed in the ingredient with water, stir well then scoop out the batter and cook using frying pan.

Mickey Mouse hot cake for breakfast!

My kids were so excited when Mickey Mouse hot cake was served. ~ Cheers ~

Funny Look

Wanted to take a photo of my boy after finished his fruits in the morning and he posted funny look for me.

You are silly and cheeky boy!

Photo taken by my iPhone.

Rapping Nursery Rhyme

Cool! My boy rapping nursery rhyme.



Surprise me when I hear him rap. Didn't know he can rap too!


Nursery Rhyme Lyric - One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish Alive!

One, Two, Three, Four, Five,
Once I caught a fish alive,
Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten,
Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
The little finger on my right.

What Would You Like To Be

A: W, what would you like to be or work as when you grow up like daddy?
W: mommy, what job can I earn lots of money?

Oh dear, almost faint when I hear what he asked. =_='
Nowadays, children are so different to those days. We will choose or pick what we like, maybe that's only me. When I were young, I would like to be a piano teacher or related to art craft work, unfortunately my parents disagreed with my decision.

A: W, you have to choose a job that you like, not looking into what earns a lot and you don't like it at all.
W: Hmm... Then I want to build my building.

He pause, look at me for a while and says, I want to order and instruct people to build.
Faint again! Wah! So ambitious thinking.

A: Singapore no more land for you to build, so when you grow up, you have to travel to other country to build your own designed building.
W: Why?
A: Singapore so small and the land is limited, only way is to travel out from Singapore to have your designed building build.
W: Hmmm... ... Let me think about it.

Then he walked away!

Messiest Moment

Messiest moment that I managed to capture. Here they are!

Taken this moment when my boy @22months.

Taken this moment when my girl @20months.