Surviving June

Hope your week has been good for the beginning of June. As usual, mine filled with tasks that need to be accomplished but again, not all are done with accordance to my wish. It's frustrating that I have to go through 2 meetings scheduled at 1pm, disrupting my milk expressing schedule and these are all last minutes change of time due to the other parties. I am so frustrated about such arrangement and will not entertain such requests to change the time to 1pm in future. It's not only disrupting to my pumping schedule and also my lunch time. I can hardly manage after the long meetings that ended about 4pm! Till then, I start to have wobbly legs, fainting spells. It's so crappy.

Anyway, the good side of it is weekend is here. As I can spend my time with my darlings and do things leisurely. Some photos here are taken somewhere back in April.

Seth and Grace in Penguin PJs

My crop buddy with Grace (Love this shot of them)

These taken in the morning. The sunshine gal always brings broad smiles to our lazy morning.

We are preparing......
our dog, Santa is dying of old age. It's painful to see him suffering at this stage. He has refuse to eat since last night. I can't bear myself to bring him to the vet and euthanize him. We have decided to let him die at home and then send him to be cremated. The tears just can't stop when I think about him at this stage and I hope I can cope well.

so fine

*All of the above photos did not under go PP.

What so great about these shots? Nothing really but just that it's taken with the newly acquired Fuji FinePix F100fd.


The decision of getting this was after reading the reviews, the forums and samples seen. Also, the PnS is so called, necessary now, since I find that bringing it around for our upcoming trip would be necessary. I must say the quality of photos taken in low light conditions definitely surpasses all that I've seen. Especially my old PnS Panasonic Lumix. I am eager to try out IQ again tomorrow morning and praying it's gonna be a beautiful day! Sam was telling me that be very careful with using this camera, cause when you really find it soo easy and obtaining superb IQ, you will tend to forget to use your DSLR! :D We'll see.

On site comparison of the photos taken at John 3:16, this F100fd really is much sharper as compared to Canon IXUS 860IS. Geez, which was what I have in mine previously if I wanna get a PnS. Then, the difference is F100fd is a 12MP and 860IS is 8MP, sharpness and color are more vivid. Since I've already owned a Canon Digital Rebel XT, I would love to have a variety of photos to rah rah about, esp the IQ. Not forgetting the intend is to purchase a PnS with great IS and also wide focal lens. Indeed, FinePix F100fd met all my needs and my budget.

Murmurs Playground

We've visited the National Museum on 24th May. It was the start of School Holidays and I have always wanted to bring Seth and Grace to the Museum to check out the activities that are organised for the children. There were workshops, play, and interactive games in various parts of National Museum. Would have put Seth in one of the workshops but too bad the seats are selling like hot cakes and snatched up! :( Nonetheless, we have arranged to meet Chloe and family up to visit the Murmurs Playground and some of the areas that are open and not requiring any purchase of tickets. If you are keen, you can still check out the events here.


Colorful area where the spiral cushions squeak when you step on them, or you can stick the cushions onto the wall!

The utensiles hanging, and pots and pans clanking......

Colorful Pool of Balls

Play Pals

HANG in There! This is so fun when it's the enlarge version.

Video Wall, this time round, it's in portrait!

In deep coloring thoughts, free for all ages.

Grace getting ready to eat and posy.


After the visit to the Museum, Chloe recommended us a great Ramen place at Robertson Quay. The chef from Japan, and the Ramen made is so different from the rest you have ate at Ajisen. Simply Yummy. The pork soup and the pork strips, so tasty and tender.

Dry Ramen with Cheese and Mayo

My spicy Ramen..... Mouth watering experience!

Will visit again when we are near the area. I would recommend you if you are an avid Ramen eater. :)

Eat with your family day

Guess it's not practice in every company, but today is the "Eat with your Family Day" It's also the starting of a the National Family Celebration 2008 for the children school holidays falling on 24th May-28 June. This day, the fathers are encourage to cook at least one dish for the family. HA! That's definitely a plus for the daddys to do something for the kids which is out of the ordinary.

Olive Tree and I get to knock off early, as early as him, at 4.30pm and mine, 5.00pm. However, we have a different plan. I dated him out instead as I felt that we have not been having any more dates for a long long time. Since having the grandma and helper to take care of the kids, we caught a movie at Toa Payhoh Eng Wah. It's not Indiana Jones or Iron Man that we've watched. :) I've chosen Made of Honour. It's gonna be a date, right?! A simple romantic movie creates the mood for us! It's an enjoyable show, the theatre has less than 10 movie goers! I love the sound track. This genre of movie always makes me feel very light hearted and also the simplicity of the story line are more in tune with our relationship with our partner. The story line is pretty much like "My Best Friend's Wedding". So if you have enjoyed watching that, you would like this as well.

There was this little accident that happened, I put the bag of unfinished popcorns on the arms rest of the vacant chair and alas! The whole bag fell and almost all the popcorns dropped out! GEEEZ. I felt so bad having created a mess for the cleaner and left at my carelessness.

After the movie, we had a subway dinner. Was telling Olive Tree that we should do this dating night more frequently, as we can have our own time, getting a breather from the kids as well as keeping the little sparks in our relationship. ehehehe... I believed he does feel the same. I was telling him I felt like we are young again, and always smiling all the way, holding each others' hands (not holding the kids), cuddling and all. It was a great night.

We fetched the kids at 8.30pm, and headed home.

Here's a couple of Layouts I did over the two weeks. One which I did last night after being inspired by my crop buddy's creation. :)

a case of jealousy

Used: Scarlet Lime Kit - MM Noteworthy, 5th Ave PPs, MM & HS Alpha Stickers, Cosmo Cricket Black Board, 7g book clip


daddy's gal

Used: MM Noteworthy 5th Ave PP, Cardstock Stickers, 7g Gaffer Tape, Scarlet Lime Clear Acrylic Stamp and Tag and handmade flowers.

Remember, the National Family Celebrations 08 starts tomorrow! Go here for a calendar of events, discounts for outings, entertainment,dining. Remember to show this to entitle for the discounts. :)
Have a great weekend!

Our Sentosa Trip Photos, Update of Kids

These are some of the photos taken when we were on vacation at Sentosa. It was quite a fun time for both Seth and Grace. Though we didn't manage to get both of them in the pool, but we manage to get them into the bath-tub and swim together. :)

Nothing like spending quality time with your kid.

Learning to play the Rubik's Cube



Grace's Cheeky Look.


First for Grace in her Swimsuit. Getting a bit small to fit on her though. hahahaha!


Will post more of the trip photos to my Flickr account.

I need to be really discipline to update the milestones of the kids. Otherwise they will surely be forgotten when the time passes by.

Grace started to wave bye-bye when she's almost 8 months. The adorable part of it is, when she waves, she will then clap her hands, as if praising herself that she waves bye-bye.
Indeed when you have repetition actions, words with your babies, they will learn really fast.
She started off learning how to clap her hands when I was singing to her, clap, clap clap your hands when we are traveling in the car. That was when she's 7 months old and after a few session, she grasped the action and I am amazed she managed to clap without missing the hands.
Grace begins to call ma-ma when she's about 7 months old too. She's one fierce gal when she cries. Seeing all
her tears rolling, screaming and also quivering lower lips, really breaks the heart. Geez,

Seth, the singer at home. Day in and out, he sings and talks and talks. Now, he is able to also play with his animals and do imaginary talk with them. Sometimes, it's so comical to see him talk to his animals in an adult manner.
I've started to do painting with him. He enjoys the session and hope that he'll pick up the interest and come to love to draw. Though he is still unable to really write well, he loves to do scribbling here and there. His pincher grip is good and able to hold the pencil quite well. I always enjoy seeing him in full concentration when he writes on the paper.

Ok, time to get ready, A long day at work. :( This week onwards there will be loads of things to be settled.I am so looking forward to June. :)

Show Your True Color!

Was reading Amber's blog and found this interesting test.

What's Your True Color?

My Result: Yellow

You're yellow, the color of joy and energy — two things you definitely bring to everyone around you. It's hard for anyone to be sad or lonely in your presence; your sunny disposition and cheery outlook just won't allow it. The warmth of your personality shines through in the kindness you show friends and family (and strangers, too). Always ready with a lighthearted joke or heartfelt compliment, you know how to make people feel good about themselves, so they can't get enough of you. Yellow is a warm and inviting color for a warm and inviting person — you!

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/jumpto?test=colorogt&c=50652

Doggy Poo

Seth's into this Korean Anime Craze now. He was so into Pororo for the past 2 weeks. Then last Thursday, he has a new fav, Doggy Poo. The Anime is quite a meaningful one and Seth enjoys watching it, he names the characters, he asked about the story line. The funny part of it is hearing him say, "Doggy Poo" with such a cuteness.
The story tells the little ones and even us, adults, God has a good plan for all of us, no matter how insignificant we may think our lives are.


Image courtesy from Wikipedia

Tomorrow we are sending Seth for his review. Hope his lungs are cleared and the medication feeding days are over. It's really a great struggle to feed the little guy his Antibiotics. Even now, he can goes on and on repeating the word, "Anti-biotices". Compose a tune about it! Aiyo. :(