Happy Teachers Day

It's Teachers Day so I decided to give something to the teachers in recognition of their day. I decided to bake cookies... again. Last year I think I gave chocolate cookies, so this year, have to try something different.

Found this receipe (Cheese cookies) on the back of the Corn Flakes box and decided to give it a try. First attempt, failed.. cause the receipe included curry powder and Alex wasn't too keen on spicy-tasting cookies. So I did it a 2nd time but omitting the curry power and I think it fared much better. Made some slight adjustments and 3rd try was much better. It passed both the boys' taste test.

Overheard Baby G talking to his dad :-

Baby G : Daddy, mummy's cookies are nice. U wanna try?

Daddy : I tried them already.

Baby G : When? How come I din see?

Daddy : Earlier on

Baby : Oh, I see. Mmmmmm.. nice.

Of course, not just Mummy did all the work, Baby G also needs to put in some effort too. So in the end, I got him to write all the teachers' names onto the cards. A job well done, don't you think? He did the words all by himself, but of course, I pre-wrote the names on another piece of paper for him to copy.

I did not have time to buy nice bags from Daiso so in the end, had to make do with the normal plastic bags. It's not a beauty, but I think it's the effort that counts. Hope the teachers like it.

San

Baked til almost midnite

Sentosa & Universal Studios

We were supposed to have a trip to Sentosa and visit the Universal Studios since last week. But I was down with a cough & Daddy had to work at the very last minute, so we delayed it til this week. After Baby G's classes & lunch at home, we set off for Sentosa.

It started out sunny, but the moment we exited from KPE, the rains came down hard. We were still contemplating if we should just abandon our plans but Daddy decided to take the risk. We continued on and parked at Beach Station. As it was raining and we can't do much, we decided to have some drinks and wait for the rain to stop.

We got our lucky break and soon the rain stopped to almost just a trickle. We finished our hot chocolate & cake and started on our journey.

-> waiting for our bus

Our frst stop was the bird enclosures where we got up close and personal with a cross-breed macaw. The macaw was really loud and Baby G was really scared. He didn't dare to go near and Daddy had to carry him, even so, he still was very cautious.

<- The closest that Baby G dared to venture

As the next show was another half hour, we took a walk along Palawan Beach and walked the shaky suspension bridge to reach the southern most point of Continental Asia.

The Bird show started and I believe Baby G enjoyed himself so much. I enjoyed the show too and forgotten to take photos of the show. Haha. At the end, they allowed us to get up close to Lucy, the python. I think Baby G was really brave, he asked me if the snake would bite and I told no. Then he slowly put his hand on the snake and rubbed it gently.

After the show, we asked Baby G if he wanted to go to the beach and play. He didn't want to at first, but then he saw so many kids playing around the water features, he relented. In the end, I believe he enjoyed himself so much that he didn't want to leave.

Soon, it was dinner time. We decided to go to Universal Studios as one of my friends told me that it's only $2 per entry after 7pm & you could use the $2 to offset on your dinner. To our surprise, it's $5 per entry and there was only a 20% discount on 2 of the restaurants. Oh well, since we're already here, we might as well go in. As it was almost 8pm, we decided to go for dinner first. Dinner was at Mel's Drive-In which basically was kinda like Billy Bombers concept with it's jukebox & vinyl records & sixties music. It was really crowded and we ended up sharing seats with another couple.

After our tummys were satisfied, we proceeded to walk along the streets of Universal Studio sans the cartoon characters. Daddy's comment "Very small".

We stayed til 10pm for the Pyrotechnics show. Baby G was really scared of the loud noises and kept blaming me for scaring him. He said to me, "I told you I did not want to watch the fireworks, but you didn't listen". He kept repeating this to me while we walked back to the train station. He only stopped when we got to the trains.

<- Some of the stuff I bought.

What a wonderful (though tiring) day.

San

"I like to move it, move it" - Song from Madagascar

Happy Birthday, Daddy!!

The day did not start out great as Daddy's leave was not approved. By a stroke of luck (or miracle), Daddy managed to take the afternoon off to celebrate his special day.

We started with lunch @ Holland Village. It's been quite a while since we last went to Holland Village. Those were in our poly days where we used to hang around that place for drinks or food. We walked to a few restaurants but in the end, we decided on NYDC.



Actually the food was simply so-so, but the ambience more than made up for it. Dinner was at Ding Tai Fung (Bishan Junction 8). This time the food is much, much better. Delicious. Baby G even slurped the xiao long bao's juice and ate it entirely.

Prior to Daddy's actual birthday, both sides of the family also celebrated his birthday on different days.

1st celebration was with his family.

We had fish steamboat dinner @ Delta Industrial area. Service so-so, food overall ok. Although I liked the chicken dish.

After dinner, we went to Great World City for desserts. Ben & Jerrys was the choice & a treat from GuGu.

2nd celebration was with my family.

Dinner was a simple affair. But I bought a cake to celebrate. Baby G commented that Daddy was 2 years old because he had '2' birthday cakes (1 here and 1 at Ben & Jerrys).

Daddy had 2 presents from my parents which Baby G helped him to open. It seemed like it was Baby G's birthday instead.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DADDY!

San