Owein's 3rd Birthday Bash

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY OWEIN!!!

3 years back, Owein arrived safely to meet the family at Thomson Medical Centre. So fast 3 years went by and he's growing into a fine little boy.

This year, Owein's birthday celebration comes in 3 waves!!!

1st wave ... we had a major party with friends and family on 25 Sept 2010. Mummy gotten together a buffet menu, a huge Toy Story theme birthday cake and toys to play with during party time.



2nd wave ... is a party at school today!!! And upon his request, mummy gotten him another Toy Story cake once again ^_^



3rd wave ... and the last one, dinner at Tenza!!! The boys had been wanting to head back to U. Zhenyang's shop to eat and today they finally have the chance. The boys were so excited and their 1st time sitting at the counter bar. Our friend Perle and Zhenyang fuss over the boys while we were there. And did I mention guns??? Oh yes ... the boys gotten their ever 1st foam bullet guns from U. Zhenyang.

Children's Day performance @ Church

It is an annual event that the K1 children at CCKBC to perform at church service during Children's Day. This year Oswald gets a chance to take part in this event.

After a few round of 'intense' practicing at school ... this is what you get ...

** Can you spot Oswald??? **

** Following the music and doing what he's suppose to ^_^ **

F1 - Singapore Circuit

This is the 3rd year that we are organising the F1 night race here in Singapore and I finally got the chance to go have a feel LIVE!!!


JM n myself still thinks watching the actual race at home would provide more coverage hence we gotten ourselves the pass for practice session.

It was really an experience to be there. Spent almost about 6 hours out there ... phew ... I was dead tired by the time we reached home. But I still think it is really a worth it trip.

Photos??? Hmm ... can check it out on FB ^_^.

Food - Lei Garden Dim Sum

Had an impressive dinner at LEI GARDEN (Chijmes) not too long ago. This time, I am back to collect mooncake ... 顺便 hang around for dim sum lunch.

** enjoying my cup of 寿眉 while waiting for food **

Since is only me n JM, there is a limit to the variety of food we ordered. Overall, other than the hefty price attached (pricing is slightly above average), the food was as fantastic as of those that are being served at dinner previously.

Wana take a look at what we had??? Here you go ...


Getting hungry???

Do give it a try if you are in that area. I definitely will head back there for dim sum when there is a chance. 赞!!!

Drama - 仍想结婚的女人 (Still, Marry Me )

Hmm ... I think I am still recommending this drama mainly is because one of the main actor is KIM BUM!!!

Don't know who he is??

He took up the role as So Yi Jeong in the drama 花样男子 (Boys over Flowers). One of the F4 members.

Yes ... I am watching this all because of this pretty boy face :p

When I ask for this show at the rental shop, I was told this is Sex and the City (korean version). Not a keen fan of Sex and the City, hence wasn't that keen but because Kim Bum is one of the lead actors, I've chanced my mind.



This drama depicts lives of three women who are closing one chapter of their life and entering the next. Lee Shin Young (Park Jin Hee), Jung Da Jung (Uhm Ji Won) and Kim Boo Ki (Wang Bit Na) are three women in their 30s whose romantic relationships have faltered due to their career ambitions, but find themselves given a chance to make a fresh start.


IMO, the gist of the drama is really about the love life and complains of the 3 women. The drama did have its fair show of humor and heart touching scenes but if it is not because of Kim Bum, I probably would not pick up this show unless there's nothing much better to watch.

Day 4 of JM's SCS Exercise

4 days passed ... hubby coming back tomorrow liao ^_^

Brought the kids to Jurong Point for lunch today because mummy wanted to check out the mooncake fair there. The kids' pick for lunch today is MacDonalds and both decided to eat burger instead of their usual nuggets. It is their 1st time asking to eat burger and this mummy was a little worried. But since they asked for it, then that's what they get.

Ordered a cheese burger for them to share ... to my surprise, they both finish their share of it. Hmm ... does that means no more ordering of nuggets in the future??? Hope so, cos compare to nuggets, I would prefer to them to eat burger instead.

** fingers crossed **

Day 3 of JM's SCS Exercise

ARGH!!! All that sleeping in the afternoon (yesterday) caused me to be still awake at this hour (time check: 1:30am)!!!!

Damn it ... should have resisted the temptation to rest but ... I guess my body really need a break.

Hmm ... since cannot sleep now ... let's share some new songs that I've come across recently ... K-Pop of cos ^_^

Day 2 of JM's SCS Exercise

Cough ... cough ... cough!!! This is for real!!! I really fell sick this time ... not a false alarm.

It is really no joke to fall sick when you are in such situation:-

1) Hubby in not in town.
2) No one is around to give help at home.
3) You are all alone at home with kids to take care of.

Managed to pull through a day yesterday but today ... there's no way around it.

Felt very tired still this morning but got to drag myself up to get the kids ready for school. Could not rest while the kids are at school because my PT cleaner is around cleaning the house. Argh ... what a morning!!!

I felt worse while lunch with the kids. Feel like my whole body wana break apart and got no strength to do anything. The moment we reached home ... I told the boys to play on their own as mummy needs to take a rest. But who knows ... the moment I drop onto my bed ... I rested for a long while. Though I was waken a few times to attend to the boys but I drop back dead on my bed the moment my head touch my pillow.

When I finally woke up willingly, it was almost 3:00pm liao ... which means ... the boys were on their own for almost 2 hours. Scary!!! But luckily they both do behave quite well and did not mess up the house. Called the 2 of them into the room for their nap and I dosed off once again.

After a long rest, fever gone and my body feels slightly better. But felt very guilty because while I was resting, the boys were all alone by themselves.

Day 1 of JM's SCS Exercise

Hokay ... after a long 'break' from JM's US detachment, its time for him to 'travel' once again. This time is a 5 day exercise to South China Sea.

Yeah ... 5 days of FREEDOM!!! wahahaha ... *kidding*

I think this 5 days without him around would be hell. Why??? Because ... I think I am falling sick. Don't really feel good yesterday already and hubby left this morning. My throat hurts and body feels weird ... starting to ache a bit here and there. Hope I will feel better after a night's rest.

Its GAMING time!!!

Playing board games with friends is really fun!!! And I only kinda realised it recently hahahaha

Oh well ... it is never too late to discover it right :p

This is the 2nd time I popped into a board game cafe. Target venue = the Mind Cafe @ Tampines Safra.


We had such a good time there and time seems to fly. By the time we left, we then realised that we've sat there for 4 hours. Seems like a long time ... but not when you are having so much fun playing.

Here's the gaming gang and the games we played ^_^

Lantern Festival 2010

When news on Lantern display along Singapore River this year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, JM had mentioned that he wanted to bring the kids to go take a look. But because he will be away next week for work and hence, we were only left with this weekend to decide which day to go.

And yesterday was the chosen day! Kinda regretted it when we were making our way there ... because the place is PACKED!!! All directions leading to that area is JAMMED!!! It took us more than an hour to travel from Commonwealth to Singapore River (Central) and to finally park our car. This is CRAZY!!! I almost want to cancel the trip liao but Owein burst out into tears when we got to turn out from Central (because carpark + valet FULL). Owein's reaction really surprised me because he seldom does that. This proof that he'd really looked forward to this outing.

We finally found a parking in a building at the opposite side of the river and walk our way there. After a quick dinner at Burger King, we made our way to go see the lantern display.

My opinion, if not because of the kids and companions ... I probably will not even want to go see. Seriously, I think is nothing spectacular. Somemore got to bear the jam and crowd ... really not worth the efford.

Oh well ... but at least the kids enjoyed it. Oswald slept till about 11:00am then woke up this morning. I guess he was tired out last night ^_^

K-Pop - Love Light by C.N Blue

I simply love the rhythm and beat of the song. The song gives you a very sweet feeling upon hearing it.

Presenting C.N Blue's Love Light ...

Food - Old Hong Kong Kitchen

It is Sunday once again and another chance to gather some friends out for a meal to do some catching up.

This time we choose to try out Old Hong Kong Kitchen located at Square 2.


A friend in the group mentioned that the dim sum is really nice and their pig stomach soup is highly recommended by my SIL.

We'd order quite a variety of food and indeed the food there is not bad. My personal favourites among the food we'd ordered are:-

1) Pig stomach soup
2) Steam custard bun
3) 三蛋粥

I was too busy handling the kids and indulging myself with the food that I totally forgotten to take pictures of it :p But not to worry, I probably will head back there again to try out their other dim sum items. I hope I will not forget about the pictures then.

P/S: If you do plan to give it a try, do give them a call to make a reservation. We almost cannot get a table but because we were there very early (12:00pm), they have no choice but to serve us.

Food - Soprano (Italian)

After watching K-Drama Pasta, I was so "inspired" by the pastas that were made in the drama, I got JM to bring me out for a pasta dinner at Soprano (Italian Restaurant).


Can't remember the actual name of the pasta I've ordered ... but this is what it looks like :p

** My lovely pasta dish ^_^ **

** meogja (먹자) (Let's eat) ... Yummzzzz **

Drama - 意大利面 (Pasta)

Here's another Korean drama worth the watch. A 'light' weight show filled with humor and romance.


“Pasta” covers the dreams and success of a young woman who aspires to become an elite chef at La Sfera restaurant.

Seo Yoo Kyung started her career as a kitchen assistant at La Sfera restaurant for 3 years. Her dream is to become an Italian cuisine chef. She eventually works her way up to become a chef.

One day, the La Sfera restaurant newly hires Choi Hyun-wook, a chef who went to culinary school in Italy. Upon his arrival, the female chefs are fired one by one and Yoo-Kyung finds herself to be the last woman standing. She's fired several times but comes up with ways to be rehired by Choi Hyun-wook. Eventually she's rehired permanently when she wins a blind taste contest.

The newly hired president, Kim San hires his friend and celebrity chef Sae-young as a co-head chef to work with Hyun-wook. It turns out that Sae-young and Hyun-wook used to date each other when they were both studying at the Italian culinary school. But they broke up after Sae-young sabotaged his wine by boiling it to win a cooking contest. They turn into rivals and try to out do each other in making the finest Italian cuisine.

Working alongside two celebrity chefs, Yoo-gyeong feels small and insignificant. She gradually develops feelings for the charismatic Hyun-wook. However, restaurant owner Kim San begins to become attracted to the spunky Yoo-Kyung and the relationships between them become fraught with complexities.

Drama - 鐵馬尋橋 (A Fistful of Stances)

Au-Yeung Wai-Lan (Yuen Qiu), owner of a martial arts training school, is reunited with her long-lost son Goo Yu-Cheung (Kevin Cheng) after years of agonizing separation. On his return home, Cheung is shocked to find that his younger brother Goo Yu-Tong (Kenneth Ma) has been critically ill and that his father was murdered long ago by Wing Dak (Lam Ka Wah), the existing director of a pharmaceutical company and a bitter old foe of the Goo family. Cheung has never been into kung-fu but shows glimpses of his potential when he strikes back at the impudent, arrogant Wing Man-Gwan (Jacky Heung), also the son of Wing Dak. Pinning all her hopes on Cheung, Wai-Lan not only teaches him a special set of kung-fu skills created by the family, but also registers for him for the Guangdong Boxing Championship Tournament. Out of the blue, Cheung’ s opponent in the final turns out to be Man-Gwan.

Cheung starts losing his bearings after achieving growing success and recognition in the field of martial arts. Caught up in the love triangle between was his adopted sister Ying Ngan-Ming (Natalie Tong), his dream girl Chow Bing-Bing (Nancy Wu) and himself, Cheung is utterly confused and exhausted, which later causes his failure in the final tournament.

SEPANG ... here I COME!!!

5:00am ... a large cup of mocha-cino from McCafe marks the start of my day on a Saturday.

I guess the heading of my post would have already hint you why I am up so early drinking coffee. Oh yes ... I am heading to Sepang ... a dreadful place to me (just kidding ^_^) but heaven to my lovely hub.

Today is one of those Sepang track day trip with hubby. As track session is from 9:00am to 12:00pm, we got leave early to cater for the approximate 2 hour+ drive to Sepang.

8:20am we finally arrived at Sepang!!!

After registration and driver's briefing ... it is time to get ready for track practice. Each driver were assigned with a number and darling's number is No. 33!!!


All done ... and off to the track!!!

While JM is having fun on track, I've decided to stay put in the pits :p

Sounds boring right ... but seriously I am enjoying myself because I was all prepared!!! Packed with our portable DVD player, I was enjoying myself with my K-Drama while my man is out having fun ^_^.

More K-Music ^_^

Starhub CH 146 is my favourite channel now. I am on hot pursuit of the programmes Showbiz Extra and Pops in Seoul airing in the channel. This is where you can get updates of the latest korean entertainment news and MV.

During the recent showtimes, this song titled No Other by Super Junior caught my attention. A very catchy and cute song ...

K-Pop Craze

Hmm ... ok ... I got a confession to make ...

I think I am suffering from a post drama effect after watching 原来是美男 (He's Beautiful). It had happened once before, when I completed 花样男子 (Boys over Flowers), but it is happening again!!! Wahaha ...

The catchy music in the drama had gotten my attention and to make things worse, the cast in the show are singers too. Oh ya ... that made me dug more into the OST of the show and even songs each singers.

My favourite character in the show is Kang Shin Woo and the person behind this role is Jung Yong Hwa - lead singer of the Korean group C.N Blue.

Now, I am hooked to 2 songs by this group (other than the songs in the OST :p). The 2 songs are as follows ...

** C.V Blue - Love LIVE version ** Oh ... did I mention 花样男子 (Boys over Flowers) earlier ... I think I did. That show really poisoned me. Especially Kim Hyun Joong who played the role as Yoon Ji Hoo. Did a research on him after the show only to realised that he is the leader of popular boy band SS501. Recently this group had been quite active with 2 hit songs as their comeback ... ** SS501 - Love Ya LIVE version ** Kim Hyun Joong was also featured in MV for Korean Singer Gummy's new song As A Man (남자라서). Quite a nice song too ...

Hahaha ... I think I better stop ... if not the list will just go on and on ... enjoy the music ^_^

Food - Lei Garden

Oh yes ... it is time to FEAST once again. This time taking FIL's birthday as an excuse, we landed ourselves at LEI GARDEN (Chijmes).

JM got to know about their montly special through a friend and we thought we give it a try after view through the promotion menu. What's included in the menu are as follows:-

** Deep-fried Walnut Coated With Honey / Deepfried Crispy Silver Fish **

** Braised Shark's Fin Soup In Brown Sauce **

** Baked Live Lobster With Superior Stock Served On Crispy Noodle **

** Barbecued Peking Duck **

** Steamed Sea Fish with Light Soya Sauce **

** Panfried Kurobuta Pork With Home Made Sauce **

** Braised Wa Wa Cabbage with Garden Green Topped In Stock **

** Fried Rice with Duck Meat Wrapped in Lotus Leaf **

** Chilled Double Boiled Hawaii Papaya with Red Dates **

** Chinese Pastry **

A very very hearty meal indeed ... and because it is the promotional menu, we think that it is not very expensive (considering that it is really quality food that we are having). The price of this menu is $498.00++ (for 8 pax)

And since it is a birthday celebration ... how can we miss out the cake ^_^. I'd made this Japanese Vanilla Strawberry Cake just for the occassion ...


Woh ... that is so much food for a night ... but everything is really YUM YUM YUMMY YUMZ!!!!!

Time Off ...

Finally managed to squeeze some time out to take a break.

I'd dropped the kids off at my in-law's place for their usual Friday lunch and I head off to pamper myself at a medicure/pedicure session.