All About Your Child

…the two of you eventually met. Its the same, for things that you USED TO LOVE doing; you’ll never know how much you’ve MISSED doing them, till you did it again.

Remember my post about Sundays Not being the same again? Because my eldest niece’s swimming lessons had been changed, hence we have not been meeting up like we used to in my PIL’s place on every Sundays.

CH has slimmed down alot as her dark skin tone explains the reason for her smaller frame now.

As usual she brought lots of self-created games with her. Some were fun, others just doesn’t make much sense, while the rest needed to be improvised.

Today IS a special day. Its a day when ALL Chinese (would) celebrate: Dong-Zhi. Below is an extract from Wikipedia:

…..Traditionally, the Dongzhi Festival is also a time for the family to get together. One activity that occurs during these get togethers is the making and eating of Tangyuan (??) or balls of glutinuous rice, which symbolize reunion. Tangyuan are made of glutinuous rice flour and sometimes brightly coloured. Each family member receives at least one large Tang Yuan in addition to several small ones. The flour balls may be plain or stuffed. They are cooked in a sweet soup or savoury broth with both the ball and the soup/broth served in one bowl…….

This was the Tangyuan my MIL made. Sad to say, out of the 14 of us in the family, only my 2nd SIL, her daughter-CH and I love to eat it. 3 of us love to eat those with peanut-fillings. As for me, if given a choice between with or without fillings, I prefer WITHOUT.

Finally after months, I get to see CH there on Sunday, even though there were these 3+hours she had to go for her swimming lessons, but that period zoomed passed easily while teaching ZY Primary 2 maths.

Hey, did you think it was my idea? NO way! On such occasions, I would love to play Play PLAY, why would I ‘torture’ a 7 year old kid doing maths sums on Dong Zhi!? My FIL needed to know if she could do it. For ZY, as most of my regular followers know, she doesn’t really have someone to ‘teach’ her any subjects except Mandarin… *sigh* that would be another story in itself….

So the kids got their Christmas presents today! Allan was feeling creative the other day and chose to draw their faces instead of writing names on the wrapper.

Presents for CH from Allan (left) and I (right) :

In case you are wondering what was mine? It’s a foldable Storage Box (3rd pic).

Presents for ZY from Allan and I :

Presents for MY from Allan and I :

Presents for WD from Allan and I : (please don’t ask me why he didn’t draw WD, cos’ I don’t know…)

In return, these were the presents Keatkeat (left) and Binbin (right) received:

Other than my realization of how much I missed CH and all her self-created games, I missed playing JENGA!!! A game I used to play in my much younger years. This was one of CH’s presents. I was jumping when CH wanted to play it that very moment!

Its a Wonderful Family Gathering today! I hope you had a great day too! *cheers*

Ok, I promise, this WILL BE the last post for the places we visited on 18th December 2008. I didn’t expect myself to go to this extend of writing 3 blog posts just for that 6-7hours of fun-time we had.

Anyway, so you knew we went to Singapore Flyer first, followed by ‘drinking’ the Merlion’s ‘vomit‘ *laugh*.

Remember how I left you from yesterday’s post? The white balls floating on the Marina Bay?

This year, Carlsberg Beer is doing something extra ordinary for 2009 countdown party at Marina Bay.

Everyone is welcome to pen their wishes on the balls. The balls will accumulate over the days till the countdown on 31st December 2008. You can write anything and if you are there on the last day of 2008, you will see your wishes soar above the electrifying action during the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown!

The ‘writing’ counter is situated at level 1 of Suntec City. My boy’s smile was so awkward… cos’ I ‘forced‘ them to take a photo first before they start their grafitti.

Look at the number of ‘completed balls at the background of this picture… The wishers just kept coming… and bear in mind, it was a weekday! I would say most of the people we saw busy with the markers were tourists…

KeatKeat decided to draw his experience earlier that day, (left to right) the Singapore Flyer, the tall hotels and offices he saw, the fishes he fed at the Foyer of the Flyer and the dollar sign representing the $1 I paid for the fish food.

Whereas for my 3 year old, Binbin, he just drew himself! Without hands!!!*laugh*

The feeding of the Koi Fishes at the Singapore Flyer were not thrilling enough.

Since we were at Suntec City, we went to one of Binbin’s favourite hangouts : Koi Garden

Bought the usual fish food at $2/pack and fed away….

Now that the Koi fishes have filled their tummies, it was our turn to fill ours! See the Koi Garden Sign at the background? Yup! (Singaporeans) You guess it, we had dinner at Tony Romas!!! *Wow* We haven’t had that in years!

After the Millionaire Mind Intensive course, which Allan attended in November, he can better manage his money. So there was this special amount he set aside every time to give us a BIG treat! *huge smile*

The service personnel was so cool. She provided my boys with colouring cum activity papers PLUS 8 crayons to keep their minds occupied before the food was served. Great Service!

Did you think that Tony Romas was the last place we went? NO….it was Toys R Us! So I made a mistake, we went to 6 places!!!! NOT 5!!!!!

We did our usual see-touch-go routine at the mega toy store on level 3 of Suntec City. But this ‘simple’ routine took us 1hour!!! Seriously, I think they should have benches in the store so that the parents can SIT! *pout*

So now you know why I was aching so much (if you had read that post on my personal blog), cos’ I was wearing my 2half inch high heels!!!! *FAINT*