We went over to a friend's Christmas party on Christmas Day.. and this was what we got for his present. We have packed it into a innocent looking mineral water box so that his mum won't nag at his drinking habits. Hahahha. But he just looked at the box and winked at us and said " Thanks! It's the USUAL right?"

On Boxing Day, hubby and I went down town for a shopping spree. He got himself a pair of weird toe sandals. Didn't get anything for myself as there wasn't anything I need or wanted to indulge myself in. Instead, we decided to get our little girl a post-christmas present. We got her another Lego set, but this time is a house-theme. We thought it would allow Yee Sinn to be more creative with a lego doll house then one that is ready built. Above is the doll house we helped her to construct, in addition with her existing lego bricks.

On Sunday, we had another Christmast celebration at Grandma Chang's place. It was tough work on my side cos I was running around preparing the food and all as my mum's maid was on leave. But at the end of the day, all the compliments on the food from everyone was worth all the effort. Think mum will be having turkey for her next few meals for the next few days...

The office had a Christmas celebration yesterday and we could all bring our family members and kids to attend. Decided to bring Yee Sinn along, together with hubby so that he can babysit her while I help the organising team with the food preparation.

They were screening "Up" and there were quizes and games for the kids. The company just disabled the bluetooth function on the laptop and I can't find the cable to transfer the pics I took during the party.... Will remember to post it up when I get the cables.

Meanwhile, Merry Christmas to all!

*Sigh*

Been clearing my annual leave and I'll be back to work tomorrow.... dreading it...

It has been a good break this time round... minus all the health issues that our little girl had earlier on. So in summary what have we been doing all these while? We did simple things like visiting all the various parks - Botanic Garden, Hort Park and West Coast Park. We thought of going to the beaches but gave it a missed due to the unpredictable weather. We also went mall hopping to catch all the free shows for the kids - Junction 8 (Bubble magic), Compass Point (Sesame Street), United Square ( Barney) and IMM (Carebears).

Hubby and I had some couple time yesterday. We left Yee Sinn at home with Grandma Lee while we checked out Mandarin Gallery and 313 Somerset. We had a nice, long and quiet branch at Wild Honey. Quite an interesting place that serves breakfast food all through out the day. Service and ambience was fantastic. It was such a huge portion that we weren't hungry till 8pm in the evening.

We mostly window shopped at 313 Somerset. They have quite an interesting tenant mix but we both didn't purchase anything. Saving money for bigger stuff. Hahahha.

Looking forward to the Christmas and the New Year break......

Have not been blogging lately cos I was clearing my leave at home and the network at home is pretty slow.. uploading pics took quite a long time. Our little girl has also been sick for the past few days. Her cough was so bad that we had to put her on the neubulizer. And as usual, she screamed, kicked and tried to wiggle her way out each time. Hubby had to hold her down while I hold on the respirator on her face. Guess it wasn't a good way to start my vacation leave....

At the beginning of my leave, we took Yee Sinn out to United Square to catch the Barney show. The crowd was CRAZY... though we were there like half an hour early, we couldn't get into the arena. But nevertheless, we managed to catch the show from afar and I'm sure our little girl enjoyed herself too. We did'n't want to spend anymore money just to get a picture with Barney and Friends so we just got Yee Sinn to pose infront of the Barney cutouts... What a cheapo parents we are!

There were days when we just went out to the playground just to have a breathe of fresh air. The picture on the left was taken at West Coast Park. Our little girl just love running around big open spaces. Guess it's really nice to be FREE.... hahahah.

There were a group of people nearby the open field at the park who were flying kites. We just sat there and watch the adults and kids releasing their kites into the sky.

On other days when we feel really lazy to drive out to the bigger parks, we make do with bringing her to the playground downstairs.

I realised that my little girl has grown quite a bit since. She can now climb ladders at the playgrounds effortlessly. She also loves to hang on the bars and swing herself... something that some older kids couldn't really do I realised.

This picture on the right was taken just before we headed out for my dad's birthday celebration. Yee Sinn nowadays also loves to doll herself up before going out. She'll wear her favourite hairband and sling on her little handbag before leaving home. Hope she'll not become too much of a vainpot. Hahahah.

Oh, check out my new sofa cover. One of our relative managed to sew it for us. Got the retro-indie-looking fabric from Spotlight during a sale. Am comtemplating getting a small sewing machine myself so that I can do all these craftwork on my own. Hee. Guess we'll be all ready for chinese new year soon with all that red.


And this was taken yesterday when we went to hortpark after the birthday party. We took some stale bread from Grandma Chang's place. It has been some time since we were there and the fishes have really grown.... not only they were bigger, they were also much much greedier!

We had a lot of fun feeding the fishes when it started to drizzle... so we didn't get to play ball at the lawn. We'll be there again this week, hopefully just before I get back to work.

We brought Yee Sinn to the Botanic Gardens after our usual visit to Grandma Chang's place on Sunday. It has been quite some time since we were there. We brought along a quarter loaf of stale bread to feed the fishes, the birds and the swans.

We brought along a little ball. Father and daughter had a great time with football at the open field. That's the main reason why we prefer going to the main garden compared to Jacob Ballas... there are more open spaces for everyone to run around. After a bit of foot ball, all Yee Sinn wanted to play was catch. So she just ran and ran and ran... and we adults "pretended" to chase her.

Thank goodness our little girl likes animals. She was very happy feeding the fishes and the birds. Sometimes when she sees little dogs and cats in the park, she'll wave at the animals and say "Hello dog dog! Bye Bye dog dog!" Her friendliness never fails to bring smile to the pet owners.

Here is a picture of both father and daughter kidding around. I saw both of them exploring this sculpture just as I was coming out of the washroom at the visitor centre and decided to quickly whip out my camera for this pic.