our singapore diary

Friday: Shanghai PVG to Singapore
Shanghai Terminal 2 has a cool playground while waiting to board the aircraft. (The first picture shows a charging station at the waiting area. Good for laptops! T2 is really built for Expo 2010.)

Saturday
Rise & Shine! This is what Joel does every morning. Bang his head against the wall...

A visit to GongGong, PorPor & Terry before dinner...

Our reunion dinner at House of Peranakan Cuisine...
(Yes, we're Nonya)

...and coffee break afterwards. That's cousins Xan & Xavier. Xan bought Joel the Teddy (named Teddy) on the left, and they also bought Joel the LeapPad system (which Joel already has...so we let Aunty Sandra give it to her friend's kid). Anyway, THANKS SO MUCH!

Sunday
We went down to Orchard Road to shop for a while before our reunion dinner...but most of the shops were already closed by the time we got there! That's cousins GuanLin, YuHang, YuXing & baby YiChen (in the background). Joel's dearest BearBear's nose is also used as dental floss. ;p

Lunar New Year - Chu 1
Visiting to GongGong/PorPor, then to Elvis' brother's new house. (Everywhere Joel went, we took off his pants coz he was too HOT!)

Joel well-rested after his beauty sleep...

Lunar New Year - Chu 2
Went out with Daddy's friends Uncle WeiYang & Aunty Janice to Serangoon Gardens then "Chun Dao He Pan" 春到河畔 at Marina (which was super boring we left almost immediately). They're expecting their first baby boy in June. ;)

Dinner at Ben & Sharon's home... Joel has sooo much fun rocking in Claudia's sarong! HAHA!
3 toddlers - Riya (19mths), Claudia (25mths) & Joel.

Lunar New Year - Chu 3
(Forgot to bring camera out...so these are from my lousy camera phone) Brought Joel for his Chickenpox vaccination...followed by shopping...met GongGong, PorPor & Aunty Audrey at Suntec for lunch...and finally dinner with Mommy's ex-colleagues at Tambuah Mas at Paragon.
3 toddlers - Daniel (18mths), Kaede (11mths) & Joel.

Lunar New Year - Chu 4
Lunch at Ricciotti with Elvis' ex-colleagues who came from everywhere...

Then we went shopping at Ann Siang. Daddy shopping again at his friend's shop Asylum. Discovered this cool brand - Surface To Air. Bought shoes & clothes - all within 15 mins! (Mommy faint)

followed by Haji Lane...

Tea break at Shokudo & dinner at Cedele

Then we went to Aunty Yali's house... (Elvis sister who looks exactly like him & mother of that sweet little boy, YuHang)
Joel counting his angpao money before bedtime. Not bad! Haha! ;)

Lunar New Year - Chu 5
Mommy slept & slept...

Lunar New Year - Chu 6.
Visiting Elvis' secondary school friends & our Nafa friends... followed by dinner with family...
Baby Amelia (9mths), Amanda (4yrs) & Lele (6yrs).

Uncle Ryan, Aunties Stella & Jessica playing rolling Mandarin oranges with Joel...which he can never catch. So you can see from the last picture Joel is pretty pissed. Haha! ;p

Lunar New Year - Chu 7
Changi Airport T3. Everyone wants a piece of our little pig...

Uncle Elvis & Joel makes (15mths) baby cousin YiChen unhappy. Terrible! ;p

That's Joel's baby meal which is quite yummy - mashed sweet potato, chicken (which tasted a bit like Campbell...and Mommy ate all of it coz Joel doesnt want it), some mashed "food" (on the right), some caramel-tasting pudding as dessert, a bun and fresh milk. And that's Joel kaypo-ing on board...


Most "memorable" about my trip back to Singapore:
#1 "Ah Mi To Fo" chanting at my in-law's house for 7 days & 7 nights! It was rather disturbing with its glowing cum rotating lights at the altar - totally hypnotizing with the audio AND visual! (Faint)
#2 I was also down with stomach flu from Chu 3 which caused me to vomit and had diarrhoea for the next 3 days! I also lost my (good) appetite coz i felt nauseous every time i ate. So...i actually didnt get much of the CNY goodies and delicacies! :(
#3 Everywhere we went, there were kids! (Faint)
#4 Joel was super "sticky" to Daddy and clings onto him very tightly! Sometimes, he doesnt even want Mommy! I'm not complaining - although it does makes me look quite "helpless" and useless. Haha! ;p