busy week 15th!

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my baby is great... after all the shopping and i end up with a little pull here and there... my baby has been great! started the week with last minute shopping for little gifts to thank my collegues for being understanding and helping me out whenever i needed a hand. then i went home almost everyday to help sis in the areas that i was in need. went to print her wedding pictures. ate my last durian before wednesday's consultation. durians are a BIG NONO! was adviced not to take any more sweet things... its causing me irritation, rashes and suffering from discharge... no carbo and sweet stuff... difficult but tried cos sis wedding and upcoming events makes it impossible!

baby is good! with gx around, the little one was awake. we talked to our baby asking to see the gender before gog in for our scan! but our little one, toss and turn and started kicking the legs so fast, our gynae commented that kicking so fast like a MU soccer player... haha... baby's dad is a liverpool fan... after all the kicking, legs were crossed... so much for being cheeky like us! doc lim said that my blood test is good, womb is good, baby is growing but i have to watch my diet. as usual before the scanner is off, baby looked at the scanner and doc lim was nice to print out the little one's face shot for us. due to the lack of space in my blog... i guess i have to load it on facebook! going to post pics on facebook and link it on blog... tried all means and i dun want to end up paying for it! so add me to your facebook if you haven!

i was on half day on thursday, head home to see the twins coming home from shanghai! really miss these 2 little darlings! then with mum and aunt we head to far east floral and total forgot i was gog into the cold room... i didnt wear sweater and brave the cold in my sleeveless dress! got lots of flowers! cost a bomb of almost $300! yup... but it turned out very nice! my mum's house was well decorated! aunt k worked on many pieces whereas i concentrated on one master piece.

then relatives flow in and the house was filled with excitment! then a phone call upset my mum so much. unexpected but we accept the decision. gx helped my mum amend the seating arrangement again. mum was stressed out with so many thing on her hand. lucky she had many to help her out esp aunt K! i head home to pack luggage but instead i was so tired that i have to nap. then i woke up at 1am to pack bags for hotel stayover! i end up on bed at 2am+ and couldn't sleep!!! by the time the alarm went off i dun think i slept much!

Friday Dec 19th was sis's big day! woke up later than we planned to!!! rushed off to mum's and alot of my relatives were there at the carporch. they were waiting for sis to come down for the "comb hair"ceremony. glad i made it on time! after which sis was doing makeup, the whole family was preparing to dress up too. mum was busy in the kitchen, making tea and preparing breakfast. i was busy snapping i detail shot for sis. photographer was late. I DUN LIKE THE PHOTOGRAPER! terrible attitude. late, snap less than prob 3 pics, went to smoke... wonder if there is going be any detail shots! OMG! can't stand him!!! already i was warned of his stupid concept of not taking table shots... knew he would be a trouble maker of not being happy taking any group shots then... true enough!!! he made so many of us so mad with his stupid comments and standing at the wrong place all the time! ERGH!!! he makes a wonderful pre-wedding photographer but sucks at being a actual day person!

Played the piano with ann for sis when she came back from guy side. We played through the arbor and carried on with some other pieces. then L was going to perform the important task. the little boy is supposed to roll on the bed to bring the couple good luck for having children! he was so shy but his daddy managed to think of ways for him to roll around! after the tea ceremony, uncle M who loves bringing up the party mood, got me to play the piano while her daughter sang a song with him. then i grab my new bro-in-law and got him to sing for sis. I didnt get to drink the tea... cos i am preg. aunt O didnt want my baby luck to clash with sis' wedding luck... won't be good for the 2 of us... so daniel sang as i play and my sis blushed! then we head to hotel and no time to stop! we were preparing, q to shower and do our makeup for sis' rom!

i was in-charge of the little flower gals walking in! i have been training with them separately! the cupcakes arrived and they looked lovely! i wish i can post photos here! the whole walk-in went well except that after the whole rom ceremony i was so mad with the photographer! ever hear photographers tell your guest esp if they are your family that I CAN'T TAKE SUCH A BIG GROUP SHOT???? it like omg! so unprofessional! i really can't stand that! i stormed out after pulling some chairs to solve the photo problem! then i heard the photographer sigh cos he said he wanted to take smaller group photo... ergh! i went to cool down, walked back in to eat my cupcakes! was so tired before the dinner.... went in to sit at the quiet ballroom. its was peaceful and the banquet mgr came to me with a little pillow... i was stunned... it was for my back!

the service was great! he was so attentive! heard my bro say that preg lady need to sit... he proceed to ask if i wanted warm water or... i say hot... cos the aircon will cool it in no time! very thoughtful cos i can't drink anything else!!! the dinner went well. my sis looked so beautiful! she look so great in all her dresses! she had 6 hairdo changes! one more than me! she was lucky don came and worked great with their makeup fren jesslin. sis tailored all her gowns from the same gown-making shop as me! we get to stay over in marriot. uncle m gave sis 6 rooms as a wedding present.

sat 20th dec - woke up and we went up to sis bridal suite to watch the video clip. it was very nicely done! sis ordered macdonald's breakfast for everyone. we rested and then head back to rooms to checkout. some of us head to suntec for the next party! Ann and i booked a party for the young cousins. We organised this session as xmas presents for all the kiddos. they had fun and so did the adults! then to wrap up the party we head to a smaller room on level 3 at suntec to throw ben a surprise! we sang him a bdae song as he approach the place! he was surprised. we had a photo session and head to tony romas for late lunch! went back to mum's place to view the photos taken at my sis wedding! head home and fell deep asleep!

sun 21st dec - party goes on! at 3pm we were at merchant court market cafe to surprise uncle j. i was exhausted as this was the 3rd day event in a row! went back to mums to view photos again! my family never get sick looking at photos or videos! esp again and again! we love looking at the event again! slept early and was glad my holiday has started!!! baby was stretching alittle more now! but glad baby behaved very well during the busy wedding day! moving into week16th!

Dear's 30th Bdae Bash!

i arranged a surprised party for gx. he has requested that he wanted a quiet bdae as he dun find that there's anything special to celebrate. As usual, I DUN LISTEN! he's used to it but i bet he tot that since i am so sick, and looked can't be bothered to move at all, dun think he suspected anything. esp that i am so sick thru the week. but i have made arrangements since sept! mum was sweet to have cooked up some very army-like colour dishes (esp the vegy dish) for his son-in-law's bdae. Thank goodness aunt k and aunt s helped cos i was too sick to help out! mum bought killer-sized prawns! they were as huge as my palm! bro calls it a hybrid - lobster-prawn.

i actually enrolled for a xmas log cake class that beautifully set on 25th oct but last minute they shifted the class away to nov.... so it spoilt my planning of using the log cake for his bdae cake. so that saved me from having to bake cupcakes to go with the small logcake. cos it was a log cake, i planned an army themed party for gx. everyone was to wear green or army prints. since i got all the props for the cake - plastic grass, army toy soldiers, chocolate rocks... i was lucky to have gone to secret recipe for dinner and decided to use their plain cake to decorate. instead of a chocolate cake i opt for my favourite white chocolate macadamia nut cake.

just before gx turns up at mum's place after his badminton game, i did the first part of decor with nesa and twins! we laid plastic leafs i got from meidiay supermarket around the cake. these leaves are used by japanese to decorate the food. then we wrapped up the soldiers legs with aluminium foil, cos these guys are gog onto the cake, just wanted to make the cake safe for consuming! i got the matching candle from spotlight. chocolate rocks was from daiso! the kids enjoyed placing the soldiers and the rocks! they can't stop munching on the yummy hard rock chocs!

when gx came, bro signalled to everyone and all of us stood in a line behind the door waiting for him! when he stood at the door, my uncle shouted commands! he was shocked and he just stood there with his mouth dropped! when i asked him much later, he said he noticed everyone was in green but couldn't figure out why we were standing there to shock him since what i told him was there's a deepavali gathering. he felt shy too... when he realised its his surprised bdae party. got him to change into his swiss army tee!

i was glad i brought his army-printed hats over. the twins were having fun esp when they were trying to put both hats on their dad. as usual Aunt A came most prepared! dressed green from head to toe! she even borrowed my cousin W's army hat! she's the most on one in our family!

from next week, mum's place will have a big interior change. the fish tank will be gone... so will all the fishes... think bro will be sad... but i guess its time... also the table-tennis table was out for the last time... it gog too... so the boys opened it up for a last game.

i bought 2 sets of soldiers and one set came with a map and some props. so i took it out for the kids to play. L came with all his toy guns! boys will be boys! for the first time i see L sat down to play with the small toy soldiers!

got the cake on the map and threw in more chocolate rocks. then the kids helped to place the soldiers all over the map. tot it looked quite cute! gx tot the soldiers were made of chocolate! these were darker in colour than the ones they played with eariler! and of cos they were kept separately cos these were used for decorating! GX tot the cake came decorated and was surprise that it was done by me and my cousins!

i got army-matching plates for gx. the camouflaged ones were very ex! he said he felt nervous when the family sang him the bdae song! cos its almost 25++pax singing for one! its gx first time celebrating his bdae with my family even thou he's been in the family for 3 years!

half-way thru the song, L moved in to pick up the soldiers that are on the map and plonked it onto the cake. he didnt stop at 1...! it was quite funny to see him shift almost all the soldiers that were near him onto the side of the cake. the twins just looked at him in shock! cos they helped to decor the cake and was just looking at L in disbelief! i tot the cake looked more real like a battleground after L's work of art!

i always love the part when all the little ones try to blow the candles together and the more difficlut task was holding the knife together trying to cut the cake. But its fun! thats why i love celebrating my bdae! besides the cake, i got him a little toy as a present. something that i chanced upon when he wanted me to look for shuttlecock for his badminton session. he was complaining that its his first transformer but why did i get the bad guy... HOW WOULD I KNOW! for me it transforms into a tank, so it matched my themed party i was throwing! but of cos, he still likes it and yah play with it!!!

on sunday, as i mentioned in my earlier post, we had a lazy start for the day and went ikea. while i stayed with mum, he went to attend a wedding dinner. he went to Hans to get his bdae cake to celebrate with his parents. Upper thomson Hans apparently opens 24hrs now! i got the skinny candles from caneles and he told his mum that it was trick candles! candles that will relight... haha, he didnt believe it wasnt when i told him ITS NOT trick candles!

his favourite bdae present is something very big and he is happy his wish came true. we are planning to go shopping for more shirts, esp a cuff-linked shirt and my plans was for him to change his glasses! but these has to wait till i feel better!

Me vs 4+1 October Bdae people!

A long awaited gathering. finally we got a date and before Helen goes into labour, we met up at Coca at international building in Orchard to have dinner. As usual, mic was the earliest! He's always on time! once there i was hungry.

so eager to start that i didnt take any pics till our 3rd round of raw food was cooking! i like the wantan here. We were the first to arrive but not the 1st to leave thou! think we had almost like 5-6rounds of food order but we gals stopped much earlier, the boys of cos had much more room!

after dinner, we head to tcc at the ground level and we were pretty lucky to have our seats pretty soon. everyone was too full to have a slice of cake each. so i only ordered a mont blanc to share and a chocolate grottine for the bdae celebration. the deal was i was going to treat the rest including gx who are all born in month of October thus 4adults+1. helen's baby in the tummy, the little boy is soon gog to be arriving anytime in October!

i sang a bdae song for all of them. haha a very fast one emphasising alot on U and pointing to all of them. too bad everyone so full, we got to share the 2 cakes instead of 4 cakes. thou the mont blanc is a little sweet, i still find it nice and i have yet to find another place that served it. the chocolate grottine was nice too. the chocolate mousse in the covered dark chocolate walls was rich. while everyone had drinks, i just have warmed water to go with the sweet treats. i really couldn't take anymore food!

envy helen! i wish you helen a safe delivery and i wish you and soh happiness. i was happy we met up and had this little gathering. i am glad we still can sit and have meals together. Mic stay happy! and so am i going have 4 slices of cakes from each of you guys in April? we shall see!

Aunt's special treat!

i am so lucky! think thats how most of us (my family) feels! after the saturday party, before we left, we were surprised to hear uncle m informing us that tomolo the party continues... at Ah Yat Restuarant. So on Sunday 28th Sept, we met again in the evening to gather to celebrate my aunt's Big day!


the boys esp gx was alittle affected cos its F1 final nite race in singapore. but we were glad to find out that the room has ktv, 2 flat screens and it has tv receptions! so we had the one nearest to us showing the race while those who are singing had to face the other screen.

way before we ate, we were served champagne. i love champagne but it has to be cold thou. the dishes started with the soutao. followed by a cold meat dish which was not bad. then the crispy sucking piggy was nice.


wooo the next dish was sharks fin. it was good and i like that they put the beansprouts aside allowing people to add according to their liking. then really we had bao yu. the abalone. cos this restuarant is known for its abalone dishes. it was nice! next to the abalone was prob duck feet.

yes we wore our "lovers tees" ... the tees he bot for me as anniversary present... haha his is considered my present too. as we sang through the nite, watch f1, play with kidos, te adults took the opportunity to talk and share their feelings... and of cos the food didnt stopped! next after the tummy warming soup and lovely abalone, we had prawns with snow peas.

what i love about steam fish in restaurant is that they smell so good, the soya sauce smell, makes me wana eat the fish! next we had crab. ALASKAN CRAB. thats not all.... its cooked in FOI GRAS sauce... yes we did taste the foi gras and the was black pepper in it but of cos its not the usually dosage of black pepper and i love the taste of it! first time ever for all of us eating foi gras alaskan crab!

the veg soup was a little weird cos the veg is very bitter but the soup taste good... fried rice to end the savoury part of dinner but i spiced it up with the remaining foi gras. then we had toasting! i drank several glasses of champagne through the dinner! i say prob 6-7glasses? drank alot that nite. and sure did my uncles too....


dinner ended with my favourite xue ge. gx and i was being crazy with the camera since he commented i had such a greedy look when my favourite is served! he like onee better! it was an enjoyable dinner!!