family's first ever halloween party!

i have been on 3 days mc... flu. very blocked nose, on off fever... sick. for 3 days, wake up to close the doors for gx, then sleepless, then i just read up some info after a cup of milk till i sleep, wake up for breakfast, laze around and back to nap. wake up in the afternoon, lunch. watch some tv to make myself sleep, usually ended up sleeping for 3hrs on the sofa... wake up to eat the dinner gx bot... then again i am back to the room to have my sleep... hardly have any concentration power to blog... slept alot on friday cos i had to go to aunt's place for our family's first halloween party...

upon arrival... the decor leads from the car porch into the house... greeted by the huge pumpkin on the table when you stepped into the house. also i was amazed with my aunt's effort to decorate the house into a Halloween party place!

L didnt like his count dracula's costume but i tot he looked really good... my favourite piece of decor has to the huge spider on the big web! think that added alot of mood to the place!

as you can see, L changed into his 2nd costume. the variety of food was all arranged by aunt o. some ordered in and some she cooked! the spread was amazing! the table was filled!

some dishes was very halloween themed. aunt o cooked black spag with mushroom. this was tasty. but i loved the rice even more! simply stir-frying different olives with rice. i skipped the salmon thou... not that its not nice... jus not in the mood to eat fish, could be bcos i was still sick and the smell of salmon SCARES me... tomatoes with mozzerella cheese...somehow i forgot to try this... prob cos its at the other end of the table from where i was sitting.

aunt o boiled a whole big pot of pumpkin soup! leafy salad is never on my plate but necessary for the veggie lovers in the house. only when the salad is potato based then u see me eating it. aunt o arranged gerald to pick up the punggol nasi lemak chicken wings and uncle k helped to pick up the aspargus wrapped in smoked salmon from da paolo.

very sad... i couldn't eat this beautifully marinated lambchops! when the fruit is forbidden... its always seems to irresistable... hate it! it smelt so good... told its not good for me... very heaty... i managed to nibble little pieces of meat off the bones... it tasted so good. aunt o is very good at marinating lamb!

aunt o bought pretty halloween plates but my favourite is THE EYE! i love the shot i took with ann! i had my very own seat cos the cushions on that bench matched me, thus i had my very own throne! Queen Zebra! and yes gx tried to pretend to King zebra...

gx was just in his FRAGILE tee but his prop is the clawed hand! it had to be "buttoned" on so he find it very troublesome to take it out when he had to eat ice-cream... so ever wonder how wolverine eat ice-cream...???

aunt o is very detailed in planning this party! she got pretty halloween plastic cups to serve moverpick ice-creams! the kiddos got cute pumpkin watertubbler...ever wonder how wolverine do baby5s with kidos...??? L changed into his 3rd costume and went straight to look for gx for a battle.

group fotos after the dinner! the spider was a favourite spot and most family fotos were taken here! too bad theres many fotos that i cannot post up here... my aunt o was actually very halloween dressed up! she was a beautiful medusa! of cos uncle m dressed up too. he was pharoah! best dressed up couple! 2nd best dressed couple has to go to aunt a and uncle j! they were pirates!


best dressed boy cousin is of cos L but followed by B cos he was most dressed among the big boys cos he had prob from head to toe. then after the phototaking, the kidos went around to have their "trick or treats" sessions.

for those who didnt give the kidos their treats, they would scream boo! the best booed reaction would be W! the best reaction when receiving treats would have to go to N1! she was so tickled when gx gave her the little ghost chocolate! the most unusual treat would be this da paolo ghost! the best packaged treats would be A's! she was so detailed in stuffing her treats into little pumpkins for the kidos!

my treat was a little witchy witch chocolate... i was given treats too! aunt a gave gx and i a pair of ghost chocolates from marks and spenser. i like aunt k's treats of pirate and parrot. very colourful!

i was so tired... very tired after the party ended... i was drained! sat slept very late... but had to roll out of bed to go for sis's wedding food tasting... i was a little zoombie when i was at the lunch... went on to ted with mum to tailor make her gown. skipped dinner cos i was really too full from lunch... still feel sick... sick... SICK! so tired i fell asleep on mum's couch... i was asked to go home early since the whole family with the help of the boys are busy moving furnitures around the hous. will update on new look for mum's house, sil's presents from florence and sunday's bidding goodbye to twins soon. right now i am feeling sick cos i just threw up my dinner... gog to bed soon... i hope the flu bug will leave me alone... please...

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!