Friday, August 29, 2008
Ladies' Night Out
Last minute, we made our way to Vienna International Seafood & Teppanyaki Restaurant at United Square. The restaurant was also very crowded but at least we had a decent place, away from smoke and people moving beside us.
Vienna International Seafood & Teppanyaki Restaurant serves local favourites & authentic soups, Japanese and Western cuisine, Teppanyaki and also the mouthwatering appetizers and desserts. I'm spoilt for choices and had a great meal.
It has been a good night out catching up with one another, with extensive discussions on our children, work & memories.
We completed the night with a nice cup of tea/coffee at "Starbucks".
12:27 AM
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Pic with Li JiaWei
11:54 PM
Monday, August 25, 2008
Beijing Olympic 2008 Closes
The closing ceremony of the Beijing Games was star-studded and glitzy, bringing down the curtain on a glittering 16-day long sports extravaganza.
Congrats to Singapore's Women Table Tennis team for getting silver in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Wang Yuegu, Feng Tianwei and Li JiaWei
1:14 AM
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Subway Sandwich for You?
At Subway's website, I found these charts that compare subway sandwiches with other food. Interesting!
9:36 PM
Thursday, August 21, 2008
No Pork, No Pork!
A colleague unintentionally brought ham for the children's cookery lesson.
This reminded me of a video clip I saw, titled
1:24 AM
Monday, August 18, 2008
Exam Week
Exams.........
This week, most of the students will be having their exams. So All The Best!
Found these songs very meaningful & interesting so I would like to share it with you.
Hope you like them......They are all real classic by Liang Wen Fu. Most of his songs are very reflective of the present society so enjoy!
梁文福的作品
The Night Before History Exam
~ 細水長流 - 年少時候誰沒有夢 ~
~ 一步一步來 ~
~ 排排坐 ~
12:03 AM
Friday, August 15, 2008
To the Movie ~ The Mummy 3
It's an adventure filled movie with great effects. I loved the first two movies & Brendan Fraser but do not expect much from this :( though there are some laughs & fun! The appearance of the Yetis and the Mummy transforming to a three-headed monster have kinda made the show looked silly!
Anyway after the movie, it has nevertheless aroused my daughter's interest in Chinese history........... at least the story of Qin Shi Huang.
11:42 PM
Qin Shi Huang ~ The First Emperor
- Unification of China and implementing a centralised form of control.
- One of China's greatest tragedies, the saga know as The Burning of the Books.
- having scholars buried, in an attempt to rewrite history.
- initiating possibly China's greatest architectural feat, the Great Wall by joining together two smaller walls belonging to previous states and proclaimed that the wall should be extended to cover the entire border.
- obsession with the search for immortality.
- introduction of a universal system of currency as well as standard weights and measures.
- his real masterpiece, the incredible Terracotta Soldiers near his tomb in Xian. The ultimate, underground model village, where a model of China was laid out complete with rivers and oceans and overlooked by the Heavens in perfect scale and complete harmony. According to historical records, the mausoleum was a notorious crime scene. Many laborers died of hardship during its construction, and all the workmen were entombed along with the emperor in order to keep their mouths shut.
Upon ascending the throne at the age of 13 (in 246 BC), had work begun on his mausoleum, which took 11 years to complete. The terracotta soliders form part of the mausoleum (along with many other treasures which accompanied the Emperor in the after-life).
The masusoleum itself has not been opened yet.For 2000 years, a secret army of clay soldiers protected the hidden tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Until 1974 none knew of its existence; now Chinese archaeologists are gradually unfolding the mystery.
11:00 PM
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Trishh's Bday ~ Camping
One thing that was very different is, way back then we had to pitch the tents for them but now, they could do it by themselves ~ with a little of daddy's supervision!
There were so many people already camping when we arrived at East Coast. The campers pitched the tents practically everywhere......... I mean really everywhere, like under the bridge! Anyway, we were lucky we could managed to find a good spot away from the crowd....... so we thought!
At about 5pm, the weather has changed from good to bad then worst! It was pouring heavily...... My poor daughter & her friends were all drenched. At first they hid themselves in the tent but decided to play in the rain since the tent could not hold them in for long because of the strong wind. Nevertheless, they enjoyed themselves very much getting wet in the rain!
As for the rest of us, we were back at home preparing for the BBQ stuff. When we arrived at the park, we waited in the car for the rain to stop........These were some of the pictures taken in the car as I was feeling bored & wanted to tease the boys! Hmmm........ only my good husband posed for me!
The boys....... "没脸见人"
These were pictures taken before the rain stopped.
The beauties with umbrella..... :P
The Mr Handsome........ 8-)
we also managed to take some pics of the helicopter with the Singapore flag by- passing the East Coast beach after the rain stopped.
"Happy 43rd Birthday Singapore!"
Then you see daddy preparing for the BBQ dinner.
The place was not lited up properly as a few of the park lamps were not switched on....Grargh!!! So some DIY work were done on our own! Lia & Daddy became the handymen.
Some Yummy BBQ food...........
Trishh's friends.........
Trishh had a solo pic with her birthday cake!
Happy Birthday Trishh!
How old is she? Aiyah, still young.......... twelve only!
pic with family.......
and friends! (some has already gone home because of the rain! :( )
Pic of Ee Nellie, popo, E-po with her son and grand-daughter.
At about 11pm, most of the guest has gone home except the 7 of us (my family of 4, nephew - Darien, Trishh's friend - Sarah, sis's maid - Lynn).
We spent good quality time chatting and catching up with one another till the wee hours....... & then we went for a stroll at the Bedok Jetty watching people fishing in the middle of the night.
As I was dozing off (god knows what time already), I heard the children giggling and laughing. Guess what........ they were teasing a couple smooching away on a chair, just a distant from their tent. The children used the torchlight to shine at them and intentionally walked near them and then played around them! But the couple continued with their smooching and ignored the children.....tsk, tsk, tsk! I guess after a while, the couple gave up on them, and disappeared back into their tent.
The children were still full of energy till early morning at about 6am. They waited for the sunrise but realised that they could not see it from this part of the island..........
But this piggy slept earlier than the other 3 children. However, he is no angel at all. Look what he was trying to do to his sister?!!!!
The children woke up at about 9am........ -o-
We cooked maggie mee and had muffins for breakfast :)
We wanted to stay a little longer to laze around but the weather did not agree with us.........So we quickly packed up & head for home before the next raindropp falls!
9:06 PM
