Tomorrow is Noelle's actual birthday, Mummy and Daddy bought a cake and some goody bags for her to celebrate with her classmates in school today. There are also two other girls who celebrated their birthdays in school today. She even took pictures with her teachers, they were all so sporting!

Gugu left for her training in Taipei today, we wish her every success in all the arrangements and journey mercy. Daddy will be fetching Adam to go for Music class with Nicole and mummy on Sunday.

We also want to pray for good weather on Sunday because we will be going for an outdoor concert after the music class. The SDT's Ballet under the Stars performance at Fort Canning Park. We were there last year too, and we enjoyed ourselves so much.

The TSA Annual Report 2008 was officially revealed at the Red Shield Appeal Luncheon last Friday. This year Daddy is not involved but his boss was nice to bring back a copy of the report for us to keep.

Mummy first respond when she sees the book was "Why Nicole's hair so messy!" Sigh... yes that's our mummy! The funniest remark comes from Daddy, he said "Her daddy is not me!" Hahahaha

Today, is Racial Harmony Day, Granny helped to buy the famous Jalan Kayu Roti Prata for us to bring to our school. Guessed what we wear, Nicole could not fit into her CNY Cheongsam that Daddy bought from HK so got to wear the same Vietnamese costume that she wore last year bought by her Papa, As for Noelle, she got the set of Chinese costume bought by Granny from China.

In school, Mrs Sunder even helped Nicole to do Henna drawing on her hand. Mummy said that Mrs Wong topped all the teachers and students, she should win the Best Dressed Award, should there be one. Perhaps should suggest to the school for next year!

Unlike the usual Saturday, Daddy sent Nicole Jie Jie for her Chinese enrichment class in the morning. Instead of waiting outside during her class, we went to the supermarket to buy some drinks for the party.

After the Chinese class, mummy sent Jie Jie for her drama class while Daddy and Noelle went back home to decorate for the party. Think Granny is very excited also, she woke up as early as 5am to wash the corridor! Mummy was so worried that Granny would disturb and wake up our neighbours with all her brushing.

Noelle fell asleep on the way to her class, since they were early so Daddy decided to park outside the school and let her sleep. After Nicole's drama class, she also slept in the car while waiting for Noelle. Nicole slept all the way until we reached the cake shop.

At the cake shop, mummy saw another mummy also collecting her cake, their cake seemed much nicer and bigger compared to ours because their's is a two tier cake.

Just before the party starts, the sky suddenly break with a heavy downpour!!! Our guests maybe thinking what a stingy host! ONLY the Grannies would understand this line! Thank God, the rain stopped about an hour later. By then most of our guests have arrived and to kick off the party, the Magic Prince Danny made his "royal" appearance. He even organised the Pinata game that originated from Mexico. Thanks to all our Gugus, Angila Er Gu Mindy and Uncle Andy, Zeni Gugu, Auntie E-han and Agnes for sponsoring the show.

After the magic show, we have the internationally renowned meal for children.....the Macdonald's Happy Meal! Hahaha. The airplane formation show and fireworks weren't the successful due to the cloudy sky. That did not dampened our party spirits, only felt sorry for the poor pilots and the pyrotechnicians. We counted our blessings thank God for the wonderful party, for the fun and joy that we can share with our friends and their parents.

All ready for Noelle's birthday party on Saturday?

Here's the checklist:

1) Invitations sent
2) Buffet confirmed
3) Birthday cake ordered
4) RSVP coming in
5) Magician confirmed
6) Air show, yet to confirm
7) Pyrotechnic display, yet to confirm

Check out the goodie bags and party hats!!

What else is missing? Auntie Tess & her new baby! Just arrived on 14 July 2008, our new baby in town, Ah....Renae? They are still in confinement this Saturday.

The NDP is coming again! The pyrotechnic team for the NDP08 is staying at Lloyd's Inn until 11 August 08. One of them told daddy that they are trying out the 25% of the firework display last Saturday and 50% this Saturday and 100% the following Saturday.

We caught the preview fighter planes formation and fireworks display right from our new house window. The view at our living room was the best.

It was definitely worth the wait for poor Nicole after a long day. She started her day since 9am for Chinese class, followed by Speech and Drama at 12nn on Saturday. After class, Daddy still taught her music theory while waiting for Noelle. After Noelle's class, we proceeded to Tekka Mall to buy the goody bags for Noelle's birthday party! By the time we reached home was almost 6pm, she insisted that she must wait for the fireworks despite not having her beauty nap in the afternoon. Daddy made her sit on his bed and watch the sky, thinking she probably fall asleep after that. Hahaha so naive! She was very persistent to wait till she sees the firework display.

Gugu also helped to confirm the magician for Noelle's party at 5.30pm. Nicole told mummy that she wants to magician to come to her next birthday party also. Huh..... no sure if we gonna have birthday party at home again, otherwise we will have the magician to go to the school!

Guessed what Nicole did in her Drama class today, they made a snorkeling goggle. Last week they also made a fish tank out of paper plate. So creative! I wonder what did Noelle do in her class? Mummy caught her pulling her classmate away by his shirt in order for her to collect her shoes after class!

Should he sell or keep the table? Daddy is thinking of selling off his favourite chest study table to make way for a new piano. The dealer from Grandma's contact suggested daddy to put up an auction in the internet

Mummy thought the table looks ugly and out of theme compared to the overall theme for the new house. But daddy thought the chinese theme seems to sync with the overall deco fronting the living room. Any comments?

Emay Jie jie was very kind to show daddy the mockup of their TSA annual report for 2008. The good news is Nicole's photos after all the digital effects and touch-up turns out pretty well and nicer than the previous stand alone ones that daddy showed earlier. Can't wait for the final product to add on to her portfolio. Hehe.

Our new neighbours moved in on Tuesday too. They occupy two units, one unit resides a family of four, two girls almost the same age and Nicole and Noelle with their parents and the other unit resides their grandparent....so nice.

The girls granny asked Daddy which school was he from! She said her son finds him familiar .... maybe his classmate before?? Huh... I wonder why didnt daddy have any slight memory of that. Haha.

Finally moved into our new house on 21 June 2008. Daddy was not able to connect to the WIFI in our new house, hence the delay in this update. The first two nights in the new house, we didnt have our beds and had to bunk in with daddy and mummy. Thank God, the new mattress been delivered on Tuesday and we need not "merry go round" the bed with daddy anymore. To add further, the wait was worthwhile as you maybe able to tell from our expression, how much we love our new bed. Thanks to our Xiao gu, she even helped us to pick a pair of bed guards that matches the colour of our bedsheets.

Daddy got a glimpse of the annual report photos today. Two pictures were selected for the Front cover and the page behind the front cover.

The front cover photo according to daddy, he could feel the warmth as if he could hear his heart is calling out "Look my baby has grown to become a little girl now". Only regret was he needs to attend an urgent meeting that morning when the photo shoot was scheduled, otherwise would have been a perfect picture for our family album collection.

As for the second photo, it suppose to be inserted into the page after the front cover, spreading across 2 pages. But they have did it again! The digital imaging and special effects makes me look as if I have not washed my hair for ages. Uncle Adam, daddy's colleague also commented that his face looks like "moulded bread" Haha!

We met Mozart at the museum today....more like yesterday! We even sleep on his bed and took a ride on his carriage! We were told that Mozart started playing the piano and violin at the age of three and conducted his first orchestra at the age of five! A real Child Prodigy! Daddy brought our cousin, Adam along also since it's his birthday on Monday. After the museum visit, he came back to our house and took his afternoon nap in our room with us. Guess what, he woke us all up immediately after he wakes up.

SCV & Internet connected today!

Hooray! Mummy finished her exam today, so ends Daddy's misery yet start of ours! Huh...for those who knows her well to know. Hahaha.

Daddy and mummy checked out our new house renovation today and gosh they were surprised to see how much it has progressed. They are already installing the lightings and carpentry work now.



We should be able to move in on schedule and that will be Saturday, 21 June 2008. According to Chinese customs, we need to prepare the following items for "Moving in":

1. Red Banner and a pair of lanterns
2. A traditional charcoal stove
3. Five treasures: Oil, Rice, Salt, Sugar and Dark/Red Vinegar
4. Five bamboo sticks tied with red ribbon on both ends

Today mummy manages to spend some times with us. She asks Nicole jie jie to practise her piano.Oh forgot to update that Jie Jie is learning music at Sempi music school.Mummy is happy with the school and teacher Karen.So far the size of the class is very comfortable, only 5 students.As for me, mummy will let me learn music when i reach 4yr old.

Daddy and Mummy pop by our new house this evening to place the payment cheque for the hardware shop as they will be delivering the sink, taps, basin, water heater and toilet accessories tomorrow. Upon reaching, they realised that the windows, grilles and the shower screen in the master toilet were already up.

Uncle Thomas also updated that the carpentry work will be up next week also. Daddy and Mummy will also be settling the lightings this weekend. Looks like the renovation should be done very soon.

My funny Daddy openly asked his friends and my Uncle for our house warming wish list, i.e. Vacum Cleaner, 37" LCD TV, 2 Standing Fans and 2 desk fans. Any takers? My Monster Jiu Jiu will be sponsoring the LCD TV, his colleagues also confirmed sponsoring the vacum cleaner, but...everyone contributing $15 each. Hahaha.

Monday morning, Daddy's colleagues brought us to the Botanic Garden for their annual report photoshoot. The session was not easy, the whole shoot started about 9am and didn't end until 1pm and we walked from the Tanglin entrance all the way to the Jacob Balas Garden at Bukit Timah. It even drizzled for a while halfway through the shooting. Overall, Daddy's friends said that I was quite cooperative and .... chatty too.

Daddy came to fetch us just before the shooting, we even went for lunch at the NUS campus near the Botanic Garden. Daddy said my picture maybe on the front cover this year.

Almost forgotten, Mei mei and me also made Father's Day presents for Daddy in school

Busy, busy, busy! Mummy and Daddy have been so busy with the new house renovation. This week they have been coming back quite late, end up spend little time with us. But is ok because my por por is taking care of us. It is so fun with por por,she always bring us go downstair and meet up with her auntie friends. We enjoy running and jumping at void deck.

What is the status of renovation? Uncle Thomas told daddy that the kitchen and toilets tiles had overlaid. Currently painting the walls. That is fast. Hopefully another two more weeks all the carpentry work will be done, followed by the furniture, we will be ready to move into the new house. We wonder how will our room look like. Dun't expect pink pink room. Haha.

Monday evening, Daddy told Nicole that he's going out for a while and further explained that his office colleague has passed away and he needs to go and say "bye-bye". On hearing that she asked if Daddy is sad. Such as sweetie pie isn't it.

On Daddy's return, she asked further: "Daddy, are you sad? Did you cry? Those words of concern are really heartwarming especially to Daddy. Before sleep, the gals prayed with Daddy. Nicole even reminded Daddy that we should pray for his friend and her children. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord for teaching Nicole so well!

Yesterday morning, Daddy and Mummy went to meet our teachers. All the teachers gave very good feedback for us. Lao Shi said Meimei could learnt the chinese characters very fast. Her teacher in charge also said that she has been reminding her to tell mummy to wear her short with the pocket in front but she keeps forgetting and mentioned nothing. Hahaha.

As for Jiejie, usual too quiet in class said both her teachers, though there are occasional consolations when she still puts up her hands to volunteer her answers. Teacher also mentioned that she is very meticular in her work except need to booast her self-confidence.

In the afternoon, finally the day that we've all been waiting for........ODD (Open Door Day) for our new house, we brought a big pineapple to roll into the house before everybody went in. That was fun! Thank God! Not too bad, no major defects! Can start work immediately, and swiftly our contractor, Uncle Thomas summoned his technicians to start laying the wires for electric, telephone and tv points.


After all the discussion and making all the necessary adjustments and changes, the party proceeded to Kaki Bukit to select the tiles for kitchen and toilet flooring. We have to finalise all the colour scheme and designs by next Tuesday and to buy all the lightings and sink, basin and cooker hob on that day itself. That's stressful!!!!

Report Books

Today our teachers give us our report books.Noelle mei need a lot of improvement.
While for me so far consider good.Tomorrow, daddy and mummy will be meeting our teachers.
Wonder what the teachers will feedback to my parents.

We just cant get enough of the joy and fun we had at the botanical garden during the school outing on last Friday. We went back again with Daddy and Mummy on Saturday. We loved the treehouse and the slides very much. I was a bit hesitant to cross over the "shaky" suspension bridge and the log bridge. Thank God Daddy and Mummy helped us along.

On Sunday, we brought Mummy and our Granny out for Mother's day breakfast. Daddy couldnt find the tim sum place that Granny mentioned and we ended up in Chinatown eating porridge.

Mummy bought books from oversea spree again.Now our house can be a minim library. Mummy has been very hard working every night when we came back frm por por hse she still teach us. Today noelle mei surprised us by able to read some chinese words without pictures.Well done noi.

Again? Mummy asked with great surprise! Daddy told her that his company needs Nicole jie jie to be model for their annual report this year again. This time round they promised that it will be a nice one, no more digitally alteration to make her look swollen, sad and dirty. This is how she looked in the annual report last year.

This year, there will be two shoots, first one with someone teaching her how to ride a bicycle and the second shoot riding the bicycle on her own. The shoot should take place one of the morning on 26th or 27th of this month at the Botanic Garden.

Talking about that, Mei Mei and Jie Jie are going to the Botanic Garden with the school tomorrow. We pray for good weather, smooth and safe journey and a very enjoyable time with the teachers and friends.

Finally, finally, finally, Daddy & Mummy collected our new house keys today. They come with an impressive and stylish designed pouch. But we cannot go inside our new house yet because my Gong Gong says we can only open the door next Thursday and must first roll in a pineapple before we can go inside.....so interesting!

Also finally, finally, finally, Daddy sold our current house on Monday night after 3 rounds of visit by the buyer and his wife over the weekend. Meaning now we all can be as ease to wait to move in as soon as our new house's renovation is completed.

Today is labour day, mummy suggests to daddy that we should visit the goat farm. Normally it is difficult for us to go as weekend we will be busy attending classes. We first set off in the morning to our new house even though we got no keys to go in yet. Nevertheless, it was fun just to hang out at the corridor.

We then adjourned to our favourite prata store at Jalan Kayu. There we met daddy's friend, Auntie Za and her hubby. They were there to eat too but the queue was so long that both our tables waited for more than 30 mins for our food to arrive.

After breakfast, we are all ready to proceed to the goat farm, just then we coincidently spotted Ray and his parents' car in Jalan Kayu too. Mummy called them and they decided to join us at the farm, but they didn't know the way so daddy suggested to wait for them at the fish farm instead.

At the fish farm, we discovered the "Fish Spa", mummy and Yiyi decided to give it a try! Look at those "fishful" feets. They must be either very dirty or tasty! Hahaha.

We ended up at the goat farm almost noon, most of the goats were already taking their afternoon nap. Only some were still awake and a couple dozing off and swing their heads! So cute.

For dinner, Gong gong decided to buy all of us dinner outside, he even ordered a sucking pig. When eating, he gave Nicole the piglet's tail and told her too eat and joked that she will grow a tail the next day. That scared her out of her wits! That's childish!