Holiday Happenings #1

Jac has been working very hard for many weekends and I was very glad that he does not have to go back this weekend... we decided to make a trip to the beach, ECP for cycling!!

Our 1st stop at ECP was MacDonald!! Ezra and daddy were happily munching on their favourite breakfast!Funny face Ezra!

Ezra has outgrown his current bike and we thought we might as well just rent one for him. Each of us chose our bikes and we are all ready to go go go!!!

A check with Jac, I realized the rental was for 1+1 hour!! Can Ezra last so long?

We ride on and only stopped occasionally for drinking water & water play!!


We encouraged Ezra with the final destination at Bedok Jetty where we can see many people fishing. Everytime Ezra complaint abt being tired, we will encouraged him with the jetty point and view and he will pressed on!! Father & son even had a race at some point to see who is faster!!

Finally we reached the jetty!! Ezra was very excited to see uncles fishing... we even saw a catch!! That was a bonus for us.Our ride back was more challenging as Ezra was more tired and I was complaining abt bum pain!! It was funny when Ezra finally spotted a bike shop & shouted "YES" but I told him this is not the shop, you could literally see his disappointed 任命 look!! But we encouraged each other & YES we made it back to the shop exactly after 2 hours!! I cant believe that we cycled for 2 hours. Well done son...

After our ride, we headed to Ikea for Ezra's favourite meatball... he finished 6 meatballs, 1 bun with loads of butter, some mushroom soup & 1 chicken drumlet. He must be very hungry and used much of his energy!!

It was a very happy and enjoyable day spent with my 2 darlings... love you both so much....

Fish Spa

Our cell group had an outing to Qian Hu Fish Farm over the weekend. The trip was ok, saw lots of different fish, price ranging very wide.. there were some very pretty rays that cost $7000 for a pair!!

Their longkang fishing is really difficult compared to Kids Kampong cos the drain is very wide making it really difficult to even reach for the fish.

Some of our friends went for this Fish Spa... there were 3 ponds, 1 with small but lots of fish, 2nd with slightly bigger fish but less in density & last pond with fish as big our palm!! That's gross!!

With some encouragement, Ezra dipped his hands into the pond and even allowed the fish to nibble on his palm!

Thats BG's mum who went along the outing as well.

We made a detour to FartMart but it was quite a disappointment... many of the shops were very run down, really nothing much to see, do or even buy.

Family Day

It has been a while since we spend time as a family. So Jac took a day off and off to the Zoo we went. Ezra was very excited & wanted to see "lion, elephant, tiger, monkey etc" The weather was good as we reached the zoo but the CROWD was huge!! We even had to queue quite a while to purchase the tickets.

We walked the route which has the lion enclosure cos Ezra wanted to see lion but it was empty!! We moved on to see other animals... we were at the Giraffe enclosure where there were feeding. We paid $5 for a small tray of veg sticks. I was surprised that Ezra was ok with it, one giraffe actually licked or had Ezra's whole hand in its mouth but my brave boy just turned & looked at me with the "Wow mum did you see that!!"
Here's a list of different animals we saw...
By abt 1.30pm, both Jac & myself were a little tired with all the walking we decided to call it a day!! We walked back to the lion enclosure & hoorey!! The lions were out!! When we got into the car, Ezra fell alseep so off to Changi Airport for Swensens 1 for 1 deal! But by the time we ordered our food, it was 2.20pm & the 1 for 1 deal was over at 2pm!! Service was BAD!! Food was ok & Ezra loved the ice-cream!!After that we went to the viewing gallery & the boy loves it!! He was running around pretending to be an aeroplane & evening doing a landing!! He was just so HAPPY!!

That's not the end of our day yet, we wenting shopping at Giant off Tampines. It was our 1st time there & it was crowded! We grabbed what we needed & went home for dinner!!

It has been a LONG day but so so much FUN!!

Hot Pot

Remember some time i blog abt a horible mini hotpot? Last evening, my MIL had cravings for hotpot so off we went to the famous Hainanese Steamboat with chicken rice at Golden Mill. Its really good with meat slices, sea cucumber, fish maw, veg etc... unlike many that has processed food items.

Ezra finished an almost full soup bowl of chicken rice, meat, soup & veg!! Well done son!

Its was a good & satisfying meal... after dinner, Ezra con nai nai to give him money for his car ride!!

Austin Hills Golf & Resort

This is our second time to Austin Hills for our Hun family retreat. The first was 2 years back as a farewell before Esther's family leave for NZ, now it's for Nancy's family.

Austin Hill is only 30 mins drive from Woodlands checkpoint so its really very convenient for our family of 24 pax!!

We drove in on Fri & arrived at Austin abt 3pm. Some of us went shopping at the nearby Jusco, while the rest look see all the children in the pool!!

This trip is very much a eating trip!! You cant imagine the amt of food our family ate!! Anyway, we drove out to some wolu place for seafood.... Its really not the everyday seafood place you find in S'pore. All their food are fresh & swimming in the ponds, nets or tubs!!

The kids were very excited cos its their 1st time seeing such a sight!!

While the kids pick their seafood, the adults are ordering dishes direct by pointing at the items itself!!

Check out the BIGGEST cockles ever seen... thats a medium sized prawn!!

We had a traditional bak kut teh & prata bkf 1 day & stayin bkf of bread & instant noodles that were so look forward by the children!!

The rooms are HUGE with 2 king size beds & lots of space left & we did tons of things in there!!

1. Watch DVD together in the evening

2. All the young girls had their nails painted by yiyi Linda

3. We even had wine with cheeze & snow skin mooncakes

4. Play badminton

Viv: Son thats not a guitar, its a badminton racket & the shuttlecock.

Ezra: Ok mummy now I know... see I can also play badminton....oops where did the shuttle cock goes?

Everyone : Hahaha Nadine strike a pose!! The kids cant drink wine but they tried theirhands at opening their sparkling juice!!

Everyday was packed with activities. Table tennis, badminton, bowling & even improvised slide!!

Even my mum joined us in the bowling but cant comment much abt her style!! She was so funny, starting watching us from the benches, slowly made her way to the lanes & 'refused' to let go & just bowled a couple of times & we dont have the heart to ask her to stop!!

Ezra cant bowl but he could still have fun turning the balls on the stand!! Nayda is a show off.. she chose to walk many steps on this trip & everyone clapped for her!! It's time to hit the pool... Thank God for the beautiful weather, the kids were able to swim everyday while we were there!! They had a blast with the slides & water gun fight. Even our cute newest addition to the family, baby Rene had her first dip in the pool. She was so excited seeing the kids having fun. When Healin mummy was changing her into swim gears, she was simply grinning!! Look at her in the pool on her float!!

Well Ezra had too much FUN on this trip & eating too much rubbish!! He coughed badly after we returned & vomitted!!