MacRitchie Reservoir

As mentioned before, my hb is a super adventurous person, and this day, he decided to give US ALL a surprise outdoor!!! He only mentioned a jogging session before our dinner, again at his surprised location!!! So, we are so full of surprises this Sunday!  To tell you the truth, I rarely like surprises... cos 80% I'll a shock rather then a good surprise!  So, my dear hubby and children, pls give yr wife and mummy a good surprise if I did mentioned about places I wanna go and not a shock to a place I say am not interested before... sigh... ok, enough of my ranting (* yes, my hubby did mentioned that I'll start complaining on my blog after this trip!)

The weather was super good this Sunday, bright,  clear and sunny!! Some wefie to begin our trip! 

For this shot, my kids had been asking their daddy why are we taking this shot when we are facing the hot scorching sun when we can't even open our eyes!  Lol...

This zigzag bridge was still in construction when we visited this reservoir in March 2011!!! So here we are, taking shots of it after completion!  Lol...

** updated 18-Sept-15 ** Oh, I finally found the photos to old blog post of this reservoir... AND guess what??  This bridge was still in construction back then & I've got proof of it here... hahaha....

Feb 2011 outing to MacRitchie**

A nice eco bridge next to the zigzag bridge! I remember seeing somewhere that this was designed to be a 'walk in the water' bridge so we can appreciate and study the insects or plants growing in the water.. but the water level was a bit low when we were there... so my children were abit disappointed having their feet dry!!! Hahaha...

Trying out the dual mode function of my smart phone! 

Flora clock along our way to the Lornie Trail ahead...

My kids have yet to seen a flora clock before... so something interesting here...

A shot requested by my baby... plus an accessory, daddy... lol..

Selfie of US!

My kids decided to photo bomb our selfie!

Start of our trail walk...

My baby had been asked to be carried throughout the walk... And with my breaking knees, there's no way I can carry him and walk... so daddy will have to do the job! :p

We thought once we are out of the forest trail walk, we would be able to reach our car SOON! But... to MY surprised, I can't even see the car park!!!! And my super optimistic hubby kept saying, reaching reaching... soon... walk... And it's bus stop after bus stop that he promised the car park is near!!!! Oh god!!! Can you guessed how many bus stops we walked?? 4 bus stops!!!! Argh...

Springleaf park

This is a small park for people staying at the north... springleaf park, hope I got it right!!! Lol...

Brought along 3 bikes for our kids to have some work out and a jogging session for WL and myself... quiet and peaceful place..

A small bridge so the residents or park goers can make use of this connector to walk or jog from springleaf down this drain to Lentor Ave...

Family shot taken with the help of a foreign worker... :p

Early morning activity for my baby

Does anyone have any idea how much my baby loves cars???  He had been getting up real early recent to send hid Jie Jie and korkor to school!!! And somehow, it started on a fine day that he said he wanna go home using another direction after sending his older siblings to school. I really got no idea how he knows he can 'watch for motor vehicles' using this route.... And so, it begins... He would request to go by this longer route, so he can watch some vehicles and also a mini traffic jam here...

See he's enjoying his view from this chair... like what my hb says... Our future minister for transport, checking that this tiny route at Yishun is all smooth for all in the early mornings for all to go work or school...

Another random photo taken few weeks back... hahahaa... my happy son with just a glimpse of the traffic before he goes back home to change and go school!!! LOL...

Father's day 2015

Haha... another overdue and late entry!!! But as the saying goes... better late than never!!! :p

Ok, this year I did plan for a fathers day celebration for my dear hubby! As I know I had been lazy preparing and always busy till a last minute celebration was arranged for him! So bad of me...  SO, this time I bought a yogurt ice cream cake earlier and took him out for a dinner earlier!!! *photo was not taken for our steamboat dinner!! Anyway, guess it's not much of a mention here cos not fantastic but at least we tried the cheaper version shabu shabu and my kids did enjoyed!*

Here's the yogurt ice cream mango cake, nice!!!!

And on the actual fathers day celebration, we went for lunch at this small cafe, I seriously need to say sorry here, cos I can't recall the name!!! As this lunch was also called in for reservation by my dear hubby himself!!! What sort of a wife am I???? :p forgot to mention, it was also his treat!  Ah hahahaha...

Our or rather his main purpose of visiting was for their desserts!!! And here's a snap of what they can offer.... nice!!!  But ex!

Lucky they do serve really decent matcha latte and coffee!!

And my kids enjoyed their main course too!!

This was my risotto!!! First time trying and nice...

A big serving of the French fries for my kids!!

After our decent lunch, we head over to ECP and join my family for fathers day celebration and a short cycling activity for our kids and my old folks!!!

Kids and cycling

We had been pretty hooked to cycling beginning from this year onwards... cycling had always been my favourite activity since young, cos I can enjoy the breeze and doing a workout!!!  And lucky for us, my 3 kids love cycling and especially so when the 2 elder kids learned to cycle a 2 wheelers!!! And now that my baby knows to cycle a 3 wheelers, it's so much fun for all! 

And this year, my Ashley wished for a bicycle and wish granted by her grandpa!!! And as usual, I started looking out for things to help me organise my place!!!  So glad this bicycle stand is sooo useful for us!!! Saving us some space at our main entrance, neat and nice display of our bicycles and scooters!!!

Some photos of our 3 children at our void decks with their bikes!!