Alvan attending chinese supplement class

My Alvan has come to an age where we should be busy signing him up for extra supplementary lessons, just like his siblings years ago...

His first class is attending chinese class at Tian Sia... And am very glad he managed to go through his trial lesson with no whining and crying!!! Good job boy!!! 

And he even told me he enjoyed the class!!! And he's looking forward to his next lesson! But sadly, we signed him up just before our CNY break so he will be having a break before his 2nd lesson!

A calm and happy boy waiting to be dismissed on his 2nd lesson! Good thing is there he's able to bid me goodbye for all his lessons so far... 

CNY 2016 - my work

As usual, I would be super duper busy before CNY... The older I get, the more things I would like to try my hand on.. hahaha...

And this is my hand made lantern for this year... which I super like... am really lucky that the lady selling these handicrafts items... she was really very eager to share the instructions readily...

This lantern design is made for Alvan's cc cny competition... I really ran out of easy design and really wants him to join in the fun of making a lantern for the competition, I did see some super complicated lantern which are obviously made by the parents so the child can win! Well, I would see that he's enjoying the processing of lantern making more than winning... 

Another first try item this year is the mandarin orange candied skin peel... I had wanted to try last year as the amount of oranges we need to disposed off is pretty much... but I have got no time for it last year... so they still went into the trash!

This is the amount of work for the orange candied skin and the orange jam I made for 16 oranges! Took me the whole morning to finish all the work!

This year I managed to create our own lo hei!!! So happy everyone enjoyed it and I enjoyed the process of shredding!!! Hahaha... but next year, I would need to get a small size shredder as the radish and carrots shred were abit too fat! Hahaha... but the can of abalone was really super yummy!!! Huat ah!!!

Our Chinatown outing just before CNY

This is the first time Alvan request to go Chinatown this year!! I was really surprised he wanted to go... as he got a booklet talking about CNY from his childcare and there's a picture of Chinatown on the front cover!! So, to fulfill his request, we decided to go for a walk and absorb the CNY atmosphere on a Sunday afternoon!  So courageous of us to bring children to a super crowded place! Haha...

We parked our car at Chinatown point and walk over to the streets selling cny goods...

Before we reached the streets selling the cny goodies, my Alvan's shoe was torn and WL got to carry him along till we find him a pair of new shoes.. hahaha...

I do not know should I say we were lucky or unlucky on the day...  After about 10mins walk, it started drizzling!!  So we started shopping in one of shop house!  But the rain stopped about 10mins later and we venture out again... haha... this time we managed to have another 15mins walk till it began to rain really heavily again.. and another 30mins walk under the covered walkway and shops... afterwhich the rain Juz come and go drizzling and we were not too bothered with it till we reached the Chinatown food streets which we decided to settle our dinner before another downpour...

My Adwin and his chicken wings and a plate of chicken drumstick rice!  They do taste yummy... And portion is big...

My Alvan and Ashley each had a plate of wanton noodle... Pls do not order if you are there... expensive and not tasty... I ordered a plate hokkien fried noodles, nice but abit too ex too... WL had a bowl of fishbowl noodles... no comments cos no comments from him... hahaha...  

We decided to start our walk back to the car park and head home thinking the crowd is building... along the way, we saw this korean dessert shop and decided to pop in for a try...

Here's our order of their signature Bibim and the kids ordered marshmallow!!  Another expensive desserts.. These 2 bowls for whopping $30!!  Lucky was shared among 5 of us...

We were all enjoying our icy cold desserts!!! There were really nice.... not too sweet and the shaved milk ice was really fine and soft... super yummy... yes I believe we will be back again... happy end to our Sunday outing!!!