Our March break

The kids and WL is having a short break this March and we did not really have a plan on where and when to bring the kids out to enjoy their short break... but, on the start of the week, Monday, my Alvan was diagnosed with HFMD!!! What a thunderous news!!! Hahaha

.... The teacher rejected his entry when she spotted quite a big patch of red spots in his mouth and I had to bring him to see doc to confirm that... so... start of the holiday means end of it, cos being responsible parents, we need to stay home....

The only outing for all of us was on Thursday when we need to bring Ashley to ICA to collect her newly renewed passport! And lucky for all of us, Alvan had recovered!!! So it's a short outing for us....

The day started off with daddy bringing the 2 kids to ICA with MRT! Hahaha... as I need to finish some work before driving down with Alvan to meet them for lunch and other activities. 

Since WL got a craving for pastry, we decided to pop over to 2 bakers for lunch! And here's what we had... pasta!!! Something filling and nice... I do like their matcha latte... nice...

Cakes!!! That's the main purpose of visiting them... as I did not have the chance to bake my carrot cake, time to try theirs... sadly, I would say not nice, as there's no walnuts or raisins in the cake, only carrots! And the cinnamon taste is a tad too overwhelming.... The other yuzu cake was nice! As the internal comes with a small piece of matcha sponge cake!  Nice combination!!!

We happened to see a forklift at the shop next to the restaurant... And being a motor vehicle funatic, Alvan would say yes to all photos taken with any motor vehicles! 

Our next stop was bugis plus to catch the coming movie, superman vs batman, *hope I got it right!!* figurines on display... In the end, my boys didn't quite like taking shots with them.... so left with me and my girl! Lol..

After taking some shots with the displays at bugis, we headed over to Clarke Quay for shot with a real size batmobile!!! How cool is that!!!

And a first time for me to post a photo on Instagram for some contest of the Batman vs superman movie tickets!!! Anyway, am not a fan of Instagram... so better not go in there again.   Lol..

A restaurant doing some promo with this latest movie B vs S!!

With nothing in mind for the afternoon, we continue with some window shopping at Liang Court... A very cute sushi display outside of the book store on level 3? Or 4? Hahaha..

When we thought the sun was not so strong, time to reveal our plan for the late afternoon... cycling at East coast towards Marina Barrage! Our kids favourite activity!

The other entrance of Gardens by the bay after East coast park before Marina barrage...

A small water pond with lots of water lily...

Our final destination, Marina Barrage!!! It was a long ride but really fun.. and the kids did enjoyed themselves!!!  I was really surprised that we can be passing by Gardens by the Bay before Marina barrage and a very nice view of the singapore skyline here... worth the effort and time cycling!

Our 1st bus trip to Tampines

Our kids always like to try taking public transport around our small island... given the luxury of the car is just a 'natural thing' to them... so we always try to expose them to the convenience of our public transport, since they would need to take them once they grow into a teenager, going out with friends and not requiring our companion or 'escorting'! Hahaa...

So, we decided to bring the kids to enjoy a ride to the eastern side of the island, since it's just a single bus ride and the bus service has got a double decker bus service! So killed 2 birds with a stone! 

There were a few of such photo booth or rather display of the movie, Zootopia, which we caught last week, around the Tampines bus interchange! So my kids took the opportunity to have some shots! Sorry, my Alvan was taking his nap at the time of arrival! Lol...

After a short 10 mins of exploring Tampines One mall, we decided to go in to this Monster Curry eatery for a try of their Fiery hot curry with rice!!

See the super big plate of the curry rice?!!? It's meant for sharing, according to the lady, this can serve up to 2 to 3 pax!!! Mind you, it's really huge!!! But go all out to try their level 5 hotness.. cos it's not even up to my boy's standard! Hahaha... ya.. maybe cos it's Japanese curry to begin with, it's really not spicy!!!

My girls egg set... Really lots of eggs and nice too!!!

Would we be back?!?! Not too sure but it's a good try... oh yes, forgot to mention, there's a 0 level where no spicy-ness is spotted in the curry.. so tat solves Alvan's dinner too!!!! ;)

Alvan and his lantern

Remember I last mentioned about Alvan's cc having some cny lantern making competition?? And I was so surprised to see his big present when I went to pick him on the last day of cny....

See him with his winning piece and big present! Him and his funny grin!  Hahaha...

Happily opening up his present...

A really useful set of present for him to develop his art talent... hahaha.. did I mentioned he loves markers?? He managed to finish up this drawing block in 2 days! Hahaha... A boy who loves to draw cars and cars... shall take a shot of his cars drawing one day... hee hee...

My potato plant...

Seems like the older I get, my interest in gardening is increasing... but I never had luck in growing plants let alone bloom flowers... hahaha....

But this time, my potato plant blooms!!! As always, I won't be able to finish cooking my potato before they starts to grow buds in them... And yes, once bud starts to grow in potato, it's not good for eating... And I had seen many FB postings on growing potatoes... so I thought to give it a try... And out of the 2 potatoes I plated, only 1 survive and it managed to bloom!!! Finally.. though the flower is really tiny but I thought it's really pretty... :)