TCC at Keppel Island

This is a super overdue posting... can't recall if we went in Mar or Apr and had this post and photos in draft since then.. haha... me n my procrastinate postings!!! Sigh.. I really wished I can have more entries in my blog... but guess I really had my hands in too many things... :(

Okie... WL brought us here for dinner after his night cycling with his colleagues and passed by this place so here we are, enjoying our dinner and view later...

My ever mischievous baby and his ever caring sister!

WL trying out their cold coffee... ehm... if I remember correctly... nothing fancy just a cup of normal black coffee with no sugar! And we have to ask for syrup to sweeten it, can't recall if we asked for milk too! Hahaha... anyway, the kids ordered kids meals and ordered an extra kids pizza and all were wiped out! So, predict is, serving is not huge or big!

Me, trying to re-construct photos taken when we first visit the place when my first born was about 3 years old and 2nd born 1 year plus... and now with my 3 babies!! Can't find my soft copy to put it side by side...

My baby happily wandering around the foyer before we walked out to the harbour where many private yatches docked at.

This college was done my 2nd born... after he screenshot my college from this blog page and him inserting into thr center of a picture taken by him... my ever creative boy!

Hubby on yearly trip

I must put this in my blog so my kids are aware that their daddy goes on overseas trip at least once or twice yearly and left me pulling out my hair looking after our 3 monkies!!

His first trip was in May 2014, to conquer Mt Kinabalu in Sabah, lucky was the earthquake happened a year later in 2015... 

Very beautiful photos take with the white clouds when he was at what, half peak? :p

During this first trip, they were lucky to be staying in a decent hotel with free wi-fi!!

And his second trip was in November 2014 to Vietnam, fixing solar panels in a small village.

According to him, they were served home cooked food by the villagers daily every meals and they really look very yummy!

This was taken during the last 2 days back to the city at his shopping trip! Yes, he did go shopping after some hard work at the village!

This was where he stayed in while his students stayed in some school hall or dormitory... a decent sleeping place except for the toilet. Hahaha...

Following year, he went for a trip to Cambodia with the International Volunteer group exploring on options for the school... this time the assignment was to fix up water filter system to some homes so they can have filtered water at home...

Sneaking some time to rest and relax..

Again... him and his food...

Another decent hotel stay during his stay...

This year May, 2016, siem reap of Cambodia, no idea what they were doing there...hahaha...

The camp or village they were assigned to...

Doing real work here...

Having fun with a big spider!!!

Cooked and being served to him!! Yucks! He said it taste like soft shell crab! Hahaha...

So far, this 'hotel' is the most pathetic one, no air con, no fan, no electricity after 10pm, no proper toilet and no bed, plus lots of free insects!!! OMG...

Daily breakfast being prepared by their own...

Finally a decent hotel stay during the last 2 days after some hard work at the camp in the village! Hahaha...

A chance for some tour around the cities and famous attraction...

Food... glorious food...

Though all his trips do not exceed a week, but with me and my helper handling my 3 kids are really killing me... next time I shall go on a trip by myself after he's back, to have some ME time and sleep!!! But good in a way he's doing some good deed overseas and once our children grow bigger, a chance for them to tag with their daddy for some real hard work to appreciate what they had from birth till now!! Only after seeing how children in these 3rd world survived would they realised how fortunate they are living in Singapore!

My sweet little boy

My little boy likes to write and he's a very curious boy, always asking questions, why this and that, how to write or spell this and that, how does this and that works? Am almost lost to his questionings... at times he would tell me, I will ask Papa tomorrow! Hahaha...

One evening after school, he wrote something on a small piece of paper and pass me this small little message...

I asked him, what is this you wrote? He says, Love Mama lor... hahaha... super sweet...and I had wanted to show WL what he wrote and found another small piece of paper on his desk saying "Love Papa"! Sweet right?? 

3rd Baby writing his name

Daddy had been trying to reach him writing, be it his name in Chinese and English and some other words.  As he's not happy that his childcare is not giving him enough writing practices, especially after our last Parent Teacher meeting that his chinese teacher mentioned that the school just informed them to reduce writing practice for the children and focused more on teach and play...

Anyways, my son loves to write on white board with markers... as according to the teacher this requires less strength and all children enjoy it.. another mode of writing and drawing he enjoys is writing on this boggie board!

Here's a night of him practicing while everyone is asleep!!! He had the habit of doing homework when it comes bedtime! 

It seems to show that he did remember the words being taught by the teachers, though not much practice is done in school, he's able to recognise many words and able to write them out when he's in the mood!!! Lol

2nd born fell in school again!

Am always afraid of getting phone calls from the kids school whenever they are in school!!! The last I had a shock was when he had a fall and fructured his arm when he was in Primary 1!!  And on this 28 Mar, I got a call from his school office, telling me he had a fall in school and his nail came off at about 7.58am!!! OMG... why is my son so accident prone?!?! 

When I saw him in sick bay sobbing and not crying badly, I guess it's not a very bad fall, but seeing his bruises on his forehead and nose I thought otherwise again...

He didn't talk much, as usual, he does not talk or able to explain when he is being questioned... so all these will have to be later part when he's feeling better towards the evening time...

This is the initial wrap on his injured finger by the school.... I'll have to bring him to the doc after dropping Alvan to the childcare...

This is a gross photo of his raw injury... After the doc open up the wound for inspection,  I really had a shock of my life!!! First time to me, it must have been so damn painful!!! But he keep telling me it's not painful and refused to take any painkiller!!!  Seriously, I do not know if he's really a tough boy or he's just trying to pacify me or putting on a brave front as he's a boy and his self esteem is really high!

Doc did some clean up and dressing... And he was given 2 days MC with 2 weeks MC from PE... And he was pretty sad as he's not able to go for his CCA the next day!

Here's a pack of the dressing kit I got from the doc... lucky I saw he did the cleaning and dressing at the clinic as I need to do it for my son twice daily!

Here's a pic of his injury on the next day... seriously I may well be a qualified nurse if I were good in Biology and signed up for nursing course back then... Haha...  lucky am not afraid of blood and am able to clean his wound twice daily... I believe not everyone will be able to perform such a task!!!! :p  but being his mum, I guess I have to do it, else how to be his mum and protect him during their growing years???

His nail dropped off after 4 days and his wound looks better... now waiting for his nail to grow and he's on his way to full recovery!!!

His medical report for submission of insurance claim from the school!!

So, a word for my son...:

Son, please be careful in all things you do, mummy may not have such a strong heart when you grow up... I may not be able to take any such news of you falling down, either breaking yr arms or other part of your body, even nails! Mummy hope you will grow up to be a very strong boy and be careful in all things you do... mummy will always be here for you, always! Love you!!! Have a speedy recovery!

Adwin is 100 months old!

Another innovative idea by hb!!!! Hahaha... I remembered we were doing some random shopping at sun plaza SKP shop one Saturday and hb was just counting and thinking of how many 'months' old were the children... And he suddenly came to me and say, Dear, it so happened that adwin will be turning 100 months old in April this year!!! We can do a celebration!! And off he went to get this 100 candles! And my kids were soo curious who is turning 100 years old seeing his daddy buying this candles!

And I had got this Durianmisu cake for this mini celebration as he's now a fanatic of durian!!!

And see my birthday boy!!! He was sooo surprised that this 100 candle is for him and shy away when we sang the birthday song for him!!! Hahaha.. 

Like what WL posted on FB: "Not everyone can live up to 100 yrs old, but who says we can't celebrate our 100 mth birthday?"