Boys Will Be Boys

Party @ The Neos!

Finally we had the chance to visit the long awaited dream home of The Neos.

Trashing the house here we come!!!

Eating and more eating at their giant table....


What's their young master doing at a corner?? hmm......


*tsk* *tsk*

we all had great fun exploring The Neo's new home! Thank you for having us!!

Kids Update!

Latest addition to our family is Baby Xin, she's cute and curious about the world! Enjoys a good cuddle and lots of physical bonding! One drooling babe too!



We are all young right???


Singing Junior...



How to resist such a sweet sweet smile??


BabyA and his french fry....


Baby K with his strong interest in Ad's phone hee hee.....


A young lady waiting for her 2front tooth!

How lovely it is to receive Presents!

Yes, I cant believe it! Its almost mid-May and out of the blue I am opening up a beautifully wrapped present from Ladybird & Otterman! hee hee.... so cool!



Very pretty wrapping hor? I couldn't bear to untie the ribbon... I knew I had to immortalise this moment when the present is still in such a beautiful state hee....

Guess what it is???

A Sling BAG! yeah!! I've been thinking of a sling bag in this shape for a long time!! Its GREAT! Its got a huge space inside, which means I can do my usual dumping of my many things in it hee hee....

Thank YOU guys!

And guess what??? I also got a present from R, specially brought back from BJ! So happy to be surprised by such wonderful gifts of thoughtfulness. I love it! I can only get present from a person when they think of me right? hee hee Thank You R! *muaks*

now I have a pretty pretty feminine purse! yeah!

Vote for Me (friend)

KFC had a photo competition which wanted contestants to submit photos of how they "give in to the moment". Following this theme, me and a few of my very sporting friends spent 2 days, invested quite abit of our food allowance to craft out what we felt was our "giving in moment"


which one first?
(was my entry)

but it din get picked! :( *bleah*

However!!!! My friends' entry did get picked!!! *hoorray!*

So now, in order for my friend to win grand prize... ALL must vote for her!

Vote for KFC03 titled "Eat first! Pay later!" by clicking here to link to KFC's site.


But you'll have to sign up as a member first in order to vote....

By voting, you'll get a chance to WIN 32' LCD TVs!! (i want!)

you can vote ONCE daily! So please help me friend WIN the grand prize... i'll tell u when she does ok?

There's an old saying that goes "help a stranger everyday, make your day brighter in every way!" Help my friend to win and she'll be eternally grateful! (ok, I made up that saying... but doesnt it feel good to know that you are of help to someone whom you dunno? TRY IT!)

VOTE for KFC03! Now!

talk talk or take picture take picture?

Funny Faces of 2007

Baby A learns MORE

Baby A is delightfully picking up phrases from everyone around and everywhere... so we thought we might as well check in some of the instrumental phrases....



did you notice that he was bowing his head while he was reciting O$P$?? He must be the most friendly ah long out there... hahaha

Baby A learns Hokkien & Intelligent english

What do you do with kids on a long long road trip?

You teach them new stuff....

Baby A learns Hokkien

this series of videos are inspired by a road trip that embraces our local delights and dialects...

Total Distraction....

was supposed to put in my every last ounce of effort to be focused on getting alot of materials ready for a discussion tomorrow...

then an invitation to video chat came in....

it was an invitation to do a foursome!!!

my virgin foursome experience...

had to treasure it... had to enjoy it....

there goes my precious evening time....

now need to re-fuel the system to burn the midnight oil....

more photo updates later...

teutoburg's link is the clearest....
conclusion: starhub 6000 is BETTER than NUS's lan connection and singnet's 10Mbps....

siva's photo, needless to say he pretends to be busy and forgets to smile at the camera... but claims to be the first to put up his image online, beating all of us flat!

my photo all of them are blur like sotong and I can pose very well for cameras...Thank you thank you

next we went on to take video shots of the video iChat... see lah so much time wasted... now gotta to figure out how to edit the 150Mb worth of video to shrink it down....

Board Games!

Its been a while since I played games with friends. Literately..... erhm, those that involve tiny ivory-like tiles not counted lah.

I mean its Monopoly, board games etc.

Friend A got this semi-board game that got me HOOKED!

Its called Car-Kor-Song (cannot remember the actual spelling, but sounds like this)

Maximum 6 players, each player given 7 men to use.

There's one bag of tiny board (tile) that may have roads/river/castles/intersections on it.

The idea is for each player to chop as much castle/roads as they can. Once the castle or the road is completed, they can claim points for it. Each castle tile is worth 2points, each road tile is worth 1point. Hence the bigger the castle the more points you can accumulate during the building process.

Each player will pick dig their hand into this mysterious bag of tiles and pull one out at a time (almost like scribble), once they picked out their tile, they will place it with the rest of those existing ones to form castle/roads or even open space (that's abit suay).

Everyone takes turn to go round.

You can put one of your 7 tiny men onto the tile which you have just placed onto the master board to chop the castle/road. The next person with a tile that can match up to it can also put THEIR men on it. Hence, as the castle grow, players fight it out to chop as many tiles of the same castle/road with each other. The winner is the one with the most men on that plot when its completed.

Points are calculated towards a smaller board (something like the snake & ladder one minus the snakes and ladder hee hee), so if u chop a castle that is worth 10points, u move 10steps on the board.

Then there's a dragon....

Winner is determined at the end of the game when all the tiny tiles are exhausted.

Guess who WON??? hahahahaha



now u know why i'm hooked onto the game??

when is the next game man?? bring it on!

Lamb Lamb where are you?

Gotta friend who is planning to set up his own F&B catering biz, he's been generously letting us try out his recipes.

This meal was a lamb chops and roast chicken....

Yummy!


next time when he officially open for biz then I blog more of his contact k?

In the meantime, you can continue to salivate.... hahahahha

Baby a's great movie

The MJ wonders!

a few months ago, while our usual MJ kakis came over to once again challenge our magnificent, cannot be defeated MJ skills.... Ms J did herself some wonders!

She won her first ever 13 wonders in our JenAd house!! (she's the 2nd to have won the game in his house.... the other person is none other than her bf Mr C!)

Worse part is.... I think I was the one who gave them both their winning cards! hahaha



Congrats! now u r officially on the MJ 13 Wonders special name list.....

Back to Work!

I did an on-site inspection of the iBook which Ad has painstakingly replaced its "spare-parts", while Otterman re-installed all the applications to get it back to work.

And the verdict is......

Well Worth The Effort!

the iBook G4 is up and running, doing all the stuff that Otterman requires it to do as with what he does with his MacBook Pro hee... except video conferencing I guess.....

Bubbles!

Not the powerpuff girls bubbles....

but real giant bubbles!

hehe... Ad bought a gadget that comes with some illustrations on how to build giant bubbles.

So one fine day... I really mean one fine day (which is like 2yrs AFTER we bought the bubbles maker).... We went to make bubbles!

Girls Night OUT

Malacca II

Malacca I

Baby A the DANCER

Baby A's first exploration trip to the airport brought out this super duper cute part of him (which we dunno how long it'll last, so we better enjoy all we can while it lasts hee). He dances to music! Different moves to different beat! Truly amazing!! He's such an expressive kid!

In this shop, he was happily dancing away, when I took out my camera to start to film him, he came towards me, so I told him hey can you go back there and dance again for me??

HE DID just that! turned around and started dancing!! just 16months old, amazing!

Easter Vigil @ St Teresa's

This year was a really special year for our choir, we were scheduled to sing for the Vigil Mass!!

To make it more meaningful, we have a special kid who is getting baptised on the same night with his Godpa from our choir as well.... cool eh??

the warming up practise....






here's a snap of the baptism.








what a night....

Baby Baby Baby

Our favourite godson (who is to date also our one and only hahaha), has started dancing to different beat, different music and looked super adorable!!

He is also a super duper chatty baby, we will have no lack of topics to cover....

having fun with Photo Booth

one of the cool things about the Mac is its Photo Booth software... hee.... cos with Peppermint, it comes with a webcam!! Which is great!! and totally underuterlized until I started with Photo Booth....

yep, Photo Booth software comes FREE with a new Mac ;-)

one of the willing "models" was Otterman! haha, hard to believe that this fella would open up the software on his own to take a photo of himself with his NEW mobile phone SLING... which is actually a cup of Cuppacino hee...


always wondered what would it be liked if i had a bigger mouth.. (similar size to Ad's hee cos he can always seems to stuff MORE food into his mouth than me....)



i gues Ad wanted to try to be Jackie Chan or Jackie Chueng hee... both with HUGE noses!! They say big nose people have good fortunes! shall we use this as a pinup photo??


then we kinda "forced" our godson baby A to take a "family" photo with us also hee hee


then we had an extended lim family photo shot hee hee....


does it look like we are having fun already?? yes... u bet!

Visitors from the Wild

YES, finally we were able to do this dinner thing which we have wanted to with our wild friends from nature, Otterman, Ladybird and Lekowala. It started with a phone call from Otterman about finding a contact to change his harddisk on this 14' iBook to check if it was just the harddisk that was down or the whole machine's lifespan has expired. So Ad told him "SURE, He can do it!"

Ladybird reviewed that Otterman nearly forgot to bring the iBook!! aiyo!! It was left in his office on thursday and Ladybird went to pick it up from his office on thursday afternoon. THEN on friday itself, he forgot to bring it out of the house AGAIN!!! Seems like Otterman dun really want this iBook to be fixed so that he can get a Mac Mini?? hahaha

So we planned for a simple dinner which consist of Ocean's FishHead Curry (hahaha, the food was so good that we finished it without taking any pictures! *Slurp* sorry too busy)

After some chit chat, the table was cleared and Ad started his "mechanical" job of labouriously removing the many screws from the iBook, it was close to some 30 screws of different sizes. In addition to having to use a pair of chopsticks to dislodge the shell from the internal parts, it really looked as if he was doing a surgery.... From what he thought was a simple, straight forward process, it became a 2hr+ marathon surgery hahaha

He started from the back, removing the battery (which was really the easiest part) to unscrewing the butt screws (which has about 3 differnt types of screws and close to 10 of them), Ad spent about 10-15mins trying to dislodge the white shell from the main body.... after numerous tries, he finally found the perfect way to do it, using a wooden chopsticks hahaha

Yep, we thought that was all that he needed to get to the harddisk.... but NO, there was another silver/aluminium sheet that shields the rest of the body, covering another 10 screws....

When all the screws were removed, we saw the internal organs.... woah, no joke... its not easy to access the harddisk, its really in the HEART of the iBook!

After taking a serious look at it, he decided that it was too tough to get to the harddisk from the back, so he put back all the screws, clip the white base back to the back of it and tried to start from the front........

He removed the dusty keyboard which Otterman quickly took over to dutifully clean it and Ad continued on his open-heart surgery only to find that the version of the service manual that he was using was NOT for this model & batch of iBook hahaha! Apple made 4 revisions to this 14' iBook, each revisions have its own manual and slightly different internal organisation and how its internal organs were organised.....

u know what that means??

its means that Ad found out that he has to open BOTH the keyboard side AND the back to get to the harddisk hahahaha

*imagine the look on his face*

But my very determined Ad went on to re-open the back, unclipping the back cover, this time he was like a pro, can do it very quickly hahaha

From Jenad hse wit...

then he checks the manual to ENSURE there's NO mistakes....

From Jenad hse wit...

And finally.... *applause* *applause* Ad did it!!! He finally OPENED the iBook! hahaha

From Jenad hse wit...

But what really stole the show was not the open heart surgery that took 2hrs to complete, instead it was Jen's Xaxvi Aerostep which got our guests really excited into a step, jump and run hee hee....

its an exercise mat which has similar concept to the dancing mat, it has its own console (about $150) and the mat cost about ($150) and the teacher is Jackie Chan....

Jen doing demo....

Jenad hse with otterman, ladybird & lekowala

Otterman doing his thing...

From Jenad hse wit...

Ladybird showing her endurance... she did 30mins on the aerobics mat for Jen hahaha

From Jenad hse wit...

in the end, our guests had a "friendly" competition on the mat which does an age assessment of the competitor by a series of jumps and steps... gues who won??

From Jenad hse wit...

hahaha....

we were all rewarded with a heavy dose of ICE CREAM!! yeah yeah so much for burning those calories hahaha

Jen's Bday Bash in BKK

YEP, this year, Ad gave me a huge treat to be away for once during my bday, I havent been there in like 15years, so my memory of this place is like temples, flooding market and trees lined up along the road that was not green but GREY haha.

All these changed during our short stay in this city now filled with activities for a tourist...












can you guess already? BangKok lah! haha

Canticle CNY

Yes its abit delayed action but better late then never right? hee....

Canticle is the name of the choir that we are in from church, so we "arm-twisted" D&S to host the CNY party since their place is HUGE hee hee and we had a ball of time there!!

We chatted, ate, played cards, drew, stacked up lego tiles, and even tried to solve the mystery of the zip....

there's this children's activity book which has a list of items that you can search for in the main picture, teaching kids about clothes, television, microwave etc and no one has ever found the ZIP! haha yes we are still trying....

then the tradition of celebration comes with BlackJack and Alcohol, which both dun always go well hand in hand.... at least for Martin hee hee.... soon the effects of alcohol was knocking him out, from sitting up to see his cards, he's laying down and almost doing a full face on the floor half way through the game haha


Then at one corner of the house (see that's why i tell u their house is huge because one corner can host over 10 of us playing cards the other corner can have kids doing other stuff), there's LEGO! Ad's favourite!!
Check out what he built at the request of a pretty young lady (*tsk* *tsk* do I have to "fight" with her for Ad now??)


I show who she is, then u folks out there will tell me if I have a cause for concern...

so pretty young thing hor?? *sigh*

here's the finishing touches to put in a Priest into the church that she requested for...


One whole day of fun fun and more fun, sorry no more photos after that cos I'm having too much fun to be taking pictures anymore haha...

MJ Hall of Fame

Some day I should set up a proper MJ Hall of Fame that actually documents the actual game and the player who strike that great game along with some story. But for now, this is a simplified version of it hee hee... Actually our games have cut down quite a bit because of a variety of reasons but most of all, becaues we've upgraded to slacking infront of the tv ha ha ha

here's some WOAH moments on the table:

Some Jan birthday babies

I say SOME because the list of Jan birthday babies goes far far beyond this photo, I think we have over 10 friends who celebrates their birthday this month hee hee...



here's with a bunch of folks at Pasta Mania from our church, we had a short "classroom" session with our Pretty Prudie teacher who almost fumed at a notty student with ultra long name of Nathasha Shasa Chloe T-Na Che-Ah BaR-lisT Leh Leng. Pretty Prudie teacher could not repeat her name in full and both had a long "tug-of-tongue" session with their names. ha ha ha

But it was mama SC who broke Pretty Prudie into tears with a keychain mirror hee hee (sorry gals, had to blog this funny incident)

But the surprise was truly on US!

I remembered one birthday WRONGLY! I planned a surprise birthday party, called the husband, told him about it and he happily said OK and I even asked what type of cake shall I buy... then just before dinner, our usual chit chat brought us to the topic of birthdays and the birthday gal announced that her birthday wont happen till another two++ more weeks!! I almost died! Of course the other "surprise" party organisers also dropped their jaws ha ha

well well, dinner had to go on right. After we all had a sumptous dinner, Ad sneakily went to light up the birthday cake and sneaked up on the birthday girl and we sang a loud loud birthday song for her... and it turned out that Ad did NOT know that her birthday was not for another 2+week!! ha ha ha (that was surprise #2)

On the actual day of the birthday (yes we are still talking about the SAME girl!) we coordinated with her husband (again!!) the time when she will reach home, we appeared at her place one by one and finally by the 3rd friend she smelt a rat! ha ha GREAT right? finally managed to surprise her. YEAH!

But her husband was NOT at home!! aiyo, how can we celebrate birthday without her husband? Poor fella was stuck at work. So we took the initiative to BRING the party to HIM. ha ha ha

GUES WHAT? 60mins before the birthday ends, we arrived near the office and the birthday gal spotted the colleagues by the side of the road! Which means her hubby is no longer in the office! AH ha ha ha

YEP he was almost home, he rushed off to get home so that he can meet us, yet we tried to spring a surprise on him. Aiyo, I tell you this couple VERY tough to surprise! Next year must plan a better one!!!

Nonetheless, we all had a good laugh and definitely a memorable birthday party full of surprises which surprise even the event planners ha ha ha

boys will be boys

these two boys spent a good day infront of the big screen combating digital enemies with their ten fingers, often exchanging tips on how to fly their "ghost"? or firing their guns.

they were so engrossed that we had to peeled them off their seats at 9ishpm for dinner! If not you'll most like read news of starved wives! ha ha ha

giggles

hey girls, i enjoyed the giggles that we had last week, it was great fun!!

reminded me of the few short days we spent in KL, giggling at everything, roti boy/ vincci/shopping etc ha ha

more more!

for some giggly reads click here, here and here!

Gotheborg = Yo Ta Bo Ri

That was my interpretation of the name of a swedish ship that was re-created to re-sail the oceans as its predecessor did about 300 years ago.

I was surprised to be seeing this magnificent ship docking our harbor!



JenAd were part of the welcoming party to wave the swedish flag and shout "S***" (not shit pls, a name lah)


Our friend Otterman was on board! Ha ha, this joker, who does not really swim well, volunteer to be on board this sail ship that took 10years to build, at a hefty price tag of 50 million.

In late Nov, Otterman told me that he might be going away for a few weeks to sail on a ship, I have no clue what he was talking about, he mumbled some swedish ship, coming back from china, he'll be getting onboard in HK, arriving in late dec. I was like huh? Need so long to sail from HK to Singapore meh? Plane ride only 4hrs.

I secretly thought that he was just joking, there was no update until much later. Before I knew it, he was BACK! ha ha

Of course we had to go and welcome him and HER Gotheborg. Doesnt she look good?

This baby is built using as traditional material and method as they can find. Took them 10 years to find the precise type of oak to built it, I think they combed quite a few forest for this baby. 100 000 man hours to build. Although it has a motorised engine, the Captain sailed her without the engines as much as he can afford it. Even though its published maximum sail speed was said to be at 8-10knots, this babe went beyond that speed during the strong monsoon winds on her way down to Singapore. So much so that the crew have to climb up the mast to rope in part of the sails to slow her down. Can you imagine climbing up some ropes with strong winds blowing at you? I can, I'm sure its very very very scary!




Kodus to the crew who braved through storm and rain!

There were 3 other Singaporeans on board this babe and sad to say, their welcome back party was not as loud and welcoming as we were. All they could here is "S***! S***!" ha ha ha



It helps that we were feeling hot and sweaty under the blazing heat and terribly excited to hear the canon pop at Harbour Front. It all adds up to the excitement hee hee...


Welcome Home Otterman! Its time to get back to WORK! ha ha ha

also report in Alvin's Spiel

buzzing around the ears

What do you do when some things you hear feels as irritating as mozzies buzzing behnd your ears when you are in deep sleep?

There is a chinese saying which I always bear in mind:
涼葯苦口利与病

忠言逆耳利与行

it means that when you take bitter medication, its beneficial for your illness, (most chinese herbals do not appeal to the palate)
Like wise, when someone is giving genuine advice beneficial to your behaviour, it is usually unpleasant sounding to the ears.

I have no problems pointing this saying out when I'm trying to tell someone that its good for their health to take bitter medication, but when it comes to my turn to take the bitter medication, I ask myself WHY ME? ha ha ha

Do you encounter situations when someone is telling you that some of your actions are not appropriate? What are your responses to them? Do you take a min to listen carefully to what they have to say without feeling defensive about your own behaviour?

Its only true friends who care about you who would tell you off when you misbehave, treasure them.

Hello 2007

We were invited to our pal's house on new year eve to start the year with them and our bunch of good friends. It was a very entertaining start to the new year despite the shocking news of bombing in bangkok's city center....

Besides A&W's Lindy Hop swing dance mini-performance for us, we found our little godson swinging to the groovy music as well! check it out!





We had so much food, drinks and desserts that we had to pace them out with the game Catch-Phrase which we borrowed from D&S hee hee... after a few disruptive rounds (because babyA keeps trying to press the buzzer as it goes beeping hee hee) we found out that the ladies are better at it. Girl Power!

For the countdown, we could hear the neighbourhood going 5 4 3 2 1 Happy New Year! So we joined in the shouting match! Not my neighbourhood, I dun have to worry about being thrown out for being too noisy ha ha ha

Then it was time.... to do the most childish thing we have in the house... Sparklers!

Its amazing how much fun and laughter we drew from burning sparklers in the corridor.... BabyA was scared initially, but after our continuous assurance, he was excited by it. :)

In the mist of sparklers and counting down, Ad & Al spotted fireworks from across the causeway. Woah.... so cool! they had fireworks along the entire coastline, we just needed to walk along the corridor to spot them hee hee.... Needless to say, BabyA was also mesmerized by the fireworks.

I think at the end of the night, he could spot fireworks in the air from a mile away.

Happy New Year!



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