aging is berry scary

found a photo from the twilight years, ok 2005.
ah long and me look v v v fresh and young lor.
check it out:
http://junlong-wenhui.blogspot.com/2005/11/medear-dear.html

i cant only say 岁月催人老!
though i still look much better, i insist!!!!!

week 1 of sept: dump the junk!

the very first step to take for selling your flat is to dump the junk!
not only it will do away with the clutter in your house, it will also free up space to make the house roomier for open house viewing!

so after meeting up with our agent (dear mr lim!) to communicate with him it's time to start the whole buy/sell contra madness for the ng family, ah long and me started spring-cleaning the house!

week 1 of sept:
everynight after the kiddos slept, the husband and i tackled down room by room to THROW out anything that is of no value (ie, do we need them?!).
and we threw away tons(!) but surprisingly its very therapeutic! LOL.
and the house was restated to the initial year when we moved in - bare and simple (with the exception of the children room... ). ha!

efficient mr lim has already scheduled 2 grps of potential buyers to come for viewing WHEN:
- we cant offer option to purchase since we've only just submitted application to resell our flat to HDB
- we dont have a valuation report on hand....

still, i was quite proud when the potential buyers come. i really do think our unit is very well-maintained for a 5 years old one.

anyway, 1 grp must have like our flat alot or just paying lip service..they actually came up with a verbal offer! despite no available valuation report.
still, we cant give option to purchase so we will see how this "offer" goes.
ok, more updates next week!

OMG! has it been 5 years!?

to the man in my life:

Dear mr ng,

time flies and we have been married for 5 years and together for 9.5 years!
it all started with a movie date - spy game- in 2001. the movie was blah but the date ended with me having a good fuzzy feeling towards you. :)
during the dating years, we have our fair share of ups & downs. but i reckoned the ups > downs since we came to the stage where i "proposed" to you outside california fitness and you to me at fort canning. :P

fast forward 5 years later from our wedding day, we are now blessed with two lovely boys.
though we still drive each other absolutely crazy (NOT the lovey crazy way) every other day, im still glad to say that we can still make each other laugh.

thanks dear for letting me retain the inner child in me
thanks dear for letting me laugh with/at you.
thanks dear for helping me to tabao kaya butter toast + hot milo from the coffeeshop downstairs whenever i feel like eating, be it on weekday nights/weekend afternoons.

hopefully, we can go back to have proper celebration for our wedding anniversary when the boys are bigger!

love,
mrs ng

zoo zoo zoo! you you you!

the husband managed to apply successfully for the corporate zoo pass today so both of us took leave to bring the elder son to the zoo! :)
but 天不作美, it was raining v v heavily the moment we woke up.... @_@
still, undaunted by the crazy weather, we decided to enjoy time to the fullest with yz.
so we went to have a relaxing slow brekkie with him.. no rush no rush.

at 10+, we saw that the rain has turned to a drizzle so we decided to just heck it and made our way to the zoo.
we bought the raincoats bought from disneyland HK earlier this year and they came in v v v handy! :)
its really a different kinda experience to visit the zoo on a rainy day. yz was v gleeful walking in the rain in his poncho. haha.


mother and son, haha.


waiting for the elephant show - its the only show that yz has never catch before.
he has watched others like rainforest fights back, splash safari etc...

we let him have a go at feeding the elephants and he really enjoyed the session! :)

by the time we reached kidzworld, the rain has stopped! just in time for yz to indulge in some waterplay.
i joined him in the fun, sans the slides, in my poncho and stayed miraculously dry! LOL.

we left the zoo ard 3+pm, not a very long duration by any standard but since its FOC, oh well... :P

took some photos at the entrance when we reached and hubbi was VERY sure i will buy at the end of the trip. well, he was right! *thumbs up*

we left for parkway parade (abit 环岛追追追yesterday..) since we need to go ubi to fetch yr in the evening anyway.
borders having 70% storewide sale. though selection not that good, but got me over the moon nevertheless!
i grabbed 4 novels, hubbi got 2 mags and yz chose an activity book - all for $37. very good deal!
though abit sad to see borders doing down this way....

the 2 boys K.O.ed early at 9pm! even YR, who woke up super early at 6+am today to torture my mum....haha.
i cant wait to bring yr to the zoo next year when he turns 2! :)

cosy ROM affair + fun-filled day with the peeps

this weekend has been pretty fun for i got the chance to catch up with my friends!
saturday marks the 2nd wedding (ok, ROM) dinner that i've to attend for the rest of the year (4 more to come!).
was very glad to be invited by gerry & adrian to share in their joy for their ROM session at the Padang restaurant @ cricket club.
dinner was 5-course western style dinner and it was yummy!
apart from the food, i really enjoyed the night.
for one, i got to catch up with some of my friends (the ex-DTs!).
and its always happy to see 2 persons in love with each other getting hitched... :)
hope the newly-wedded couple will has a blessed marriage ahead!


met up with the gang on sunday for candice's bday!
was out of the house before 11am to have dim-sum brunch at shaw's east ocean resturant.
as usual, we ordered food with total disregard to whether we can finish. @_@


this is only the 1st round of food.....

ordered 寿桃 in replacement of birthday cake for candice and they were soft & delicious! 现蒸现卖!


we bought a bimba & lola bag and the birthday girl likes it! good choice of color by gb & tanny!

taken by the restaurant staff who obviously just want to 敷衍了事!

a much better taken one by a random passer-by!

after brunch, we continued our favourite activities - shopping, coffee break and more chatting and then 卡拉永远ok!
it was dinner time when we parted our way and i made it to my mum's place to meet up with the boys. :)
was totally tired out and now seems to be coming down with sore throat (too much screaming at the ktv to songs like "hold it against me" /"on the floor"....). hope will be better tomorrow!

lazy weekend

nothing's up during last weekend except that i've to attend a wedding dinner!
its christine's big day on saturday and the dinner was at noble house.
food is yummeh and so glad to catch up with the uni peeps again!
was telling jm that time flies and we have known the uni peeps for 10 years! (since we met each other on the 1st tutorial in NBS!) LOL.
and that silly girl still say got 10 years meh, we have not work that long.... @_@
she forgot the school years are counted as well.... haha.

brought yz along since he's ever so happy to attend "hotel dinners". :)
he was good and was seated for 90% of the whole dinner. good job!

some photos taken at marina square before the wedding dinner.
as usual, the father n son duo who didnt go for the dinner met up with the in-laws after yz and me left.................................


i wonder when will peanut's hair not stand up anymore....
and i think he starts to resemble me more! yay!


kiddy rides getting more worthwhile haha.

MJ MJ 我爱你！

the last time i played MJ with the peeps was back at CNY this year.
gosh, a good 6m+ liao.
berry berry happy to have a session (albeit a short one-just 两圈) with them today!
as usual, 小赌怡情. its just 两毛，四毛 for us.
still, glad that i managed to win my cab fare back home haha.
very happy bubbly time with them.
i wonder when can i play MJ again?! hopefully, soon!

leave on a monday is shiok!

both hubbi and myself are on leave today!
and we had a super long, tiring but fun day with the kids!
we lazed and woke up late at 8+pm... even the kids cant wake up at their usual timing too. hehe.
after breakfast with the kids, we sent YZ to childcare.
decided to do that so that we can have most of the day with YR alone. its v v v rare for YR to spend time alone with us.
it always the other way round with YZ since YR stays over at my mum 2 nights per week..

spent an hour or 2 doing some housework chores (never-ending!) before we bathed and left for town. :)
we reached wisma at around 12+pm for lunchie and then its shopping time!
YR took his nap in the pram for an hr or so leaving us to shop in peace.. ahhh.... such a long time since hubbi and me get to do so.

went ion and its not v. crowded.. good.
topshop having 40% off 2nd piece but i JUST cant find a 2nd piece that i fancy in the whole shop. :(
in the end, i bought a linen coat at original price. @_@
we cut through wisma from ion to get to taka and hubbi managed to get tees from esprit.
went to mooncake fair and was quite dissappointed. wanted to get raffles hotel champagne truffle mooncake but its missing from the fair.
wanted to get 面线 from a hong kong brand but its missing too when its here during the CNY fair. pui.
very upsetting.

next stop: paragon!
went to collect my lancome miracle teint liquid foundation which i bought during the last metro sale but it was OOS then.
metro having 20% sale storewide so i got myself a enzo-angiolini flats at 50% off! :)
we bought a big lego duplo board for the boys to build castles/farm/zoo etc with their many many duplo sets!
by the time we were done at paragon, the day was still young!

we went to fetch YZ at 5pm and decided to go raffles city! wahahah.
actually, its me whining to the husband about raffles hotel mooncake!
we had dinner there and continued our shopping! :P
by 8pm, we were really tired out.... so bought the mooncake and we went home.

the boys helped us by K.O-ing by 10pm.
leaving me to savour my champagne truffle mooncake in peace. *yummmmm...*
MJ session tomorrow with besties. better hit the sack soon too!

explorer kids + durian!

today, the ng family trooped down to downtown east's explorer kids!
it is the 1st birthday of jia xuan - junren's daughter!


my boys! :) ok, 1 too old to be one.

in the lift also must take photo. can you spot the other 2 kissing in the background? tsktsk.

we had a fun 3hrs + there!
especially the boys who ate loads of food that they dont normally eat - fries, cake, chicken wing etc.

and hubbi and i took turn to accompany them in the indoor playground..
super tiring lor! and the slides are so fast and scary! haha.

little one very amused with the tag on his wrist

going crazy in the ball pit

they were soooo tired that they dozed off once in the car. ha.

we went to vivo for dinner and there was a mooncake fair in front of tangs!

i wanted to go taka for the mooncake fair initially but dreaded the crowd hence vivo..

so it was a pleasant surprise!

continuing my mad tradition of eating durian snowskin mooncakes!
-from goodwood park & peony jade

we ate 1 from peony jade once we reached home!
the durian paste was thick with slight bitter undertones. yummy! somehow, the pandan skin goes well with the durian. *yumyum*
shall try the goodwood park one tomorrow!

hoping to get the champagne ones from raffles hotel soon!
hubbi said he's going to buy that for me! yeah!

the boys were pretty tired and were now fast asleep liao. hehe.
my her world mag reached the mailbox timely today. im going to enjoy it with some chips. :P

黄勇睿很棒！

peanut surprised us when he completed the below jigsaw all by himself without anyone's help!
we bought this jigsaw for YZ from perth when he was ard 2.5yo.
of cos, at that age YZ had it figured out soon after some help from us.
still, im very impressed with YR for being able to do so at only 19m WITHOUT any guidance from anyone.
ok, i bet he must have been "copying" gor gor for sometimes and having much trial and error on his own before he can do it all by himself.

comparatively, being not the only child in the household, YR does not get undivided attention like YZ at the same age.
most of the time, we just let him play on his own/with gor gor while we go about doing the 101 things to do (be it housework chores/our own stuff).
i do feel guilty from time to time and wonder if he will be slower compared to gor gor as i've not been diligent in reading to him on a regular basis (sadly, he doesnt take a liking to reading as much as gor gor... ) or teaching him more things.
but, little pumpkin still surprise us from time to time when he demostrated his ability to self-learn & grasping concepts on his own. :)

勇智出猜迷！！

Today, yz asked me 2 riddles which he learnt from school! I'm v impressed with him!

It goes like this:
红头盖，禄头盖，
有人怕，有人爱！
Can you guess what is the answer? Hee hee.
I pretended not to and he gave me a clue. A very obvious one, anyway:
" 很辣的！ 妈咪，你懂是什么吗？！＂
Lol.

The next riddle is :
外面是禄的，里面是红的，
吃下去是甜的，吐出来是小黑黑的！
haha!
Really tickled me to no end!!

man with good body, i like.

caught 2 movies these 2 weeks!
"captain america" with hubbi and the elder son last week and "cowboys and aliens" with the husband only this week.
"captain america" is actually the better one among these two.
wholesome hero, good action sequences, alrighty plot, what's there not to like?
"cowboys and aliens" on the other hand, is lopsided in its portrayal of the cowboys than the aliens.
the aliens are of no value-adding, typical and totally uninspiring.
the show would really fare much better just as a cowboy flick.
daniel craig & harrison ford are totally believable in their cowboy get-ups!

the next month or so are quite boring for the big screen... nothing much to look forward to.
any suggestions?

mini facelifts for the house

the ng family went furniture-hunting yesterday!
just a small detour to upper serangoon area before going my parent's place...
saw some furniture stores having warehouse sale in the area so we decided to drop by.

when we first moved into our redhill flat 5 years+ back, we bought a glass coffee table from a furniture shop at liang court L2 (cant remember the name) as well as a dining set (solid wood table + 4 leather chairs) from barang barang.
over the years, the leather chairs have slowly disintegrated (peeling leather, can you imagine!!? eeks.) and we have threw away 3 of them! so now left only 1 lonely (peeling abit too!) chair with the dining table... haha
and for the coffee table, my dear papa broke the centre part (it's a small rectangular pane a layer lower than the main table to hold magazines) by putting his weight on it when retrieving something. @_@ 1 year+ back.

so we managed to find replacements that we like yesterday!
4 leather dining chair & a glass coffee table. :)
can't wait for delivery and see the facelifts done to our living/dining room.

勇智笑语录

that day, yz was wearing covered shoes for a change since we were heading out to town.
on normal days, he will be wearing his usual open-toe crocs sandals.
in the car, he suddenly told us:" 以后我不要穿这个鞋了！"
so i asked him why.
to which he retorted:"等一下我的脚很痒，我怎样爬？！"
hahahaha, damn funny lor.

NDP 2011

like NDP 2010, we spent the evening around marina bay area.
this time round, we went to my office which has a bird eye view of the area. :)
so after the boys' nap in the afternoon, we got ready to leave the house.


i must post this photo. dont you think yz's expression is hilarious?! haha
before we took the photo, yr went to bite his shirt, leaving a big saliva stain and the gor gor got so upset that he cried.
wahahah.
we changed his top in the end... @_@

we reached MBFC in a jiffy and we took a slow stroll outside (surprisingly the crowd is all concentrated at MBS side) before settling our dinner at the link mall.


yr & us

me with the reluctant one

we reached my office at around 630pm..

fantastic view! can you spot the stage for NDP?

we settled down at a nice spot at the pantry area waiting for the parade to start. :)

can you spot the parachutes?!

the boys had the most fun i think. running around in the office.
snacking on-off on all kinda rubbish food. hmmm...

see, having fun with the white board around..
i think what he drew were berry cute..

of cos, the highlight has to be the fireworks and the boys watched with mouths agape. haha.
both hubbi and i had our arms full carrying each of them so no photos taken.
anyway, fireworks is best to be seen with naked eyes not through lens!
and we already have a glass pane between the fireworks and us liao...

once the fireworks was over, we got to our car and drove out at the first instance.
already, the roads were filled with people! people, people everywhere!
after some initial jam, we still managed to reach home within 30 mins so not too bad.
both the boys were so tired out by the day that they slept before 930pm..
while hubbi and i struggled to watch movies on HBO (starhub opened up all channels yesterday!) till 1am.. tsk tsk.
in short, a real tiring day for the ng family!

new haircut!

after having permed hair for almost a year (yes, painstakingly making it last by using hair cream diligently everyday...@_@), i've decided to go back to straight hair!
so after a harrowing 3hr+ "session" at the salon yesterday, i emerged with a lighter head and a frizz-free one too! :)

when i reached home, all the boys in the house found it hard to accept initially.
hubbi commented my 面包脸 is back........
yz said he preferred me with my long hair.
yr..... simply cried when he saw me and waved his hand furiously while shouting "no, no!" at me.
oh, and running away from me at the same time..... @_@
it took some bread plus an hour before he is willing to call me 妈妈。。。。
oh well.
looking forward to the fuss-free routine for the hair in the morning now! yay.

阿虫说话很好笑

i've just cut my hair yesterday and so i was asking the elder son on his opinion today.
me: 你喜欢妈咪绑头发，curly 头发还是现在这样的直头发？
wormy: 我喜欢你绑头发的样子(while pointing at my wedding photo on the wall). 你年轻的时候很美!
me: ?!?!?!??!?! 妈咪现在很老么?! 不年轻么?
wormy: 你现在年轻!
me: then 谁老?!
wormy: 爸爸咯!
me: 他那里老?
wormy: 屁股咯!

hahahahah, cracked me up totally though what he said was totally 无厘头!

the walking dead....

hubbi and i have started on a new serial together!
(yup, i have abandoned city hunter for time being.. somehow action and minho just dont go well together..)
and the new show we are chasing now is "the walking dead" by AMC based on a comic book series.
ooh.. my fav. - shows translated from comics (think watchmen, sin city etc).
the storyline reminds us of "i am legend" and "28 days later".
yes, its a zombie show!! which is really not my cup of tea.
to make things worse, these (un)dead come out in the daytime also. :(
but the plot and make up are really good!
it has started showing on channel 5 every sat at 10pm since last sat.
but i think we will finish the serial in a jiffy!
i like such time spent with the husband. :)

sunday evenings should be always this lazy!

was having desserts time with the husband and the 2 boys at PS cafe @ paragon just now.
my boys are really growing up!
we actually can have a short munching time in peace without either one of the boys going cranky. :)
i will miss this moment pretty soon, i know.


taken with my lousy hp camera...

no more paci!

since friday night, we've removed the pacifier from peanut's sleep routine!
i was trying my luck since he kept pulling out the paci to babytalk and sing non-stop when its sleeping time.
so i took it fromhim, half-expecting him to scream for it everytime i do so, and told him:" no more du-du, ok?".
thinking its no longer sleeping time, he sat up straight on the bed ready for play.
so i repeated again, "no more du-du ok? 豆豆, you say no more."
which he repeated in 漏风 way:"mo-more." while making the no-more action with his hand.
then i put him down on his pillow again and said:" you see, gor gor also dun need a du-du."
he seemed to understand and held on to his chou-chou pillow instead.
so we waited to see what happen.
and wait we did, for a long time!
though he didnt demand for the paci, he tossed and turned for almost a good hour before succumbing to the sandman!
even yz slept already by then!

and for today, he managed to zzz for both his nap and at 9pm without the paci.
but he needs longer time to settle down.
think its a matter of time before he adjusts fast to sleeping without paci!
im so proud of my baby!
he did it almost the same time as gor gor who was weaned off paci at ard 18m too. :)