Attended the Girls Brigade enrolment service at Covenant Evangelical Free Church. It's not really an enrolment service for the kids but more like a re-dedication ceremony for them. Veona was appointed the assistant squad leader for her group and Videl and Jodie received the award for the Best Girl for their level. It's a bit kelong though cause Videl is the only girl in that level last year. Poor Veona, she must be very sad cause Videl and Jodie got the award while she didn't get it.

Badges and Certs for the deserving kids

Dedication of Squad & Asst Squad Leader

Dedication of Members

I DO!!

Parents also need to do the dedication

We DO!!

Videl collecting the award for Best Girl for P3

Jodie collecting the award for Best Girl for P4

The kids receiving the badge for good attendance. All of them got it.

Free teabreak for the enrolment service

Dinner with William and Janice. William had a craving for curry fish head so we went to Taman Jurong FC. Yummy, nice and cheap food there. We went on a eating spree that night. After dinner, we went to Sunset Way for Ice Cream followed by a drink at Cheong Chin Nam. Was quite sad when we parted cause it will be another 1 to 2 years before we meet again. Maybe we should plan a trip to Guangzhou to look for them. Free Lodging & Free Food?
(William, do you know the reasons why I play host these 2 days? Cause I'm expecting the same when we visit you in Guangzhou. Haha)

Part 2

Bday celebration for Father in Law, Jodie and Videl at in law's place. Didn't prepare any food this year cause initially thought it is just cake cutting only. Karin bought the DIY Popiah and Alison's mother cooked glutinous rice and some mushroom thingy.

Kennie and Veona missed out the fun as they had a very bad headache. Poor thing, ended resting in the room.

My DIY popiah in the making

My DIY Popiah. It looked so big and out of shape

Bday cake for Videl

Bday cake for Jodie.

Bday Gal looking so happy

Another Bday gal looking very happy as well

Posing with her presents

A song for both of you. Happy bday to you........ you are born in the zoo.....

The 3 bday boy/girls

?? whose bday is it?

Playing Charades, an acting game in which one side acts out a word or phrase and the other side guess it. The idea is to use physical rather than verbal language to convey the meaning to another party.

Part 1

It's labour day and it's also Father in Law and Videls bday. So it's a no homework day for the kids today. Had Wanton Mee(CCK Ave 1) for BF. Videl requested us to bring her here for the Wanton Mee as it's her favourite.


Had planned to bring them to Wild Wild Wet today but canceled it due to the Swine Flu. Worried that the virus might spread easily in the water. So we went to Explorer Themepark instead. Everywhere is starting the temperature taking exercise again, a good move to start early though there's no case of outbreak yet. kids had 2 hours of fun while we cam whore again. This is our favourite pastime whenever we are here.

Playing the giant size snake and ladder

Meet up with William and Janice(kids' Godfather and Mother). They are back for a holiday and bought quite a lot of nice stuff back for us. Will put the pic in the next post.

Lunch at Tampopo Liang Court. The place is quite packed but luckily William was there earlier to take a queue no. hehe... This place is actually famous for their Ramen but seems like their menu has expanded ever since they have shifted to the now bigger location. Their Ramen is still the best that I have eaten but I wouldn't say the same for the rest of their menu.

This restaurant was actually named after a Japanese Comedy movie that was released in 1986. Seems like it's quite a nice show and is still quite popular till date.

Tonkatsu Ramen - The Ramen is good but the Tonkatsu got the pig taste(of course pig got pig taste. I'm referring to those smelly pig taste)

Shabu Ramen

Delux Miso Ramen

Kyushu Shoyu Ramen

Kaisen Box

Ten Zaru Soba

Coffee session at Trung Nguyen Coffee at Liang Court. We tried the Vietnamese ca phe phin (drip coffee), the coffee cup comes with a stainless metal drip filter on top that allows the coffee to slowly trickle through the press and into the cup. Patience is required as it would take some time to slowly drip, drip, drip into the cup (which would contain condensed milk if that’s the one you opt for). The coffee is really rich and robust but the taste is a bit funny though. I would still prefer the normal coffee from Coffee Shop or Ya Kun.