Punggol Promenade

After sending mother off to Selena's place, we went to drive around SengKang, Punggol area and ended up here. Very breezy place, you can tell from Jessie's standing hair.


There is a narrow band of beach too.


A still very new sand playground.

Jessie's Birthday Celebration in Malaysia

After some research, we found that a simple chocolate cake is more appropriate for the long journey. We decorated it with strawberries.





When I was trying to take a closed up photo for the cake. I noticed that Jessie had lowered her head and be ready to take a photo with the cake. Jessie, the borned camera detector.


Singing birthday song and candle blowing...

Ah Ma also took a photo using iPad.

We ate the cake with chocolate ice cream topping, an idea borrowed from goggle images.


Chocolate Fondue with strawberries... The kids loved it.

Chinese New Year

We reached home slightly before noon. This marked the beginning of their 3 days of fun play time for all my children. First, they played with the 2 years old pop pop cracker which is banned in Singapore.


Jessie learned from the older children to throw the pop pop at the permanently unfinished house.


The Bobby puppy is another source of excitement. This dog loves to chase after children, but won't bite.


Jessie dashed through the little passage way created by Jing Ning.


Giant papaya leave is the best tool to fool the dog.





We started the reunion dinner early about 7pm.


The children finished their food quite fast as they wanted to play games.


The first day lunar new year day starts with Mee Suah Egg noodle. According to traditional chinese age count, this is the birthday of everyone since everyone is older by one on this day.


Jessie is always ready to be a photo subject.


Benjamin didn't finish his portion. His mind is too engrossed in playing computer games.


Jonathan loves the noodle and finished them in no time.


Jessie with one of her Cheong Sum (旗袍), a present from maternal grandma. She had a photo with another Cheong Sum on the same chair one year ago.


We had a barbecue party on the first new year night at my third sister's home.


Jessie with her cousin (表妹).


Jonathan wrote his new year wish on the lantern (孔明灯).








Each family has a wish lantern and the teenagers shared one lantern.


They are totally knocked out after the one day long of fun and play.

Jessie's Birthday Celebration with Family

The three children are so excited about the birthday cake.







Jessie, the pretty girl, love to take photo. Of course she won't miss the opportunity to take photo with her beehive birthday cake.





This is a top view.





Another top view showing how "rounded" the queen bee is.





The beautiful garden decorated with flowers and bees. All the colourful decoration are made of sugar and edible.





This is the birthday celebration gang.











We forgot to bring candle for the birthday cake. I downloaded a Candle App from Apple AppStore.





After two rounds of birthday song in English and Mandarin, Jessie blow the digital candle. She finally blew off the candle after 3 attempts. My phone screen is wet with her...





This is how the candle looks.


Cake cutting...





Jessie got the cute queen bee with a red ribbon. This is the only bee that has chocolate cake inside.





Jonathan eat one of the bee, made with sugar. He finished half of the bee.







Special thanks to Gwen, for making such a beautiful, tasty cake for Jessie. She stayed up late a few nights to make the bees, flowers, letters and a long long Saturday night to put everything together.

Story Telling on Painting at Woodlands Regional Library

The children sit under the tree and listen to the story.


He tells story about Starry Night. The 7 bright stars forms the Big Dipper constellation. He also says that Vincent painted the picture at the actual night scene wearing a big straw hat with candles on top of it. This is so that he could still see the star when he raise his head. When he look at the canvas, he could see the canvas with the candle lights.


After the story telling session, Jonathan and Jessie went to the drawing room to draw different variant of the Starry Night.


This is a volunteer from the National Museum - Dream and Reality exhibition.


Jonathan enjoys the swing behind Ben Ong's home.