OOOPPSS I Did It Again>>>>

Did I remember correctly that I was NOT going to do it this year - celebrating for Noah's birthday? Oopps I did it again I was prompted to plan a party for Noah because of a silly Korean drama - actually am too embarrassed to share the story.

So, it started off with a simple Pizza Party for the kids. Sounds easy right? Kids come over, prepare some pizzas and then the adults came to eat. BUT, dad and mum thought, "Why don't we ask more people over, we have not had the chance to fellowship for so long?"

So, 7 became 15 became 20 became 25 and finally became 30++

Wow, we had a blast!

All simple junk food but loads of fun, laughter and catching up. And we had a multi-cultural party graced by Indonesians, Burmese, American, Japanese, Filipinos, Thai, Singaporeans.

We experienced a "2 loaves and 5 fishes" in our very own kitchen, it's simply amazing.

30 August - we dedicated our "new kitchen" to the Lord and it was a testimony of His Goodness to us.

Oops, we also celebrated Noah's 10th birthday - his first decade! Truly a big milestone for our Baby.

What's Cooking for us this week

I decided to upgrade our look-and-feel of our weekly menu this week. Used some of the scraps I have in hand.


I miss crafting ....

Did You Ever ? .....

Saw this list in a Book I am reading now > The Creative License by Danny Gregory

Running out of ideas to express your CREATIVITY?

When you've worked through the whole list, take the rest of the day off ....
(Just a quarter of the long long long list)

Accounting
Acting
Animation
Baking
Beading
Bookbinding
Calligraphy
Card making
Ceramics
Collage
Cooking (Czech, Dim Sum, Tapas, African)
Drums
Decoupage
Fabric painting
Carpentry
Gardening
Guitar
Handbag design
Kite making
Knitting
Macrame
Model Making
Mosaics
Origami
Painting
Photography
Printing
Quilting
Scrapbooking
Sewing
Short Stories
Singing
Tap dancing
Toy making
Typography
Violin
Weaving
Web design
Xylophone
Yard work
'zine publishing

Weekly Meals Menu

Since the kitchen has been nicely revamped, we have been eating simple, home cooked meals.

Weekly trips to the market on weekends (alone, hmm...managed to drag Noah there today to help - didn't get the help I needed, in fact he was complaining a lot!) has been therapeutic. I get to decide what the family eats the whole week! That's power I say ><

So, Siti (my helper) and me start by sorting out the food and organising in Tuppers.

Then, I start my planning. Soups, steaming, grills ...

Healthy and yummy.... Noah gives us A+ daily for these meals, Pete comes home no matter how late for his meals. Makes our day!

Here's a snippet of what we are going to have this coming week.

Noah Sam - Social-Preneur

Sorry the above is such a badly taken picture.

Found this Advertisement at the Front of my House.
Reads
Chores Daily and Babysitting
I do anything
S$ 2 to $ 4 - various chores .....

Let me take some time to introduce you to
Mr Noah Sam, CEO, HCOS (Heroic Community of Saving)
Noah has started this business alliance with some of his school friends. They are quite funny, they meet during recess, prepare some fantastic business plans (seriously, some are even better prepared than what my students can produce) and they make their own business cards. After school, they meet online to discuss their great plans.

I am thinking, my boy doesn't score Band 1s and fails Mandarin, but he is an extremely GOOD BUSINESSMAN. He is forward looking, knows stakeholders, understands Supply chain, does marketing, networking and budgeting.

Dear Mums reading this,
There are options for our children if they do not make it academically, take time to discover their other talents.

So, anyone one out there keen to invest in HCOS?
Noah will send you his Business Proposal!

The Old must be Cleared before the New is Built

I am celebrating my one-month old kitchen. The old kitchen is dated (been 8 years since we renovated it) and the termites were feasting on the wood. It was down to calling the Pest Control guys in every quaterly or parting with a HUGE sum of money - these days, spending money on renovations is a luxury. The spending on new kitchen won the toss up!


We endured
a) late night meetings with renovators to discuss designs
b) 5 weeks of dust
c) 5 weeks of no laundry and eating out
(thanks to Mum for helping, Sis/Sis-in-law for helping with laundry ... reno team, Sparky, extra helpers from Aunt and Sis ..... )

Our new kitchen is finally completed.

You know when the kitchen is a job well done when:
a) your son loves to stay in the kitchen
b) you overhear your son saying : "I wish this could be my room"
c) your dog makes his imprints at the entrance

Getting to know me better

Ha, I am assuming this post if of interest to someone... This has been circulating in Facebook and I thought it would be pretty fun to have a go at it.

For Facebook users...instructions...
To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your title as "Getting to know each other!", tag 25 people including me (tagging is done in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
=> 6.20 am
2. How do you like your steak?
=> medium well
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
=> Transformers 2 - which crashed, in my opinion
4. What is your favorite TV show?
=> CSI, Korean dramas (ha)
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
=> Anywhere, Lord take me out of this place .....
6. What did you have for breakfast?
=> Toast with Triple Berry Jam from Jones Grocer and Coffee
7. What is your favorite cuisine?
=>Japanese and Thai
8. What foods do you dislike?
=> Junk food?
9. Favorite Place to Eat?
=> Seriously, a meal cooked out of my kitchen and of course, Mum's
10. Favorite dressing?
=> Balsamic
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
=> Suzuki SX4
12. What are your favorite clothes?
=> Comfortable "summer" clothes
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
=> Europe, China
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
=> 1/2 empty
15. Where would you want to retire?
= > Islands far far away
16. Favorite time of day?
= > After 9pm
17. Where were you born?
=> Singapore
18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
=> Of course, EPL - Man U
19. Who do you think will not tag you back?
=> Don't know what is Tagging yet (ha ha)
20. Person you expect to tag you back first?
=> er...
21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
=> Friends who genuinely care about me
22. Bird watcher?
=> No way, hate birds
23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
=> Night
24. Do you have any pets?
=> 1 dog, Sparky, my 11 year old Jack Russell
25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share?
=> I am looking forward to starting a new chapter in my life
26. What did you want to be when you were little?
=> Lawyer
27. What is your best childhood memory?
=> Spending time with my family at my grandpa's circus (Malaysia)
28. Are you a cat or dog person?
=> definitely dog
29. Are you married?
=> Yes, to a great guy!
30. Always wear your seat belt?
=> Yes, I am the driver
31. Been in a car accident?
=> *knock on wood
32. Any pet peeves?
=> lots haha..
33. Favorite Pizza Toppings?
=> meats - salami and beef, cheese
34. Favorite Flower?
=> Not that into flowers but greens - herbs make my day
35. Favorite ice cream?
=> chocolate
36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
=> subway
37. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
=> 3 - ha ha
38. From whom did you get your last email?
=> Husband, last night, we were testing our BB
39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
=> Any retail is good for me
40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
=> Nope, very "safe" person
41. Like your job?
=>Yes
42. Broccoli?
=> love it
43. What was your favorite vacation?
=>Every trip out is a Good Vacation!
44. Last person you went out to dinner with?
=>Family
45. What are you listening to right now?
=>Stream music
46. What is your favorite color?
=> pink
47. How many tattoos do you have?
=> 0
48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?
=> 0
49. What time did you finish this quiz?
=> 8.43 am
50. Coffee Drinker?
=>Definitely... ^_^

my family trip to Bandung

on 15th of June,we went to Bandung. when we first got there we went straight to our hotel it was called Hotel Gallery but our room needed cleaning so we went to the mountain top to eat food.First we went to Kampong Daun a nice relaxing place to keep in touch with nature it it located at JI.sersan Bajuri km4,7 villa Triniti Bandung.We saw many interesting things like:swallows, ferns,butterflies and staghorn beetles.Next we went to this place where you can pick strawberries all at just 18,000RP you get to pick 10 strawberries and a free strawberrie milkshake.Thank you for your time of reading this story.

Hong Kong Disneyland

Recent trip with students to Hong Kong Disneyland

It doesn't take much for one to feel like a kid whenever you are in Disneyland......

It's midway 2009 now...

It's hard not to use the cliched "Time Flies" but didn't we just celebrate 2009 just yesterday?

What has happened since Jan
1) Noah starts Primary 4 (WOW!)
2) Peter has established Idea Farm and Labelindo LLP (WOW WOW, we have a great CEO at home)
3) Tarpa bags took off (WOW WOW WOW!) will post some pics of the bags
4) Yati after 10 years of service has decided to call it quits with us (ha ha, no seriously, 10 years is a little long for her to be separated from her family)
5) Alve starts finishes her 2 years with SP and now starting on a new contract
6) Home is great, messy but we love it
7) Noah gets his Bronze for swimming test