Staying in TinyHouse at Lazarus Island 2023

 We had our 1st "holiday" in year 2023 after 3.5 years. Boarder finally open up. Foreigns started coming in to Singapore.

Our holiday without leaving Singapore and taking plane. We took a ferry to Lazarus Island. An island with not many people. Our first time to Lazarus Island. We stayed at the tiny house for a 3D2N. It a camping style holiday. Really a great experience for us. It's really a tiny house but filled with all the amenities that we need. You can't imagine that there is toilet,bed,mini kitchen,sofa and tv. 

What did we do during our 3D2N stay? We watch our 1st sun rise on this beautiful island. Sun rise was so beautiful and feeling blessed to watch together with my love ones. After watching sun rise ,  we walked to the low tide beach and looked for some sea creatures and corals.
We had lot of fun exploring the island. There were an aquarium on this island with lots of corals. She and Daddy had a swim in the sea. We walked over to St John island too.It was a peacful and unforgettable experience for us staying in this tiny house on another island.

3.5 years

 It had been 3.5 years since the virus attacking.Till now no one had find out where this virus start. No one know when this virus will totally end. No one know this virus can be so strong and can attack and  hurt humans badly.

It had been 3.5 years since our last holiday in year 2019. Today we are looking forward to our 1st family trip to another island of Singapore. To others, it may not be a holiday to them.I believe by next year we are able to travel out of Singapore .This family trip is difference from staycation.We are counting down to the mth of September. Although there is still 4 months away , we really look forward to it. A new experience for us.

Will update again after we come back from this trip.

kite Flying and Hiking

 Already more than half of year 2021 had passed and humans are still wearing masks. 

Her school holidays had just ended and she had went back to school to have lessons. This semester timing is different from last semester. She not able to have meal in the canteen. She had to takeaway her food and had it anywhere in school. Her friends are so sweet, takeaway their food and eat together with her.

Things that we do during her school holidays. We went kite flying at West Coast Park. We had not been there for quite a few years. Initially we planned to go to Marina Barrage but there is limited number of people gathering there and they will close the vicinity to public. The space at West Coast Park is much bigger than Marina Barrage. And most importantly much much lesser people. Maybe is during weekday. After kite flying,we went to Decathlon at Kallang to buy her roller blade shoes and some other sport accessories. and follow by having dinner at old airport road hawker.

The following week we went hiking at Bukit Timah. After our hiking, we have been staying at home for the past 2 mths as cases have been increased. We are not bored staying in as we have many activities doing together at home.

Hoping that everything bad will go away and good vibes come .

Missed Year 2019

 Have not been blogging for one year plus. My last post was last year Jan.

Year 2020 was a bad year for everyone. Travelling for holiday/going out of the house/having our normal activities in the park, shopping malls, restaurants etc these are not allowed to do. WHY? Because of virus call Covid. Do you wish to stop the time at year 2019? YES I really wish that time can stop at year 2019.I so so missed the things I do at 2019.

I still remember at the beginning of year 2020,we celebrated Val birthday (Jan) followed by celebrated our Chinese New Year(Feb).After CNY, this virus started to hit the whole of Singapore.From there, we started to stay home. I missed celebrating my birthday/his birthday/mum's birthday. No outdoor activities for all.Everyone has to wear a mask when going out. Initial plan to have a long holiday after her O level but we did not do that .Until the end of 2020 then we got to go out of our house to have some normal activities. But then we still can't travel for holiday. Singaporeans started to have staycations in our own country. Shall we have one too???Really Really wish that all these will be totally gone by this year. No wearing mask No distancing. 

I have learnt new things for the year of 2020. Probably I won't be doing all these things if we are not staying in for so many months. We had more times of our own. I started to learn how to knit, learn how to twine.Beside that I spent a few months doing a cross stitch for Val. I never know that I can knit. Yesterday (Mar 2021) I learnt another skill - Macrame.

I know that the whole world won't be so fast recover from sickness. We only can stay in our own country. Wish everyone is safe and healthy.

Will the whole world collapsed and 人类会不会从此以后消失,取而代之的哪些动物之类的?

The above photos are taken during our holiday trips to different parts of the world

Sweet 16th Birthday

Times really flies. In a blink of eyes, my dearest Val is 16 years old.A teenager taking O Level this year and she plan to study in Poly. Wish her dream come true.

Yesterday (19/01/2020) she celebrated her sweet 16th by having dinner at Jumbo. She wanted to have crabs. We went for a staycations at RWS by spending a 3D2N at Festive hotel. I request the hotel to have some decorations arrangement in the room to surprise her when she reached. And yes it did surprise her. Yiyi came in on Friday afternoon to accompany her for a swim and we met grandma for dinner at vivo city. We did not do much things at sentosa but we had a relax staycation.

This year is a stressful year for her and I wish that she can work harder and go to a course that she like.

 

Wish her all he best in her O level

Planning Her Sweet 16

I was planning for her sweet 16 next year. Yes is next year birthday. Although is next year , is just a few months away. I have a few suggestions for her .

My suggestions below -

• Invite her friends to our house to celebrate for her
• Go for a staycaions at resort world sentosa
• Go for a short resort trip
• A simple celebration with dinner and dessert

My top priority is to invite friends to our house and I will cook some dishes for them but she told me that is boring to invite friends to our house as she don't know what to do at home. She wanted the staycation. It may be expensive for staycation for 2 nites but I wanted to give her a memorable sweet 16. A few more months away, let daddy decide.

Our Little Princess Has Grown Up

In a blink of eyes, she had grown up to a teenager. Tomorrow (28/08) she will be register for her very 1st Identity card in school. All Singapore citizens must register for their 1st identity card at the age of 15 years old. From birth certificate to identity card.

I have a mixed feeling for her. She has grown up from a little child to teenager slowly to an adult. I'm happy to see her grown up happy and healthy. But we grown old slowly.Wish that she will be a responsible person when she step into the society.

Remember what I always tell you.

Happy Mother's Day - 12th May 2019

Today is Mother's Day. I received my 1st carnation from her. The flower was bought by daddy .I was quite surprise when she given me the flower. I was in the kitchen hanging clothes when she gave me the flower.

It was not the 1st time she gave me gift on Mother's Day but it was the 1st time she gave me carnation on Mother's Day.

OBS Camp 2019

Have not been updating my blog for quite awhile.

She is now in Sec 3. Studying pure science and A Maths. Now already into the month of March and she had go through a number of tests.Wish her continue to work hard.

This coming March school holiday,she is going to OBS camp for a 5D4N. Basically for the whole of school holidays. I will miss her badly. This is the 1st time that she not at home for so many days. Although she had camp when she was in Sec 1 and 2 , that was only 2D1N and the camp was station in school.

Although I unwilling to let her go for the camp, I still hope that she enjoy every parts of the activities .But remember don't force yourself to do things that you can't complete it .Remember that safety come first.

Year End Exam Ended

SA2 had finally ended. Results are out too. After so many weekssss of hard work and struggling every weekends without going out and to Ah Ma's house, hard work paid off. We were pleased with her results. And now waiting for her streaming briefing. Hope she can go into pure science class which is her dream.

2 years of secondary school life so far so good. 3rd year on the way. Not an easy task. Some of her classmates did not do very well and may go to sec 3 normal .

After so much hard works for the whole year, it time to relax , enjoyed and PLAY. Looking forward to our family trip again.We are having road trip again and we love it. This is our 3rd road trip holiday.

My June Holidays

One months holidays is going to end soon. School re-open on next Monday. Beside doing school homework, what had she been doing during these holidays?

We had our short family trip to Bintan, The Canopi. This is our 1st time going to a resort holiday. A relax holiday at our own pace. We love the ATV Ride and the electric scooter ride,so fun and exciting. 

Beside our holiday, we brought her to watch a movie-The Jurassic Park. We went to National Museum, doing some shopping, having high tea and celebrated daddy's birthday at a Spanish restaurant during this june holiday.

The Canopi 2018

We are back from our short holiday. Our 1st experience holidaying at Bintan Resort, The Canopi. A 3D 2N resort experience. Relaxing , fun , excitement and HOT (referring to weather). This is a new resort at Bintan. We are not staying at hotel but in a tentage with air condition. Some sort of camping in a tent.

1st day:
we arrive at Bintan in the morning. The 1st activities we play -The ATV off road trail. I love this and it really excited and fun. It is not difficult to control as I thought. The guide will explain to us before we started our trail and we had to follow him behind .We will go into the forest , go up and down the slope and go into the pools of water.You can't imagine when you drove into the pool of water and those muddy water spilled at you. After this adventure, we had our lunch and followed by a trip to 2 temples and a shopping mall. We had our dinner at a nearby kelong which we had to take a speed boat.This is really a rare experience for us.

2nd day:
We had some waterplay in the lagoon.We played on the bumper boat,and the water sport park. We rented a motorbike which can drive within the resort area.It so fun sitting on the motorbike .We had BBQ outside our tent and chill at the bar at nite.

3rd day:
We woke up early as we will be checking out .After breakfast we went into the lagoon again. This time we rented a unicorn float and a small boat which have to paddle. We had a rest in the tent before checking out. We had lunch at the restaurant and waited for the bus to ferry us to the jetty.

Streaming Year

This year is her streaming year for Sec 2. It's an important year for her if she want to get into the pure science class. She had to score well for all her common test, class test, SA1 and finally SA2.

After SA1, June holidays will be coming and our family trip will be on the way. Really look forward to this relax and chilling trip.

Year End 2017

Coming to year end. Year 2018 will be coming very soon.

What have I been doing for the year 2017? Looking for job...looking for job and looking for job everyday hahaha...... Yes have been looking for job since day one of 2017 and I finally start my new job on August 2017. Have been working for 4 months. So far so good,enjoyed working with my colleagues and working environment. Although I have no annual leave, I still can take leave hahaha (no pay leave) :( Beside working, I still continue my baking. Have a chance to try new recipe which I was very happy with it. I baked shortbread which I never baked before. I tried different flavor of butter cake too. And the most happy thing was I found a good recipe for my biscotti. Yeah.......yeah..... wish that I can find times to bake for Chinese new year. That;s all for me.

Let's mention about my gal. This year is her 1st year of secondary school. She does struggle abit at the beginning of the year. Maybe because of the increase of subjects. There are subjects that she never study at primary school.She picked up quite fast and do well for her class test. Although she did not do well in her PSLE (as what I expected her to get) i'm very pleased with her secondary school result.This year end, we received 2 pleasant surprise from our letter box and we really really never think of her getting this award. She received the Edusave Good Progress Award who are within the top 10% of the level. The other is Edusave certificate of Academic Achievement who are within the top 25%. Felt very proud of her. She is not the genius type but she really put in effort and hardwork to achieve .

Continue doing that Mummy wish that you can get into pure science.

Melaka Trip 2017

We had another short gateaway on the 24th Nov. Although we already have our holiday during the June holiday, we went for another one to Melaka with my mum and sis. A 3 days shopping and feasting trip. Looking around Jonker Street with another aspect. Cruising along the Melaka River was relaxing. Finding the wall murals along Joker street.
This is our 3rd times going to Melaka.The 1st time was 6 years ago.

School Holidays

School holidays(31st Oct) started early for secondary school students.It started 3 weeks earlier than the primary school.As I started to work,I really have no time to bring her out .Unless I have to take leave unpaid leave.So far I brought her out last Thursday having some quality time with her.We went for brunch followed by shopping.

I think she will look forward to our next holiday - Road trip to Malacca. Although is a short trip (3 days)at least we have some bonding times doing things together, having fun together.Don't you think this is the most important things.This is our 3rd road trip to 3 different countries and we really enjoyed it.It really feel different from taking public transport in that country.

After the Malacca,there will be one month left to 2018 and school will re-open  and she will be in Sec 2.Times really really flies.

Her results was good. Is "good" a good phase to describle her result? Or should I use satisfy?Out of 8 subjects,she has scored 5 As.She has to put in double effort for sec 2 in order to go into pure science.