Papa & Son Birthday Celebration

This is a late entry but I just want to post it here for record purpose.

We celebrated Papa's **th Birthday and Joshua's 7th Birthday on the 27th November. Joshua's actual birthdate is 25th November just 2 days apart from hubby's birthday on the 27th.


It was just a small and close gathering of family members at our little house. I can see that our family is growing bigger now that our house seems pretty crowded with kids and siblings/in-laws. I originally planned the party theme to be pizza and spaghetti but dad also brought 2 chinese dishes which everyone gladly chomped as well. Despite the inpromptu planning, I'm glad the dishes turned out well and the kids were well behaved and co-operative while I was preparing and cooking. The birthday menu was Spaghetti Al-tonno (Tuna), Pumpkin Soup, fruit salad and cheezy-pizza from pizza hut.

Anyway, it was a fun gathering for the kids. They have to find the hidden pictures before they can get the cake.
Prior to the cake cutting, Joshua also did his first piano recital for the family members on a song London Bridge is Falling Down (DIL got it on his videocam, will paste the link here once I figure out how to upload the video).

Everyone is waiting anxiously for the cake, including the 2 cousins Ryan andTiti patiently waiting by the table for their share. The birthday cake was Strawberry Truffle Ice Cream cake. Yummy...
And finally before everyone goes home we had a family photo taking session. It was very hard to keep the kids stick to one place or put a straight face.

The end... (I wish to write more but I also have piles of reports & papers to write... tsk...tsk...)

Noah's Full Moon Celebration

Full Moon Celebration

24 January 2009 marks the end of my confinement and also Baby Theo Full Moon... yay! (The actual full moon celebration should be on 27 Jan 09 but I can't find shops that take orders during CNY).

We celebrated the day with family and friend at my parents' house. It was pre-CNY celebration too as most of the dishes my mom cooked was traditionally cooked during CNY by my Kung-Kung way back in the old times when she was young (that's what my mom told me). Anyway, the dishes was really delicious especially the Yam Pork (Kiew Nyuk). I was really a glutton on that day (talapas kandang...hehe) after a month of Chicken in Rice Wine (Lihing) soup.

For my moms' credits here are the list of dishes she prepared:
1. Yam Pork
2. Chicken with mushroom
3. Chu Kiok (Pork's leg in sweet vinegar)
4. Pork fried with bamboo shoot
5. Fried tang hoon (Fried glass noodle)
6. Macaroni Salad
7. Hinompuka (Sticky cake wrapped in banana leaf)

On top of that I also ordered 3 other dishes
1. Prawn Salad
2. Sweet and sour fish
3. Mix vege

and my sister also ordered
1. Fried mee hoon
2. Fried kuey teow

After the "makan session" my aunts open a gambling session (kua merah) which as long as I remember is a must family thing to do during CNY.

So the Full Moon celebration was more like CNY celebration or maybe an excuse to get together with family. While I'm having fun talking to cousins and helping myself to the delicious food, baby Theo was happily sleeping all through the day (perhaps he was lulled by the noisy surroundings).

Here's some photos on that day...

Happy 1/12 birthday Theodore, you are growing very fast. You will soon outgrow the small basin we first bathe you in. And next time we know you are a big boy already.

Huh, time flies really fast - I still have 1 month leave which is going to end soon.

Christmas Is Here

Dear Family and Friends...

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.
This year didn't manage to do any Christmas deco at home as I'm quite busy with year-end work tie-ups and preparing for the birth of our baby. So much things to do and so little time to do them.
Anyway, wishing you all happy holiday and take care where ever you are.

Lots of Love from
Happy Little and Big People in the House

2008 Family Day

This year we manage to attend 3 family days. Uaua's school family Day was held on 16th August 2008 at Uaua's school, Papa's company family day was held at Menara Tun Mustapha (previously known as Yayasan Sabah building) car park area on the 17th August 2008 and Mama's company family day was held at the Marina Sutera on the 8th November 2008.

Uaua's school family day was also held in conjunction of the Merdeka celebration so the kids did some marching and sang the 'Tanggal 31" song by the Late Sudirman. There were also tele-match between the classes (more like matches between the class teacher as they were shouting/cheering on-top of their voices for their teams).

We didn't get much shots during Papa's family day as we were too pre-occupied with queing-up to get the food and finishing our meal. We were really hungry, the food was not that yummy and not enough to feed the crowd and the queue was damn long. The activities was also held under the hot sun and not kids friendly, so we only helped in the "makan" department. We only manage to take some shots on the way home when we brought the kids to visit the famous tall (est?) building in KK.

Last weekend we attended another family day, and this time we brought Aki and Dodu along. We were given 900 tokens to be used to participate in the games and redeem household goods (rice, Milo, detergent, etc). We managed to get Aki to participate in the games - Golf putting and Lawn bowling. While Uaua, participated in the Fancy Dress and Filling up water in the bottle. Although we didn't win in any of the games/activites but Uaua is still happy as he was given consolation prize for participating the fancy dress (fortunately "sour face" didn't count as not-qualified for consolation). Uaua was reluctant to put on his "Hawaiian" costume but after much persuasion he obliged and even brought along his favorite yellow pail (but he didn't agree to wear his sunnies though - it would make him look dashing if he did).

Quite a productive year for us in terms of participation/attendance in the family days organized by the school and company unlike the previous years. Now, looking forward to 2009 Family days.

Little Moira's 1st Birthday (Part 2)

Our little Moira had another birthday celebration at the nursery on the 18 March 2008 afternoon. Unfortunately, when we (me & Joshua) arrive the other baby friends were having siesta except for 2 who had just had their lunch. So we had a few imports from the 1-2 year nursery class for the photo.

For the nursery celebration, I bought Chocolate Walnut Cake from Southern Cake Shop. I also manage to prepare pasta and few goodies in just one hour before I went to fetch Joshua from school. Phew... Luckily all turn out well (the cooking and the goodies) despite the rush.

Taa daa.. here's the result of my1 hour worth of work ...

Pasta in home-made sauce + 20 goodies bag + a cake
...ready to go to the nursery

** Note :- Don't count the bags in the photo... the rest are already packed.

And here are some of the photos of the day...

Little Moira 1st Birthday

We celebrated Little Moira's 1st birthday at our Little house yesterday. Since the space is quite small we only invited 30 people - relatives and immediate family. It was a nice small celebration for Moira and we had her little cousins to add to the cheer.

"The Birthday Girl"

"The Birthday Cake"

The highlight of the day...

"I want to open the presents baa..."

and more pictures....

Happy Chinese New Year

Although I'm not Chinese but I do enjoy this time of the year as my mom's side of family still keep up with thier tradition preparing the sticky cake and the reunion meal. Not to forget the gambling session (Kua merah & Mahjong) that lasts till wee hours in the morning.

When I was a little girl I enjoy sleeping at my cousins place when our parents are busy playing cards. However, since I got married and had my little ones I only manage to join my cousins for the meals.

This year would probably be the same as last year - going to my mom's place for the reunion meal. Hmm... I just can't wait to taste my mom's cooking and enjoy the gathering.

Anyway - Gong Xi Fa Cai to all...

Welcome Year 2008

Happy New Year 2008!

On New Year's eve me and the kids went to fetch Papa from work and bought KFC for our dinner. We also manage to take few pictures with my favourite X'mas tree in town...


Huh... didn't manage to update this blog for a long time although I was on leave since 14 Dec 07. I guess I was too preoccupied with tidying up the house and caring for the kids since Moira's nursery was also on Christmas holiday.

This year, perhaps I should do better planning of my time and space so that I spend less time tidying up. With the fresh New Year spirit, I hope this year will be a productive year for me - more output in less time and energy.

Hmm... I always wonder how other moms are coping with the demands of kids, hubby and work all at the same time. They must be wearing the Super-mom suit- with big 'S' on it ;-)