Happening @Jurong Point

It's my dad's 62nd birthday today and we went to The Gourmet Buffet (Zhou Kitchen) at Jurong Point for a buffet lunch. The food was not the same as the previous 2 times we went. I really like this buffet. They are very sincere in wanting their customers to patronize them again.

Jaimie ate quite a lot of food for lunch! She had some rice, some fried kwey teow, a slice of cheese cake, a whole cup of strawberry ice cream and some baked cheese puff. She also enjoyed the oats from the cereal prawns.

There was a NDP road show @Jurong Point. Because Jaimie was frantically chasing after a guy dressed in Superman-look-alike costume and shouted at the top of her lungs "SUPERMAN!! WAIT!!!!", she caught the attention of many people, including the working personnel of the road show. This gor-gor asked if Jaimie would like to have a fake tattoo and Jaimie nodded immediately. This patriot wanted a State Flag on her forehead. Unfortunately, the tattoo didn't turn out well. Being a typical Singaporean aunty, I asked for 10 more of such tattoos. Mommies, these are for our NDP party, ok!
After much shouting and chasing (think: romantic movie) for her dear "Superman", Jaimie took a picture with her hero.
Just when we were about to leave the place, the MC called for children to play games on stage. I walked Jaimie to the front of the stage and she joined the other children onto the stage by herself! Jaimie was so confident on stage. No stage fright, answered the questions clearly and responded to the instructions. Clement and I were SOOOOOOO PPPRRRROUUUDDD of her!!

When she was on the stage, there was a lady who kept commenting that the littlest one was the cutest and bravest. When Jaimie came down to the stage with her prize, the lady came up to us and commended on Jaimie again. Clement and I could not help beaming away with pride.

I leave the daddy to post the video on the blog. You see, when someone in the house is very IT savvy, the rest become totally idiots because all you have to do is "voice command" and the technician will rectify the problems/ attend to your needs. :D

What a happening afternoon at Jurong Point!

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Ok guys...here's the video clip.

放肆的快乐！

今天收到接二连三的好消息！

下课后回到办公桌，看到手机上有一个未接电话，还有一则简讯。打开一看，未接来电的号码并不熟悉，不管他！打开简讯，咦！是我的出版商告诉我我的书的封面设计好了。我一对照时间，未接来电和简讯的时间相差1分钟，我就理所当然地以为那通电话是出版商打来的。

打开电邮一看，哇！哇！哇！哇！那封面的设计好漂亮！跟我想象中的一样！我非常非常高兴，连忙打电话给老公跟他分享好消息。这是第一个好消息。

就在我还在欣赏我的书皮的时候，手机响起。拿起来一看，咦，是刚才那未接来电的电话。"Hello?"我懒洋洋地接了电话。“嗨，你好。我是从滚石打电话来的。”我一听到“滚石”，身子立刻坐直！“你好！你好！”“恭喜你抽到五月天的特别记者会通行证！”我一听到，血脉立刻膨胀！昨天提早到妈妈家，所以刚好有时间把所有的报纸都翻完。昨天，刚好妈妈家有我报。刚好，老公看到这则抽奖广告。刚好，我又忘记把报纸带回家。刚好，我弟弟在家。我就叫弟弟把参加的电邮地址告诉我，我一点希望也没有抱着，就把电邮发了出去。想不到今天竟然接到好消息！我高兴得快昏倒昏倒昏倒！我终于有机会近距离见到五月天，有机会把我的书（的初稿）先给他们！告诉他们我因为受到他们的鼓励而出版了自己的书！有机会亲自谢谢他们的音乐，陪伴我度过了人生的一个黑暗时期！我、我、我、我又朝自己的目标迈进一步了！这是第二个好消息！

因为在和滚石的工作人员通电话，我顺便要求他们把电话转给我一直因为五月天歌词而联系的angie。Angie 说，她最迟下周三给我答复，我能不能在书里加入一些五月天的歌词。对我来说，这是第三个好消息，因为能或不能，都有一个定案。我的书立刻就可以进行印刷了。

就在我收拾东西准备离开学校的时候，手机又响了。啊？！Angie又打电话来了！她说她的老板要跟我谈谈，进一步了解我的书和五月天歌词的关系。他向我解释了版权费必付的理由。我也理解。他说刚好五月天的经纪人星期一要来，他会跟他们的经纪人谈了之后再回复我。我也直接地告诉他，书是我自费出版的，如果版权费太高，超出我的经济能力，我就不要在书里放歌词了。我终于在这件事上取得“突破”和“进展”，不管到时有没有办法用五月天的歌词，我还是很高兴我做了这样的尝试而且有了回音。至少，我知道下周三之前，我一定能够把一切的细节敲定，把书送去印刷了！这是第四个好消息！

在坐巴士去约老公吃晚餐的途中，电话又响了。平时是个闷葫芦的电话，今天特别的热闹！原来是出版商打电话来，跟我确认了一些细节。我在巴士上“得意忘形”地高声谈话，完全忘记了降低声量！但是，我在那时那刻热血澎湃，根本抑制不下来！

一个下午就收到5个好消息，我幸福得一直在晕眩！我连忙发简讯告诉我的朋友们，与他们分享我的快乐！

今天的快乐，足以抵消半年的阴霾！

让我放肆、放肆、放肆的快乐吧！

"Return My Chicken Soup!"

I am Yueniang today~ :D

Bento #92

4 boxes... what's inside??

TADAH!!
Home made Japanese curry~ yummy.

Fruit Sandwich

I was inspired by Joyce's fruit sandwich but I had no plans to make them yet. Even when I was doing grocery shopping yesteday, I still had no intention to do the fruit sandwich. It was until after dinner time, Jaimie was playing in the playground while I went off to the nearby fruit stall to look at what's available, I bought a mango and thought I could make fruit sandwich the next day!

That is very typical of me. I can plan and plan and then I do the unplanned. :D

Anyway, I didn't buy whipped cream and also I do not like whipped cream. Instead, I made egg mayo as the "base". I chopped apple, kiwi and mango and spread them on top of the egg mayo. The colour combination didn't stand out very nicely because of the pale red fuji apples. The colour will be much better with strawberries but the crunchiness of the apples is something I want in the sandwich.

I would say this sandwich is a success! The fragrance and the freshness of the fruits makes it tastes good! I suppose mixing the fruits together instead of seperating them will give the sandwich a different flavour.

Try it! I think you may like this sandwich! And it will be easier with breadrolls instead of bread toast.

A Simple Sunday

*Warning: Boring post*

Today we had a very simple yet happy Sunday. After Jaimie's Schchida class, we went for brunch at the famous BBQ pork stall at Toa Payoh Hub. Jaimie now likes to eat wanton mee. She ate half a plate of the generous serving while I ate prawn dumpling noodles and Clement ate roast pork noodles. Then, we went home and Jaimie requested to watch Hairspray. At about 1.30pm, we all had a nap. Clement and I stayed up till 2am last night for no apparent reason so we needed a nap too to recharge.

After Jaimie woke up from her nap, we spent some time deciding whether to go to Bugis or nearby for dinner. In the end, we decided we were too lazy to go to town. We went for a swim downstairs and then walked to the nearby coffeeshop for duck rice and fried spring chicken. After dinner, Jaimie went to the playground while I had an ice cream cone for dessert. Before we went back home, we went to the gym to weigh ourselves. Actually, we do not need the weighing machine to tell us we had too much food lately.

Jaimie watched Bee Movie for the 2879871238743 times while I prepared the ingredients for tomorrow's bento. Then Clement spent some time with Jaimie while I tried to achieve higher scores in Bejeweled but in vain.

Clement is now putting Jaimie to bed while I am writing this boring post.

This is really a simple and boring day but I feel happy~ so I want to blog about the day.

Ballet Under The Stars 2009

When Meekfreek invited us to go to the Ballet Under The Stars @ Fort Canning, I thought it was a great idea (because of the picnic)! Being kiasu Singaporeans, we went there early and even brought a ball to play in the field. To my surprise, there were so many people going to the event! I laid my picnic mat and took out my handphone to message the rest that we had arrived. After pressing the "send" button, I saw somebody laying their picnic mat beside ours already! No space for the rest!! Luckily WG came after a while and she squeezed her mat on a small area behind us. And clever Meekfreek did "land reclaimation" so that all of us could be together.

Needless to say, we didn't play the ball in the field. Jaimie had some fun rolling the balls with Meekfreek, Faith and Izzy on the mat instead.

Here are the photos Clement took with his DSLR.













The weather was great! It was cloudy and windy but we still perspired a lot. We had yummy yummy food for the picnic and the girls had a great time dancing, playing with the light sticks, disturbing other audience and claiming that they were the lucky draw winners.

The performance was entertaining, especially the finale. Seeing the ballerinas dancing so beautifully on the stage makes me want to let Jaimie learn ballet too!

Jaimie, ballet for you??? Yes?

It was a great night! Thanks for inviting us to the event, MF!

Wedding Bells Ringing

My dearest friends! Wishing you a lifetime of joy, love and happiness!

Bento #91

My good friend YH is leaving for Taiwan to persue her masters very soon. She is a dear friend whom I will miss so I am making bentos for her as often as I can before she flies off.

For YH: apple and bear shaped ham and cheese sandwich, sausages, japanese chicken nuggets. I cooked some extra pieces of ham so let's not waste food. Roll it with some butterhead and put inside the bento. :)

For Clement: Same as YH's except it is heart shaped instead of apple. I tried to use nutella to write our initials on the bread (can you read "SH" and "YP"?) but it didn't turn out very nice. I hope the "King of Blur" will realise it is our initials and not "how come Angie can't even spread the butella properly"... =_='''

This is my bento. I have a piece of tapioca kweh-kweh left over from yesterday so I put it inside my bento. This is really one of my favourite nyonya kweh, besides oneh-oneh.

I Have A Dream II

I am so anxious and excited now!

I have completed vetting the draft copy of my book. Seeing this draft copy of my articles arranged in a book form is like seeing your full grown baby through an ultrasound scan. I cannot help but feel like a real proud mommy!

Clement suggested to me that I should add in some MayDay lyrics in the book since it was very much dedicated to them. Hence, I need to ask for permission from Rock Records so that I do not infringe on the copyrights. With the help of Jeff and my friend KW, I managed to get hold of the person to contact regarding this matter. I wrote this person, who happen to be "Angie" too, this morning. Since she's from Rock Records, I also asked if she can help me with arranging a 5mins session with MayDay so that I can give them my book properly. I have been diligently checking my email for replies hourly. So far, none yet. Patience, patience... and Diana is so kind in activating her "lobang" so that I may get to see MayDay personally.

This is so exciting! I am another step closer to my dream! Will I get the permission? Will I get to give the books to MayDay personally? Will I? Will I? Will I?

My book should be ready by 1st week of August. Mr Clock, Mr Clock, will you tick faster?

This Is A Cool Book

Just to share a book which I am reading now! :)

Bento #90

I absolutely LOVE the Maisy lunchbox Meekfreek got for me from Tokyo!!! I must use it today! And I put something new in the bento -- vegetables nuggets with cute facial expressions. I got them from the frozen section of ... Cold Storage, i think. Just microwave it. So easy and delicious.

I made egg mayo sandwiches with sandwich maker too. This is Clement's bento.

I am a very happy woman today. Look, new bento box.

New Burberry bag!!!

New shoes.

New top.

So happy today!!! :D How I wish every Monday is like today's. Monday blue? What Monday blue?

Bento #88, #89

This is not deja vu. I am making the same bentos I had done before.

Bento #88

Bento #89

July and August are the busiest of the busiest time in school. It is amazing that I can still wake up at 5am to make bentos but it is beyond me to make new bentos at the moment.

Hence I am calling all bento mommies to make more bentos so that I can shamelessly copy your ideas! :D But sigh~ I hardly have time to surf net nowadays.

Buffet buffet

It started off as a part 2 gathering for the teacher-mommies in the June holidays (actually, I think it is Part 3 or 4 because we met up on an average of once a week!!) but because the Ritz Carlton Hotel 1-for-1 buffet was fully booked till god-knows-when, we decided to meet up on the Youth Day Holiday instead.

Clement and I had the best Chinese food buffet in Zhou Kitchen @ Jurong Point 2 (#03-38) so we recommeded the others to come too! I think we all ate till our stomachs exploded. Jacky, CS and Clement took leave to join in the makan session.



The daddies were looking after the children who were chasing in circles in the restaurant so the mommies took a self portriat by themselves.

After the lunch, the children continued to run and run. They had so much fun running in shopping malls. There is no need to write a story about their "love affair". These pictures tell it all.

Nothing beats good food and good companies!

Jaimie's Hanky Baby

Jaimie has been stuffing lots of handkerchieves into her tshirt for quite some time.

I was guessing she was pretending to be pregnant but I didn't want to tell her I knew what was she up to. I wanted her to tell me. Whenever I asked her, she would keep quiet and looked shy. One fine day last week, she finally confessed that it was her "handkerchief baby". I nodded and asked if she thought she was having a baby in her stomach, just like auntie pam/ auntie shelley/ shen-shen (my sister in law)... she said yes.

I am amused that a 3 year old will pretend play to be pregnant. Is it a sign of her interest in sexuality? Nursing babies and all I can understand but pregnant? Hmmm....?