The girl whom used to strut around in diapers is in P1 this year. This was how she looked like when she first started her nursery. How i wished time had not passed so fast..I'm missing their toddler hood.


4 Jan 2010, Shannon started her journey in primary school. First day, we (the parents) sat through the day with quite a fair bit of presentations from P, HODs and Form teachers.


For the first 10 days, the school arranged pre-packed food from the various stall for the P1 kids. Hence, they do not need to queue to buy food. Recess time was really a sight. The parents are to stand behind the sinks and railings. As soon as the respective teacher start leading the P1 kids to the canteen, the parents, just like fans catching mega celebrities, started snapping pictures. Look at the crowd!



So far, Shan has been enjoying school. Every tues, she has Chinese Dance CCA and wed, creative writing. Seemed so busy.

Shan & Sky decided to sleepover at mum's place. We made a last minute day trip to Desaru with some CG friends. So, only Seth was brought along this trip. We went to the usual places - fruit farm, beach & ended the day with crab & lobster :) Of couse, some shopping along the way.

For past two days, we had quick breakfast fix at this small cafe housed in the station. See, our troupe of 12 has maxed his capacity by 95%. We could see streams of seemingly to be regulars looking alarmed that they could not enjoy their coffee fix at their favourite haunt.

Our next stop: Osaka Castle Park








The weather is good. The place is beautiful. Felt very blissful.


We patronised this uncle's fruit stall.




The road train




The wishing board?



At the temple, we happened to see "baby blessing" (we think so) ritual going on.




Afther that, all came out to have their pictures taken. From the look, these japanese families seemed to be from royal family or at least they must some 贵族.

The guys went on to explore the Castle while the kids took turn to have their portraits done up.









Bird's eye view

Almost half of the day was spent at the park before we headed back to shopping belt to complete the day. No pictures after that cos we were seriously busy shopping, trying to do last minute grabbing as we were going home the next day.

Day 7 - 11 Dec 09

1 lovely shot before leaving.


Yeh! Finally reached the highlight of the day. These following shots were taken outside Universal Studio. The kids couldn't contain their excitement and were actually very eager to get in.



While the men were buying the tickets, we were busy taking photos. One of the many formations.


Yes! Finally in :) At the first ride, we were quite worried that Sky may not passed the height test and the whole group were kinda overjoyed that he cleared and need not be left out. I could still vividly remember Sky counting his blessing and said "Mummy, thanks for praying for me that I could take the ride". I quickly took the opportunity to tell him the importance of eating his meals...Well, guess these are forgotten now.




The very animated live show we watched. Unfortunately, it's in japanese and we can't understand a word. The explosive effects were rather powerful.







Kids enjoying some kiddy rides while daddies & me taking the roller coaster!




Of course, how can we leave USS without watching the finale parade.






We end the nite with Macdonald with some of us trying out the pork burger (since Mac in S'pore is halal).