Monthly Archives: May 2011

Happy Birthday to my dearest Wifey

May 30, 2011 – 12:57 am

Once again, the time of the year has come and its the birthday of my dearest wifey. In case you thought her birthday was over, actually its not. The one that we had at Marina Bay Sands was an early celebration for her. As the children grows older, there are much more things that they can do to help me to do to celebrate her birthday. This year, I’ve got Ethan and Ezanne to sing mummy a birthday song.

My mum had asked me if I had wanted wifey to do the same for my birthday, my answer to her is NO! That’s because I’m expecting more from my wifey (just joking). Anyway, I hope she will have many more good days and years ahead.

ps: I’ve got to use this CNY photo because I do not have any latest family picture available.

xx Lots of Love, Pat xx

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Celebrating Wife’s Birthday

May 28, 2011 – 11:43 pm

We celebrated wifey’s birthday alittle earlier. This year, we decided to spend a night at Marina Bay Sands and instead of just the 2 of us, we’ve got Ethan and Ezanne to join us too. The 2 of them were looking forward to this staycation, they were so excited that they even spend some time in the… BATH TUB!

Ezanne has really grown up. This time round, she was really into taking fun shots.

And as Ethan grows, he is slowly showing interest in photography. He requested to take a photograph for me.

The night is surely a beautiful one especially when you can spend it with your loved ones. We were lucky to be at the Marina Promenade when the WonderFull show started at Marina Bay Sands and caught the beautiful lighting effects of the complex.

Ethan did not want to walk much and insisted on going back to the hotel early. All of us wanted to explore the bay area alittle more but he insisted on returning back to the room, so we had no choice but to go back. Well, one of the reasons I thought why he was so excited was because he could have a bed to himself. For the first time, Ethan had a bed all to himself.

I hope wifey enjoyed this staycation as much as the children did and Happy Birthday To Wifey (though its not her birthday yet, its on 30 May actually). With lots of love!

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The Twitter Outage on Mobile

May 27, 2011 – 2:40 am

It seems like Twitter experience some problems this morning – it just didn’t load any new tweets from the people I’m following. Initially, I thought it was a problem on my Twitter App, Echofon and so I decided to switch to my backup Twitter App and I was shocked when I saw this.

So I decided to ask around on Twitter, tweeted and realised that I was not the only one who face the problem. But, its pretty weird to see no update except mine on the timeline.

Somehow, I was not used to seeing no updates and felt alittle disconnected to the world since there isn’t any updates. The entire outage lasted for about 2 hours and I seem to suffer from some Tweet Withdrawal Symptom. Well, I hope this will not happen again.

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Dads for Life Conference 2011

May 24, 2011 – 11:34 am

I’ve received an invitation from the friendly organizers for Dads for Life Conference 2011 which is happening on Friday, 27 May 2011 at Suntec Convention Ballroom at 2.30pm. This conference is a gathering of dads and is a follow up to the successful conference that was held last year. Tickets to the event is still available at Sistic at $10 each.

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Sakunthala’s Food Palace

May 22, 2011 – 9:34 pm

Friday was the last day of school we had with our AP and my classmates decided to bring him to Sakunthala’s Food Palace for our farewell lunch. In case you are wondering, our AP came from Queensland, Australia and loves spicy food.

According to my classmates, this restaurant is famous for their curry fish head. You can choose between Briyani rice or white rice. I chose Briyani rice and it went well with the mutton, chicken and fish head that I had. The lime juice that was served fitted perfectly for this meal.

The next time if you are at Little India and had no idea what to eat, you might want to head to Sakunthala’s Food Palace located at 66 Race Course Road for your meal.

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Our visit to Punggol Promenade

May 21, 2011 – 9:49 pm

Punggol Promenade has been opened for more than 2 months and I’ve finally found some time to visit this place with Ethan and Ezanne. 5 years ago, the place where we went to was just a bare land but 5 years later, it has a F&B cluster (which I’m still quite surprised how did everyone found out about this place) and beautiful landscape that had been created.

When we first started our trail, we saw a fitness station and some weird looking bicycle park. Since there isn’t any bicycles, Ethan and Ezanne decided to have some fun.

Even the toilet had this really modern facade. It surely not the typical one you see at other neighbourhood parks.

The promenade will eventually bring us to Punggol End and so while construction is still on-going for the remaining stretch, the bridge to Lor Halus was opened and this bridge was yet another architecture wonder I thought. Its simple yet abstract.

Just before we visited Lor Halus, we heard that there were wild boars at Lor Halus and thought it will be a great opportunity to get up close and personal with the animal. Ethan and Ezanne were getting excited too but well, we did not get to see it.

Just before we left, we were greeted with a beautiful sunset.

I can’t wait for the rest of the promenade to be opened and will definitely bring Ethan and Ezanne there again.

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iPad 2 is here.

May 21, 2011 – 12:11 am

It has been 3 weeks since iPad 2 was launched and unlike iPad 1, I was not able to get mine on the day when it was launched. I had wanted to buy a 32gb 3G Wifi iPad 2 but it went out of stock. I’ve told many people that if possible, I will not want to get it online because I always feel that to be a true Apple fan, you got to get it physically from the store, to get that sense of satisfaction.

I’m glad that Starhub finally launched it and I finally got my 32gb 3G Wifi iPad 2. Its white (which I like), its slimmer and lighter (which is an advantage for the children) and the camera is really HUGE! Anyway, I’m going to enjoy my new iPad 2.

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I’m almost done with my studies

May 19, 2011 – 11:01 pm

Finally completed 2 tests today which was like a load to me all these while. I got my assignments results and was quite satisfied with it and when I saw my overall GPA, it was satisfying. Well, the whole schooling thingy is not over yet until I’ve submitted my 2 projects which will be due in June but at least, I’m not as stress as before.

3 years, more than 40 assignments and more than 10 projects, I’ve never dreamt of going back to school and realised that it was not a bad choice to go back to school, though, it was quite stressful juggling between school, work and family (and some of my community involvement work).

I thank my former supervisor who encouraged me to study, my current supervisor for supporting me, the organization for the opportunity and finally my family (especially wifey) for all the support and sacrifices that she had given me.

I’m not too sure when or IF I will ever go back to school again but at least for now, I’m contented with what I have and what I’ve completed (almost completed I mean).

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Makan at Changi Village

May 18, 2011 – 11:47 pm

Being a sinful Nasi Lemak lover, I always like to go to Changi Village for a packet of Nasi Lemak whenever I’ve got free time. It has been sometime since I last visited and to my surprise, the price of Nasi Lemak has actually went up by $1. It now costs $3.50 for a packet of Nasi Lemak. Well, this time round, I managed to buy it from International Food Stall. The Nasi Lemak served by this stall is much tastier. You have to be early and patient as there is always a long queue and they closes pretty early.

I got some time to explore with my Dad on the food that were available at the market and we came across this stall that sells home made carrot cake and fried oysters. There was a long queue as well. Their fried oyster is not as oily as those that I’ve eaten as compared to other stalls yet, its equally tasty.

So if you have some time the next time, you might want to consider exploring Changi Village for great food.

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When The E’s fall sick…

May 17, 2011 – 10:29 am

It is surely not an easy job as you know children becomes cranky when they are sick. If you’ve been following me on Twitter or The E’s fanpage, you will know by now that they have fell sick at almost the same time and down with fevers and ulcers. Both Ethan and Evan has more than 3 ulcers at the throat while Ezanne has 2 on her gums. As an adult, we know that it becomes a painful thing to eat when we have ulcers so it will be a terrible thing for the children to suffer from it as well. Basically, all were crying for pain and refused to eat.

Though we had consulted the GP earlier on but we thought its better to send them to KKH A&E to confirm if they were suffering from HFMD.

It was very crowded at the A&E and almost every child was down with fever. Since Evan was below 6 months and running a temperature, he was given priority to see the doctor. Ethan and Ezanne tag along and they each took turn to see the doctor. The doctor confirmed that since they did not have blisters, its definitely not HFMD. According to her, it has become quite common these days for children to be suffering from ulcers (more than 1). Is this the mutated version of HFMD? I don’t know but its surely a worrying sign.

Ethan was still able to take his normal feeding, Ezanne has a problem drinking from the bottle and we have to change it to cup feed and for Evan, we got to feed him through the syringe cause he was having problem swallowing as it was simply too painful for him.

During the consultation, the doctor asked about the time they took medication and it was a challenge. They had medication at 3 different timings and that’s why wifey had kept a record book to track.