The Apple's Diary!

20 November  2014 The boys woke up early, like before 7am. Gosh! There's no difference to them in timing even when they were on a holiday. Since they woke up so early, we also went for early buffet breakfast at Seasonal Taste (in-house). Did I mention for the first night dinner, we took the hotel's shuttle bus service to Phuket Town. We were dropped off at Robinsons in Phuket Town. It was raining and we didn't venture out of Robinsons. Only to eat at their food court which was lousy and bought some breads for the boys. We took the 5pm shuttle and left at 7.30pm. The journey took about 45 mins and cost 100THB per pax per way. Children was at 50% discount. Back to breakfast, it was those typical international buffet breakfast you would find at a 5* hotel. Jon enjoyed his food this round, much to my relief but Matt couldn't eat. We didn't bring along the food scissors to cut the noodles. Even with a single strand of noodle coiled, he stopped eating a few mouth

19 November 2014 Based on our June family trip experience, to manage the boys better on the flight, we booked an afternoon flight to and fro for our year end vacation to Phuket. We purposely brought the boys earlier to the airport, to settle their lunch and let them exhaust their energy. It turned out to be a great plan! Both fell asleep just about to take off, giving us a very peaceful flight to Phuket. it's also hard to take a nice wefie And because we were traveling by ourselves, we took our time to disembark, did the routine care for the boys before we collected our luggages. When we stepped out of the airport, our hotel agent was waiting for us with our hotel transfer. The car ride to Westin Siray Bay Resort & Spa was long, around an hour but comfortable. Westin spelt of luxury. Our hotel transfer with Toyota Camry cost us THB 1,300 each way (estimated SGD 52). There was refreshment towels and chilled bottled drinks for us too. On the way to Westin, it sta

Siray Bay, Phuket Another sun, beach & swim idly vacation Another bonding session with our 2 boys A good 5 years into our Marriage All captured in this moment

14 November 2014 My company's D&D was held biannually, alternating family day each year. Ever since I joined, I had been attending the much anticipated event except the year 2012 because with a big belly, it was just too cumbersome and risky to squeeze with everyone. This year, the event was bigger and with the theme "Around the World", my table of sporting colleagues came donned in their wildest fashion. Here's why… Table 110 We went with the theme and based our dressings on the fable "Around the world in 80 days" with a slight twist here and there. And our table was not completed without our Xinjiang lady….  xinjiang lady & beautiful saree queen As for myself, I was lucky that a friend loaned me her hanbok. Anyoung haseyo! This pretty pink flock had earned me a consolation prize in Best Dressed category.  It was a night of good company and great fun!

14 Nov 2014 MindChamps @ Fusionopolis held their annual year end concert with the K2 graduation ceremony. The venue remained the same as last year which was so convenient for us. admission ticket @ $25 each This year theme was Our World, teaching the little ones about conserving our planet and be kind to our earth. the little throne The gallery was nicely decorated with the students' artworks and the home projects that we were required to do. I caught the little project that we did with Jonathan. our project on display jon's art work I also caught Jon's art work to compliment the ocean creatures diorama. dancing to the tune The concert started promptly with the K2 giving their graduation speech and several dance items. It was  quite a long way before Jon came on stage with his class. the finale The concert lasted for almost 2 hours. It was a huge success with all the proud parents snapping photos after the grand

Last Friday, Clementi Woods Kindergarten (CWK) held their orientation for the preschoolers. Matt was involved as he would be attending CWK for playgroup in Jan 2015. ready, get set, go…. Here's Matt who woke up so early in the morning. Packed his favourite doggy in his bag and got ready to scoot. I had to miss his first orientation as I had an important meeting at work. Woes of a working mummy. So I told my mum to take lots of photos for me. trying on his uniforms In the end, there was only 1 photo sent to me. That's my little boy trying on the uniform. In the evening, when I got home, I was told CWK gave every child a pack of welcome gift. welcome gift Biscuits, jelly, candy and hathaw slices were in the welcome gift. uniforms handkerchieves The school wants every child to put a small handkerchief in their front pockets so hb got it from the school. 4 pieces at $2. The student was to wear white socks and white canvas shoes to