The Apple's Diary!

Before the school holiday ends and using the long weekend opportunity, we thought of traveling to neighbouring country for a short getaway. I booked the train tickets online, thinking that many would have thought of traveling out too. Ha, plan aborted the last minute and we took off to Garden by the Bay to enjoy the last few days of Blue Danube. Agapanthus a wefie a selfie by himself We also enjoyed morning brunch at Cafe Melba at Mediapolis. This was indeed a good choice with the spacious area outside the cafe and a bouncy castle for the children. We met up with the mummies group and the kids scoot away happily. Good food although on the pricey side, it was very filling and I liked it. eating chocolate ice-cream is the most happy thing for a kid! Play a game of tic-tac-toe awesome photo taking skill by Jon I also managed to take a cake class at ABC cooking studio, doing a Carre au Chocolat. I described the cake as chocolate...

Now that both kids are still in preschool, June holiday doesn't affect us much. We can only look forward to the term break at Berries, otherwise the boys go school as per usual. So in this last June Holiday before it has other significance, I try to inject some fun for the boys. They get to go playground and exercise their gross motor skills. It is quite unfortunate that they only get to go playground infrequently because normal week days would be too late. Weekends are filled with enrichment classes. They love the beach too so on a rare Sunday morning, we skipped Church to bring them to Palawan beach for some diggings. And a nice yummy lunch to end off our beach adventure. It is quite routine that we will go Palawan Beach, followed by lunch at Singapore Seafood Republic in RWS. I love their dishes although it can be quite pricey. Pricey but fresh ingredients and only place which Matthew could finish one adult portion easily. We also w...

June is the month leading up to the grand finale for parents with kid entering primary 1. July is the start of Primary 1 registration and for parents' choice of school, this is the finishing point for parents who have put in hours and hours of parental volunteer, and some even move nearer to be within 1km for their top choice. For us, I have an alumni status to a popular neighbourhood school. The school itself is within walking distance, approximately 500m away from our current address. It has strong Chinese traditions and culture which I had experienced during my student days. Unfortunately, it has down sides. School is going for PERI upgrading and will be relocated a temporary holding site. This means it is 2 changes of buses to holding site for us. Besides that, Pri 1 and 2 will be in PM session during upgrading period. PM session is really troublesome and I have challenges in the "before school care" logistics. Strong Chinese cultural also means all students a...