Nostalgila masa lalu - Nostalgia from the past

I woke up early this morning as I don't have to go to work ( I take Off-In-Lieu replacing last Sunday closing). I brought Reever to nearby coffee shop to have breakfast then fetched him to school. After that, nothing to do at home, just browsed around the youtube. Listening to Katon's songs, then continued with other popular songs in 1980s. It really brought me back to 20 years back where songs were the only entertainment for us. Love songs dominates the market that time.

The video below is one of them. This song's name is Kaulah Segalanya (You're my everything), sung by Ruth Sahanaya. She has a great voice and a good singer.




Last Saturday, like usual, we brought Reever to Chinese class in the morning, then to Kwang Meng Shan Temple, starting his Saturday School. After that we had a walk at AMK for a while, then went back home at 6pm. His father brought him playing bicycle at the park and he was hurt after his bicycle was hit by another bicycle. He came back home crying after being scolded by his pa.. Poor boy...

And yesterday, we had Roti Prata for breakfast. His dad fetched him to Kumon. I fetched him back from Kumon and we continued our journey to his friend's house who held a birthday party. It's his first time attending the classmate's birthday. Me too. Hiaeiaheihae..... Not bad. There were some classmated attending the party too. I had a chance to talk with the birthday's girl's mom. There were lots of finger food, such as: small sausage, chicken nuggets, fries, homemade sushi rolls, pineapple, homemade spring roll, konnyaku jelly, etc.

Boys were playing with PS2 console and Nintendo Wii, while girls were playing other thing. I played Scrabble with the birthday's girl's mom, Reever, and Reever's friend, just for fun of course... hahahahha....

At 3pm plus, we sang birthday songs for her and she blew the candles. It was a princess cake, pink colour. They took pictures then ate the cake.

We went home at 4pm. At about 5.30pm, we went swimming. Just exercise for a while. After that we had our dinner at nearby house's coffee shop. Kekekeke... makan, makan, and makan again... After that, Reever played his bike for a while, then went back home.

Later we're going to play badminton at 2pm. Just playing for fun! Well.. write till here.. Hope you enjoy your day everyone!!! Cheers!!!

Primary 2 - First day of school

Today everybody goes back to school and work again. Holiday has over. This year, Reever has to go for morning class and must be there by 7.15am. It reminds me of my last schooling time. I also had to wake up early everyday.

As today is his first day, I woke up early and get ready to fetch him to school, to give him a full support for a new beginning. My hubby and mother-in-law also went to fetch him. Hehehe... What a lucky boy! I went to school myself last time on every first day of my school, as I could remember,

The weather wasn't co-operate well this morning. It was raining and it was even raining harder when we almost reached his school. However I could still see him smiling (with one tooth missing), and he was so exciting to show his missing tooth to his classmates, hahahaha....

Another thing he is exciting about was.. To buy food in canteen. He kept mentioning that since we were at home. Kekekeke....

Since it was still early, my hubby accompanied me drinking kopi at nearby coffee shop and had breakfast before I went to work. Thanks laogong!

It was still raining when I reached office. Cool weather. Great! Hope it won't bring sickness to all of us. Well, a new year, another round of new beginning for all of us! Hope everything goes on smoothly and well! Have a great day everyone!!!

Happy New Year!!!

It's 2nd Jan already! We passed the old and new just the two of us, my hubby and I. We went to our house's coffee shop and had our supper there. Ray ordered mee goreng, I ordered San Lao Hor Fun, plus a bottle of Carlsberg for both of us. We just ate and chat and let the time passing by. It's midnite and the coffee shop was not so crowded. We ate fully and went back home. I slept right after that.. comfortably.. until 11am. Hehehehhee..... Got out of the bed at 11.30am, then received a phone call from Soso, asking if Reever wanna join the children for Alvin & Chipmunk 2 at 12.30pm. We took a bath hurrily and prepared ourselves. We took a cab there and brought Reever's bicycle there. The kids watched movie themselves. We put our thing at Koko house, then not long after that, Ray and I went out for lunch at S-11. I had Saba fish & beef Korean BBQ with rice, while Ray ordered kway chap plus the luo mi fan that is stuffed in the pork's intestines. Not bad. We ate until very full.. Indeed a very filling brunch! Talking about S-11, the chu chao has closed down, and so does the Vegetarian shop. The business is not that good, plus the tenant increases the rent. Even the kway chap shop has changed owner too.

Ray and I went to Bugis. We went to Kwan Im Temple and pray. After that we walked to Illuma then crossed over the bridge to Bugis Junction. Stopped by at McDonald, had a sip of Coke and snacked curly fries, plus bought 3 Doraemon - Chinese astrology series at $2 each. ^^

We went back to Bishan at about 6pm. Reever and Aryn were playing bicycles near playground. Reever is able to ride a bicycle now. He can turn around as well.. Well done Reever!!!

We went back to Koko's house. Reever and Aryn played wii, Ray played PSP, and I changed my almost all account's password. It's just a precaution, since I had exchanged my BB one to one and I'm not sure if M1 staff has reformatted my data inside or not. I've lost my contact data presumably, so.. I need some time to put all the data back to the phone this last few days.

They were playing Í Spy'game at wii, quite interesting. We had dinner at 8pm, Kim San Leng's chicken rice plus some oyster and carrot cake. Ray and I went to Popular for a while to buy Reever's exercise book, then went back home at 10pm.

This morning, I fetched Reever to Sengkang CC again for his Chinese class. After that we headed to Orchard Hotel. My ex-boss has her one month baby's celebration at one of the seminar room there. I came quite early and waited for a while until the rest of the friends coming. Abby looks great, has lost some weight, is a very proud mama. She smiles continuosly. The baby name is Marcus Cheong. He is a strong baby boy. I can see by his look. A very lucky baby, indeed. Hope that he can grow up healthily and strong, as much as his mum.

The buffet food was good. There were abalone, sashimi, sushi, hi piau soup, dim sum (siu mai, lo mai kai, char siew pao), pork leg bee hoon - taste great, chicken wine, sea cucumber w/ mushroom, pork leg vinegar - taste good too, kueh pie tie, mee siam, assorted fruits, cakes, etc. While I was taking my food - second round, Reever came over to me and said that his tooth was moving. It was bleeding too. But not yet came off from his mouth. He was scared as this is his first time experiencing the moving tooth. I have to make him calm down, and slowly finished my food. We left the place early.

We faster took a bus and MRT home. I went to see if the dentist near MRT station is still opened. It was! So I booked Reever's name there. The receptionist asked us to come back in an hour, but only after half an hour, she called us to go there. So there we were.

Reever and I went into the dentist room. He was sitted into the dentist chair. He was very afraid. He was crying and moving uncontrollable. Until the doctor has to stop and let him calm down for a while. I tried to talk to him not to be afraid as this is a very fast process and won't hurt so much. He was just resisting into it. I asked him to talk with Aryn on the phone too, but he was still afraid. Then the doctor came in again. This time, I have to sit below him. Then the doctor, with her helper, me, and the receptionist tried hard to hold his hands, body, and open his mouth forcefully. Hahaha... And finally the dentist managed to take out his tooth.

Only then Reever admit that it wasn't so painful, but it's just because his first time experiencing the tooth extraction himself, that's why he was scared so much. We went home after that. He showed his teeth proudly to his daddy, ama, and xiao ku. I took a pic of his tooth, before we asked him to stand straightly facing outside and throw the tooth out so that his tooth will grow up straightly in the future. Hahaha.. what a tiring day!

Photo 1 : Reever's tooth

Photo 2: Reever with his missing tooth :D

Tomorrow I have to go to work and do the closing myself. So... can't be too tired tonight. Well.. happy new year once again everyone. Hope everything goes smoothly and fine. Bye...

Orchard Road - new facelift

Yesterday after half day work, my hubby and I browsed the Orchard Road. It's been quite some time since our last visit. We went to 313 Somerset first. It's a great shopping mall especially for young people. You can find whatever brands you want to look for, such as: Zara, Uniqlo, Esprit, G2000, Forever21, Guess, HMV, and many more. For food choices, there are Marche, Trattoria Italian, Food Republic, etc.

Wrote on Post-It Note - To Do List for Next Year (mine)

Next, Orchard Central. The building is nice, but for shopping, not that good. It's a bit complicated to find the escalator inside, but I admit, the design is really great!!! They have a very high and long escalator that can be seen from outside.

1. Vertical Challenge (inside Orchard Central)

2. View of Orchard Central from the outside - the escalator

3. View of Orchard Point - from top of Orchard Central

4. View of Centrepoint from Orchard Central

We went to Centrepoint, then OG. Had our lunch near OG there.

We continued our journey by passing through HMV Building - they renovated the front part, Mandarin Gallery - front part of Mandarin Hotel - it's opened now!, Takashimaya, Wisma Atria, ION, passed through the underpass to Wheelock Place, went to the opposite, Isetan, and had a gulp of free Coca Cola... Hehehe... Enjoy the pictures!!!

1. View of HMV Building - front side

2. View of Mandarin Gallery - Mandarin Hotel front side

3. In front of Takashimaya

4. Along Orchard Road - Deer 1

5. Along Orchard Road - Deer 2

6. Along Orchard Road - Deer 3

7. Along Orchard Road - small group parade

8. In front of ION Orchard

9. Take a break with Coca Cola - in front of Isetan

10. View of Christmas Banner & ION Orchard11. Along the street - Deco 1 ( Santa Claus - Red )

12. Along the street - Deco 2 ( Deer - Orange)

13. Along the street - Deco 3 ( Snowman - Blue )

Merry Christmas 2009
Wish you have a great day!!!

It's Saturday night!

Reunion - Kemurnian V Primary School 1990s @Samudera Seafood, Taman Anggrek



Reunion - Me, Phing2 (Tae Kwon Do's friend), Iyin (childhood's friend), my sis, Cannel (cousin)



Reunion - w/ Ely (Vihara Dhamma Sukkha's friend)

It's a last night here in Jakarta. I had lots of fun meeting many old friends yesterday. Since yam cha in the morning with my primary school friends (managed to meet up of more than 20 pax), frozen yoghurt time w my ex-Tae Kwon Do friend, lunch and high tea at Pizza Hut w my childhood friend, then we had dinner w my cousins at the same place where I had my yam cha. After that we stayed a night at my eldest sister's home.

We had Soto Tangkar for breakfast, nasi Padang for lunch, and just had Sate babi (pork satay) and kuah paikut (pork ribs n salted vegetale soup) for dinner.

I have finished shopping my groceries this evening and ready to pack my lugagge for tomorrow.
I still have much time before the departure at 7pm. Still dunno what to do yet. Perhaps eat mie capcit for breakfast :D

Have a great weekend! Some of you are preparing holidays! Mine is over soon.. Hope for next year CNY trip coming up soon!!! Hahahhahahaha.....