Zyan's Maiden Walk

This morning, went for the "Walk For Rice" event.
Reached Kampong Ubi CC around 8.15am. Brought 2 tickets. Zyan and myself.

My NC chairman already there, helping out with some of the logistics.
Helped to bring some of the drinking water for the participants up to the coach.
Not so bad. Bottle of water + banana for breakfast.

Coach left the CC, then headed towards Marina Bay Sands.
Took a group photo, and then the walk began.

It's a simple route, along the river bay, and go all the way to Marina Barrage.
it is quite a pleasant walk, except that the sun was a little strong.
Forgot to bring a cap for Zyan, kept nagging to me he was very hot. :P

Luckily, had a pack of gummy bear to distract him. :P

Not too bad, he managed to walk without getting me to carry him along the way.
*phew*

Took some pictures at the Marina Barrage area. Nice scenary.
Also, there are many activities happening.
There's a 24 hours non-stop run, seeing some youngsters kept running up and down the path.
There were people playing the giant air ball at Marina Barrage area.
Quite a cool scene for a hot Saturday morning. :)

Selfie taken with Zyan, and scenary shot:

 

After resting a while, the group proceeded to walk back to Marina Bay Sands.

Along the way, one of the NC member walked past us, carrying bottles of water for the participants.
I made Zyan helped to carry 1 packet.
He's very helpful, and showed me his muscle-man post to say he is very strong.
Ok. So let him carry 1 pack. Hehehe
He has to start his grassroots work also. Hahaha!

Of course, he didn't carry all the way, but already quite a good distance for his age/size and the pack of water weight.

Finally, reached back the starting point area. Took some pictures as well.
Looks nice with the pond of flowers and buildings in the background.

At the end point, Zyan being the active boy, still kept running around the place. Walk here walk there, just cannot sit very still.
Left him to do what he wanted to do, and I just sat there wan watch him roaming around the place, while waiting for everyone to gather back at the end point.

Lunch is provided. Each gets a pack of rice with vegetables, hard-boiled egg with chilli, fish fillet, and fish cake. Very good for a $2 ticket!

I think it is a good thing to do, walking for charity, and having a bonding time with my son.
Shall see what is the next event to attend to. :)

Another MPS

This morning, had a MPS session. Different MPS this time.
It's Meet Parent Session. :P

Every year, there are 2 Meet-Parents-Session from Zyan's school. One at mid-year, another at end of year.

We booked our slot at about 1040hrs.

First, it was with the English teacher. Generally, Zyan is coping well academically. He's also willing to help his other classmates with things he already know, which is good.
He's also able to do some mathematics without using tools. Wow! So pleased to hear right? Can save the money for sending him to abacus classes. :P

Only one thing that bothers the teacher a lot. It's his temper. He has a fixed idea of things to do. If something is not done to what he knew, he will make a big fuss out of it.
Example, if you put things at a particular location most of the time, and it happens that at times you put at convenient place, this Zyan will keep harping at you to put at the 'correct' place. And sometimes he can get very angry over such little things. Can be a cry baby at times over these too.
Alamak!

When he is angry, he tends to clench both his fists hard, and his whole body will become very stiff. Plus his face will look like having fumes coming out of his head.
Sometimes it can be quite scary.

It has become a little bit better, but I think more can be done.
Hmmmm

 

Then, we talked to the Chinese language teacher.
Again, he is able to read and converse well, so the teacher is not having problem to getting him understanding the lessons. Very good.
Again, comment from teacher is the same. His temperament at times can be, hmmm, hmmm ....
Sigh.

 

 

Now, what should we do?

Same comment. :P

 

Any class to address anger management for little kids? :P

 

Must show him more TLC liow.

Tender Loving Care.

 

Show him my *koochi koochi 手* :)

 

Walk For Rice

There's an event coming up next Saturday, 15 Nov 2014.
It's called Walk For Rice.

It's a fund raising event, organised by Kembangan-CC AAC with Eunosvill and Telok Kurau North Neighbourhood Committee. For every 200 metres distance walked, 1 bowl of white and brown rice will be donated to the needy residents.
You walk. The needy residents benefit. Good deal or great deal?

If you like to exercise or do brisk walking, why not put that into a good cause and help the community?

The date has been fixed on 15 November 2014 (Saturday), from 0830hrs to 1200hrs. It's about 3km of walk from Marina Bay Sands to Gardens By The Bay, and back.
There will be pick-up point at either Kampong Ubi or Kembangan CC to bring participants to the starting point.

It costs only $2 to join this event, and you will get light breakfast & lunch, plus the 2-way transport from the pick-up point.

Hehehe. This picture is taken off the notice board at Kampong Ubi CC, may not be the most clear of all. :P
Anyway, details are listeed above anyway.

If you have problem registering, can always let me know. :)

Volunteer You Volunteer Me

This morning, had to attend the Annual Work Plan Meeting with Kembangan CC.
I'm involved in some volunteer work with the Grassroots. Still figuring out the way things work within there.

It's held at National Library. Level 16 is a restricted area, just a place to conduct seminars or reception kind of things.
Quite a nice view up there, just that the weather wasn't great at the time.
Here are some pictures taken from there. C@@L.

This is the panaromic view where the slides projection is. The lightings made it hard to see the screen actually.

Some hazy views of the surroundings.

We were given a tour of the library. They brought us to level 7, where they house mainly the business, science and technoogy publications. Lots of students were studying there, as A-Level examinations are around the corner.
So long never come library, a bit sua-gu.

They also brought us to level 10, where they keep some of the special items from donors. Most of the items are kept in glass cabinet, where you can see, but can't touch. They also have this ma of the Silk Route, as shown below.
Quite interesting level, I must say.

 

Level 11, can't remember what they said. Oooops. I think it houses any publications that are available in Singapore, even magazines. Newspapers archive can be found here in microfilms too.
You can see Levels 12 and 13 from here, but you cannot go there. If browsing through  the catalog, and if the items are found in Level 12 or 13, the library staff will help to get it, somehow.

Then went back to Level 16, to have the buffet lunch before the actual meeting begins.
I'm not particular with food, so doesn't matter if it is nice or not.

Basically, it goes through some of the activities that each Committee planned for the coming year 2015. Some major ones, some minor ones.

One of the activities, One Community Day, has been fixed as 01 Feb 2015. It is meant to coincide near CNY period.
It is already in preparation now, and this will need many volunteers to help do some work.

If I remember well, it is broken down into 3 different areas.
Rice distribution for the needies; Accommodation Cleanup for the needies/elderlies; and Appreciation Dinner for the Pioneer Generations (think not just restrictive to PG, but Senior Citizens).
There are many low income families in Chai Chee area. That's where our area of focus is.
I went to Eileen, who is overall in charge, to tell her slot me in any one of it. Will try to help out.

Anyone want to join me? :P

As part of this involvement in Grassroots work recently, I also participate to help in the Meet-the-People-Session.
Every Monday (except 5th Monday and Holiday), from 7.30pm onwards.
Now still observer stage, see how other volunteers help residents in their problems. Record down, and then send to various agencies to help them.
Quite an eye opener session to be involved in. This is where the real issues are reflected. Some are real, but still, some are fakes apparently.
Whatever it is, the volunteers will try to help as much as possible for these people.
I've done 2 rounds of observation, still 4-6 rounds to go before I can help more actively.
Meanwhile, watch and learn.

Come come, let's get involve, and make the little contribution that we can do.

Test Water

I finally got my water testing kit! Yesterday evening.

I brought it out with me today to work. Wanted to try it out, as well as show my colleagues the water that we drink.

The place is somewhere at Somerset, our client's office. :P

After our lunch, went back to the desk, and tried it out.
I should have brought along pure distilled water, but forgot.

Anyway, my main aim was to test it myself and see.

I tested 2 glasses of water.
One from tap water from the toilet.
The other from the water dispenser, and I chose the hot water.

First, I did a  TSD meter test on the water.
The tap water reading was 9, and the dispenser water was .... 20!
Wah! POWER!!! NOT!

Then I tried doing the electrolysis test.
Put it on top of the 2 glasses, and waited and waited..... waited and waited.
Then concluded it as faulty, since the rod doesn't even feel warm.
D'uh!

Checked and checked and checked.
ALAMAK!
There's a power on/off switch hidden in a top compartment.
So switched it on, and waited.

Very fast, the water turns colour already.

The glass on the left is tap water, while  the one on the right is the hot water from the water dispenser.

My colleagues Lai and Boby were a little amazed by the changing colours. :P
Somehow, I remembered it actually looked darker than the picture shown here. Not sure why. LOL!

That's why I try to drink more 'clean water' these days.
Still need to figure out how to put the water filter system when I buy it the next time.
Don't know where to put. Sigh.

Who want to test your home water?
Let me know. I very kpoh 1. :P
Hahaha

Honeygar

I've been on my little journey since 09 Sept.

Till date, I am quite happy that I had started that little mission, even though I am not following a strict detox plan to reduce my weight.
Imagine if I had done that. :)
For my own record, I lost 4kg since then.

One of the first things I started is to drink honeygar.
So what is honeygar?

It is just a simple combination of honey and apple cider vinegar with water.
Preferably, using pure raw honey and pure water.

What I do is to add 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar into a 1.5L of pure water. Stir it well and have them mixed well together.
This is the specific ones I used.

For ACV, the more common brand is Bragg. I am told it is a little stronger, but if you can take it, I guess it is ok. Anyway, for me, I think we will stick to this particular one that I am recommended. :P

So what is the benefits of honeygar?
Some key benefits of the miracle water honeygar:

• Promotes effective weight loss
• Curbs appetite (add flax seeds for better effect)
• Helps to detox body
• Prevents heartburn
• Lowers high blood pressure
• Lowers cholesterol
• ... plus more ...

The raw honey that we bought is a 3kg pack. The ACV is quite a normal size, can't remember if it is 750 or 1000ml.
Anyway, it's been 6 weeks since started, and the ACV is just about to be finished, and the raw honey is only about half used.
These 2 cost me just slightly over $100 then.

If you have good water filtering system, then good. If not, a box of a dozen 1.5L pure distilled water costs about 6-8 dollars, depending on the brand you like.
For me, I need to see where is good to place the water filtering system, if I want to replace my current one. :P

Yes. I am promoting honeygar. I share what I learnt.
That's my part for sharing.

To do or not to do, that is the question.

An Incident

Zyan's swimming lesson today was abruptly interruped by lightning.
Then the red siren was rung at Katong Swimming Complex, and everyone has to get out of the pool.

When the siren is activated, it has to wait about 30 minutes and look at the weather condition before the authority opens up the pool for public use again.

We had initiailly wanted to wait. But as you get out of the pool, wet all over, and with the cool weather at that time, it gets a little cold for general, let alone in swimwear.
Then we decided, it is better to take a quick shower and leave. :)

So I brought Zyan to the Gents and get washed up.
After washing Zyan, and getting him clothed up, a very macho guy was standing nearby, keep glaring at where we were occupying, and then slowly he moved to a section besides us. Not sure what he was glaring about, perhaps the wet clothes on the bench.
Then I told Zyan to wait, while I do my quick wash-up.

When I came out, and packing my stuff, that same muscularly-built guy started shouting at someone.
Then I saw he was shouting and scolding at a kid.
At first I thought the kid is with him, so I just ignored it.
He was scold vulgar at the kid with the 4-letter word, and it was very loud.
Something with this "... ... .. you are f***ing ....wet".
His things got wet, perhaps.

Then all of a sudden, the father of the kid realised that man was verbally abusing his little boy.
Of course he went to his son's rescue, and a shouting commotion went on in the toilet.
It was so loud between them, the lifeguards outside also came in after a while.

To me, this psychopathic guy is definitely in the wrong.
What good reason can it be for shouting and scolding so bloody loud at a little kid, especially if it is not your kid.
HELLO!?!?!?!?!?! This is a public pool. What do you expect? Clean and dry?
If so kilat, go buy yourself a pool and swim all you like with no people having any chance to wet your stuff.
Learn to live in harmony with people around you. Goodness!

I must admit, I do shout at my kid, but I don't scold vulgar at him right? LOL.

So that psycho guy did not want to apologise to the little boy, and the boy's father wanted to pursue this further with police.
And the police was then called.

I asked Zyan to go out and look for his mommy, then I went to the boy's father, and volunteered to be a witness if he needs one.
I tried to reason with the psycho also, and he even scolded me.
He flared up and took a book from his bag, and threw down, and claimed we are ignorant Singaporeans.
I recognised that book somehow, but didn't see the title, and forgot what title it might be called.

I can feel that he is very anti-government guy. To be fair, I am not pro-government, but neither am I very anti towards government.
The look on his face is like he has been bullied by us instead! Goodness gracious!
His eyes were even turning a little bloodshot with his angerness within him.
I think if he were to flare up and start a fight, we will be seriously injured.

I took the frightened little boy out of the toilet, to keep him out of sight with such ordeal.
Kept him company for a while until his father came out.

So I passed my contact info to the father, and loitered around for a while before taking Karinna and Zyan back home.
I guess I will text him to see what outcome was it.

Drinking Water

One of the first things I learnt from the nutrition course is about water.

Something so basic, yet there is such vast variations and knowledge into it.

Again, I am not an expert. My nutrition lesson tells me to drink RO (Reverse Osmosis) water. There are other types of water around, Kangen, Alkaline, Distilled, Pure, blahblahblah.

There are even tests to show you how dirty our drinking water is (mainly referring to tap water).

In fact, I do have a water filter system at home. Just have not been servicing it well for the past many years.
I did a water test on my water filter system recently. The reading using TDS Meter is the same as my tap water! How terrible! I have bought the RO Water system. Buying distilled water for now.

There are further test done to ‘see’ the dirtiness of the water. Electrolysis. There are many youtube videos around, here’s one:

There video above does not show about RO Water.

There is also another school of thoughts regarding RO water. The claim is RO Water is acidic, and the water would absorb the minerals from our bodies actually.

There’s also report from WHO about some of the adverse effects of drinking demineralized water. This is the full report about water nutrients: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientsindw/en/
The part of demineralized water is here: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf
Interesting read for some parts, most parts are too chim already. :P

Whatever it is, water appears to be a big area by itself. Oh god!

So for me, I will continue to buy distilled water to make my honeygar. I will still continue to drink my ‘dirty’ tap water. I will do both until I decide at later stage when I find out more about the part for RO water being acidic. Not sure if I will ever find out yet.

Need to read more about water. :)

Soccer Lesson

Weekend for Zyan is getting exciting.
On Saturdays, he had swimming lesson. 4.30pm to 5.30pm.
He has improved a lot actually. Starting to do free style now. But no, he hasn't done the breastroke yet.
I am sure he will get better, and better, and better.

Now, on Sundays (at least for 4 Sundays), he will be attending soccer lessons!
Today is his first lesson at Fandi Ahmad Academy, held at Tampines Safra.

The lesson started at 5.15pm. Went there quite early, just to be sure on time, and I just want to make sure who to check with at the location for him to get started.

Lesson started pretty much on time. They did some warm up, and then break into smaller groups (according to age) for subsequent training.

Boys will be boys.
He simply run around like it's a big playground.
Can you see my boy in action?

How about a little bit of dribbling actions from him?

It's a 90minutes lesson. How tough right?
But nevermind lah. Let him run and play. Would be good for his sleep! :)

I think he's enjoying it. So next 3 weekends, all busy.
So fun so fun!

Everything Nutrition

Yesterday, quite a long day.

Had meeting at 4.30pm. After the meeting, went for coffee with the people, and reach home around 8pm.
Took my usual fast fast dinner, and zoom! Out I go, and went for the Nutrition course.

It's a repeat of the 6 modules course (which I missed the first 3), so I wanted to check out the first 3 episodes.
Yesterday is the first module of it.

It's just an introduction. The emphasis is always on natural food, and mentioning some Doctors who had great contributions to this area.
However, there's one company that is mentioned: Monsanto.

Nope. It is an evil company, that introduced Genetically Modified Organism into our foods.
That's is why our chickens are so fat and strong now. :P
You can watch 1 part of the video here: http://youtu.be/LUpxmZDy7i4

There's full video of it on youtube. It's an hour+ long documentary. I will have to find some time to watch it.

Then I went to look for a friend.
He was sharing some marketing tips with some other people.
I stood and listened, and it's interesting.

Marketing is not my forte, so I am learning along.
The aim is to share this info to interested parties, and hopefully, gain better health in the process.

By the time it ended, it was already past 12 midnight. Cannot take it siah. :P

Then today, after work, and after dinner, and after playing a little with Zyan, I went to try it out.
Just posting the event to see if anyone would sign up.

While the event description is about earning income through it, it is not my aim for now. But of course, if it can, why not? :)
Here's the link: http://bit.ly/UnderstandingNutrition
I am testing it as well.

With the guidance from my friend yesterday, it looks pretty decent.
So fun so fun!

Next week, must make time to attend.
I think it's about reversing cancer.

Straits Times Run

We went to the ST Run 2014 this morning.

Took the wonder bus service 33, and alighted just outside stadium.
Just a short walk from the starting point. Cool.
The last walk we did was organised by Kembangang CC, few weeks back.

As we stroll to the starting line, took some pictures of the new stadium.

 

Can only show the fresh look. Cannot show any picture after the walk. LOL.
Ohh! My double chin! :P

We only chose the 5km Fun Run. We didn't run, just doing brisk walk.

It's mainly just walking from stadium, towards Suntec and back.
Walking on Nicoll Highway. Nice.

I think it took us about 50 minutes to finish the 5km walk.
My big princess looked very tired from around 2.5km mark already. But she made it! Yeah!

At the finishing line, we were given another commerative t-shirt, bottle of distilled water, a can of 100-plus, and a banana!
So healthy right! hehehe

The previous walk to went, gave us nasi lemak after the walk. LOL.So funny.

Anyway, we rested a while at the stadium, then kpo around to see people dance zumba, and then left for our breakfast at old airport road before coming back home.

Well, I must say, it's good to walk. :)

GlucosCare Tea

My weight is still about the same.
What have I done wrong?

Many things.

Like I said earlier, I only stick mainly to drinking Honeygar.
Perhaps that is not good enough, and I do think so, not because of Honeygar itself, but because I still eat some 'unheathy' food.
That shows I am not determined enough yet, not diligent enough yet, and not disciplined enough yet, to follow the regime of Full Tummy Detox.
Hmmm. What should I do?

Well, this is my little journey, my own choice of path, and ultimately food.
Blame no one, but myself.

Below is a 10-days peek into what I ate. It is not in full detail of course, but a guide for me to note what I ate for the past many days.

See, to prevent my dad from eating too much mooncakes, I have to gobble some down myself. Plus, there's wedding dinner and some gathering with friends, which would technically add more 'food' to my tummy.
Excuses excuses! :P

Anyway, today's main point here is to introduce this thing called GlucosCare Tea.

This was shared by Alan during the gathering session on 12 September. He's a health buff. Very fit guy.
He recommended this to many people. thus shared this during the gathering.
The main purpose of the tea is to 'block sugar intake', thus reducing the bad consequences of having too much sugar in our body.
His waistline dropped a further couple of inches with the tea, within 2-3 months!

Therefore, I bought a box of it, and started drinking it once a day since last week.
I bought it at Unity, but I think Watson or Guardian might have it as well.
You can try it out too. It's not very expensive. About $30+/- per box for 50/60 sachets.

And if you have tried, and it also produced results for you, let me know. I think some of this statistics would be good for people to know.

As you can see, it's only 2 weeks, and based on what I eat, the result is not good, yet.
I will still update my food intake, and check my weight occasionally, to see how it progress.
It will be interesting to know.

Slowly, and steady. One little baby step at a time.
I am just a baby ... :)

Good Milk

Recently, I attended some nutrition course conducted by Suria Mohd.
She's a nutritionist celebrity, also a very hardworking and super smart lady.

The course was 6 sessions, each about 3 hours long, and over a period of 6 weeks. All held in the evenings of course.

I can't remember why I did not attend the first 3 lessons. I only attended the 4th to 6th sessions.
Session 4 was Full Tummy Detox; which was what led me to start drinking Honeygar, and plus some other stuff.
Session 5 was about Kids Nutrition, what is good for kids of different ages.
Session 6 was aout anti-aging.

Like most people, I know nuts about nutrition.
Tasty food, awful food, just eat.
Healthy food, junk food, don't know, just eat.
Generally, most of what we eat, are not 'good food'.

One thing that I remember from the sessions:
We don't need food. We need nutrients.

It takes time to stop eating the food that we are so used to eating nowadays.
So I will have to see when I will make a fuller switch to a more complete Full Tummy Detox.
My tummy is pretty big you know. Pretty big means very pretty. :D

In this post, I am more interested in sharing one thing.
Milk.

This was shared during Session 5, for kids nutrition.
The concept of 'Happy Cow' and 'Sad Cow' was brought up, and it is true that most cows would be subjected to various forms of injection to quicken the process of milking.
Most of the milk bought from the supermarket, are generally products from such 'Sad Cows'.

Then how?
I need to give my son 'good milk' to drink.
I couldn't catch what she said during the session, except it's only available in Mustafa, and there are 2 packaging. Blue for full cream, and pink for skimmed milk. The better choice is pink packaging.

Then I happened to be able to pass by Mustafa the other day, dropped in quick, and did a search for it.
When I found something similar, I did a search on the net, and true enough, this is the brand.
Fred & Chloe.

Never head before leh.
Checked the label. Product of Germany. Hmmmm. Interesting.
Nevertheless, bought 3 packets of it.
It's not expensive, in case you think it is.
It's $2/pkt. It was labeled as promotional price, but I think usually price won't be too far off from it as well.

Thus, would you like to buy 'better' milk for your family?
I am not selling, go and buy yourself and try. :D
But if you need help, can always ping me.

I will slowly share some of the tips I have.

At the end of it, I think it will all boil down to 3 D's.
Whether if I am Determined to be Diligent enough to enforce Discipline to follow the diet program with consistent effort.
祝福我吧！

Little Journey

On the 9th Sept 2014, I started my little journey to reduce my weight.
All for the good of my family. Healthy weight can lead to healthier me, and will bring out a much happier family. :)

I am by no means an expert. Thus, I listened to some advice from nutritionist, and try to follow the detox program.
Again, being a greedy food eater, it’s tough to stick totally to the detox program. Yes. I am lazy. Hoping things will work out the way even if I don’t work hard for it.
Who doesn’t want that right?

Thus, to make it simple, I only started with Honeygar.
It’s supposed to loosen the fats in our bodies, and also alkalizes our bodies at the same time. Alkalization is what we need, according to the experts.

Thus, the journey began … …

Flag Down

Following the Flag Up done last month, it is time to dismantle the flags although not end of the month yet.
Somehow, next week the relevant parties are not free, so the activity is brought foward to this week.
Very smart. I volunteered again.
Hooray!

So I met up with Koh at the CC at 10am.
This time round, only 2 of us. *cringe*
Ah yes. Just the two of us. Romantic right?

Dismantling is a lot more simpler than setting up. Just knock knock a little when needed, pulled the flag pole, rolled it up, threw onto the trolley, pulled out the metal holder, cut the wiring as needed. Go next.
Bang bang bang bang.

As the trolley is a small one, we needed to make 2 trips to collect back all the flags.
Still, it took a whopping 2 hours to complete the task.

Once back to the CC with all the flags, it back to keeping the things in order, and dumping into the store room, perhaps for next year.
NEXT YEAR?!?!?!?!??!
*jaw drop*
Holy papa! Holy mama! Halleluyah! Orr mi tor hoot ah!
Next year then say. :P

See the commander working hard in tidying the things around:

At the end of it, exhausted.
Si beh tired siah.

Headed back home for lunch after that.
I needed a rest. :D

Joel Bauer

I didn't know this person until yesterday.

We happened to be at some event, and a guy seated next to us mentioned about this Joel Bauer.
Then Karinna searched, and happened to find the free seminar that was held yesterday and today at Singapore Expo.
So we registered for it.

As usual, all such events typical take a whole day.
It started yesterday at 9am, and today at 7.30am, and ended around 6pm on both days.

So who is this guy?
Mentors' Mentor.
Cool or cool?

The way he conducted his seminar is so different.
No big hooha around, just speaking and teaching.

Of course, at the end of the 2 days, there has to be something more that he offers for all the audiences.
The amount is actually pretty high.
But he added a 'guarantee' to your success if you take action.

Every seminar pitch is about taking action. :)

But, for the 2 days of free training, I think he provided a lot of content.
If actually using his methodology and process, it is very workable, I think.

There are some takeaways from the 2 days that I probably will have to start working on as well.
There will hopefully be some change and progression that comes along the way.
And it is one seminar, that I actually wrote down lots of notes, and easily used up a few small stacks of foolscap papers along the way.

Nothing but writing and writing.
And he will be sending more 'gifts' via email too.
Gotto wait and see.

He's coming again in November.
Will definitely sign up for the 2 days again.
Worth it.

Flag Up

Today is the first time I joined committee activity, doing real work.

Task is to put up flags around our estate for National Day.

I didn't receive any reminder or information regarding it, but nevertheless went ahead to our community centre at 2pm as agreed previously in the meeting to do the task.

Of course, I reached there early.
Our chairman was there. He's probably there everyday somehow, and showing support to the team members for erecting the flags up.

I think in total there were about 50-60 wooden poles. National flags around 40+. And some other colour flags with 12 in total.

There were only 3 of us. Chainman, the proposer, and me. Another helper came along about 20 minutes later. We were still fixing up the flags to the pole before bringing them out to erect them.
This part is not difficult. Just tying the flag to the pole, getting ready for the next part.
Still, it took almost an hour to fix up the flags.

With the help of trolley, we piled up the flags onto the trolley, and slowly made our way to the surrounding area.

We started from the Eunos Road near the CC, and made our way towards Eunos MRT Station. Our area is on the opposite of the MRT station.
So we started the work.
Chiselled in and dig a hole for the flag. Then hammer down a metal holder to stabilise the flag.
This is tough part. It's like digging trench in army, albeit a very small resemblance of it.
Koh did a big bulk of the work, but I can't let him do the hammering all the way. I have to hammer some in as well.
There were only 4 of us. 1 lady, our chairman who is already 70 (still going strong though), Koh, and I. Koh is the champion, hammering in a big bulk of the work. I chipped in to take over from time to time. The lady do mostly the tightening of the pole to the metal piece, and chairman is the quality controller.
LOL. In between we still switched around a bit here and there lah, else can die 1 siah.
Plus the bloody hot sun.
Wow! 杀了我吧！

We made our way down to the main traffer light near the mosque at diagonal of Eunos MRT station. Then went towards Changi Road again to put the flags at the other side of te estate.
At some junction intersection of Still Road and Changi Road, we took some pictures.

And then we turn back down towards Kampong Ubi CC, and put more along the road.

Of course, the blister will surely appear. And it did. How nice.

At the end, we still short of many more flag poles needed to put up in the area. That means, there will be a part 2!
They need to get more of the items first, so not sure when is that going to happen yet.
We shall see.

Sleepless In Joo Chiat

Last week wasn't a good week. Or should it be this week? Hmmm.
Nah. Last week.

Had some cough since Monday. Caused me to feel lethargic, and my whole body sort of ache.
酸痛 is the word. Ang mo, dunno.

Then coughed until giddy giddy.
Wah piang! Always like that 1.
And coughed until at night sleep also got problem.
Some days are Sleepless in Joo Chiat.

Cough still ok. Can't remember was it Tuesday or Wednesday, mainly my left leg felt a lot more 酸痛 than anywhere else.
This was the real toughie.
That kind of ache makes it even harder to sleep.
Waking up in the middle of night and cannot do anything about it.

I don't watch soccer, but because of the ache, I managed to catch the semi-final between Argentina and Netherland.
Yeah. I watched with no enthusiam. Anyway, it was goal-less and only go for penalty shoot-out.

Took some painkillers for some nights, and managed to sleep some hours.

Yesterday night also cannot sleep well with the aches.
Woke up a few times, and in the end, just gave up at 5am+.
早睡早起身体好！

Now, feel the cough might be recovering. But the damn ache on my left legs still lingers on.
Tonight must eat some painkillers liow.
Maybe should do acupunture. But poke poke here poke poke there si be jialat.
See how lah.

Family Day

Yesterday was 04 July.
Nah. I don't celebrate US' Independence Day.

It's Family Day for Zyan's child care centre.

It's supposed to be some costume theme, but we didn't prepare anything to go with the theme.
We shameless just wear similar T-shirts.
I Love Bangkok t-shirts.

Mother and son posing for cheap-thrill shot on the way to school.

There were about '28 contestants'. Each family is supposed to do catwalk down the church aisle, and then present themselves to ask for votes.

There were quite a few families who made extra effort into this. Impressive indeed.

For us, we just ran down the aisle, and just introduce our number, since we don't expect to get any vote. LOL

In the end, the 2 groups in the picture above were the top 2 teams.
The Tinkerbell group, and the Breakfast group.

I think the effort from the Tinkerbell group is outstanding. I like this group most.
However, the winner is the Breakfast group. Simple yet innovative. Cool.

At the end of the costume competition, it's food time. The adults had nasi lemak, while the children have rice with small hot dog and chicken nuggets and some ikan bilis.
And then it's touring time, visiting the artwork done by the kids in the child care centre.

Above is Zyan's product. Just one of the many in there. Nice little colourful fish.

And there, cool star fish by 郑智元.

Then it's play game time again.
They had 2 games, form into 5 different groups amongst the families..

1 game is to use non-living objects and form straight line. Whichever team formed the longest line win.
Our team didn't win. this.

Second game is getting a list of objects within the group.
They ask for 5 $10 notes, 2 $50 notes, 9 mobile phones, 7 watches, 6 pens, 3 belts blahblahblah.
It was fun. Of course the adults played this more so than the kids.
It's not easy to get some of the items as no one is prepared for it.
Kinda interesting. :P
And for this, our group came out as winner!
Yeah!

No family went home empty handed.

I think the kids are the happiest. With prizes and just games to play. No school! :P
I am sure next year will have another Family Day which they will enjoy.

Nickelodeon Slime Cup

This morning, brought Zyan to United Square.

Karinna's friend, Hsu Wei, had some event there, and needed a pair of father and son as participant.
I was volunteered with Zyan. :D

We reached there about 10am. Played some of the booth games, and then met up with Hsu Wei.

Didn't know exactly what we are into, but I did a search on the web yesterday, and knew there were some 'slime' games.
Slimey!

There were 6 pairs of participants.
It is called the Nickelodeon Dad's Challenge.

Basically, have to complete 6 tasks. They will give a clue to start, and then at the end of each task, will be given another clue to continue, until finish.
Each task will be given maximum 3 stamps, depending on performance.
Winners will be based on performance as well as speed.

Zyan and I started with Pit Stop #6.
It is just to take a picture at SingTel booth, putting both of our faces into a circle board frame bearing MioTV sign. Simple.

Then we ran to Pit Stop #1.
On the way, Zyan fell down. Not serious, just a slight trip. :P
This stop was to do puzzle. Those 20-30 pieces type. We took close to a minute to fix it. Got 1 stamp for it.

Then it's time for Pit Stop #2.
Both of us have to wear a helmet with a container on top of it.
I have to scoop water out from a huge container, pass the water from my helmet to Zyan's helmet, and he will have to pour the water down to another huge container. Need to do 3 scoops I think.
So naturally, we both got a little wet from head to half upper body.
How nice.
Think we had 2 stamps from there.

Next. Pit Stop #3.
Slimey.
Have to transfer 5 balloons from 1 end, to a seat, place the balloon on the seat, and burst the balloon while sitting on it.
Have to put the balloon in between thigh to go to the seat, and obviously can only do 1 at a time, and father and son have to take turn.
Of course, I will have to do 3 times then.
And best of all, the seats were already slimey, and the balloons have slime in them as well.
If I remember well, we got 2 stamps for this.

Pit Stop #4.
Have to go under a pole with 3 different heights, bending body backward while walking under.
Just that it was done with water underneath. So if you fall, you'll be wet.
First height, no problem.
Second height, still ok.
Third height, lowest of them all. Definitely no issue for Zyan. But poor me!
Dunno how I managed to bend lah. Somehow manage to scrimp through!
3 stamps! Yoohoo!

Pit Stop #5. Last station.
Mathematics. They give 3 maths questions. Father answers. Son throws balls into relevant numbered pail.
My maths still not so bad. And Zyan pretty much co-operative in throwing the balls, and of course, the crew are not exactly too strict with kids throwing to moving closer to throw the balls. Hahaha.
Should be 3 stamps.

Raced back to the finishing point.
We were the second team back at the line.
Felt quite dirty, and a little tired by the end of it. :P

It wasn't until about 12+ then the winner was annouced.

Yes. That's my and Zyan with the winning medal.
The Slime Cup medal, plus some other winning goodies.

Well done son!
For playing with papa.
Or is it the other way round? :P

As a reward, he got his McDonald lunch.



My Wife

It was around 1994
And there she was
Friendly and cheerful nature
Brings much joy to my life

Prior to millenium
And there she was
A new phase of life with me
The couple meant to be

Through the years we've been
Now and then some bickering
But as we always say
Life is still a bliss

And then came the moment
And there she was
Made our life complete
The little kid is such cutie

With the 20 years of time
And there she was
Always by my side
My strength, my pillar, my life

For the many years to come
I shall endeavour my best
To hold her in esteem
And bring smiles to her face

And there she is
The soulmate of lifetimes

Happy Mother's Day :P

Good Friday

We've been telling Zyan for past few days that we will bring him out on Friday.
More specifically, the playground at Gardens By The Bay.

Yesterday, we even went out to get a set of cheap sand-play tools for him, so that he can have some fun.

So we left home at 8.45am. Sounds pretty early.

When we reach Gardens By The Bay, the carpark was already like more than half-filled.
Managed to find our way to the Children Playground.

It's pretty big playground, with sand and water play.

First station for Zyan, the sand.

He still does not know how to play sand well with the tools.
Taught him to add water to make the sand more robust for using the mould.
Still, a good learning for him, and get dirty. :D

Then he started to explore the place. Went up the treehouse etc. Wanted to play slides etc.
With his jean-material shorts, a bit tough with the slide.
Kinda weird. See here.

After almost an hour with the sand and playground, it's time to hit the water.
Changed him into his water-play gear.
Told him, and pointed him to where Karinna and I were seated, and to come to us when he needed anything.
Actually, what would he need? :P

From our seat, I took a zoomed picture. Quite a distance actually, and the photo still came out ok.
Using my phone camera.

So it's his fun time again!
More of him playing with the water among the huge crowd.

 Then it was time to go. 11am. He had been playing for past 2 hours, almost non-stop.

After cleaning him up, we headed down to Parkway Parade.
Had some coupon for Pastamania, so went there for lunch.

He enjoyed his pizza pretty much, and not forgetting walloping up his mommy's garlic bread.

A wonderful Good Friday morning for him.
And a great place to bring child to. Gardens By The Bay playground.
Just a little tad crowded.
Worth going again. :)

Double Decker

Saturday is usually a marketing day.
Brought Zyan along, but to let him have his hair cut.
He's doing very well with getting hair cut now.

And there he is, happy playing the machine after his hair cut.

I told him that if he behaved well, I will bring him out to take bus.
He's been talking about wanting to take double decker bus since I-don't-know-when.
Today seems like a good day for it. :)

So after lunch, and after sending Karinna to her Toastmaster activities, Zyan and I came back home.
Parked the car, went to pee, then head to the wonder-bus bus-stop. My wonder-bus is Bus 33. :D

Took to Kembangan, then changed to MRT, and we headed towards Expo.
Didn't know where to bring him, thought if there's some exhibition then can just wander around.
Too bad, nothing seemed to be alive at the Expo Halls.

So we went to Changi City Point.

First thing first. McDonald.
What else right?

Thereafter, wandering around again. Went up to level 2, and there's some ride there for kids.
Paid $5 for a ride. He chose Elephant, just pink colour. Hmmm.

Well, he appeared to be enjoying it.

Then we went to the so called Treehouse.
Again, didn't bring another set of clothing, so Zyan couldn't play with the water.

I told him we'll come again the next time round, and will bring extra set of clothing, so that he can run around and enjoy the waters in the area.
He's a good boy, still pretty much enjoyed himself in a dry manner.

I'm not so familiar with the place. Followed direction to Arena. Hmmm.
Interesting place.
Not crowded as well. A group of youngsters seemed to be there trying to rehearse for some dance moves.
Zyan's first move was to run up the stairs, and sat there, and told me: "Take picture!"

Ok. Obligation done. Here:

He vividly remembered us climbing stairs at Disneyland in Hong Kong, when we watched dolphin show.
Kept telling me we walked up and down the stairs in Disney.
Lucky I also can remember, for now. :)

Then it's time to go back home.
We only took single deck bus, and MRT. Not double decker bus yet.

Thus, went back to Expo station.
Coincidentally, my colleague Gigi also brought her family to Changi City Point. Met her while on the MRT platform. Also bus/mrt ride day for her. LOL
Anyway, we took the train, and we alighted at Tanah Merah Station. I don't really need to stop at this station. I can jolly well alighted at Bedok and took Bus 33 home.
Only reason is: Double Decker Bus.

To make my Zyan happy, hop him up onto Double Decker Bus 31 that happened to appear at that time. Cool.
Cheap-thrill boy goes to the upper deck. I followed.
Happy liow.
Kids at this age are still easy to satisfy. :)

So we alighted at Bedok, bought some chwee-kueh, then headed back home.

Throughout the bus and mrt rides, Zyan was using his new concession card.
He tapped the card all by himself, with my instruction and guidance of course.
I think he's proud of himself 'knowing' how to take bus and mrt. Hehehe

Way to go boy!