Lilly & Connor: 2013

11/02/2013

Days without school

There's no kids in our condo during day.

All the kids must be in school...

Lilly and Connor will start going to school from next year. Till then....... I have them all day all night....

It's not unusual in US, in fact, I wanted to do homeschooling for Lilly in US. Not for Connor. Definitely not.

So we do some activities at home. Then watch TV(I only let them watch UK kids programs) then sometimes go out to explore our neighborhood by bus.

To the bus stop, they search for senopies. Am I spelling correct? That what kids call them. Senopies...

Catapillar with hair. Oh no thought this is hairy catapillar but it's not!!! What is this?

I try hard to like them..try making good comments abt them....not easy.

Kids love getting on bus.

7mins ride, here we r at massive shopping malls. 3 malls and little stand shops street in one place.

I took this pic at 9:30pm last nite. Mall was pretty crowded still.

We eat Singapore lunch.

The toy it eats my $1 easily.

I met Indian lady in our playground who moved from Tokyo to Singapore 2 months ago with husband and baby boy after spending her 6 years in Tokyo. She speaks fluent awesome Japanese. So nice to meet her and talk in Japanese at home ;)

Met another mum in playground, she invited us to her place(in same condo!) we found we came from the same service apartnet in west coast, exactly same timing.

Met oz family again. You know Terry's family. Those 3 kids are so nice.

This Chinese family took us to their kindergarden to show us. (Cuz we were looking for one.)

His grandma only speaks Chinese.

I managed walking with her talking somehow. Body language!! Their maid is chasing my kids too lol

So far so good.

We enjoy everyday here ;)

Halloween in Singapore

We missed US traditional Halloween.

In RVC, all our neighbors had perfect settings, tons of kids got together walked ard for trick or treat. It was awesome experience. Last year, we had superstorm sandy but even tho auntyM took Lilly out and Lilly could play with Christian in the dark.

I remember Connor had abit of fever so I stayed with him at home last year. Connor doesn't really know what u do for Halloween I guess.

In Singapore, I was too lazy to research where to go, also felt like fake to do Halloween here too ;(

Well we went out and kids saw some Halloween decorations at shop, tiny decorations. Lilly noticed its Halloween time. I decided to do it by ourself.

Took out my Halloween decorations I had in NY from storage.

Lilly became a witch.

She's holding black cat too!!! Should have taken photo against the white wall!!

Made witches brew as usual.

Children's bones, ears, eyes...Lilly named them pretty gross ;)

Stir stir

Connor became Micky mouse.

Had pumpkin soup for dinner.

We have done Halloween! Wasn't bad.

After this day, I saw a lot of ppl in Singapore had Halloween event. Should take kids somewhere next year. But still, feel strange to do it in here. It has to be in US!!!!!!!

Natural scent

Smells awesome

Simmering orange peels, cinnamon sticks and some cloves in the pot.

Kitchen looks better after tiding up little bit.

Eric ;)

Lilly has been watching the little mermaid over and over again.

She's so into Eric and Ariel, she only had Ariel peg people so she asked me to make Eric.

She said Eric has blue eyes, dark hair, wearing white shirts.

I went to Pinterest, here it is.

So I just copied it.

Eric and Ariel.

Running out of plain peg people now.

Hmmm time to order some more....aw we r not in US anymore!!!!!!

Wonder how much it will cost to ship it to Singapore....;(

Mums cake maker

I just love love love this cake maker!

I have been using it almost everyday.

Made some banana cake, carrot cake, pumpkin cake, apple cake, raisin cake, mixed berry cake.

I ordered bunch of frozen berries. My freezer is now full of berries. 6 bags of these!!

I finally succeed making blueberry cake today.

I've been trying different way, ingredients and amount.

So moist and fluffy inside ;)

Used 2 eggs, 10Tsp organic wholemeal flour, 1tsp alumi-free baking powder, 5Tsp honey, and 5Tsp grape-seed oil.

Mixed all together and add blueberries.

Took abt 7-10min to bake. Took long time i know but I think it's because I used frozen berries.

Love this cake maker because it bakes perfect size of cakes and those shapes, they r too cute.

Thanks mum to bring it over here from Australia!!!!! Love this so much.

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Blogger has finally fixed the problem. Now I can insert my pictures wherever I want as u can see. Before, my pictures were added randomly at the end of my post so I couldn't put any explanations or comment on my each pics.

9/17/2013

Miss my amazon.com

We don't have amazon here.
We have online shopping calked Qoo10.
Had never heard of it but I tried anyway.

Ordered 2 floatie suits, and my favorite magic bullet. Food processor. I buy this in every county we go. I need it to make my mayonnaise. This is my 4th one.

After wondering if the seller just run away after my payments or not ( ppl were actually complaining a lot that they were waiting for the item arrival more than a month, finally opened it then it was broken, seller doesn't reply their email or calls. Etc etc.)

Seems terrible.

My items arrived within a week with no problem tho. Phewww.

I wonder if this magic bullet is real tho. Can b a fake one. Was too cheap too.

I miss amazon.com!!!!!!!

I still shop from amazon US too since they just started free shipping to Singapore!!!!! I'm so lucky.