Mid Autumn Festival Celebration

This is the first time we celebrated Mid Autumn Festival with two little ones.

Though the younger little one didn't really know what is happening, but his early arrival to the world seems to tell us that he wanted to celebrate with us.

But I think the elder little one also didn't really know what is happening. He only knew how to say 'Mumm... Mumm...' when he wanted to eat the moon cake and pomelo. Well... Besides the food, he was also quite fascinated by the lanterns which we had lighted up. We even switched off the light in order to see the lit-up lanterns more prominently, and they became so prominent that we cannot see anything except the lanterns. Hehe...












Besides the lanterns, I thought Chu Chu was even more fascinated when one of the lanterns caught fire, seeing a few of us (or maybe I'm the only one) freaked out and quickly rushed for water to put out the fire. Hahaha... :-P



“Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.” -- Dan Millman

First time as Da Yi

Wow!!! My little nephew is born!!! On 21st Sept 2007. However, he did not wait for me to come back from Batam before he decided to arrive to the world. I'm so excited to be Da Yi the first time!!! See, this is my little nephew with his wide smile:


Mmm... To me, this little nephew of mine is a quiet baby. He is steady and calm most of the time.

With this little nephew around, it really bring back my memories for almost two years ago when Chu Chu was just a newborn, so petite and tender. I still miss that time when he's so reliant on me and my mi.

With this little nephew around, I get to practice my skills of carrying and feeding newborn. But it's so different when I'm carrying and feeding my own newborn and Jie's newborn. I tend to be so much more careful with Jie's newborn. Afterall, he is Jie's precious baby. Haha...

With this little nephew around, I hope Chu Chu will learn to behave better and learn to set good example for this young cousin of his. I also hope that Chu Chu will learn to share his things and not to have all the attention on him.

Of course, last but not least, I hope that this little nephew will grow up with 'Double-H', that is, happily and healthy. :-)



"The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years." -- Mary Kay Blakely

My First NP Staff Retreat at Batam

It was the first time I had staff retreat away from Singapore. It was quite horrifying when I first knew about it, as I had just joined NP not long ago. And I don't really know my colleagues well.

In fact, all along I did not like the idea of staff retreat, because, to me, the definition of retreat is to move away. Hence, to me, company staff retreat means to move away from work. However, in my previous work place, staff retreat is to go back to work place and do more work. So, it's more like staff 'rework', than staff 'retreat'.

Moreover, the thought of leaving Chu Chu for 2 days and 1 night for some work related matter really sadden me. So, I didn't have a positive attitude towards this staff retreat. Nonetheless, I still have to go because it's my new job, and I did not have any valid reason for not going.

However, after spending some time with my colleagues on the first day, the feeling got better, and my attitude became more positive. This is because most of my colleagues carried very positive attitude and they are basically a group of fun loving people. We did alot of chit-chatting and games. Besides the many fun time that we had, we also got work done. Mmm... I should say, this is one of the best retreat I have ever attended.

These photos show how happy we are at the retreat:

Briefing given by the tour guide before the trip:

Pier at Singapore, getting ready to set off to Batam:

Scenery during the ferry journey to Batam:

Work time, gotta be serious:

Gotta makan, in order to have strength to work:

Though work is done, we had fun too:

This is the resort where we stayed in during the retreat:

'Standard' group photo:

Pier at Batam, getting ready to go home:

Journey home:

These are my rewards from Batam:

Hahaha.... These Polo Ts cost me more than a million dollars... But... it's in Rupiah la...

"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory." -- Norman Vincent Peale

100% chicken killer

Ken Ken is a real 100% chicken killer. Look at the bones left over after his sumptous spring chicken meal:









As compared to my baby sister, sigh... she's not good at 'killing' chicken at all:












"We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was." -- Bernard Malamud

Loving Grandparents

Grandparents always love their grandchildren unconditionally, no matter how naughty and unreasonable the grandchildren can be.

This is the love from Chu Chu's grandparents to Chu Chu, simple yet precious:















"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." -- Alex Haley