No romantic candle light dinner.
We spent the day home together with the kids having a friend over,
spread of food, playing Wii & fixing up my problematic notebook.
Note: Faces are mosaic'ed for privacy issues.

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Rainforest Kidzworld @ Singapore Zoological Gardens
Armed with an extra change of clothes, dressed in their swim suits.
Janelle & Javier enjoyed themselves at the newly opened
Rainforest Kidzworld.
Source of picture from here

Janelle & Javier : "Thank you auntie Lynn!!"

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Wishing all a Merry & Peaceful Christmas!!!

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A day in Escape Theme Park

The kids enjoyed themselves thoroughly..WET! With no extra clothes and 2 dripping wet kids. We ended up buying clothes for them to change into in fear of drenched car seats.
I wondered why I was there? I'm too chicken for high thrilling rides of any kind.
Many times I was urged by The Man to go on the thrill rides, I told him "get a million horses to drag me if you can!"

A wonderful place for the kids to run around enjoying themselves on those rides. Yet, one thing we all couldn't stand! Lining up for the rides!!! Lining up for let's say 20-30 minutes for a single 1-2 minute ride.
Lesson of the day, never head to the amusement park during school vacation or on a weekend...

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Fun @ the bowling alley

It was new found fun for the kids learning to bowl.
However, for us the parents.
It's a case of literally "throwing" money into the longkang(gutter)!!

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Janelle's Back Home!!!!Thanks to all that sent her well wishes, through my blog, sms'es and phonecalls checking on Janelle's progress. She has been discharged from the hospital and is currently recuperating at home.
After last week's Weekend SnapShot post on Janelle's A&E's episode.
She was admitted into KK hospital the next day with her right hip lymph node starting to hurt.
A couple of possibilities cause the swelling of her foot which caused her
3 days spent at the hospital, with bouts of high fever, a swelling foot, wheezing in the chest, blood test checking with blood cultivation if bacteria has entered her bloodstream.
Till, date we're uncertain if the swell has been due to insect bites, or cuts with bacteria entering her bloodstream.
She was treated with anti-biotics through the IV drip on her hand, leaving her movements restricted.
This hospital stay has been quite an experience for her. She's glad to be back home, away from the hospital ward. So am I!!

While there, I saw this huge article at the 'Admissions' lobby.

It was the busiest "baby factory" in the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s. For two decades, it held the record as the world's largest maternity hospital in the Guiness Book of Records. Its peak delivery of 39,856(more than 109 per day) in 1966 was acknowledged as the "birth quake" by Guinness. It wass where more than 1.2million Singaporeans first saw the light of day. This is Kandang Kerbau Hospital(KKH), where labour pains give way to joys of birth.

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Great Saturday.Stressful Sunday

Birthday picture credits to Lynn

Birthday celebrations with a BBQ.
Birthday girl was overjoyed on her 8th birthday.
Janelle will like to thank all her friends, relatives, auntie Lynn, all of mom's blogger friends that wished her birthday wishes and all the wonderful presents she received.
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Janelle spent almost 3 hours at the A&E department today with a swelling foot.
With 19 bottles of antibiotics medication....


she's definitely not in the best of moods.
Doctor has drawn a line on her foot for observation.
If swelling goes beyond the line, she must be rushed back to the hospital.

She's only happy that this happened today, and not on her birthday yesterday.

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*PhotoHunt below this post*
I'll be back to comment on PhotoHunter's entries on Sunday.

Time didn't pass by me, it flew past me at rocket speed!
It's my daughter's 8th birthday today!! :)
It didn't seem that long ago, we were changing her infant size diaper!!
............Reality check, she's growing up too fast....AND... I'm growing OLD!!

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Ruins left behind by construction workers.

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Earlier this week was spent setting up my daughter's aquarium at home.
It's her early birthday gift from her grand-uncle.
Her grand uncle and I had fun for a couple of days scouting for fishes,
decorating, and playing with buckets of water!
Apparently we learnt, we can't simply use tap water immediately
and we've got to de-chlorine it for 24hrs before the water is suitable for fishes.

But thinking now, I've been the one feeding and changing the water etc.
So does that make it mine? Did I just gotten myself another chore?!!?

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With F1 first ever night race held in Singapore this weekend.
Basically, unless you've got tickets to the event. You're pretty much stuck at home or elsewhere watching the event from a screen. 4 digits for the grandstand tickets! An avid fan of the Formula 1 but forking out 4 digits for a 3 day event is way beneath my means.
F.Alonso of Renault CHEQUERED FLAG in Singapore F1 GPIt has been an extremely eventful Race Day of the first ever night race and street race in Formula 1 history.
Safety car deployed twice, with 4 stops(Kimi, Sutil, Barrichello & Piquet) and 2 retired (Trulli & Webber). Massa, Kubica and Rosberg were investigated and penalised.
Massa's performance was actually a nightmare at the street race and leaving the pit-stop with the fuel hose still in his car.
So eventful I can't even put to words here. Definitely a dramatic race.
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It has been a nitemare the past 4 days!! Something screwed up on my previous template (the white one). I changed the template and spent 4 days tweaking and trying to get it looking like this current one. I practically had a nightmare with all the xml/html codes swirling around my brain! ZZzzz
Do you prefer the old white template or this current template?
*Update* Most preferred the white template due to eye strains from the black.
I've change the body background to white leaving my new black header on top.
Is it better now?
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Together with The Man here is the other woman in his life....
Snapping this picture from behind,they look like a couple. It's my daughter :P
This weekend, The Man celebrates his birthday.
Here's wishing him a Happy Happy Birthday apologising for spending too much of the weekend working on the template and hogging the TV for the practise,qualifying and race of F1 :X

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To those that are sceptical that blogging pays off...eat ur heart out!!
I received my 1st Nuffnang check in my mailbox!!
Unlike famous bloggers that earn 4 digits paycheck,
I only received a 2 digit amount.
However, I'm still pleased!!!
I need not spend a single cent blogging.
I had a good time blogging as per normal leaving the ads to run itself and ta-da!!
A nice paycheck arrives to brighten my day :P

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Weekend Snapshot below this post.

Helper's not extending her vacation..she will be home tonight as scheduled!!!
I'm SERIOUSLY jumping and clicking my heels now!

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