Party Time!

Every year towards the year end, we'll be having a class party in school. This year, we helped Mommy prepared the Horlicks Doggies Cookies . We even had a trial run a week in advance because Mommy had never made this before.

Mei  Mei helped Mommy with the mixing while I helped her with the doggies shaping. See what's our end results this time? It turned out quite well compared to the trial run :)

Ta-da!

Cute cute doggies

We also brought vitagens along to quench down these doggies. And we had a great time partying in school, enjoying all the food and goodies that our friends and teachers brought. Now 2 more days to school holidays!

Graduated!

I couldn't believe that my girl has graduated! Wow, how time flies. It would be SY's first graduation, and we're so grateful that her kindy years have been so memorable and enriching for her.

Graduation photo taken in July 2011

Rehearsal Day (Oct 22nd) - behind the backdrop

The photos and videos that we took on rehearsal day while they were performing on stage were not very clear. And on the actual day, we were not allowed to take any photos or videos. Here are the professional photos which we bought from the school. 

Photos taken on Rehearsal Day, the Indian Dance troop from K2 girls and their teachers

(can you spot SY at the front row, first from the left?)

Rehearsal Day - The team behind the poem recital 妈妈的眼睛

The Little Tea Pot Dance team from Year 3 students and their teachers

(Can you spot SJ at the front row, 4th from the right)

On the actual day itself, which was 29th Oct, we're in for a happy surprise to find SY's name under the most honourable award category. 

SY receiving her trophy

The top achievers for this year, 2 were from K2, while the other boy was from K1

I kind of regretted that we didn't take any photos of her in her graduation robe, as these were the only ones that we have, besides those from the professional shots taken in July.

SJ got an award too! 

 SJ performing in The Little Teapot Dance, can you spot her at the front row?

 SJ with her partner...

Facing the front now :)

There were so cute, the little dancers. I wish I can upload the video too, but I'll have to find time to crop the videos first. The teachers have indeed done a great job training them up. 

 The students performing the poem recital, 妈妈的眼睛.
They were specially selected by the principal and trained in her office

SY and her partner

And here are some photos of the Indian Dance. It was a superb performance, they girls could really undulate. The teacher did a very excellent job! We could hardly identify our girl at first, since all of them look like in their costumes!

SY at the 2nd row, from right

SY at the back row, standing from 3rd right

SY at the front row, first from the right

SY at the first right

Still at the same position

SY at the right

SY at the right

The finishing pose

After the concert ends, we took some photos 

Our family photo

With Amah and 2nd Chik Chik

SJ with her class teacher

SY with her class teacher and also English teacher (who is also the one teaching them the Indian Dance)

The girls at the 6th floor. This was their waiting room, while waiting for their turn to perform

Their trophies that made us proud of them

The Highlight of the Trip

Amazingly, the following day, we were all able to make it to the 9am Sunday Mass. After Mass, we had breakfast near my brother's house, and then we all proceeded to the highlight of our trip, Baby Clare's baptism ceremony at 12 noon.

Baby Clare with her doting parents

Baby Clare with her Godparent

She didn't cry at all during the Pouring of the Water over her head!

The Anointing with Chrism

 Clothing with the White Garment

The Lighted Candle

 A photo session with the priest, Godparent and Grandmother

Family photos

Just the Tan's 

Our camera girls

After that, we had a celebration lunch with all family members, including Clare's Mommy's parents at Jurong Point. Then the girls went for a toy shopping trip, before we went back to my brother's house to see the new Daddy in action - bathing the baby :) We ended the day with a yummy seafood dinner at Melben Seafood with my ex-colleagues. 

And the following day, we had a yummy Ramen breakfast at Orchard. 

The girls with their new dolls

Daddy sent us to the airport after a light pizza lunch

And on the way home, I have two soundly sleeping girls in the plane....

 If you noticed, I gave them a pacifier to alleviate the discomfort caused by the change in the cabin air pressure during the flight take-off and landing (just in case, even though Jie Jie is too big for this)

 Goodbye Singapore!

Of Bird Park and Safari Night

Mommy has been busy, so I was given the honour to continue for her J

Ok, right after that zoo trip, we went to queue up for the cab to take us straight to Jurong Bird Park. My, what a long queue! Daddy and Mommy kept calling for taxi, but the lines were either all engaged or no more cabs available. After a long long wait, Daddy managed to get a cab for us.

1 hour later, we reached our destination.

 Me posing with my pink doggy and the flamingos

This photo was taken by me - can you see Daddy holding my pink doggy for me? J

With the penguins again

 And the real flamingos this time...

We're just in time for the bird show, so we went there right away. This show was similar to what we've seen 4 years ago...although they gave it a different name now, King of the Skies. 

The birds really flew just right on top of our heads, and they were so big from close up!

After the show, we decided to continue the tour using the Panorail monorail train. None of us felt like walking again, we're so tired from the zoo walk just now. Furthermore, we've all been there before 4 years ago, except for Mei Mei who's still inside mommy's tummy then J

This would be the first time we're taking the monorail train, hurray! And the best part of all was that we could still see the overview scenery, with an option to drop off at each station if we wanted to take a photo. 

Our first stop, the Waterfall Station

This is the African Waterfall Aviary

Our sky train on the move again...

We boarded it at the next station....

 What we see from inside the monorail train...

Another bird view from the monorail train...

And that's all for Bird Park. What a tiring day. But it's not over yet. We're on the move again to the Safari Night later that night. We had dinner with Daddy's friends first, who took us to Jack's Place for the well-known western food. Both Mei Mei and I dozed off in Uncle Kok Wei's car :P

When we reached Safari Night, we're fresh again. 

 

One of the night shows have started when we reached, Mei Mei was afraid of the fire

Going for our tram ride... I could hardly open my eyes!

 
 It's so pitch dark, can you spot the tiger over there?

 After the tram ride, we went to watch Creatures of the Night Show, a show not to be missed!

Oh my, a real wolf!

And that completed our Safari Night tour. My, it's a really a tiring day, we spent the whole day with Nature!