Sunday, March 17, 2024

JOY in March

17th March (Sun)
completed book (책 - chaek) #5... a book right up my alley...

i'm indeed living well, loving my family, friends & work (내 가족, 친구와일을 사랑해요 - nae ga jok, chin gu wa il eul sa rang hae yo) much much and laughing oh so often... 😍😍😍



16th March (Sat)
Proud 100th day @ learning korean (
한국어 배우기 - han guk eo bae u gi) with the duolingo app... mastered 52 of 58 lessons at Section 1: Rookie...  


S.M.A.R.T goal :
able to read (읽다 - ilk da) menu & signages by my next trip to Korea (한국 - han guk), hopefully in 2025 Term 2 to see cherry blossom ... 🌸🌸🌸



13rd March (Wed)
super belated hatchday treat for XT @ Crown Bakery & Cafe before a stroll @ the nearby Botanic Gardens and a chop chop visit to the National Orchid Garden... 



10th March (Sun)

new kaki for JB trip = new makan places discovered... 😍😍😍


lunch @ 鸭王 and 鱼片米粉 for dinner @ 海脚人... both are super yummy (맛있는 - mat iss neun)... like it much much (좋아요 - joh a yo) 



super satisfying day @ JB... bought a whole haversack of snacks from Lotus's + a dress (드레스 - deu re seu) from Padini + happy with my hair cut, colour, treatment + shiok shiok 1.5 hour massage @ Bangkok Spa




8th March (Fri)
thankful (고맙다 - go map da) to have Qi Yi with me for today's (오늘의 - o neul ui) briefing for my kiddos' adults

had fun making this basket of pipe cleaner flowers (꽃 - kkot) for the adults to present to their kiddos (아이 - a i) after the class's choral reading (독서 - dok seo) performance... 😍😍😍

i think my little girl (제여자아이 - je yeo ja a i) is very cute (귀여운 - gwi yeo un)... 😍😍😍



7th March (Thurs)

got summoned up to level 4 pantry by Ai Rin to collect an 爱心 egg tart to celebrate WEEK 10... WooHoo!!!... and chanced upon another of her encouraging 杰作... 😍😍😍


i took the one that made me burst out laughing... 😂😂😂



6th March (Wed)

happy happy to have a new bag (가방 - ga bang) for school (학교 - hak gyo)... like (좋아요 - joh a yo) its functionality & design and received it at the right time where i was looking for a new haversack since aging spots were spotted in the old one a few weeks back...


random day to receive not 1 but 3 prezzies... thanks Nas, Mr Yap & iCare...


& today (오늘 - o neul) have joyce to do hamster walk walk (걷다 - geot da) with... with friend (친구 - chin gu) will walk more.... heee.... 17k steps achieved!!!



5th March (Tues)


free champagne and magic show while the staff fixed their technical glitch -> Le Petit Chef went on strike!!! 😂😂😂



interesting experience of watching Petit Chef preparing each dish 'comically' and had fun playing peek-a-boo with our dessert... 



Happi early hatchday Claire... glad you enjoyed the experience too, though the food (음식 - eum sik) was meh... 😅😅😅



4th March (Mon)
小宋 二十 快乐 !!! 



2nd March (Sat)

Angela treated delicious ramen (맛있는 라면 - mat iss neun la myen) for lunch before we headed to NATAS fair @ EXPO...after roaming around and talking to 3 tour representatives, we signed up with ASA for our Turkiye tour this (이 - i) June... 😍😍😍


Happy with the deal we gotten... SQ direct flight + free flight to 三亚 by 2024 + free 4GB international data + 28 inch luggage +  a haversack + a deck of poker cards + a pack of softlan... 😅😅😅

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Yuan's Hatchday Celebrations

15th March (Fri)

decked in Yuan's favourite pink colour, we went on a 8+ km hike @ MacRitchie Reservoir as Yuan's hatchday celebration activity this year... 

sad to see the monkeys feeding off food (음식 - eum sik) & drink (음료 - eum ryu) packaging that i assumed were discarded carelessly or salvaged from the trash (쓰레기 - sseu re gi)...


finally reached the entrance (입구 - ib gu) of the treetop walk after about an hour of ups & downs... good news: we conquered half the hike.... bad news: we still have another half of the hike to conquer...😅😅😅


Our first exploration to the treetop walk was shortly after it was officially launched in 2004. 5 of us; Cy, Sm, Yuan, Ant & me had agreed to check out Singapore first free-standing suspension bridge upon being told, most likely by Cy, that it would only be a 45 minutes hike!!! Cy & SM turned up in flip flops... horror oh horror... it turned out to be a 11+km hike over 3+ hours... 😰😰😰


dug through my toyogo box to find the photo album that the RSS clique had put together for my 24th hatchday and found the only photograph i had of this memorable day... 

40% smaller but same group of friends (친구 - chin gu), same colour top & same habit of having my sunglasses with me for day time walks...
想你了 Ant... 


We made many more treetop hikes since then and Yuan found this pic that we took in 2013... 

and here we were, trying very hard to replicate it... 

cannot > 后面有人


cannot > 要多一点 suspension bridge 



OK !!! 

now as i upload the pics then realised; 

cannot > angle 不对... we should have leaned against one side of the railing and not stand across the bridge... and this is the boardwalk bridge, not the suspension bridge... 😂😂😂



am impressed with these two little ones... yes (네 - ne), complained a little (조금 - jo geum) and declared their regrets of coming along but completed the 2+ hours hike without much hassle & clinginess... 👍👍👍




16th March (Sat)

coordinated with Tony to surprise Yuan @ Simply Retro with a " Oi, 这么巧啊。你们也来这里吃 dinner 听歌啊?!?!?! " 😂😂😂



Food (음식 - eum sik) is really delicious (맛있다 - mat iss da)... my prawn aglio olio was good, Cy's & Tony's sirlion steak was good, the black garlic roast pork was good... 


then came the drinks (음료 - eum ryo)... Simply Retro serves 4 types of shots!!! Thanks to Tony's 口头禅 "没有酒了"... We had 4 types of shots!!! 😅😅😅



The 4th type of shots was Melon Drop... but we were too high by then to take pics &/or video of the drinks le... 😅😅😅


shots 喝完了 就变成了 loser of 5-10 had to drink 半杯半杯 的啤酒 (맥주 - maek ju)... 

this pic is titled: 各家老公 看各家老婆 😍😍😍


one of the most frequent last pair to fight it out!!!  


the two who lost the most number of times at 5-10... 😅😅😅



朦朦的... 好多年没喝这么多了... 耳朵烧烧, 头皮痒痒, 脸红红... and so high was i that the meanie in me wanted to leave laughing emojis @ someone's past posts but the nicey in me told me to just 放眼看... 

so being one who always look on the better side of situations... thank you (감사합니다 - gam sa hap ni da) for helping to remove the disgusting dirty trash (더러운 쓰레기 - deo reo un sseu re gi) from my life... 😂😂😂

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Bird Paradise with Chuas

Chua's March holiday outing to Bird Paradise... 

 


First stop : Penguin Cove - the only aircon enclosure



didnt know penguins can be this fluff too...


penguins are so weird... seemed to want to dive into the water yet walk here (여기 - yeo gi), walk there (거기 - geo gi) repeatedly 就是不跳进去... 😅😅😅


this baby (아기 - a gi) penguin beanie @ the gift shop is so cute (귀여운 - gwi yeo un)... i like (좋아요 - joh a yo)





it's wheelchair accessible throughout the park (공원 - gong won) with lifts and boardwalks everywhere... even the free shuttle is wheelchair accessible too... 😍😍😍


great service and very safe!!!... doesnt matter that it's a less than 2 minute ride to a distance of 250m away only... 




蔡妈咪 had a mini fright and immediately held her pendent in her palm when i showed her this cute sign and told her that she had to protect her gold necklace and earrings as some birds might snatched them away... 😂😂😂


The other 8 enclosures are outdoor with almost invisible safety nets high high above to prevent the birds (새 - sae) from escaping and at the same time doesnt cause claustrophobia...

had fun spotting the birds here (여기 - yeo gi), there (거기 - geo gi), everywhere...

also had fun calling this emu > Emmanuel No... it must had been so annoyed with Angela and I if it understood why... 😂😂😂














mega luv the aircon resting halls after each enclosure... not only because it provided much relieve from the sun but it also features interesting facts of the many many species of birds in the park and around the world... 

skeleton of the largest bird ever > Elephant Bird, an extinct flightless bird

大蛋  小蛋 


although we didnt take note of the show time, we just happened to be at the right place @ the right time & met the right person who directed us to the right place @ the right time, we managed to watch both shows... 😍😍😍


Wings of the World



Predators on Wings 

the amphitheater is the walked down kind with the wheelchair parking lots right at the top... this means 蔡妈咪 had to sit furthest away from the stage... much preferred the set up @ the River Wonder and Singapore Zoo where we had first row seats... 😅😅😅



it's Easter Season so the park is decorated with these cute & colourful eggs & egg birdies... 


took part in the Eggs-change digital egg hunt that got us walking around the park almost twice in search of 5 digital Easter Eggs (qr code). Tiring but my kind of fun... 


had to complete word search, camouflaging colouring, colouring by numbers, unscramble the letters, spot the differences, match the eggs to their mother birdies in order to win an exclusive Easter Pin for my bag (가방 - ga bang)... 

this toucan (read: 2 can) design pin initially belonged to Angela whom very very sisterly - lovingly exchanged with me cos i no like the cockatoo design pin that i initially received... Angela says 自己的姐姐, 自己宠... awwww 😘😘😘


magnet for the fridge @ home sweet home to commemorate this joyous outing!!!