I found this pasta place called Pasta De Waraku in Singapore. I must say it have the most variety of cooking pasta. I have thoughts of opening a business like that.

I ordered a Seafood Cabonara Pasta, the portion is very little for me but the bowl is huge. Bad choice of bowl selection because it makes the portion smaller. The taste, not bad but I still want MORE.

Besides that, it has kids menu. The kids menu is not bad. It has 2 selection of pasta with a juice, some sides with fried stuff and ice-cream. On top of that, they get a toy to goes with it. I believed it was SGD6.90++ for the meal. Emily was very happy with her doctor set and Tim got a car set.

If the portion is bigger, I will certainly go back there again.

Beware, next time if you bring your children to the swimming pool, make sure they wear slippers except when they are in the pool.

My poor boy stepped on a piece of glass near the pool. Fortunately I saw it when he pulled it out and throw it on the ground. I saw his foot was bleeding. Daddy took some tissue from me and applied pressure on it. We sat him down on the bench, still with the pressure applied on it. The pressure is to stop the wound from bleeding. Blood was dripping on the floor, I believed the cut was deep but small. Daddy wrapped a towel over his foot.

I quickly dressed Emily up, dried Tim up and put his shirt on, so that he doesn’t get a chill. After a short while, I took off the towel and tissue soaking with blood. The wound stop bleeding and I put a plaster on. Yes I carried plaster with me in my wallet.

At home, I bathed him. He sat on a stool with his wounded foot on another stool. I clean his wound a little and dried it. Then I applied yellow iodine onto the wound and wrapped it up with plaster. Some plaster would not stick. Daddy had to put cotton and wrap it with the white tape.

He was limping but throughout the incident, he didn’t shed a tear. Today the wound heal nicely.

With the Hippo Tours, it has 2 routes on the Hop On Hop Off double decker bus. The city sightseeing and the heritage route. You can go as many times as you want. It takes 1 hour per route. The top of the bus is the open deck. The sun was scorching hot but yet there are people on the top deck. It will be bbq up there. We took the lower air condition deck to avoid being burnt. When the sun was not that hot, we went to the top to get a breeze.

I took this tour because it is suitable for my children. They don’t have to walk much, they just sit in the bus and admire the journey. The bus also goes to a few attraction spots nearby like the park, museum, china town, orchid garden, art gallery and others. We can hop off anytime and come back on when we finished with it.

At night, there is a free ride up the Hippo bus for any tourist around Orchard admiring the lights on that street. All you need to do is to take your passport to register at the SVC center at Orchard Road.

We also went for the ducktour where it is a vehicle shaped like a duck that can travel on land and river. The river cruise was good because it brings to you all the famous spots like the Merlion, Esplanade, Singapore flyer, the tobe Casino etc… Because everything comes in one package, it is quite worth it. By the way, this vacation, I didn’t do much shopping although Singapore has many mega shopping malls. I just got a present for my mom. I mean what can you buy in Singapore that you cannot get cheaper in Malaysia?

I signed up the HippoTours where they provide open top double decker bus to go round the city and certain heritage places in Singapore. It was a great deal, buy 2 get 2 free. Included in the tour was the Singapore Flyer, ducktour that take us on a river cruise, night river cruise, Sentosa island transfer with return trip, totaling 11 tours for 2 days pass.

The Singapore Flyer was the highlight. Currently it is the world’s largest giant observation wheel. It brings you up to 165m from the ground. It gives us a breathtaking view.

I was a little phobia when I went into the capsule. I sat there enjoying the view from above. After a few minutes, I tried walking towards the window but it gives me goose bum. I did make it. My children, they were making a lot of noise in the capsule, both playing, telling stories and I had to lower their volume.

It took about 30 minutes to make the circle. It was worth it and a good experience. By the way, I heard that you can even dine in the capsule. It costs SGD$199 per couple with 2 rotations.

My gal loves to eat guava with asam powder, just like me. She was asking me to buy for her. In Singapore, I saw a fruit stall which had guava, so I bought for her. I put quite a bit of asam powder that made me sneeze, maybe pour too much.

I told Emily, she can have the guava after she finished her lunch, which she did. She took a bite and gave it back to me. She didn’t like it at all.

I tasted it and realized I put pepper instead…lol. :giggles: I was wondering why the fruit stall would put pepper there. Then I saw the next stall was selling half boiled egg.

Well, I had to clean the guava with soup and put the right asam powder. Of coz, Emily would rub it in and said “Why did you put pepper, mummy? You want me to sneeze.” Now I know why I sneeze when I put the powder. Silly me!

My family just returned from Singapore. Orchard Road was beautiful with lights on the street. However I think the decoration was not as good as my last visit.

I planned this trip in June as I saw some of my SIA frequent flyer miles were going to expire. I wanted to go Bali but my hubby didn’t like that place. We settled for Singapore since I have free stay in Singapore Hyatt too. That hotel is superb. They gave us complimentary meal by the pool because I had a tiny complaint.

My children love the SIA airplane ride because of the TV, I have to bring my own headphones for them to watch cartoon. The air stewardess brought toys for them. Next they enjoyed the swimming pool and cartoon channel in the hotel. The rest was just ok for them.

First stop, none other than Sentosa Island. My friend recommended the Luge ride which Emily absolutely likes. You should try it when you are there. It is a ride on a plastic thing that goes downhill. She told me she wanted to ride it alone the second time. I didn’t like the sky ride as I have height phobia. Tim has really sweaty hands when he rides that too.

We also went to the Underwater World but were a little disappointed because there was no dolphin show. The seal show was pathetic. Only 10 minutes and after that, they were all out to get our money by asking us to take pictures with the seal.

We went around the tunnel to look at fishes a few times as we were looking for the scuba diver to come down to feed the sharks. No scuba diver there, he didn’t come. It was stated in the pamphlets the timing but no divers. We found the diver out in another big tank. He was cleaning the tank. Another disappointment.

Timothy decided he wanted to go the beach. Well, it was really hot that day and it wasn’t such a good idea. I don’t want to be burn like a sausage. He was really persistent, so we take a tram ride to the Siloso beach. We found a very shady area where we rest. The children had fun with the sand playing. Well we can get this from Penang Island and I asked myself, what are we doing here??!! I guess the view is much better and it is free.

Next I will blog about the Hippo tours and the famous Singapore Flyer.

Yeap school’s break is here. My children are very happy. They kept pestering me what they can do during the holidays. We will be going on a vacation to Singapore, I got some frequent flier miles to burn.

Today, I saw Tim and Emily a little bored. I decided to take out some flour, salt and water to make them some playdoh. They sat there to play with it for an hour. Isn’t it great? No fighting and both of them telling stories of what they are making. It is definitely better than TV. I threw in some alphabets cutter for them to play. I can keep the doh for tomorrow for them to continue.

It is really easy to make playdoh. You just put 1 cup flour and ½ cup salt in to a big bowl. Add coloring to ½ cup water. Slowly pour the water, while mixing it using hand. You will get a nice doh. Emily said “It smells like bread”. Yeap I can bake it if I want too….:P

You can try it with your kids.

Look what my itchy hands did??!! Emily loves it. Tim says it is bad omen.

Happy Wednesday!

Finally the busy weekend is over. I have 1 graduation, 2 concerts and 1 Sunday School prize giving events to go.

First off, my brother’s Master graduation was held on Friday and ceremonial dinner was on Thursday. My parents came up to Penang to attend his graduation. Since my parents were here, they also wanted to attend my children’s concerts.

Both Tim and Emily’s concert were on the same date. Tim started at 7am in the morning while Emily started at 9am. I attended Emily’s concert while my hubby attended Tim. Tim’s concert was a lengthy one. Although the concert started at 8am, the actual performance begun at 11:00am. There was 3 hours of speech, prize presentation and what not. Poor hubby had to wait for a long time. Ooh, he told me that we can buy the recorded DVD.

Emily’s concert was a breeze, started at 9am sharp and ended punctually. Her class did 2 musical percussion pieces. It was lovely. Lastly was the Sunday School prize giving events that I had to prepare some prizes for the children.

Aren’t they cute??!!

Well, at the end of it all, my hubby and 1 received 3 bouquets of flowers. It is not even my birthday or anniversary. I am so pleased.

Timothy received his Year 2 books after returning his Year 1 books. Some of them are brand new one. I am not sure why the Moral book is the most torn and tattered. Either it is over used which is a good thing or the school never change the Moral book. Let’s hope it is the first one. Today he packed the Year 2 books to school. He thought the teachers will start teaching it. :rolleyes:

Additional job for me is to get it wrapped. I remembered when I was in primary, my mum, sister and brother will wrapped the books. I was the youngest and they don’t allow me to do. Maybe I will mess up the new books. After I insist that I want to wrap my books, they gladly hand me all the books to wrap including theirs. I do enjoy wrapping them. Today, things get easier because they sell those pre-wrap plastic where I can just slip the book cover. If I have time, I still like to wrap it the old way.

On another topic, today I received a message from Tim’s school that his concert will be held on Saturday. It was a last minute notice. The school sent out a notice for rehearsal but didn’t really state the actual date of the concert. I SMS Tim’s classmate’s mother and she told me it is on Saturday. After school, when I picked Tim up, I confirmed it with his teacher.

Now the headache, Emily’s concert is also this Saturday. Her school sends out a notice a month ago. Both in the morning and both held in different places. Which one should I attend? I want to see both…sigh. How? :wall:

Guess what my hubby get for me? Click here.