Phuket-Langkawi Cruise (30Nov - 4 Dec 2013)

We went on a 5D4N cruise.  It was fun and we had a great time on board.  My darlings love the cruise so much that they wanted to go on a cruise again.  To them, the cruise is like a mobile hotel that floats on sea.  It was their first time on a cruise and they were amazed at how big the ship is.

On our first day onboard, we had an emergency drill exercise where everybody had to wear the life vests and gathered at the muster stations.  It was a good drill as it provides some comfort to my kids (who had some fear that the ship would sink as they had watched the show "Titanic" before).  We enjoyed the various performances such as the Magic Show, Opera Singing and the Acrobatic Show.  My darlings enjoyed the candlelight dinner of lobsters on the Gala Night.

We did not get the chance to swim in the swimming pool as it drizzled on those days that we were on the ship.  However, we managed to get a swim at near Kalim Beach in Phuket.



We paid 200 Thai Baht for the beach chairs and beach umbrellas.  My darlings enjoyed playing with the soft sand and had their own sand spa.  We love to stand in the sea and wait for the waves to come towards us.  There were a number of small crabs on the island.  My Cutie had a shock when she felt something pinching her foot in the water.  She scurried towards me and clung onto me tightly with her feet off the ground.  Her expression was so cute and funny.

In Langkawi, we joined a Land Tour.  Yet on the tour, most of the time, we were on a speed boat to watch the eagles and the Fish Farm.  My darlings love the Archer Fish who can squirt water.  Then we went to the limestone caves where we got to see the bats as well as the stalagmites and stalactites.

Throughout the tour, we did not get to buy much things as we did not bring currencies other than US and Singapore dollars.  Nevertheless, we found that the things sold were quite expensive as both Phuket and Langkawi are tourist resorts.

While waiting to disembark from the ship, my darlings got to move around the place and play with their Trunki.  Then we went to the highest deck of the ship and enjoyed the scenery of Singapore from another angle.  The Marina Bay area is quite beautiful.

My darlings were sad that the tour had come to an end.  Though it was relaxing on the cruise, we dozed off immediately when we reached home.  The ship was quite stable throughout the cruise, guess our bodies 'knew' and were adjusting to being back on land.  We had a great time on the cruise and we would love to go for another again.

My Sweetie was so creative to form the name of the ship with the boardgame.  Can you find the name of our ship?

Ice Skating at Velocity

Brought my darling to the annual event at Velocity@Novena for ice-skating again.  Having been to the real ice-skating rink at Jcube many times, my darlings were as excited as ever to skate in this mini ice-skating rink.

It was a joy to watch both of them skating together.  They were braver than before and for the first time, my Sweetie let go of the penguin aid and went skating on her own.  She is such a brave little one.  Mommy felt very happy to see her gaining more independence.  Of course, she fell a few times, but that did not deter her from skating without aid.  Her Jiejie is also very sweet, to stay close to her and held onto her hands as they skated together.

It was such a touching moment for Mommy, to see them so loving towards each other.

After the skating session, we went to the adjacent shopping mall, Square 2, where my darlings had a great time playing with the Lego play area.  We had bought many Lego toys for them last year (see photo), yet they were super excited and eager when they saw the Lego toys at Square 2.

My darlings made some friends and they worked together to build their 'Legoland'.  Guess it's the joy of playing with friends that made the difference.

Mommy then went to the Old Town White Coffee nearby while they played.  For years, Mommy has been missing the rich black coffee made by my ex-neighbour many years back.  Hence, I thought the Coffee-O here would been good, so I had ordered a cup.  To my surprise, it tasted horrible.  Even though I had added more sugar, the sour taste in the coffee just won't go able.  Guess the coffee here is not up to standard, I think I just stick on to my order of Milk Tea in future.  *Yucks*

3D2N stay at Shangri-la Hotel

It's National Day again.

Taking advantage of the holidays, we had a 3D2N stay at Shangri-la Hotel.

Usually, we had only stayed for 2D1N in our hotel stays and my darlings were always grumbling why we had to go back so soon.  With an addition day of stay, it did seem to make a lot of difference... ie. more fun.

Of course, the happiest are my darlings.


They love playing in the swimming pool and luckily, our room faced the pool.  Mummy could just stay in the room and waved to them when they went to the pool with Daddy.

Not forgetting their favourite bouncy bed.  This time round, we got 1 additional bed and my darlings were very happy to have their own territory (without sharing with Daddy and Mummy).

But for Mummy, it was the pool view from the balcony, bathtub as well as the automatic mechanism (of curtains and the wooden window that separate the bathtub and the bedroom) that caught my attention.

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We enjoyed the tranquility by the pool at night and we had a great time having our supper at the balcony.  We had additional stuff of 'kueh' made by my darlings with their dough.

Prawning at Marina Country Club

Tonight, we went prawning again.  This time round, we went to the one at Marina Country Club.  It was an impromptu decision after their enrichment class which ended at 9pm.  So for the first time, we tried night prawning.  Either we weren't that good at prawning or the prawns were getting smarter, we only managed to catch 5 prawns during the 1 hour of fishing.  Haha... a bit miserable... but it's ok cos' it's late in the night already.

We brought the prawns home and cooked them immediately while they were still fresh.  Anyway, the quantity wasn't that many to make us full at all.  :)

My Sweetie was so sweet to imagine the fishing rod as a bow.  Maybe we could have a better catch if we got some arrows?

Another great little helper

My sweetie has finally grown up. 

Nostalgic kopitiam

It seems to be the craze to go back to the good old days.  Love the aroma of coffee with toast.

Photos taken at Toast Box and Old Town White Coffee shops)

Mid-Autumn Celebration with Yeye

Bought a pomelo, so we decided to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with Yeye.  We also brought some mooncakes for him and their aunt.

Yeye took out his measuring tape to measure something.  An idea struck us and we decided to use it to measure the height of our darlings.

Haha... see how much they have grown.  No longer like ~50cm at birth.

Now my Cutie is 124cm and my Sweetie is 114cm.  Guess they will be as tall as Mummy soon.