Our first home in SG (1 July 2008 to 30 June 2010)

These are some of the photos of our first home in SG. It's a lovely place and we have a lot of fond memories here.

As much as we love this house, it is time to move on (the landlord is going to move in). We are looking forward to decorating our second house in SG and make it our home that is full with love, joy, and happiness :)


J enjoyed washing car with daddy.


Although it's good for us to have some exercises climbing up and down the stairs, this is not a very pushchair friendly stairs - which is a good reason to move house


We enjoyed sitting outside to enjoy afternoon tea/BBQ dinner/birdwatching/to see the world goes by...



J sometimes will climb over the fence to our neighbours' houses to play with their children and their puppy. We are indeed very lucky to have great neighbours!!






Our lovely plants which gave us so much pleasure...



This is where we chilled out with relaxing music, a good book and a cup of tea...


... and to have parties, games nights and dinner with friends... it's also a big table for mummy and J to make art and craft


The not so tidy zone... J's playarea - you can tell that we are not a big fan of watching TV :)


A very natural "sandpit"... where J found her "treasures" (pebbles, earth worms, caterpillars etc...)


A big canvas at the backyard and also where J can have her "Malaysian bath" (playing water in big basin)


This is where J pretended to be mummy/unicorn/doctor/puppy/fashion designer etc etc etc with her mates...


J experienced her very first "camping" before we took her to camp at the West Coast Park.. looking forward to taking the girls to the real jungle in Malaysia to camp :)

Just realized that we didn't have a photo of our big kitchen!! Ahhh.... We spent quite a lot of our time in the kitchen... cooking, baking, listening to the radio, doing house chores together, having breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/snacks...

We love this house very very much... but it is also good for us to move to another house which is more baby friendly (good for crawler/walker), less stairs to climb and more manageable for a mother of two :)

Really looking forward to moving into our second home in SG!

Trashion Parade

It was Environment Week at J's school two weeks ago. Her year group had "Trashion Parade" and the children were encouraged to make clothing or accessories with recycled materials.

I asked J what would she like to dress up as. She said, she wanted to be a pony. I said, hmm.. that's probably a bit challenging. How about dress up as a farmer? She replied that she preferred to be a farmer's daughter...

So J and I made these together... while we did these, T was lying quietly on the floor next to us, watching...






A hat for the farmer... opps, the farmer's daughter.



She wanted to wear an apron... so perhaps an useless nappy plastic bag is a better material than a useful bin bag?



and a boot. This is actually J's idea... it's made out of her broken school shoes which I have thrown away into our recycled bin, and with some packaging cards.

It took us about a week (about 15mins to 30mins every afternoon) to finish the above. It's quite challenging to do crafts with J nowadays as I have to looking after T at the same time... I just have to be more patient and plan in advance :)

搬家搬家搬家.....

在獅城的第一間屋子租約到期，屋主要將房子收回自己住。於是，這幾個星期，我們都在忙著搬家的事情。

雖然很不捨得這間裝滿許多美好回憶的房子，想深一層，其實也未嘗不是一件好事。我們可以重新佈置一間適合安和樂的家。在未來的兩年里，樂需要安全的空間來學習爬、站、走、跳.... 而安呢，則需要一個讓她可以不受樂的“干擾”的環境里，有屬於自己的時間，做她的手工、畫畫、玩比較小巧形的玩具等等。

於是，尋找房子的“艱難”工程，在兩個星期前，開始了。早上的時間，我一個人帶著樂，跟著地產經紀到處跑。下午，接了安放學，帶著兩個，到處跑。過濾了一些比較有可能性的房子，就在傍晚外子放工後，一家四口，到處跑。很累、很頭暈！整個過程，最難受的，應該是安。她又累又悶，一聽到要去看房子就一臉的頹喪。雖然已經盡量的安排她到朋友、鄰居的家玩，但是，有很多時候，也無可避免的必須帶著她。唉，我和外子可是又內疚又無奈！

終於，找到一間比較小的房子。雖然我們必須捨去很多的傢俱，可是也意味著需要打理的事物比較少，我亦可以比較容易看顧孩子和做家務。可貴的事，房子的對面就是一個小小的遊樂場，孩子們可以常常到對面去玩耍，外子也可以去慢跑運動。

非常期待未來的幾個星期。雖然要處理的事很多很雜很煩很亂，不過，如朋友所說的，處理自己家園的事，也許辛苦，卻是很幸福的。