Caden's birthday treat at Aquamarine - 28th April

We brought Caden to Aquamarine on his birthday on Sunday night for a treat. Here he gets his favourite food all in a same venue:

• salmon sashimi
• sushi
• pizza
• salad
• ice-cream
• puddings

while we get our doses of lobsters, crayfish and prawns, laksa, sashimi, tempura.. The place wasn't too crowded and it was patronised by mostly non-locals/tourists. Cheeky Ethan kept getting the attention of the captain asking him to serve our dear little boy.

Thumbs up for the delicious food

We took a few pictures around the hotel before leaving the place to aid digestion..

Ethan is giving the funny look again

 

Caden loves the food, but as usual, so long its delicious food, the ambience is secondary. As we concluded, at our age, we could no longer feast like the times we were in our twenties so buffets are no-go for us in future. It may make more economic sense to spend the money on equally high quality food at a much lower costs.

Happy birthday to my son!

Parents-Teachers forum

There was a parents-teachers forum held for P2 and P3 sometime in February as the school wanted to brief parents the focus for the level during the year. We get a chance to have a short catch-up with Caden's English and Chinese teachers after the forum in the classroom and saw some of his works being pinned up in the classroom.

 

Ethan's classmate birthday bash

Ethan was invited to his classmate's 6th birthday party at the Safra Toa payoh playarea. He had lotsa of fun on that afternoon!

one of the smallest built boy in the class

as usual, his lovely unique pose

Yamaha Grade 9 Piano exam

Caden has his Grade 9 piano exam today. Finally, after 4 years of Yamaha course, he gets to sit for the piano exam.

Caden was quite nervous before the exam as he told me that he had a stomach pain on our way to his centre. We had to report in the school half an hour before his slot at 2.18pm so I had planned the trip out early at noon to have our lunch there.

 

The nervous boy holding up his 2 books waiting for his turn.

 

 

I have asked them to play some toys to distract his attention while waiting

There were 2 senior piano teachers as the examiners. They looked friendly but Caden told me that he was nervous in the room. Was asked to play his favourite piece so he picked Woodpecker. The examiner picked 'Dance of the Clowns' for his second piece of song.

 

He told me that his sight playing wasn't done well. And the harmony piece, he forgot to play block notes at the end. Least I can see his relieved face after he came out from the examination room.

 

Right after the exam, I brought both of them to vivo to watch Oz, the great and powerful as part of the school holiday's treat. They enjoyed themselves..

 

I am glad that Caden made it through on piano this far, and without much help from parents, he was able to catch up with the class (who has musically trained parents to guide them throughout the 4-year journey). And hopefully, Caden will continue to have an interest in music (piano), after we switch him to learn one-on-one (private at home).

 

Hopefully, Ethan can make this far too..



Body mass

We took a weight check of the boys at the airport last week:
E - 13.6kg
C - 20kg

They just loved how the numbers joined on the luggage scale.

CNY goodies

I decided to try out frying the crabsticks today - the last I had this snack is when my maid was around and she fried these almost once a month. So first thing this morning before 8am, I have completed peeling the crabsticks into slices and air-dry them for more than 2 hours before I start deep-frying them.

2 packets of crabsticks turned out only these much - in the end, I only managed to fill half a bottle of plastic container for CNY. Not too bad an effort!

8 year neighbour

Our 8-yr neighbour has decided to shift out of their home to stay with her mum given that it was too much of a strain on their end to ferry their girls to and fro from home to mum's place everyday. They got their place sold recently and had shifted out last week.

I took some pictures of the boys with En Qi since they had been keeping each other occupied on some weekends (communications through the gates most of the times). And her signature calling to Ethan was,"Friend...."

Wonder if the boys understand that they are not going to see her so often going forward

 

I wish them well.. it's not easy bringing up twins (En Qi's younger sisters) so hopefully they both have an easier time after the move. It's weird to know that you will have a new neighbour soon.. coupled with the fact that they are non-locals make me feel that I have to adapt to whatever culture that we will get to see.. actually, this is going to be my first time receiving new neighbours..