Mummy's Birthday Celebration

This year's mummy's birthday celebration is at the Chocolate Buffet @ MBS level 57.  The buffet is an all chocolate feast so if you are a chocolate fans, this is a must-go.  The best part of this restaurant is you get to enter the MBS infinity pool for free - see only, not swim.  Apparently, the view is the centre of attraction as we didn't take any food pictures.  Hahaha..the view and Singapore's skyline is really awesome and breathtaking...

Her First

Its the time of the year again for the Hokkien Huay Kuan's annual performance.  We were a bit reluctant to let her particpate again as we have to bring Kaelyn to many many rehearsals at extended hours, sometimes 3 hours straight with parents having to pack lunch for them.  Also, parents have to pay for their costumes, tickets to the show and DVD of the performance for keepsake.  It's manpower, time and money all coming from the parents for the child to gain confidence and fun. 

We tried to dissuade her but she was very keen so we just let her take part.  This year, her class led by 叶家真 老师 presented the Red Lantern dance.  Her costume was all red.. dressing just like for CNY.  On the day of the performance, she have to report at  NUS Centre for the Arts in the early afternoon for the final full dress rehearsal. 

Finally the show started at around 7 pm with a big surprise for Daddy & Mummy.  This year they have set aside a prize presentation for all levels of dance students who have performed very well during the dance exam.  Only 2 per class were given the commendation and Kaelyn was one of them together with her classmate cum partner Liang Qi.  We were all calling her name when she was on stage and was  very very happy in her winning. 

This is her first own self-earned prize which is from her own sheer hardwork and interest in dance. 

After her performance, she was so hungry... wipe up the bowl of porridge in a few minutes and then pose happily with her prize.

Congratulations my 宝贝.

Club Med at Bali (8-12 Dec)

We were very lucky to win a pair of air tickets to Australia in the Austville lucky draw.  The travel agency CTC told us that it is worth $1,400 and we can choose to go to Australia or elsewhere.  As we just came back from Melbourne & Sydney in June, daddy & mummy decided to go to Club Med at Bali instead.  With the voucher, we only need to top up a few hundred dollars more. Club Med is an all-inclusive resort but some things are still chargeable eg. better wine, spa & etc. 

Our room

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Relaxed by the beach

Cookie Making for kids

Kids Club

Swimming at the Kids Club.  The staff find her very reserved so paid special attention to her..We put Kaelyn in the kids club where she gets to mingle with kids of other nationalites. She did not quite enjoyed it so we only left her there once or twice only. During her absence, we head to the quiet pool, meant for adults only, for a relaxing swim, sauna and steambath. 

 Daddy & Mummy try our luck at the dart competition... See mummy won silver.. hahah..

 All of us had a good jump on the Trapeze... a bit scary..

Watch her maiden jump...

Nightly entertainment at very good standards. All the performers are internal staff who may be a waitress, security guard, front desk staff or life guard by the day but turned performers at night.  Thumbs Up!

The resort is nice and relaxing but perhaps we are not resorts people so spending 5 days at the same place makes us feel caged up so we "escaped" to the town to sightsee other parts of Bali.  Transport is really expensive so we only done it once..something like S$50 for 2 way .. feel so ripped off!

There are 2 highlights for Kaelyn during the city tour - to have her nails painted and hair braided

  Another kids activity - Sand Castle Making

Another highlight of her trip is she gets to perform on stage... She told the emcee she's performing ballet... erm.. since when you know ballet?  Hahaha...

This video shows the emcee interviewing her and then she went to tell the emcee the songs are inappopriate for ballet dance.  The Aussie boys were instead grooving to the music....

Finally came the "right"music ... and she performed her "ballet"... the aussie boys on the other hand  didn't know how to react to that kind of music... funny

We also participated in some of the activties such as morning yoga, golf, archery, swimming & sailing.  I think an experience once at club med is enough.  Someone told me Club Med at Bintan is better... I'll perhaps consider that option at my next lucky win!

Waitress at School

Today parents are invited to My First Skool (Restaurant). Yes Kaelyn's school is transformed to a little restaurant and Kaelyn became waitress of the day serving food to parents who are the customers.

Little Chefs busy preparing food and little waitress served the pipping hot food to the customers

Satisfied Customer Daddy on the left and on the right, happy waiter & waitress after a busy day

Finally time for a long deserving break.. yums..

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Best Playmate

Weixuan 妹妹 is Kaelyn's best playmate...Nice take girls!

Trip to Sentosa

School is closed today so daddy took childcare leave and brought Kaelyn to Sentosa..

Cable car ride into the Island

English Language

Kaelyn started using English as her preferred language during the early years so Daddy had to speak to her in Mandarin so as to encourage her to speak more Mandarin.  Her Mandarin has improved tremendously... kudos to Daddy and also My First Skool Teacher 彭老师 who has a lot of influence in her Mandarin proficency as well. 

As Kiasu parents, we feel English is one that should not be neglected and she needs to get started on Phonics so that would help her in her reading skills.  Also knowing Phonics well will also help in her spelling.  She went through an assessment at LCentral and she is classed between "LaunchPad" and "Lift-Off".  Mummy made the call to start her with, lower level, LaunchPad instead.  She started to attend her evening lessons on every Thurs by Teacher Sharin who is a Londoner.  Kaelyn enjoys her lessons very much and always tells us how much she like her teacher.


There comes a point when Kaelyn's dance teacher 梁永心老师 decided to go overseas to further her dancing passion.  Her new dance teacher is a male teacher which mummy is a bit uncomfortable with.  Mummy felt that we should switch her Sunday dance lesson to Saturday so that she gets a female dance teacher and she could join 姐姐 & 妹妹 's swimming lesson which is Sun morning.  If she have dance on Sun afternoon, it will be too tiring so we activated the change to Sat about 2 months prior to her dance exams.  She had difficulty adjusting to new teacher and new friends.. quite slowly & painfully she manage to merge in and accepted the change.

Separately some Sundays, we bring her to join in the swimming but she didn't seem to enjoy the water.  She and 妹妹 were just playing by themselves in the baby pool and most of the time, only her lower body is wet. Sometimes she would prefer to stay at home than to go swimming so we just let her be.

The phonics & dance lessons run concurrently for a few months  until  January when LCentral said Kaelyn is ready to go to the Lift-off level.  However, the Lift-Off classes are only available on Sat at 9 am.  Oh my goodness, we have changed her dance to Sat so that all the activites can be separated out.  Sigh.. so much planning has gone to waste.  So now the phonics & dance lessons are taking place on Sat at 9 am and 2 pm respectively.  Sometimes, she'll fall asleep in between but it has been a few months now so she's more or less got use to the routine.  Let's bear with it a little while more when you complete your Lift Off level then we'll stop the lessons ok.