Sheena's 23rd Birthday Celebration (Part 1)

My birthday this year has been a real nice affair. I had an all-rounded celebration with family, friends and bf. It's really sweet!

First of all, I've got a nice lunch treat by my dept's big boss at a really pleasant indonesian restaurant - Garuda Padang Cuisine at Cairnhill Place. The food and ambience were not too bad. It was really nice of her to give us (Sep & Oct babies) a treat and a chance to get together. It was an opportunity for me to get to know some of them better.

On the cell group meeting before my birthday, our cell group celebrated both Collin's and my birthday. We both had a slice of polar cake and a huge starbucks chocolate chip muffin (courtesy of Olivia). And we had to search for our presents in the room. Hahaz. Collin found both presents. Oops, I'm really bad at searching things. LOL. Anyway Collin got a tee while I've got a belt. Quite a heavy one man. Maybe good for me to add some weights to my hips to get rid of those fats. Muahahaha. Everything was nice except the fact Dear couldn't make it for cgm coz he had class that day.

But Dear joined me for my birthday celebration with my family on the saturday before my birthday. We went to Suntec's Kenny Roger for dinner and cake-cutting. We made a reservation and got a long table in an exclusive corner behind the bookshelves. Thankfully those children's storybooks there kept the kids entertained for much of the time when the food and cake were not yet served. Hee.

Here's my all-time favourite haagen-dazs macadamia nut icecream cake. Haha I'll have this cake every year!

Dear & me...

My beloved nephews and niece...

My dearest family...

Me with my younger nephew, Gareth...He's pretty vain and loves to smile and take pics...same! hahahaha...


BOON BOON! How time has flown since my nephews first met Dear 3 years back during my birthday celebration too...

So blessed to have such close-knitted family who is always ready to celebrate every one of our birthdays. I love my family!

Stay tuned for Part 2!

Kaishian & June's Wedding

18th May 2008 is a very special day! It's my Erjie's wedding! It's the first time I'm so involved in helping out for a wedding. This is also true for Dear! We've certainly learnt a lot from my sis' wedding. It's really a joy to see everything being rolled out according to plan. Kudos to Erjie and Kaishian for their efforts in wedding preparations.

The day started off with Erjie getting dolled up and waiting for her groom to come our place.

Took a pic with Erjie when she still has her veil on...

After the tekan-ing of the groom, we hurriedly took some pics before the newly weds had to leave our house for outdoor photo-taking. Here's the first complete family pic for the day!


Dear and me drove my Erjie's car to join in the outdoor photo-taking at Clarke Quay.

A group shot with the wedding couple! The guys and girls are part of the big entourage! They had been really helpful throughout the wedding day. It's great to have a great bunch of friends who are really willing to help on your special day.

Another pic with my dearest Erjie. She's so pretty on her big day!

After the tea ceremony at the groom's place and the changing to chinese traditional costumes at their new house, the couple came back to our place for tea ceremony for the bride's side.

Another family photo...We love completeness. :)


Finally the couple can rest a bit before getting busy for the night's events. Hee. We all had to rush to bring all the thing required for the banquet to the hotel. Erjie has put Dear in charge to coordinating the transport of things. It's really stressful as we can't leave out anything! But thank God, all went well!

It was really a great rush to get all ready and prepared in our attire for the solemnization and banquet on top of ensuring the wedding procedure was proceeding to plan. Thankfully, Dajie and me made it in time to man the reception table and to witness the main details of Erjie's solemnization.

My glamourous family...Everyone looks so good! We are a pretty-looking family! From the head of the family to the little ones. The boys and girlgirl were major highlights too! They were part of the adorable and lovable page boys and flower girls!


The banquet hall looked really awesome! The ambience at Swissotel the Stamford's Stamford Ballroom was captivating! (Coincidentally it was the same hotel which our Dajie had her wedding banquet at years ago. Hee.) The food was delicious and warm. The programme from the start to finish was engaging and touching. It's possibly one of the best fairy-tale wedding anyone can dream of.

Here's some photos taken at the many tables...Mainly with our church friends. There's like about 50 tables in total? Imagine the newly weds had to pose and smile so much throughout the day! But it's their big day! Once in a lifetime! It's all worth it! And I bet the smiles were all natural and from the heart!




Our VIP table was a huge one which sits 20 people and it's too big to have a normal table shot. Hence we had to stand classroom photo style. Hee.

The VIPs...


We took some extended family photos too! Presenting to you our external maternal family...Notice how big the red roses were! Those were the ones planted on the VIP chairs. Hee.




We also took some photos with my cell group friends who came for my Erjie's wedding.

Us and our pretty cell group leader who was the chinese emcee for the night!

Dennis & Carol and us...

All 5 of us...

Some pictures of Dear and me...The first time Dear wore suit! Suave and handsome! I like! :)

We wish great blessings to be upon my Erjie and 2nd Brother-in-law in their marriage and future life together!

I'm so missing the days together with my Erjie at home! But fortunately we do meet up every now and then for family gatherings. Hee. A happy and loving family is the best! =)

Sheena - Erjie's Wedding Banquet Food Tasting

Hehe, one of the days during my term break, Dear and me went for my Erjie's wedding banquet food tasting together with my parents and Kaishian's family. Since it was a weekday, my Dajie and her family could not make it, else ours would be a complete family as well. =X Nonetheless, we had a great time of interaction during the dinner.

Anyway, the food was great! One more thing to look forward to for my Erjie's wedding...the FOOD!!! Muahaha... It's not very nice for me to blog abt the dinner dishes here. So for those who will be attending my Erjie's wedding, do be rest assured, the food is gonna be very good! Though the standards might dip after all the mass production, but I have faith that it will still be delicious! Haha...

I learnt a lot from the food tasting session. Think it's really not easy planning for your own wedding. So jiayou Erjie and Kaishian, we will be cheering you guys on!

Here's a picture of all of us! =)

P.S. It's an entry under the Food tag but without pictures/description of any food. Haha. =p

Sheena - Chinese New Year 2008

Happy Chinese New Year to all! It's still within the 15 days of the New Year, so this isn't a backdated entry! Haha... It's the Ratty/Mousey Year this year...We both had our share of happy reunion dinners with our own families and the usual visitations. Dear came to my house to 拜年 on 初三 before joining us for my Ah Gong's birthday lunch at Singapore Island Country Club and dinner at my Ji Yee's place.

Here's the pictures taken during CNY. =)

1st picture taken for this CNY before we set off for visitations on 初一.

Our super humongous Yu Sheng that we lao-ed at my house with my maternal side relatives on 初二.

Taken on 初三, when KaishIan and Dear came to 拜年!

Us with the Mickey and Minnie 春联!

At my Ji Yee's house...

My Dajie's family...So tough to get the babies to take a decent pic!

On the left, we have the Gor Gors and on the right, we have the Di Dis! Coz Dear is the oldest son and KaishIan is the youngest son in their respective families just like Gor Gor Gavin and Di Di Gareth!

Us with some pretty flowers and giraffes!

Hee, we love being in mirrors! An arty shot...

My entire maternal side extended family... A bit blur tho...

It's been a great CNY with my family and Dear. I also had a nice time chatting with Dear's mum when I went to 拜年 at his house on 初三. Sorry Dear that we didn't really take photos at your place. I hope we will get a chance to take a group shot with your family real soon! =)

Sheena - (Backdated posts) Family's New Year's Day Lunch at Airport Swensens

Oh mine...we are back to some backdated posts again. Haha. It's the first family gathering of 2008! 1st of Jan is my parents' wedding anniversary. So all of us gathered for lunch at Airport Swensens, somehow the most convenient family eating place of all time. Haha. We managed to grab hold of the kids to take some pictures and even took at complete family picture (for now), but Little Claire slept through the photo-taking. Haha.

The chocolate fondue at Swensens! Haha, actually this was ordered by my Erjie and Kaishian. Hee. But it just looks so pretty, even tho I'm not a chocolate lover. :p

Little Claire...Little Sleeping Beauty...

Two boys...Two Big Bros...

Grandpa, Grandma and two boys

Complete family photo (for now) Hee =D

James - (Backdated posts) Christmas Day celebrations at Dear's place

Oh my gosh, this is sooo last year... I'm finally gonna post about this!

Oh well... better late than never! And it's always refreshing to see a pictorial post rather than wordy ones... ;p

Christmas Day! Went to church early in the morning for service, the Christmas drama this year was concise, impactful and heart warming, saturated with the Christmas spirit. After svc we rushed back to Dear's house for a Christmas gathering with her family.

The spread of the day! Consists of...

• Turkey
• Baked Ham
• Laksa
• Pizza
• Kong Bak Pau
• Curry Chicken
• Sausage w/ stuffings

The Log Cake was seriously good! Chocolatey and moist. Tasty! Received presents from Dear's sister June. Really generous of her to buy presents for everyone. Thanks June! :)

Dear's eldest sis Karen and her hubby Chang Jinn

and their daughter, Baby Claire! She is getting cuter and cuter each day! Everyone took turns to hold her :)

Grandpa

Grandma

Uncle Shian

June Ji YeeSheena Sa YeeUncle James

CLAIRE IS SO CUTE!

In closing...someone(or shld I say something) has some stuff to say.....

Sheena - Ho Family's Trip to the Zoo!

Last sunday, Dear accompanied my family and me to the Zoo! Hehe. I remember when we first got together, that December holidays, we made so many plans! And Zoo was part of the list...But unfortunately we did not get down to going there till recently. My Dajie got free tickets for my whole family. It was actually a get-together to celebrate Baby Claire and my belated birthdays. But it became a day of activiy instead. And I have yet to blow/cut any proper birthday cake this year. Well, it's long over. Haha. I'll wait for next year!

We set off for our Zoo trip at about 7ish am...We went to buy MacDonald breakfast and Q Bread and met my Dajie's family at the Zoo. After breakfast, we all went on excitedly to see the animals! *SO many animals...SET them FREE!*

We started off by taking some pics near the entrance. Hehe.

Us with Gavin & Gareth together with some fake elephants. Hehe.

We just followed the tracks and the two boys led all of us to some tiger trail. Saw this cute backdrop along the way.
And we saw the white tiger. Haha. One of the more beautiful animals we managed to catch that day.

As well as a tank...Haha...Dear loves take pics like that...He's a natural...

We saw this Ethiopian deco and Erjie and KS told us to take a pic here! Nice!

We had to rush to the animal show place and guess what I saw at the entrance? Haha This majestic bird. I simply love it. Think it likes to show off, kept flapping its wings. Haha.
And I managed to grab a pic with Baby Claire...! Hee...but she didn't seem interested in pic with me. :( I hope my next pic with her, she'll look into the camera and smile happily...like San Yee, me! Hee
After the animal show, Dear and me went off on our own a while to catch the elephant show! hahaha...I love elephants too! Haha...

Dear says that there's 4 elephants in the pic...Hmmm I only see 3...Hahahaha...


A mini waterfall we saw on our way back...

Hee, we managed to get this pic with the elephants tog again...

Soon, it was time to leave...but we took some pictures at the Zoo shop too!
Dear seems to love this snake a lot...Haha...reminds us of the Ikea snake...

Me with the elephant hat! I'm Elephant 的主人!

Though we didn't manage to take a complete family picture at the Zoo, this was the closest - with two boys, my parents, Dear & me...surrounding the Ben & Jerry's cow...I'm beginning to love B&J more and more! Hope some day we can go there again to take a complete family picture.

We left the Zoo for Tampines Ikea for lunch. It was a super long drive where we kept getting lost. Kaishian drove Erjie, Dear and me...Erjie was busy looking out for road signs, Dear too was flipping the map furiously...while I was basically stoning from the fatigue. Haha.

Here was our feast for the day! Haha...
It was a nice time of food and fun at Ikea. The two boys just can't sit still throughout...Hehe...

When it was time to go...they even posed for my camera...Hehe my handsome nephews! :)
Can't wait for the next family outing! =D