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tiring for parents, fun and great for kids and babies... it was Sze Swee's 1 year-old (belated) birthday party held at Orchid Country Club O'Kids Spot... it is basically a giant playground for the kids (comprises of tunnels, a pool of plastic balls, webbings, 2 twist-and-turn super-fast 2-storey-high slides)...and babies have their share of fun at the rocking house, playhouse, kitchen set and slides with tunnel... 3 hours of fun for most (extended timing) buffet for kids, party packs and play play play... buffet was simple but was good... laksa and fried rice were commented to be delicious... including the cheesecakes...soo kueh was a let-down, the skin was too soft... no chewy-ness. price @ SGD23 per child was worth it... parents or adults were either chasing their kids in the gigantic playground or busy chatting among peers on 'kidsology' or some playing PSP! i tried climbing and tunnelling in the playground (adults can accompany their kids)... tiring... but this tire...

though we are having the bigger celebration this Sunday at Orchid Country Club.... (not really big, just my family and my wife's family plus a few close frens that have kids... cos the location is a gigantic kid's playground... i felt like playing too)... -> 27 Mar 2008 is the actual birthday of Sze Swee's one year old... bought a small cake and a XL-sized Mickey! she kept smiling and having fake 'laughs' at Mickey... (photos to be uploaded soon, i hope) she tried the 'Ice Queen', strawberry with white cream cake and didn't really like it... the Chinese tradition of choosing a list of items for one-year old was practised... she was given wide choices: BOOK, ABACUS, RULER, SGD10 DOLLARS NOTE, CHICKEN WINGS and PENCIL... she looked at the wings, touched the book, did not bother with the pencil and abacus... guess what she took????????????? RULER?!!!!!!! then we realised that we did not know what it meant... does it mean ART or TEACHER or CONSTRUCTION LI...

Date: 20 March 2008 Place: StarDus Clubhouse Time: 1pm Solemnizer: Mr Chng Man: Mr Lim M M Wife: Ms Yuli Big day! my bro is finally entering the important chapter in his life... close frens and our family were invited to witness this grand event... we had a good gathering session and lunch buffet was quite ok... Getting married was not liked older days when we had our solemnization at the ROM... these days, you will need the solemnizer's name, license number and place to hold the event before you can register... and everything is online and only online registration! ... i can still remember that day where my bro and i were driving around ROM, ICA and Stardus trying to get the details, date and registration in place... after the brief 2 hours, we decided to try out Singapore Flyer (Singapore's Gigantic Ferris Wheel), supposingly the largest in the world... price is hefty (adults-SGD30 and kids above 3-SGD20)... it took 30 minutes to finish a round... nothing much for adults but ...

"Papa, whose that man in the picture?" asked my eldest, Ziyi pointing to the poster at the notice board near our lift lobby... "Mas Selamat... he is a bad man", i told her "if you see him, you must call papa or mummy or call the police, ok?" "Orrr, I saw Mas Selamat in my school, leh", she continued... i was dumbfounded for a while... and realised that she meant that she saw the same poster at the lift lobby at her school... what a joke! kids... Mas Selamat bin Kastari, i am not really too concerned about him though he must have made hell for the whole of Singapore including parts of JB people... thanks to him, Singapore customs had been working on checking all vehicles going in/out of Singapore... 'catching' illegal immigrants that tried to come to Singapore... these immigrants must be cursing and swearing... illegal cigarettes sellers staying inside our canal were caught!... probably, some makeshift makeout dens or gambling dens could b...

finally, my younger bro is listening to cupid and settling down. my family met up with my soon-to-be sis-in-law, Yuli 12-hour ago. first impression, passed... she's an indonesia sundanese but looks more like a Chinese... minimal understanding of english and knows more Teochew and Hokkien other than Bahasa Indonesian... we had lunch at Chijmes Sun Japanese Dining today... 30% off for all items... really worth the food too... the steamed rice was filling and delicious... enough for 2 on the steamed rice set... 4/5 rating.

i was listening to fm100.3 this afternoon and they were discussing something relevant... our senses... which is most important and which can you afford to lose? 1) sense of smell 2) sense of sight 3) sense of taste 4) sense of touch 5) sense of hearing to see the colours of things, my wife and girls, family and games: this is definitely my first priority... i can lose my smell, goodbye to durians, smelly tofu (although my fav), and all good food.