Happy Father's Day!

He's a son to his father, a husband to his wife and a father to his 3 children. Except for the 1st, I would think he had fulfilled almost 100% of his duty for the 2nd and 3rd role.

It's the 5th year he is celebrating Father's Day. A day that he can truely calls his day because he well deserve it.

Most of my friends who know him said I'm very lucky because as a husband, he is very hands on with housework and keeping the house spack and clean. He likes to use dettol around the house until it smells like hospital! But he does it all due to the health of the family to keep us all away from illness.

He allows the wife to go out and has some ME time during certain wkend while he stays home look after all 3 kids by himself. He does laundry most of the time at night and when wife wants to help, he will usually push the wife to look after the kids or asked her go watch TV. 

As a father, he is also very hands on and willingly to feed his babies and change their dirty diapers. He learns from his wife how to cook baby porridge after #3 is born and has now take up the task sometime during wkend to cook for his children. Ever since #3 is born, his attention seems to be more on him and scolded his daughters more often everytime the 2 put Andre at risk of falling down. But when the kids are sick, his concern towards them display what a loving father will do.

No one is perfect and there is no perfect father too. Everyone learns along the way to be a better one in his/her role. My husband is not perfect either but there's nothing more to ask for with a husband that is so hands on leaving me less stressful and busy with work and kids compared to my other mummy friends. I had heard countless complain about their husband like a dua pek gong sitting infront of computer playing games or infront of TV watching show w/o giving a helping hand to the crying child. Some told me the child is already few years old but never did the child's father changed a poo-ed diaper or bathe him once. 

Having a child is the responsibility of BOTH mother and father, not a one man show! I am blessed that my husband shared all the parenthood tasks with me, especially when I had TWO at one go. Seeing him being so dedicated to this role, I agreed to give him another in 2010. Otherwise, Andre would never had come to this world.

I love my husband. ECA love their father. Their father need to love their mother more because....

A greatest love the father can give to their children, is to love their mother.

That's my beloved SECA. My family.

Happy Father's Day, Dear!

Port Dickson Trip 24-26 May 2013

This trip was planned 2 months ago in March where there's a promotion on their selected rooms. It was really cheap at $770nett ringgit per night for the Grand pool villa. The online best price would cost around $900+ ringgit per night. It's a good steal so I quickly booked 2 night stay during the Vesak Day long weekend. It's also to celebrate EC's advance birthday which falls on a weekday, 30th May Thursday.

My colleague and his family also went with us on the same days but we didn't really get together till the last day morning at the hotel baby pool. The first 2 days they had their own activities and we had ours as the timing was hard to meet. They booked a spa at Avispa@ avillion on the 2nd day. I wanted to try another round with Hui but mum will not be able to handle 3 kids herself hence we dropped the idea.

This was our 2nd trip to port dickson. The first was during CNY this year in Feb. Compared to the previous trip, this one was more fruitful as we did more exploration around the area - Shopping malls, supermarkets and places for dinner. The traffic to Port Dickson was also very smooth with no accidents along the way. We stopped over at Yong Peng for lunch and had very nice fishball noodles. The soup was quite fishy though. We had Zi Zhar food for dinner for both nights. Both seafood restuarants, Chardin seaview and Weng Yin, were both good. Chardin is nearer to our resort and more expensive. Weng yin is further but cheaper. If ask me for rating in terms of overall, Chardin wins my vote. We also had a celebration for EC in our room on the 2nd night with birthday cake and presents bought by mum.
Guess the happiest ones for this trip are the birthday girls, Elsie & Chloe!

Day 1 - 24th May:

• Set off at 7+am and reach Clementi around 7.45am. Reached Tuas link by 8+am. Stuck at the M'sia custom for almost 45mins and we were good to go all the way to Yong Peng.
• Lunch at Yong Peng, a fishball noodle restuarant around 11+am.
• Check-in hotel around 3pm.
• Everyone can't wait to get down the private pool in the room especially the girls. So we all changed and started our swim, including my mum (just playing with water)!
• Went for dinner around 6+pm at Chardin seaview
• Went back hotel rest and relax by 9+pm.
  
  
  
  Watching Madagascar in car to keep the kids quiet throughout the journey.
  But it didn't last for long..they started to complain of the long journey after awhile.

Lunch at Yong Peng area. Noodle is nice. Fishball is nice. Soup too fishy.

Our room - 3219



The private infinity pool in our room



First night dinner place.



Having dinner with a sunset view. Pretty!

Day 2 - 25th May:

• Chloe was the 1st to wake up at around 6.45am, followed by me, Andre, mum and Elsie..so guess who's the last?
• Had breakfast buffet at the hotel at level #9 at around 8.30am. Spectacular seaview while we had our breakfast.
• The girls wanted to play at the hotel baby pool as there's a mini slide playground in the center of the pool. So off we went leaving mum in the room to R&R. During the previous trip, EC did not dare to play the slides. This time, they dare to try it and they went crazy over it. Must be all the swimming lessons for past 6 mths, they are now more daring when in the pool.
• Went back to room to bathe after about 1.5hrs at the pool.
• Ordered room service for lunch to utilise the $120 dining credits given by the hotel for stay between April to May. How lucky we were to travel at this period isn't it?
• Finished lunch and out we went to explore Port Dickson.
• Visited some shopping malls and supermarkets - Oceanic mall, The Store supermarket (like our previous Shop N Save), Billion supermarket (another supermarket like giant that sells kids clothing/toys, clothings, electrical appliances etc). Mum bought some toys for ECA at Billion.
• Drove to Weng Yin seafood restuarant for dinner. Elsie did not nap in the car the whole day until we were on the way to Weng Yin. Hence when we were all having dinner, she slept all the way till we were back to the hotel (refused to wake up even when I tried). Reached room around 9pm.
• Went out with mum to source for birthday cake while Hui stayed in room with the kids. The cake at Grand Lexis restuarant was sold out but luckily I managed to get one "next door" - Lexis hotel which was just beside Grand Lexis.
• Had a small advance birthday celebration with EC in the room on the last night. Andre was already fast asleep by then so no photos taken with him. :(
• Since it's the last night, while all were asleep, Hui and I had a dipped in the private pool in our room. First time swimming at 11+pm and watching movie from Ipad. Shiok! It would be more perfect with a glass of wine to warm the chill in the pool.

Buffet breakfast at the hotel #9. Awesome view!



Chloe took this picture for me.
Abit slanted but still a good job from a 5 years old kid!



2nd night dinner place.



Little presents for the kids, paid by grandmother.



Their 1st birthday cake in Chloe's favourite PINK!

Day 3 - 26th May:

• All woke up slightly later than the 2nd day. Went over to colleague Jason's grand skypool villa to kaypoh around. That room was big with 1 bedroom that contains 1 king size bed and 2 king size beds are outside that bedroom. 3 king size beds in total while ours only had 2. All Grand Lexis rooms come with a private pool which was the plus point of this hotel. Jason's room private pool is fully sheltered so they can still swim even if it rains. Ours being at the 2nd floor was a open infinity pool.
• All of us including Jason's family went for breakfast together at level #9 again.
• After breakfast, met up with Jason and his son Javier at the baby pool on the last day at Port dickson. ECA had a fun time with Javier at the pool and slides.
• Went back to room at around 10.45am to bathe and packed to get ready for check-out.
• After check-out, we had lunch at Old Town nearby the hotel.
• Zoom off straight, heading back to Singapore with a stop over for toilet break at Machap.

Playdates with Javier at the kids pool

See the different expression of Andre? Such a drama boy!

Till the next road trip, maybe next year...

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SSEC trip to Legoland Malaysia, 3rd June

EC's childcare was closed for Teachers' planning day on 3rd June. So Hui and I took childcare leave on this day to bring the girls to legoland since they haven't been there for quite sometime. We bought the annual pass last year Dec and we had to fully utilise it to make our money worth. This will be Hui and my 4th trip and EC's 3rd. Andre only went once but since there isn't much rides he can play there, we deposit him at mum's place again before we drove up to Tuas link.

We were hoping since it's Monday, the crowd will be lesser. We knew it's the school June holiday but there are 1 whole month for the parents to bring their kids to legoland and it can't be so sway all decided to bring them on the first monday of the month?

We got a shocked when we reached the entrance. So many people! The queue to purchase the tickets were long too! I was quite disappointed as I was really hoping to be a no-Q day for all the rides. But it was not as bad as I thought when we went for the rides. Maybe the place was big, the crowd was well disperse among the different area and rides. We didn't had to Q for very long for each rides. Infact, some rides that EC took had no Q and when we reached, they just enter for the rides immediately.

The weather was hot but there was occasion strong winds. It started to drizzle when we were about to leave the place. Overall, it was the best trip among all of those that we went with EC.
The crowd DOES MATTER!

Dinner was done in Singapore at Xin Wang HK Cafe at West Coast Plaza. After dinner, we went back to mum's to pick up Andre and then home sweet home.

We will be back for more before the pass expire on 22nd Dec 2013 and we will defintely choose a weekday to go!

Our 1st ride. The Dragon's Apprentice. As Hui and I took the adult version before, this was no kick to the adult, but scary for the kids. Looking at the expression, you know who is the braver one. :)

* Elsie was already crying loudly during the ride and hope for it to stop *

2nd ride, the horse riding.

3rd ride, the train that goes round and round, up and down so fast!

In time for the 4D lego movie when we reached this area.

We only Q-ed for 5mins and can enter the airconditioned room.

A good break for some aircon after sweating outside.

Their must visit area. Big playground!

Elsie had never wanted to play this during every visit but Chloe enjoyed it so much.

This time Elsie told us she wanted to try the "up and down"! But she only dare to play with mummy/daddy with her. So she had 2 rounds, one with Mummy+Chloe, the other round with Daddy+Chloe.

Some aeroplane rides that goes round and round and a manual bar for you to push up and down to make the plane "fly" up/down.

Junior boat school ride. Mummy was with Chloe and Daddy with Elsie

Chloe was really good in this. She knows how to drive and overtake the others. She was the only one who managed to turn many rounds because she was fast and did not "langa". She knows how to avoid all the "accidents" that took place! The rest of the kids kept bumb into each other and by the time they were separated by the attendent, it was almost time's up for the next batch. There's even a driving license distributed after the ride. She Q-ed 2 times for this ride.

Elsie? Don't dare to play....

Took our lunch at about 2pm. As it's the June holiday, there is 30% discount for all adult combo and ala carte meals for annual pass holders.

Some souvenirs for the kids. Annual pass holders are entitled to 50% disc for engraving services until 16th June! So why not?

Too bad pink is out of stock. Otherwise it would be the perfect colors for ECA.



* More photos can be seen from Hui's FB album HERE. *