I have to admit that I do sympathise with students nowadays. When I was a student, I was never like them- having to come down during the holidays. I remembered when I was a student, holidays meants really holidays-I didnt have to even go back to school at all. But now, students seem to be going back to school almost every day despite being their school holidays. Its madness not only for the student, but also for the teachers who also have to go down to school almost everyday and not forgetting, the parents who may now find it difficult to plan a good holiday trip with the family.
When things like these happen which I do not agree on, I do wish I could be a principal or in a higher position to be able to change things. Oh well...
Anyway, despite the busyness in school, I was looking forward to a good family dinner tonight, celebrating my mum's birthday. My mum's birthday falls on 11 Nov, but we celebrated early because of the promotion the restaurant has on roast suckling pig(which my mum specially wanted to eat) which ends this month and also, we all have a wedding dinner to attend on the actual date.
In the evening, I drove to Kembangan MRT Station to pick CT up from work. As I was there early, we got off the car to play in the playground just at the station itself. Its a new playground.
Here is Caleb on the rocking aeroplane.
He seemed to enjoy it.
Check out his usual stunned look.
Caleb was such a good boy that I couldn't help but take pictures with him.
After playing a while at the playground, CT came and we went to my parent's place so that we can all go together in the van to the hotel.
Here is my mum feeding Caleb at the house as she sings to him..
We left the house at about 630pm. Went to Novotel Clarke Quay Hotel-Dragon Phoenix Restaurant for dinner. It was a nice ride to the hotel as Caleb fell asleep in my arms and I was talking with Vicky who was sitting beside me. Mum was driving with CT beside her and they were chatting with each other. I was also talking to my dad occasionally about the development in Singapore. There is really a lot of construction going on.
We had a 8 course dinner starting with sharks fin soup (which I wouldnt order if I was the one doing the ordering), steamed prawns which was huge and juicy, roast suckling pig, fried crispy soon hock fish with some black sauce, stir-fry suckling pig (leftovers of the earlier dish) with spring onions and ginger, yam basket (which is what this restaurant is popular for), brocolli with assorted mushrooms, ee-fu noodles as well as honeydew sago for dessert.
Check out the roast suckling pig..My brother actually went for the ears. I was grossed out by him. Haha..I told him that he reminds me of Fear factor where the contestants eat raw pig snouts with the hair still intact. Gross, right? Heard the snouts in Fear Factor are chewy and difficult to swallow.
Anyway for this dish, we eat only the crispy skin which is served with a flat steamed bun with sweet sauce.
And this is the crispy fish that we had
Initially, Caleb was behaving himself-quietly sitting down on Vicky's lap. But after our 5th dish, he started crying so loudly that we had to bring him out to change his diapers, give him some milk and put him to sleep.
Here is Caleb trying to fall asleep all by himself in the pram. His looks now reminds me of the cat in Shrek 3, giving that dopey look.
After dinner, we took some pictures outside the restaurant. Janine went onto my dad's lap. Check out how wide her legs can stretch...
And this is the family photo. (Picture taken by Vicky)
The couple behind my dad is Chloe and Chung. Chloe is from Hong Kong and is my dad's god-daughter. She was my dad's physiotherapist in Singapore General Hospital. She's same age as me too!
As we were walking to the lift, Janine was happily pushing Caleb with lots of enthusiasm as she was walking so fast and reckless.
I will upload the video of Janine pushing Caleb in this blog soon. Having some technical glitches uploading it.
On our way back to my parent's place(as I parked my car there), Caleb fell asleep in CT's arms..how sweet. It's nice to see Caleb behaving well and also when CT displays his fatherly affection and responsiblity towards Caleb.
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