Gareth's Birthday Celebration (30 August 2008)

Opps! How can i miss this entry out the last time...!

Gareth's 5th birthday was on 31 Aug. We celebrated a day earlier at Mum's place.

Here's a picture of the cake we got from Swensen's....

And the presents we got for the 2 boys.....Gavin's bdae is 2 weeks away but he also got his presents today...just he case they will fight! Each present was carefully labelled....

Family picture :)

It was near the mid-autumn festival ....so here's lantern lighting with the boys :)

Jakarta (3-4 September 2008)

My first time to Jakarta. Again, not a city I ever thought of visiting for holiday so it was nice to get to go there for work.


Impression of the city?

Well, it is rather commercialised as well, with tall buildings in the city etc. In fact, i thought KL, Manila, Jakarta cities all looked rather similiar. After a while, we forget where we are at cos when travelling for work, we mostly just hang around office buildings and hotels.


I made a new friend there, my work associate, who graciously brought me around during those 2 days and made sure i ate well and was in the best of comfort at all times.


Here's Rita and me at an Indonesian restaurant downtown:





Generally, i think the people there are really "hardy". They work long hours and work very hard. They spend a lot of time travelling from one point to the other becos the roads are aways jammed but they do not have complaints. They are also easily contented and lead very simple lives.

I'm unable to pen my thoughts to words....just very impressed by the people i met...i feel so blessed to be leading the life i have.

Indeed we should always count our blessings.

Most Beautiful Couple of the Month

ok...before i carry on with all my other back-dated posts....i must share this!!!

Sometime back, i sent in my entry to Style Weddings and so glad we got picked as the Most Beautiful Couple for the month of Oct 2008.

Check out our love story at:
http://www.styleweddings.sg/cms/article.aspx?Editorial_Id=520&SubCatId=7&EP=Y

We are actually featured as the first couple on the list and also our picture was used again on the left margin :)
The feature will be up for a month :)

Oh...and i should also add that we are featured here :)
http://www.theredwedding.com/gallery.html

Not Just a Name (24 Aug 08)

MCYS in conjunction with the movie producers of local production, "Money not Enough 2" came up with the movement of "Not Just a Name" - teaching about filial piety, in line with the storyline of the movie. Basically that "Mother" and of course "Father" is not just a name, we should not only call them for the sake of calling or taking them for granted, but rather to love and treasure them even when the circumstance is difficult.

Well, i always think that these local productions are rather "LC" and not worth the $ to watch becos they are out on DVDs and then on TV so soon! So anyway, my church actually organised together with the people behind the "Not Just a Name" movement and there was a screening in church after service at expo. Though the tickets cost more than it does at the cinema, we just wanted to support it.

Most importantly, i invited my MIL and Shian to come and watch. Though they didn't service, i was real,y glad they came and experience the atmosphere and see the venue where i have church service every week. I was so bent on getting them a good seat, i actually rushed to Q for seats right after service, and had to even grab a bite while queueing. The good seats we got and everyone's happy faces was well worth it :)

Dear and me while waiting for the movie to start:

Dear and his mother:

My parents also brought my grandparents, who also attended service with us in the morning. Really admire my parents for making the effort to always bring my grandparents out to dine, and even to church. I must say, it is really challenging bringing my grandparents to church becos my church is so big and always crowded. My grandparents are not able to walk that fast or squeeze with the crowd etc...but glad they all came. I even bought flowers for the 3 mothers - my mum, MIL and grandmother - glad to see all of them smiley :)

Thereafter, we adjourned to Airport T3 for dinner at Dian Xiao Er. What a nice meal we had!