Month: August 2012

Wake Boarding Update

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It’s been like 5 months since I started wake boarding.  I don’t go as often as I would like but often enough to gain confidence and to start edging, which is something you have to do if you want to learn to jump.  I’m not sure if I’ll ever try jumping but I have to say I’m incredibly inspired by my sister to 🙂

That’s a jump over 2 wakes!!!  I don’t even know if I’ll hop over one.  I may.  We’ll see.  Meanwhile, if I keep going out with them, and maybe just maybe one day I’ll get fearless enough to try and jump.

For now, I’m just edging.

The thing I love about these videos is watching how we fall.  It is kinda hilarious.  The fact after though.  Not so during but it’s nice to get out on the water, feel the breeze in your hair and kinda walk on water 🙂

Happy 3rd Birthday, Rachael Dear!!

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Here’s another late post.  My Goddaughter’s birthday is August 12 but as I said in my last post, it has been a little busier than usual.  So this is catch up for the 12th of August 2012.

Watching my munchkins grow, I now know the first and second birthdays aren’t something the kid actually knows what is going on.  By 3, they do understand it’s a special day and it’s all theirs.  Whether they remember it or not is a whole other problem.

Rach was all systems go and wanted to enjoy her day at Universal Studios Singapore.

I’m so proud of her because she got on the Transformers Ride too!!  She’s definitely growing up and it’s her first birthday that she actually knows what is going on.  Safe to say, she throughly enjoyed herself and I thoroughly enjoyed myself watching her enjoy the day :p  Also, I got to ride the Transformers Ride 3 times!!  The first time, all of us got on and the next two times were with my Transformers buddy, my nephew 🙂 He loved it as much as I did.  It’s such a well designed ride.  I can’t wait to go on it again!!

I actually don’t remember my birthdays before I was 7 so I don’t know if children remember theirs until they are about 5 or 6 but at 3, they can actually understand what the day is all about.  The best thing for us parents and pseudo parents is the giving of gifts and watching them light up 🙂

Now I know how children can get terribly spoilt.  We spoil them because it makes us so darn happy when they are happy :p but we want them to be better people more than we want to keep ourselves happy so we don’t do this too often.

Happy birthday my dearest Rachael!!  May all your birthdays be as fun as this one and may God shower you with His blessings 🙂  Love you so much, Little One!!

August in Perth

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This is rather late, since I was in Perth from August 1-11 and I’m playing catch up with my blog.  Trust me there’s lots to say but there’s been a lot to do at work and when I’m not working, the TV has been sucking up most of my time :p  I can write posts upon posts of what I’ve let myself be distracted with but this post is about Perth.  A place I call home too 🙂

I really do enjoy Australia and the country will always have a special place in my heart.  Of course, it helps that my parents live there right now 🙂

It was good to hang out with my parents, banter with them about this and that as well as get work done too.  I do have a pretty cool job that allows me to visit my parents and get work done at the same time.  My Mum commented how work culture has changed in the 21st century, it wasn’t like that at all when she was working in Singapore.  It works for some and for others, it still doesn’t.  For me, I love it!!  Simply because, the job treats me like an adult who takes pride in what she does and is responsible 🙂  No standard hours are a perk that works for my personality.

Back to Perth.  Despite having lived in Perth before, this trip had a few firsts for me.

I’ve never had to take a bus ride in Perth before.  This trip, my husband and I took a bus to go meet my parents, who had a meeting in the city 🙂  It wasn’t a cheap ride but it was efficient.  I could even get use to it.

Then I checked out Kalamunda markets, it only happens once a month, every first Saturday.  So it was timely that our trip coincided with it 🙂  the last time my sister went, she bought an emu egg.  I found a really great range of skincare while I was there, Xquisit.  I’m using their eye cream and it is absolutely delightful.  I love love love it!!  My eyes are especially sensitive and the eye cream is working beautifully on the skin around my eyes.  I can’t wait to the rest of my skincare products to run out so I can try the other products.  Thank goodness for online shopping 🙂

I also celebrated Singapore’s National Day in Perth.  Isn’t quite the first as I’ve had to do that when I studying there.  It was, however, the first time I was with my Singaporean parents and Canadian husband in Australia celebrating it 🙂 It was a gorgeous day, even though it was winter.  In fact, it was a really nice winter the entire time I was there.  This coming from a tropical girl who does not like winter, I actually enjoyed season!!

And another first was going to Yanchep with my parents and my husband.  They have never been before.  I use to live rather close to the National Park and it was one of my more favourite places to hang out in.  We saw Koalas, Kangaroos and checked out limestone caves.  It was a simple day out.  One that we probably wouldn’t do in Singapore because it would be too hot :p

I realise what I took for granted while I was in Perth.  The amount of space.  when I get pockets of it in Singapore, I remember why I love Perth.  There’s something to be had about being the only person on an open field, beach, park.  Very very rarely does it happen to Singapore.  In Perth, a short drive from around the corner of my parents’ and I’m at the doorstep of a National Park.  A little bit further and I’m by the beach, a quiet one at that.

Note to self: Make visiting Perth more often than not.